Review of 2022 – News – Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

image, One Portwall Square, Rob Parrish

This time last year we were looking forward to 2022 as a time to take stock and rebuild after two years of working together through a global health crisis, but once again the past 12 months have seen the world around us shaken by events outside our control, including of course the war in Ukraine, as well as political and economic upheaval in the UK and further afield.

In that context some might say that the benefits of gradually returning to work together in person fade into insignificance, but if anything these global and national crises mean that it has mattered all the more to see our teams and our wider collaborators gather again to work together and to support and learn from one another, whether in our offices; at our Spring Conference in King’s Place; through our Research Trip to Bristol; to practice events like our programme to celebrate Black History Month.

Of course, the reason we come together at all is to make architecture with our clients and collaborators and our 2022 Review of the Year celebrates a year that’s been busy at all stages of the process, from new commissions, through successful planning approvals, from progress on site to completion and, eventually, to seeing those buildings in occupation.

Architecture is often a long game, and so we are especially delighted to see the completion of one of our longest-standing and most complex projects. Soho Place, first worked on in 2006 and evolving throughout the halting momentum of Crossrail, makes a three-part contribution to the city in the form of a new West End theatre (the first in 50 years), an office and retail building at No. 1 Oxford Street and, connecting the pair, a new public space which opens up, for the first time, a direct thoroughfare between Charing Cross Road and Soho Square.

The year also saw the completion of One Portwall Square in Bristol, the transformation of an overlooked brownfield site just a few minutes’ walk from Bristol Temple Meads. The building sets a new standard for office space in the city while adding a newly created public square to ‘Brunel’s Mile’. It will shortly become our Bristol studio’s new home, a full fifteen years after AHMM first established its presence there.

Finally, one of our most important projects to complete this year is not a building, but the publication of Delivering Net Zero in Use: a guide for architects. Resulting from a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership between AHMM and UCL, this guidance grounds the empirical process of designing buildings within the existential context of the climate crisis. The guide is intended as a real-world tool for practice, whose success will only benefit from ongoing critical review, including through feedback from you, our friends and collaborators.

Completed projects

This year has seen twenty projects complete in London, Bristol, Edinburgh and Oklahoma, among them a town hall, two school projects, a tiki bar and the first new build theatre in London’s West End for 50 years. In October, @sohoplace theatre opened, the first part of a three-act plan that also includes a public space and an office and retail building that sits over the Tottenham Court Road station exit. Opening earlier in the year was AHMM’s fourth pro-bono project, the pastel pink Future Dreams House, a dedicated breast cancer support centre. Another pink building to complete this year was Flamingo Tiki, a new bar in the Paseo arts community of Oklahoma City. This year also saw the completion of One Portwall Square which will become AHMM Bristol’s home at the start of the new year.

The rowe

In October The Rowe in Aldgate reached completion. The project has refurbished and extended the former London Metropolitan School of Art, Architecture and Design to create over 150,000 square feet of office space, and features a specially-commissioned artwork by Yinka Ilori.

soho place

Twelve years in the making, and overcoming extraordinary engineering challenges, Soho Place is an enormous urban jigsaw that builds on the arrival of Crossrail to bolster the large-scale regeneration of Oxford Street’s eastern end.

One Portwall Square

In August One Portwall Square, AHMM’s new-build office for independent developer Nord completed. The six storey office building is set back from Portwall Lane to create a lively landscaped pocket square open to the passer-by.

10 Lewis Cubitt Square

In April Meta announced the opening of its new London offices at King’s Cross, including AHMM’s nine-storey ‘urban palazzo’, 10 Lewis Cubitt Square, which delivers a key piece of the developing King’s Cross Central masterplan and forms a civic backdrop to the new public space.

egham gateway west

In July work completed at Egham Gateway, a mixed-use development that combines new retail and leisure spaces with purpose-built student accommodation and a variety of residential units, including affordable homes for rent, shared ownership properties, and new landscape and public spaces.

