Tower Hamlets Town Hall

Tower Hamlets Town Hall, the new headquarters for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, encompasses the restoration of the Grade II listed former Royal London Hospital Building and the addition of a new build extension. The move to the former hospital site consolidates a number of the council's offices into one location and offers a broad range of public services to the borough's residents, in a more accessible location in Whitechapel. 

The design responds to key eras of the existing building's development, between 1757 and 1906, utilising the architectural character inherent in each to enrich the new internal environment, and ensuring the initial features of the listed building were retained, enhanced and showcased. The Georgian formality of the external facades has been retained, the restored brickwork creating a backdrop to the council's activities within the new extension. 

2024 BCO National Award - Best Refurbished / Recycled Workplace 
2024 BCO Regional Award - Refurbished / Recycled Workplace 
2024 RICS London Award for Refurbishment Revitalisation 
2024 AIA UK Excellence in Design Award - Professional Large Project 
2024 AIA UK Excellence in Design Award - Sustainability 
2024 Pineapple Award - Creative Retrofit
2024 Civic Trust Special Award for Reuse and Adaptation 
2024 Civic Trust Award 

1 New Park Square

1 New Park Square is the first building to be completed as part of the Dixon Jones masterplan to redevelop Edinburgh Park along the western edge of the city of Edinburgh. It forms an important landmark signalling the end of the existing park and creating a backdrop to a new civic square designed by Gross Max. At ground floor, a cafe and a restaurant / music venue opens out onto the new public square. The building also houses a 150-seat conference centre with four storeys of flexible office space above. The office floors are designed to allow for multiple configurations, allowing the space to be let as a single office space or split for up to three tenants. 

1 New Park Square is an exemplar at Edinburgh Park and a catalyst for the future office typology. It aligns with the demands of the modern-day tenant and a world where carbon and energy consumption is to be significantly reduced. It is an office building that offers more than just workspace: it provides a landscaped backdrop to public life, and the integration of culture and collaborative spaces help create a building whose ethos is one centred on its people. 

2024 BCO National Award - Best Commercial Workplace  
2024 BCO Regional Award - Commercial Workplace 

The Alder Centre

Located on the campus of the Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, The Alder Centre was designed to support bereaved families who have experienced the loss of a child. 

The whole approach to the design was one of creating a nurturing place of safety, warmth and support, viewed as a community of spaces that come together to provide a place of immediate and long-term refuge and resource for those affected by bereavement. 

In the middle of the building is the 'heart space' which has a lounge and kitchen where the counsellors and families come together. A series of counselling rooms, sized like bedrooms, unfold from the heart. The external space has been conceived as a 'Secret Garden', derived from the children's book; the building is contained by a walled garden which gives privacy, security and allows outdoor therapy, and the different garden spaces have been designed so that some areas are communal and others are private. 

Feedback from families and staff has been that the building is beautiful, warm and uplifting. 

 2024 RIBA North West Regional Award 

Norton Folgate

Occupying a prominent position on the City Fringe, a short walk from Liverpool Street Station, this office led development for British Land brings vacant or under used buildings back into use, reconnecting and enhancing the public realm. The masterplan employs a building-by-building approach to the retained buildings, utilising restoration, refurbishment, extension, remodelling, and facade retention to breathe new life into the architecture. Sensitively designed new buildings have been introduced in a palette of materials, including brick which was selected for its robustness, quality, and appropriateness to the Conservation Area's character. 

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, designing three buildings - Blossom Yard & Studios, Nicholls and Clarke, and Loom Court. Stanton Williams, Morris + Company, and DSDHA designed Elder Yard and Studios, 14 Norton Folgate, and 16 Blossom Street respectively, with East leading the public realm strategy. 

2024 British Construction Industry Award - Commercial Property Project of the Year 
2024 British Construction Industry Award - Community Impact Initiative of the Year 
2024 Building Award - Net Zero Award, Highlighy Commended 

One Great Cumberland Place

One Great Cumberland Place is a late 1920s facade retention and regeneration scheme, delivering high-end office and retail space within the enhanced envelope. Located directly opposite London's Hyde Park with Marble Arch as a prominent neighbour, this project was delivered as part of The Portman Estate's 'Sustainable Vision for Marble Arch'. 

Bringing high quality, flexible workplace fit for modern usage the scheme delivers seven floors of Cat A office space and three floors of high-quality retail. A new internal steel structure with composite deck is tied into the facade which has been retained, carefully and respectfully enhanced and extended to accommodate an additional rooftop office floor using varying construction methods. New shopfronts are designed as elegant insertions into the existing facade with profiled bronze coloured metal surrounds and carefully enhanced stone detailing. 

