Norton Folgate shortlisted for a 2025 Pineapple Award 23.01.25

Norton Folgate has been shortlisted in the Creative Retrofit category in this year’s Pineapple Awards.

Comprising three urban blocks, the project sits within the Elder Street Conservation Area and occupies a prominent position within the City Fringe between the City of London and Shoreditch. Rather than applying a blanket strategy, the masterplan employs a building-by- building approach to the retained existing buildings, utilising restoration, refurbishment, extension, remodelling, and façade retention to bring vacant or under used buildings back into use while reconnecting and enhancing the public realm.

Given the variegated character of Norton Folgate, four different architectural practices were brought together to diversify the architectural approach and style. AHMM was appointed as masterplanner and designed three buildings, Blossom Yard and Studios, Nicholls and Clarke, and Loom Court. Stanton Williams, Morris + Company, and DSDHA designed Elder Yard and Studios, 15 Norton Folgate, and 16 Blossom Street respectively, with East leading the public realm strategy.

Across the six buildings, a range of office types have been created with the aim of attracting a wide range of tenants, from start-ups and SMEs to mature organisations, whilst also appealing to the local tech and creative industries. All the buildings provide retail units, again of varying sizes and use classes at ground level to activate the street frontages. The public realm design enhances the tight network of existing streets and creates three new yard spaces that draw on the character of the surrounding historic blocks.

Shortlisted projects will be presented to judges at the Festival of Place at the end of February, with award winners announced in April.

The AHMM OKC office moves into The Citizen 14.01.25

The AHMM OKC office has moved into the 9th office floor in The Citizen, a recently completed mixed-use scheme in downtown Oklahoma City.

From its inception the project has aimed to promote civic discourse by bringing together disparate groups of people together in this modern-day forum. Sitting across the street from the Oklahoma City National Memorial, the generous ground floor volume set back to extend the urban realm deep into the building, and a banking hall and restaurant engage with the building foyer to further activate and enliven the entrance.

Above, a diverse blend of uses includes co-working space, a members’ club, a hotel, and a tech start-up incubator, culminating in offices at the upper levels.

Review of 2024 08.01.25

We have taken a look back at another year of practice – AHMM’s 35th. The tentative emergence of a more positive outlook in the construction industry, along with a steady year of consolidation for our practice, has given us a renewed sense of stability and cautious optimism.

We’re pleased to have seen continued progress on key projects in the UK and US, with the completion of several, including Urbanest Battersea, our first PassivHaus building; the final phase of Assembly, a trio of office buildings in central Bristol; and the Temple Quarter Enterprise Research Hub, the home for Bristol University’s Digital Futures Institute.

Eighteen recently completed AHMM buildings have won acclaim and pan-industry awards, including from the British Council for Offices, the Civic Trust, and the Housing Design Awards. Meanwhile, twelve exciting new projects have gained planning approval, many of which involve the reuse or redevelopment of existing buildings, from large complex schemes in high profile or sensitive urban locations to those much smaller in scale but significant in different ways.

Read our Review of 2024 here.

Civic Trust Regional Finalist 2025 07.01.25

Arthur Stanley House has been selected as a Regional Finalist in the 2025 Civic Trust Awards and will now be considered for a National Award, with winners announced in April 2025.

Located within the Charlotte Street Conservation Area, this project has reinvented a decaying 1960s block in Fitzrovia, London. It was originally designed by TP Bennett Architects, part of the Middlesex Hospital estate, as a centre specialising in physiotherapy with wards and consultation rooms on the upper floors and a hydrotherapy pool in the basement. The hospital trust relocated in 2005 leaving the building vacant and in decline. The project has reinvented it to provide eight floors of modern office accommodation and a new residential building along Tottenham Mews.

The new scheme, which retains more than 70% of the existing fabric, has refurbished the brickwork, added depth to the façade with generous stone reveals, and replaced the existing windows with new high quality triple glazing meeting modern standards while maintaining slim profiles typical of the Fitzrovia character.

The design of Arthur Stanley House celebrates the original building alongside its 21st century additions and complements the conservation area which in parts is fragmented with post-war and recent large-scale developments interspersed with lower scale, historic terraces.

New and old is left exposed within the floorplates to represent the building’s development over a 60-year period, repurposing it for a new generation by creating a design led space for the next 60 years. Additionally, the characterful floorplates give a uniqueness not normally found in commercial floor space.