Shoreditch village Phase 2

February saw the completion of Shoreditch Village Phase 2, an office led scheme built around the East London Line extension viaduct. The scheme includes a new market and public spaces, accessed through new and historic passageways that open up the site.

Knowle DGE 6th Form

In July work completed at Knowle DGE, a specialist academy for young people with additional needs in Bristol. Independent living accommodation is also included within the project to provide homes for students attending the academy.

1-4 Marble Arch

In December 1-4 Marble Arch, a mixed-use office led building close to Marble Arch, reached practical completion. AHMM continues to work on the project designing the fit out of three of the building’s floors.

FUTURE DREAMS HOUSE

This year saw the completion of Future Dreams House, a new home for the Breast Cancer Haven charity in partnership with Future Dreams. The townhouse at 61 Birkenhead Street in Kings Cross has been stripped back and refurbished to create therapy rooms, consultation rooms, a communal kitchen and administration spaces.

1 NEW PARK SQUARE

In April work completed at 1 New Park Square, a five-storey mixed-use building at Edinburgh Park, one of several all-electric office buildings on the site, powered solely by renewable energy and part of Parabola’s wider environmental ambitions for Edinburgh Park.

New shire hall

In July Cambridgeshire County Council’s new civic hub was officially opened by the Council’s Chair, Councillor Stephen Ferguson, supported by pupils from Alconbury C of E Primary School.

Flamingo Tiki

In July Flamingo Tiki opened its doors. The bar fit-out in Oklahoma City embraces the tiki theme, with tropical colours and planting, and a bold pink exterior.

Kingswood College Extension

In August AHMM completed a new extension for Kingswood Academy, allowing the school to expand from 1350 to 1500 students. The three-storey teaching and dining block includes 12 new classrooms and two offices around a central atrium, with dining space at ground level.

The Tea Building

In AHMM’s most recent Tea Building intervention, the cobbled entrance street has been reimagined and a new tenant entrance and reception created at Redchurch Street. New openings are formed along the central street, with a coffee bar and two raised timber seating areas.

Woodward Pizza

Woodward Pizza opened in the spring in the new Icehouse development in Edmond, Oklahoma, selling Detroit style pizza. The fit-out designed by AHMM’s OKC team includes a wraparound bar and various seating types with an industrial aesthetic, as well as a family friendly patio.

Fried Taco

Also located in Edmond, Oklahoma’s Icehouse development, and with a fit-out designed by AHMM, the Fried Taco opened in the spring and quickly became a popular place for tacos with toppings as bright as the vibrant interiors.

Awards

This year three projects received RIBA London awards: Hawley Wharf, Breakers Place and The Post Building, with Hawley Wharf going on to win a RIBA National Award in June.

Two projects picked up British Homes Awards: Wimbledon House, a private home in south London won the House of the Year (over 2500 sq ft) category, and The Vincent in Bristol won the Later Living/Supported Living Design of the Year.

Outside London, in Salford, Two New Bailey Square won the BCO North Award for Commercial Workspace while in Liverpool, the Alder Centre for Child Bereavement won three awards including an AIA UK Chapter Excellence in Design Award; and two Building Better Healthcare awards including Best Interior Design Project (New Build) and Best Healthcare Development (UK - under £10m).

Meanwhile projects in and around Oklahoma City won a total of seven AIA awards and citations across a range of categories.

The Alder Centre

Civic Trust Awards - Highly Commended; AIA UK Excellence in Design Award; Building Better Healthcare Award Interior Design Project (New Build); Best Healthcare Development (UK, under £10m); Brick Award for Public Category; WAF award Completed Buildings - Health category

The Post Building

RIBA London Award; Camden Design Awards - Highly Commended

Hawley Wharf

RIBA London Award; RIBA National Award; New London Award

Bream Street

Building Award for Housing Project of the Year

Breakers Place

RIBA London Award

Google Pancras Square

IFI Design Distinction Awards - Silver Award for Workplace

Two New Bailey Square

BCO North Award for Commercial Workplace; BCO National Award for Commercial Workplace - Highly Commended