2024 Structural Steel Design Award - Commendation  
2024 Shuco Excellence Award - Steel Building 

London Square Bermondsey

The masterplan for London Square Bermondsey sees the regeneration of a run-down and disjointed industrial estate in central London, bringing many vacant and under-used buildings with local historic value back into use. 

The masterplan provides for more than 400 new homes, 35% of which is affordable and social housing, together with a new commercial hub of circa 20,000 sqm dedicated to small and medium-sized enterprises. The development has allowed for the retention of two resident artist groups - The Drawing Room/Tannery Arts and Southwark Studios - who have been on site for the past 20 years and with whom the design team has collaborated on parts of the scheme to create a better sense of place. 

Following an invited competition, the masteprlan and delivery of the project was supported by Coffey Architects. Phase 1 and 2 are now completed and phase 3 is due to start in 2025. 

2024 Housing Design Award - Homes England Masterplan 
2024 World Architectural Festival Award - Completed Housing, Highly Commended

One Portwall Square

One Portwall Square is a new-build office for independent developer Nord on a site close to Bristol Temple Meads railway station. The site was originally part of 100 Temple Street, a large office with a raised squash court and parking below, designed by John Wells-Thorpe.

The scheme replaces a disused building with a six storey freestanding office, set back from Portwall Lane to create a lively pocket square at ground floor level. 

Reacting to the latest Grade A office standards and the need to maximise occupant comfort and amenity for staff attraction and retention, the building delivers new levels of innovation, sustainability and office design, combining modern and flexible floorplates with generous light and space. 

2024 Bristol Civic Society Design Award

Elderberry Walk

Elderberry Walk is an exemplar housing development for suburban Bristol, demonstrating how high social, environmental and ecological aspirations can be achieved at low cost. 

It has been driven by doing simple things well - making streets where front doors face front doors, with a logical easily understood layout, where car parking is integrated and not dominant. 

At its heart is the Green Lane, a landscaped street with wildlife swales and incidental play which encourages micro-habitats to enrich the existing biodiversity. The design offers generously spaced homes set within private gardens, tree-lined avenues and footpaths.

2024 Bristol Civic Society Design Award

2 Ruskin Square

2 Ruskin Square is an environmentally ambitious ten-storey office development in east Croydon, part of the Stanhope masterplan connecting East Croydon Station to the town centre. The project is the second office building to be delivered as part of the scheme and is to be the new HQ for the Home Office, Bringing together three offices spread across Croydon into one location. 

The Sustainability and Wellbeing vision for the project is to design and deliver truly great places for work that support smarter working in a modern civil service. The project aspires to be a Better Building Partnership Pioneer Project which will involve auditing energy used over the first two years of occupancy. It seeks to minimise embodied carbon and resource use, is designed for adaptability and re-use, and minimises operational energy use as a Design Performance (NABERS UK) pioneer. 

2024 Building London Planning Award - Best New Place to Work 

1 Berkeley Street

1 Berkeley Street sees the transformation of two 1970s buildings in Mayfair, London, into a mixed-use development showcasing an innovative approach to urban regeneration. Notable for its retention of 81% of the original structures, this project merges office spaces, retail, public realm and a prestigious hotel for 1 Hotels, making their European debut. 

It innovation lies in the dedication to retaining the frame and facades, whilst significantly improving upon the existing condition in operational energy, functionality, accessibility, and longevity; 'futureproofing' the scheme to withstand future change and be accessible to all. This approach not only preserved the architectural heritage but also aligned with contemporary environmental goals 

The introduction of a new pavilion, an annex office and a public courtyard exemplifies the creative reuse of urban space. 

2024 Building London Planning Award - Best Mixed Use Development

Soho Place

Built on the arrival of Crossrail, now known as the Elizabeth line, to bolster the large-scale regeneration of Oxford Street's eastern end, Soho Place offers a mix of uses including premium office space, retail and the first new-build West End theatre to open in 50 years. 

The latest iteration of a long-term research initiative between AHMM and Derwent London into the city and the workplace, the scheme seeks to be a robust, long-lasting and well-used part of the city that frames a new public space in the West End - a new place to work, visit, experience and dwell.

The north building, No.1 Soho Place, is a landmark ten-storey, two tier building above Tottenham Court Road Station, housing 33,000 square feet of retail space across three storeys and 191,000 square feet of office accommodation across nine storeys with external space on every full office floor. The south building, No.2/4 Soho Place, is a glass-glad nine-storey building also in two tiers, housing the @sohoplace theatre in the lower volume with 18,000 square feet of office space above.  

