Steel staircase and glass screen in open warehouse style living area with wooden flooring. Christina Seilern, of German/Austrian parentage established London-based Studio Seilern Architects in 2005 after practicing in the United States and Europe. After working at Rafael Vinoly Architects in New York she launched their London office through which the practice's European projects could be run. She grew the staff to over 40 in 5 years and managed a construction value in excess of L600 million. Her work ranges internationally from apartments, hotels, private clubs, a boutique for fashion designer Tomasz Starzewski and high profile private residences. Seilern is considered to be one of the UK's most talented and progressive architects. Her own London home, shared with her husband and 2 young children, is the total redesign of what was a Post Office sorting centre that had later been turned into a theatre. This project clearly shows her ability to deal with a complex former non-residential space where maximising light, living/entertaining space and private accommodation in contemporary style was to require many spatial, social and material solutions.