Wimbledon House

British Homes Award for House of the Year (over 2500sqft)

Holloway

World Architecture Festival - WAFX Award

The Vincent

British Homes Award for Later Living/Supported Living Design of the Year

Flamingo Tiki

AIA Central States Region Interior Architecture Honor Award

The well

AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards - Honor Award for Commercial Architecture; AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards - COTE Award

Western Gateway Elementary

AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards - Merit Award for K-12 Education

Social Capital

AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards - Merit Award for Adaptive Reuse

Classen16

AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards - Citation Award for Large Commercial Architecture

Wheeler Block 13

AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards - Citation award for Interior Architecture

Planning

Among twenty projects being granted planning approval this year, five involve the retention and reinvention of existing buildings to become new workplaces including Boland’s Bakery in Dublin; the Bristol Evening Post’s former production facility at One Temple Way; a 1980s office building on a prominent corner site in Islington; and the West One Shopping Centre on Oxford Street.

Further west, working directly with Cardiff and Bristol City Councils, consent was granted for the latest in a series of community living and affordable housing projects in those two cities, while in London consents included those working in partnership with homeless charity St Mungo’s at 217 Harrow Road and with Women’s Pioneer Housing at 227 Wood Lane. Meanwhile, in the US, consent was gained for The Citizen, a mixed-use building on a sensitive site overlooking the Oklahoma City National Memorial.

Canada Water zone F

In July the London borough of Southwark voted to grant planning approval for the construction of two residential towers and an office building, located at the centre of British Land’s Canada Water Masterplan.

holloway

In March Islington Council granted planning permission for AHMM’s proposal to open up the historic Holloway Prison site to the public for the first time and deliver 985 new homes, including 415 for social rent, together with a 1.4 acre public park, a Women's Building, and new commercial spaces.

ST VINCENT WORKS SILVERTHORNE LANE

Following initial approval by Bristol City Council in 2020, the Housing Minister granted planning permission for St Vincent Works at Silverthorne Lane. The scheme reinvents a former industrial site to create 360 apartments; cafes and bars; workspace, research and learning space for the University of Bristol; a secondary school; and generous landscaped areas including a continuous canalside walkway connecting each of the plots.

BOLAND’S BAKERY

In February, Dublin City Council granted planning permission for Boland’s Bakery, a new office for Google in the Irish capital. On completion the new workspace will accommodate 1,100 employees across around 170,000sqft of floor space, and benefit from a rooftop garden and outdoor terraces.

Lisson Grove

In November Westminster Council’s planning committee voted unanimously to approve AHMM’s proposals for the redevelopment of the site at 26-46 Lisson Grove in west London.

WEST ONE SHOPPING CENTRE

In July Westminster City Council unanimously granted planning approval for the refurbishment and redevelopment of the West One Shopping Centre on Oxford Street. AHMM’s proposals for the site will retain around 60% of the existing building’s structure with the top four floors replaced.

227 Wood Lane

In November Hammersmith and Fulham planning committee granted planning permission for 227 Wood Lane, a residential building for Women’s Pioneer Housing, a suffragist organisation founded in 1920.

Botanic House Hills Road

In March Botanic House on Hills Road in Cambridge was successful at planning appeal and received planning permission. The campus of four distinct but related buildings, two existing and two new, is committed to achieving BREEAM Outstanding and WELL Platinum.

ANGEL SQUARE

In September AHMM’s proposals for the redevelopment of the Angel Square site were approved by the London borough of Islington’s planning committee. The scheme retains the existing building’s concrete frame while creating significantly improved work and amenity space within a new facade, as well as making much needed improvements to the public realm.

