Teresa Borsuk

Teresa is an architect with over 35 years' experience in the housing, mixed-use and regeneration sectors. She has designed and delivered a series of successful and award-winning schemes. Her projects involve the whole spectrum of residential development and other essential ingredients that make thriving and sustainable places. She believes that development should embrace good design, and intelligent use of money and commitment to social and environmental change. In 2015, Teresa received the Architects' Journal Woman Architect of the Year Award.

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