Daniel McKendry

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About Daniel McKendry

Daniel McKendry, Principal Landscape Architect, Architecture & Design Scotland Danny is a Chartered Landscape Architect and Geographer with extensive regeneration, economic development and transport experience, working with communities in the public and private sectors. He works across a range of projects at Architecture and Design Scotland,the national design champion, and leads on design advice for public infrastructure and provides pre-design advice for housing. Danny started out in the private sector in the early 1990’s working on major civil engineering projects including the Skye Bridge. Moving to the public sector he continued working on large infrastructural projects with Strathclyde Regional Council, before moving to Renfrewshire Council where he played a major part in the physical regeneration of Paisley’s historic town centre. From 2005 to 2015, Daniel was heavily involved in the regeneration of town centres in East Renfrewshire, as Principal Regeneration Officer. His work included the implementation of the Scottish Government’s Smarter Choices Smarter Places initiative in Barrhead, the instigation of a new Business Improvement Districts in Clarkston and Giffnock, and leading the local authority’s involvement in the Neilston Renaissance programme. He worked as a consultant in 2015 prior to taking up this post with Architecture and Design Scotland to head up Say Hello to Architecture, the community focused contribution to the 2016 Year of Innovation,Architecture,and Design and the Festival of Architecture. Daniel is a corresponding committee member of The Landscape Institute Scotland.