217 HARROW ROAD

In September 217 Harrow Road was granted planning consent by Westminster Council. The scheme includes a purpose-built facility for homeless charity St Mungo’s and a mixed tenure residential tower.

royal street

In December the London borough of Lambeth voted unanimously to award planning consent for the Royal Street masterplan. The mixed use scheme includes new workplaces, life science buildings and 133 new homes. AHMM led the masterplan and worked on the building design alongside Cobe, Morris and Co, Feilden Fowles, Henley Halebrown and Pearcy & Co. The team, supported by an extensive team of specialist consultants, have been working on the proposals since late 2019.

ONE TEMPLE WAY

In June AHMM’s proposal for the reinvention and extension of the locally listed former Bristol Evening Post Building at One Temple Way in central Bristol was granted planning permission.

Blackhorse lane

In December Waltham Forest’s planning committee unanimously voted to grant permission for Blackhorse Lane, a residential led scheme that includes a new cultural venue, café, bar and events space in Walthamstow, north east London.

keith house

In April Keith House Eastern Site was unanimously approved by the Hillingdon Planning Committee. The Eastern Site scheme forms the second part of a masterplan proposal for the wider Keith House site, following the success of the Keith House Western Site, which received planning permission 2021.

THE CITIZEN

The Citizen in Oklahoma was granted unanimous consent from the Oklahoma City Downtown Design Review Committee. The new mid-rise development in downtown Oklahoma City is situated on a sensitive site overlooking the Oklahoma City National Memorial.

BUTE STREET, CARDIFF

In February Cardiff Council made the unanimous decision to grant planning permission for a community living scheme on Bute Street in Cardiff. The new five storey building will create 45 one- and two-bedroom independent living apartments, accessed via a shared atrium alongside community facilities that include a boxing gym.

KINGSWEAR ROAD

In March planning permission was granted for Kingswear Road, a residential development in the Knowle area of south Bristol. The scheme will create 34 affordable homes, with the tenure split between social rent and shared ownership.

Southwick

In September AHMM’s first housing project for West Sussex Council and Lovell Homes was unanimously granted approval by Adur District Council’s planning committee. The housing scheme develops a brownfield suburban site to create 22 homes overlooking a new central village green.

Work in Progress

In July AHMM’s first project in India started on site when Google India broke ground in the south Indian capital city of Hyderabad, while our first project in Los Angeles, an office fit-out for video game developer Treyarch, also got underway.

Assembly Building A, British Telecom’s new home in Bristol, reached practical completion, while Buildings B and C reached their highest point, a milestone marked with a topping out ceremony in September.

In London, work began at 242 Marylebone Road, a project that will extend and refurbish a nine-storey building in the City of Westminster, while further east at Kings Cross, work began at Belgrove House. This specialised laboratory and office building for the life-sciences sector will be occupied by MSD as a UK Discovery Research Centre and HQ. Bricks salvaged from the existing building during its demolition will be refurbished and reused at the neighbouring Acorn House which is due to start on site in the new year.

GOOGLE INDIA

In July work began at Google India. At over 3 million square feet this will be the largest Google owned and operated new build project outside their Mountain View headquarters. The campus will be a workplace for 18,000 users, in an architectural idiom that celebrates the enduring qualities of shared space and place-making.

2 RUSKIN SQUARE

In May 2 Ruskin Square, a new ten-storey office development in east Croydon, reached its highest point and Paul Monaghan and Hazel Joseph joined the client, Stanhope, and the wider design team on the building’s ninth floor for a topping-out ceremony to mark the occasion.

The Arc

In September the Arc in Shoreditch, London, celebrated reaching its highest point. The mixed-use building for client Ghelamco is inspired by early 19th century New York towers with three stages of tiered massing in response to the surrounding context heights and Conservation Areas.

242 Marylebone

In March work began on site at 242 Marylebone, a project that extends and refurbishes the nine storey Woolworth House in the Dorset Square Conservation Area in the City of Westminster.

Ferry Island

Works have begun at Ferry Island the third phase of the ‘Heart of Hale’, Argent Related’s scheme in Tottenham Hale, north London.

palmerston court

In February work started at Palmerston Court, a mixed use scheme in Battersea south London that includes an eleven-storey 40,000 sq ft office building, and the first major PassivHaus student housing development in London.

