Michael Alastair Spink (born April 1966) is a British property developer, a founder of SPINK, a British
architectural design
Building design, also called architectural design, refers to the broadly based architectural, engineering and technical applications to the design of buildings. All building projects require the services of a building designer, typically a licen ...
practice, and master builder.
Biography
In 2011, Spink sold historic
Grade II
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
Listed country house
Park Place, near
Henley-on-Thames
Henley-on-Thames ( ) is a town status in the United Kingdom, town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish on the River Thames, in the South Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, Berkshire, Reading, west of M ...
, to
Andrey Borodin for £140m. At the time, Park Place was Britain's most expensive home. In 2014, his company bought the disused
Brompton Road
Brompton Road is a street located in the southern part from Knightsbridge and in the eastern part from Brompton, London, Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and partly the City of Westminster in London.
It starts from ...
underground station for redevelopment.
Fayland House, built for Spink in 2013, was named best house in the ''Architectural Review'' House Awards 2015.
Personal life
Spink married Maria Gripenberg in 2003.
References
External links
Spink Property
1966 births
British real estate and property developers
Living people
Architects from Yorkshire
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