Regine is an architect and Associate Director at Donald Insall Associates (DIA), specialising in Conservation. Her portfolio of work fuses contemporary design with careful management of the heritage environment. Regine’s strengths and experience lie in the sensitive adaptation and reuse of historic buildings to ensure the longevity and continued use of our built heritage. At the core of her interest, is the desire to conserve and celebrate the ‘sense of place’ in the context of her work. Her career began at Foster + Partners, where she spent five years and gained her professional qualification whilst working on the Imperial War Museum in London. During her eight-year tenure at Make, she worked on projects in Harrods Department Store and collaborated with DIA on the regeneration of Hornsey Town Hall and Seymour Leisure Centre before joining the practice in 2022. Regine’s current wide-ranging projects at DIA include conservation work for the Palace of Westminster; retrofit proposals for the Grosvenor Estate and internal refurbishments at Kensington Palace and the Tower of London, for Historic Royal Palaces. Regine is a Mayor’s Design Advocate, a member of the Hackney and Newham Design Review Panels. She is a Trustee with Hackney Historic Buildings Trust and is a member of the Hackney Buildings At Risk group.