1 Keskidee Square

In May this year 1 Keskidee Square topped out. The nine-storey mixed use building fulfils an important civic role on the site due to its prominence on two key new public realm spaces, Keskidee and Chilton Squares. Drone photo courtesy of TJ Franklin of BAM.

Belgrove House

In November, work began at Belgrove House, where bricks removed from the existing building with be restored and reused in the construction of Acorn House, the residential sister project located on nearby Gray’s Inn Road.

Deptford Landings Plot 5

In November Deptford Landings Plot 5 started on site. The five-building plot in south east London will on completion create 405 new homes, 382 student rooms, 3,874 square metres of workspace and 622 square metres of retail space, with a new linear park and access ways connecting the existing open spaces.

Assembly Buildings B and C

Buildings B and C at Assembly Bristol reached their highest points this year. The seven storey Building B is bordered by the landscaped waterside park and Floating Harbour and will offer 28,159 square feet of office space; the neighbouring Building C is the tallest on the site at 14 storeys.

Wheeler Residential

Earlier this year work began at Wheeler Residential. The three storey new-build condominium block is set within the growing Wheeler District of Oklahoma City, and is located next to the Wheeler Office building.

Practice and Culture

2022 saw the practice returning to the office in greater numbers and allowed us to re-establish our annual calendar of cultural events. For the first time in two years, we were able to hold our annual conference in person, with the London, Bristol and Madrid offices coming together at Kings Place in London.

We were also able to take our first research trip since 2019, when the practice visited Bristol in September. The research trip is an opportunity for the practice to visit a new city or to see a familiar one in a new light, and to tour buildings designed by the practice both built and under construction. 2022 also marked fifteen years of the practice working in the city, and the completion of its new Bristol studio space.

For the second year AHMM, in collaboration with the Architecture Foundation, awarded ten young practitioners a six-month residency at our White Collar Factory office. The new residents are the directors of practices Studio naama, Studio NYALI, Entropic Group and Studio KA, as well as the directors of the campaign group Black Females in Architecture, one of whom is also employed as an architect by the practice.

Spring Conference

In May, after a break of two years, we were able to hold our spring conference with a particular focus on carbon. We were joined by Hattie Hartman, author, architect and Sustainability Editor at the Architects’ Journal; Patrick Bellew, founding director of Atelier Ten; and Richard Thompson, a director of Parabola, our client at Edinburgh Park.

ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION

A model of Tower Hamlets Town Hall was selected for this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The 1:200 scale walnut veneer and perspex model created by AHMM’s in-house modelshop illustrates the restoration and extension of the Grade II listed former Royal London Hospital building in Whitechapel to create a new hub for the council and its services.

AHMM AT LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE

In June AHMM took part in five events as part of the London Festival of Architecture, including tours of White Collar Factory and Chobham Manor, and the culmination of a project supporting the inclusive theatre company Chickenshed with a performance at the RIBA’s 66 Portland Place headquarters.

OPEN HOUSE LONDON 2022

As part of this year’s programme three AHMM projects were opened to the public. AHMM led tours of the EH Smith Clerkenwell design centre, 1 Finsbury Avenue, and White Collar Factory. We also opened a pop-up bookshop at 1 Finsbury Avenue, teaming up with the Modernist bookshop, the Architecture Foundation, Canalside Press, RIBA Books and AHMM’s own FifthMan imprint.

PAUL MONAGHAN CHAIRS THE DAVIDSON PRIZE JUDGING PANEL

In May Paul Monaghan chaired the judging panel for this year’s Davidson Prize. The award was launched in 2020 by the Alan Davidson Foundation and aims to celebrate the transformative architecture of the home.

WADE SCARAMUCCI JOINS OKLAHOMA BOARD

In March Director Wade Scaramucci was appointed to the Board of Governors of the Licensed Architects, Landscape Architects and Registered Commercial Interior Designers of Oklahoma.

ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION RESIDENTS

In September the Architecture Foundation announced the ten young practitioners awarded a six-month residency at White Collar Factory. This is the second year of the residency programme, which is offered by AHMM in partnership with the Architecture Foundation and includes free desk space and access to amenities and mentoring.

PAUL MONAGHAN APPOINTED AS MAYOR’S DESIGN ADVOCATE

In May Paul Monaghan was announced as one of the 42 Mayor’s Design Advocates. The new cohort of advocates, appointed by The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, is a group of independent built environment professionals chosen for their skills and experience to provide advice and expertise on London’s built environment.

CYCLE TO MIPIM 2022

Four cyclists from AHMM took part in the Club Peloton Cycle to MIPIM ride. Architect Rebecca Nixon and Associates Andrew Morrison, James Thomas and Paul Jones raised £12,000 for Coram, Tom Ap Rhys Pryce Memorial Trust, Cyclists Fighting Cancer and the Multiple System Atrophy Trust.

Annual Research Trip

In September, for the first time since 2019, the offices of AHMM were able to come together for their annual Research Trip. The event is an opportunity for the practice to make a visit to a city together – invigorating our work and helping to develop our personal and collective practice.

PEDELLE 2022

Three AHMM cyclists, Barbara Clark, Christina Agoston-Vas and Director Hazel Joseph, completed PedElle, the three-day event for women in the construction industry. Organised by Club Peloton, the event raised money for the charities Coram, Cyclists Fighting Cancer, MSA Trust and Tom's Trust.

Sustainability

In the autumn we launched Delivering Net Zero in Use: a guide for architects. This guidance is a key output from the collaborative Knowledge Transfer Partnership between AHMM and UCL’s Bartlett Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering; the KTP has been a two-year programme researching the opportunities and implications of developing net zero carbon large scale, mixed use, urban, commercially driven and densely occupied buildings.

Our Sustainability and Building Performance team continues to grow to reflect the increasing focus among our clients on the climate emergency and our shared responsibility for addressing this within our collaborations. We aim to carry out a lifecycle analysis of all of our projects throughout 2023.

This year we also published our Zero Carbon Plan report outlining AHMM’s approach to a carbon reduction commitment to achieve Net Zero Emissions by 2050. This is line with our commitment to the Science Based Targets initiative, committing us to doing what science dictates is necessary to reduce the destructive impacts of climate change on human society and nature: to reach net-zero global emissions by 2050 at the latest in order to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

NET ZERO CARBON: A GUIDE FOR ARCHITECTS

In November we published Delivering Net Zero in Use: a guide for architects, a key output of our Knowledge Transfer Partnership with UCL’s Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering. The guide covers key considerations, practicalities, concepts, resources and strategies to deliver net zero in use.

INTEGRATED BUILDING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AT BURNTWOOD SCHOOL

In February, a group of academics including AHMM’s head of sustainability Dr Craig Robertson was awarded the CIBSE Barker Silver Medal for a paper on an integrated building performance evaluation of Burntwood School. Access the paper here.

The AJ CLIMATE CHAMPIONS PODCAST

In May Dr Craig Robertson was interviewed for the AJ’s Climate Champions podcast series to discuss a Post Occupancy Evaluation study carried out in collaboration with UCL. Access it here.

PhD Studentship

In partnership with UCL’s Energy Institute, AHMM is supporting a four year PhD studentship to investigate Smart Buildings Design and Digital Engineering. The PhD project aims to develop a decision-making framework for integration of smart readiness indices in the early architectural design process while endorsing energy design hierarchy. Case studies of real building designs will be used to develop and ground the method, and the candidate will be supervised by Dr Craig Robertson along with UCL’s Professor Dejan Mumovic and Dr Esfand Burman.

Science based targets

In August AHMM published its Zero Carbon Plan report, which describes the practice’s headline approach to a carbon reduction commitment to achieve Net Zero Emissions by 2050, to be verified by the Science Based Targets Institute.

