2024 was a busy year at HT and as we settle into 2025, we have been reflecting on all that was achieved through the collective efforts of our team, clients and collaborators. We celebrated the completion and launch of The Warburg Institute, Lambeth Archives in Brixton, 67 affordable new homes for local people at Wood Street in Waltham Forest and the first phase of Pembroke Mill Lane in Cambridge.
Our projects won another batch of awards including a RIBA London Award for Fish Island Village, a high commendation for Pembroke Mill Lane Phase 1 at the Wood awards, Industria won a NLA Workplace award and Commercial project of the year at The London Construction Awards and National Theatre – NT Future won the Religion & Culture category at the 2024 Architecture Today, buildings that stand the test of time awards. We were also named as one of 6 inaugural AJ100 Champions for our continued commitment to sustainability and ‘all-round excellence’.
We continue to win new commissions across all our major sectors in the UK and across Europe including theatres in Stockholm and Vienna, masterplan visions at York Central, St Botolph’s quarter in Colchester and the London Museum Docklands, new buildings at Swindon Science + Innovation park and new neighbourhoods - Holloway Park in Islington and Dagenham Green Phase 2 for Peabody, we also won the Hackney New Homes Programme Design Competition which will deliver much needed council housing.
Planning permission was received for several projects - St George’s Guildhall, King’s Lynn, Bromley-by-Bow Industrial Park, Birmingham Smithfield and Hexagon studio theatre in Reading. Several projects continue to make progress on site - A.R.T in Harvard, Wembley North East Lands, the Court Theatre in New Zealand, ECU City Campus in Perth Australia, Theatr Clwyd, our first Passivhaus project Greenhill Centre in Newham, Pier Road in Bexley, The Old Vic Annex, TEG Olympia, Canning Town Old Library & Sentralbadet in Bergen.
High points for the studio include launching our first Level 6 & Level 7 apprenticeship scheme and welcoming our first two apprentices to HT. We continued to strengthen our commitment to embedding regenerative design principles across the practice with the appointment of a new sustainability designer and continued our support of the Architects Declare movement and became an inaugural sponsor of ACAN.
As a studio we celebrated a series of significant promotions from both our architectural and studio support teams rewarding the valuable contribution they have made and recognising their leading roles within the studio, work on key projects, business development and practice wide initiatives. Other highlights include Director Lucy Picardo being appointed to join the NLA Expert Panel on Culture and Associate Director Ken Okonkwo being selected as Town Architect for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham by the Mayor of London.
The Warburg Institute highly commended at the Camden Design Awards
Completing The Court Theatre: A Landmark in Ōtautahi Christchurch’s Cultural Renewal
HT is collaborating with Troubadour Theatres on two innovative, fully demountable theatre projects, designed for an 8–10 year lifespan, in Canary Wharf and Greenwich.
A planning application has been submitted for the redevelopment of St Botolph’s Quarter in central Colchester, marking a key milestone in the city’s wider regeneration plans.
AJ Architecture & NLA Awards Shortlists for The Warburg Institute, Pembroke Mill Lane, Cambridge & Blackwall Reach.
Our client Hadley Property Group has submitted a hybrid planning application for the transformation of 980 Great West Road in Brentford, west London. The scheme reimagines the prominent GSK House site along the M4 corridor not only as a vibrant new community, but as a model for regenerative, circular development and long term social value.
A new cultural heart will emerge in the city as Kouvola Theatre is transformed into a stunning and more versatile venue.
Malmö Stadsteater HippodromenThe renovation of the Malmö Stadsteater Hippodromen has been announced as one of the winners of the prestigious Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards in the Restoration/Renovation category.
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