Hospitality + Leisure

Amrit Naru

Amrit is our hospitality director, and leads this sector across the practice. He is passionate about hospitality, bringing extensive and diverse experience in designing hotels and hospitality venues, including the multi-award-winning restoration of Spanish City in Whitley Bay.

Working with owners, investors, developers and global brands, Amrit has delivered a variety of hotel, leisure and restaurant schemes over the last 25 years. He is adept at developing proposals with a full understanding of the application of their branding and the client’s requirements.

Amrit is particularly interested in a research-based guest and user-centred design process through innovation, best practice, design quality and how hotels can adapt to an ever-changing future. He has written a number of thought leadership insights on this topic. He has helped the practice to design innovative architectural and interior-led projects across the UK and further afield, including a hotel currently under construction in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Outside of ADP, Amrit is a talented saxophone player, who enjoys food, travel and rugby.

Liz Jarrett

Liz is a studio director who co-leads our London studio. She has extensive experience in the education, research and healthcare sectors, with particular expertise in leisure and community projects.

With a dual master’s degree in Architecture and Town and Regional Planning, Liz has eased projects through the planning stage in sensitive and difficult locations, often working with complex stakeholder groups. She is especially adept at working on masterplans, and taking forward early-stage feasibilities and design briefs.

Liz’s award-winning schemes include Augustine House at Canterbury Christ Church University, and the Forum in Southend.