Fifthman

Now into its seventh year, FifthMan, AHMM’s in-house publishing project released two more building studies during 2022: a minigraph (020) looking at the evolution of a ten-year project to reconfigure the University of Amsterdam’s city-centre campus, and a daybook (028) to chart the reinvention of The Post Building in central London. Both are available to buy from the FifthMan website along with other titles from our back catalogue.

In September we popped up during the London Open House Festival at 1 Finsbury Avenue, transforming Studio Myerscough’s Atoll into a bookshop with our friends from The Modernist, Canalside Press and RIBA Publishing.

We’re now putting the finishing touches to Works, a detailed monograph (030) that presents more than three decades of AHMM projects, structured by the ideas that guided our very first monograph, Manual, and sandwiched with investigations into cross-practice themes of sustainability, longevity and composition.

Fifthman Bookshop

As part of AHMM’s Open House activities this year, we opened our first pop-up bookshop at 1 Finsbury Avenue in Broadgate, collaborating with friends from the Modernist, the Architecture Foundation, RIBA Books, Canalside Press and our own FifthMan publishing project offering books and limited-edition merchandise created for the festival.

The Post Building

Creating architecture out of infrastructure, this book traces the Post Building’s design story from Royal Mail Sorting office into a mixed-use 'city sandwich' with historic and contemporary references.

University of Amsterdam

This is the story of a design competition win which led to a ten-year project to remodel the university’s uncompleted post-war campus. The book charts the project in detail, and includes essays by Simon Allford and Salomé A. Bentinck, commissioner of the project and researcher into campus and urban planning.

Partnerships

Our Partnerships work continued to engage with our communities – local, global and architectural - through donations, fundraising and volunteering throughout the year. As well as donating to education and climate crisis charities, we offered support to humanitarian emergency relief including floods in Pakistan, the war in Ukraine and Amnesty International Iran appeal; and also to charities helping to alleviate the cost of living crisis. The practice undertook collective fundraising activities to support our Charities of the Year, Accumulate - the Art School for the Homeless in London and Help Bristol's Homeless. Over 2021/22 we donated £236,621 to 148 good causes and our staff team undertook 2,128 hours of volunteering.

BUILDING UTOPIA

Starting in April, we worked with our London Charity of the Year, Accumulate – the Art School for the Homeless, leading creative workshops over 10 weeks with people affected by homelessness. The participants were set the brief to use architectural model-making to create their own ideas of Utopia, and the project culminated in an exhibition we designed in July.

CHICKENSHED PERFORMANCE AT THE RIBA

AHMM collaborated with young people from inclusive theatre company Chickenshed and RIBA Learning, with the young people exploring the RIBA headquarters in advance of its refurbishment. Using their own diverse, lived experience, they created a unique performance as part of London Festival of Architecture responding to the space, proposing ideas to help ensure that the refurbished building will be welcoming and accessible to all.

SUMMER SCHOOL

In July AHMM organised its fifth annual Summer School, a week-long course offering young people interested in architecture an experience working in a practice, an introduction to different aspects of architecture including modelmaking, sustainability and digital design as well benefiting from mentoring. 34 young people aged 15-19 joined the week in London, online and for the first time, in Bristol.

‘MEN’S SHED’ VISIT TO WHITE COLLAR FACTORY

A group from St Luke’s Community Centre ‘Men’s Shed’ – a place for men aged over 55 - visited White Collar Factory in June as part of the London Festival of Architecture. With the area changing rapidly the visit provided a chance for the group to spend time in a building in their neighbourhood and explore its design.

SKETCH CLUB DRAWING FROM COLOMBIA

To mark International Water Day in March, the Sketch Club and Partnerships group co-organised a watercolour workshop with environmental NGO Mision Gaia live from the tropical rainforest in Colombia. As well as undertaking a joint creative activity, and providing financial support, the group were able to learning first hand about Mision Gaia’s approach to sustainable development and their Mango Jam project.