 2024 BCO Regional Award - Commercial Workplace, Highly Commended

Arthur Stanley House

Located within the Charlotte Street conservation area, Arthur Stanley House sees the reinvention of a decaying 1960s office block in Fitzrovia, central London. Originally designed by TP Bennett Architects as part of the Middlesex Hospital estate in 1965, the building has been vacant for 13 years after the University College London Hospital Trust relocated in 2005. 

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

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. 

2024 AJ Architecture Awards - Refurb Project 

The Brentford Project

The Brentford Project, a collaboration between AHMM, Glenn Howells Architects, Maccreanor Lavington and Grant Associates for Ballymore, establishes a high-density, low-rise mix of uses to revitalise the High Street and create direct links to the River Brent, Grand Union Canal and related waterways.

In addition to leading the masterplan, AHMM has designed a key plot within the first phase of the development which includes the retention of two brick warehouses and the creation of a group of buildings to accommodate 144 apartments over a plinth of high street retailers, small independent businesses and restaurants facing the waterfront to the south.

2024 Building London Planning Awards - Best

The Icehouse District

Located in Edmond, Oklahoma, The Icehouse District takes its name from the former Edmond Ice Company that once stood on the site. The original Icehouse building, which no longer stands, was constructed in 1909, followed by the Creamery building in 1921.

The new Icehouse District stitches together the renovated Creamery and other still standing buildings, with a series of walkways and landscaped courtyards; creating a new cohesive piece of city that houses a mix of food and beverage concepts, including an ice cream parlor.

2024 AIA Central Oklahoma Architecture Awards - People's Choice Award, Urban Placemaking

Wheeler Condos

One of three AHMM projects in the Wheeler District of Oklahoma located on the south bank of the Oklahoma River; this three-storey new build condominium scheme joins the nearby Western Gateway Elementary School and Wheeler Office. 

The building form maximises density while providing ground floor retail and office space and four two- to three-bedroom homes on the upper floors. Large balconies provide protected amenity space and downtown views for each residence. 

2024 AIA Central Oklahoma Architecture Award - Merit Award, Large Architecture

Flamingo Tiki

AHMM's second project for client Humankind Hospitality, Flamingo Tiki joins the Oso on Paseo bar in the thriving arts community of the Paseo District of Oklahoma City. 

Previously a small restaurant, the space was stripped back to create a new spacious and open central bar with curved banquette seating and additional seats on the improved terrace outside. The new interior teams mid-century styling and materials with a tropical colour palette that extends to its bright pink exterior. 

2024 AIA Central Oklahoma Architecture Award - People's Choice, Interior Architecture

76 Southbank

Originally designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and completed in 1983 as an office building and client marketing centre for IBM, 76 Southbank was considered Lasdun's last major work, and sits adjacent to the National Theatre/ 

Although the building was listed at Grade II in 2020, 18 months into AHMM's appointment, it does not meet modern standards and presented an opportunity for sensitive, qualitative and quantitative improvements both to the building itself and its contribution to the public realm. 

Our plans sensitively refurbish and extend the building delivering a total 300,000 sqft of flexible and highly sustainable office space with large outdoor terraces covering over 50,000 sqft. A new double height 10,000 sqft entrance lobby at street level will create a new colonnade activating the public realm and a new circulation core will provide future tenant flexibility and an animated focus to the generous office floorplates. The plans will provide a long-term future for the building, greatly improving and enhancing its setting within the South Bank conservation area. 

2024 WAFX Award - Reuse 

Edge Shoreditch

Edge Shoreditch is an office-led mixed-use development ranging in height from 5-20 storeys. Located in the London Borough of Hackney, the building offers the opportunity to set a new standard for offices in London and beyond, to achieve the highest sustainability levels, improve the health and wellbeing of the building users, and create and foster a new diverse and inclusive community. 

The stepped building will provide market-leading, flexible workspaces complemented by internal break spaces and generous roof terraces providing access to greenery and biodiversity. An internal street, located at the heart of the ground floor, provide access to the main reception and offers informal, flexible workspace breakout areas as well as internal links to the ground floor retail units and cycle facilities. This internal street is seen as a vibrant social and amenity-focused space that plays a key role in integrating the affordable workspace, which is considered an essential part of the building's office ecosystem, into the building.

 2024 World Architecture Festival Award - Future Office, Highly Commended