ARCHITECTS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY #TIME2SKETCH

AHMM was delighted to be headline sponsor of the Architects Benevolent Society #Time2Sketch competition in September, supporting the charity’s cost of living crisis appeal. Our Sketch Club organised a practice-wide drawing session and we also gave support, designing the colouring book made up of the winning drawings.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

In response to recommendations from AHMM’s ED&I group, this year the practice appointed its first Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Lead. The role will be responsible for the development and delivery of a range of recommendations from the practice’s existing working groups.

In June Rochelle Dalphinis was appointed ED&I Lead, a year long, full time secondment. It is hoped that this role will also develop external networks to maintain and share up-to-date knowledge, gain an understanding of best practices being applied elsewhere, and champion their application within the business.

ED&I Lead

Rochelle Dalphinis, co-founder of AHMM’s ED&I group and the self-initiated group _The Space, was appointed in June and has been working with the practice's various working groups (ED&I, Employee Ownership, Gender Pay Gap, and Partnerships), HR team, and other internal stakeholders to implement a range of initiatives, with an initial focus on the prioritised actions and recommendations arising from the ED&I Report.

Understanding Identities: Inclusion, Allyship and Pronouns with Stonewall

In April we invited Stonewall to deliver a workshop to help us understand identities and pronouns, and how to effectively use pronouns to build the foundation of an inclusive environment at work. The workshop helped attendees understand key terminology used to describe LGBTQ+ identities with a focus on inclusive language, helping to understand experiences of the LGBTQ+ community and the impact of LGBTQ+ inclusion at work.

Paradigm Network

AHMM continued its partnership with the Paradigm Network, an organisation that champions Black and Asian representation in the built environment.

black history month

For Black History Month 2022 we held three events for AHMM staff: a tour of Colonial London with Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray; a screening of the film Nubia Way; and a Friday night Who Do You Think You Are? presentation.

Women's history month

In March we invited architect and author Dr. Jane Hall to talk with Patricia Ribeiro and the practice about her new book 'Woman Made: Great Women Designers’.

lgbtq+ history month

In February we celebrated LGBTQ+ History Month with a series of events in the practice and the city, including queer history walking tours led by performer, curator and tour guide, Mark T Cox, and a queer history of Bristol walking tour with Andrew Foyle from OutStories Bristol. We also invited authors Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell to discuss their new book Queer Spaces: an Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories, which AHMM also sponsored.

Completed projects

The rowe

soho place

One Portwall Square

10 Lewis Cubitt Square

egham gateway west

Shoreditch village Phase 2

Knowle DGE 6th Form

1-4 Marble Arch

FUTURE DREAMS HOUSE

1 NEW PARK SQUARE

New shire hall

In July Cambridgeshire County Council’s new civic hub was officially opened by the Council’s Chair, Councillor Stephen Ferguson, supported by pupils from Alconbury C of E Primary School.

Flamingo Tiki

In July Flamingo Tiki opened its doors. The bar fit-out in Oklahoma City embraces the tiki theme, with tropical colours and planting, and a bold pink exterior.

Kingswood College Extension

The Tea Building

Woodward Pizza

Fried Taco

Awards

This year three projects received RIBA London awards: Hawley Wharf, Breakers Place and The Post Building, with Hawley Wharf going on to win a RIBA National Award in June.

Meanwhile projects in and around Oklahoma City won a total of seven AIA awards and citations across a range of categories.

The Alder Centre

The Post Building

RIBA London Award; Camden Design Awards - Highly Commended

Hawley Wharf

RIBA London Award; RIBA National Award; New London Award

Bream Street

Building Award for Housing Project of the Year

Breakers Place

RIBA London Award

Google Pancras Square

IFI Design Distinction Awards - Silver Award for Workplace

Two New Bailey Square

BCO North Award for Commercial Workplace; BCO National Award for Commercial Workplace - Highly Commended

Wimbledon House

British Homes Award for House of the Year (over 2500sqft)

Holloway

World Architecture Festival - WAFX Award

The Vincent

British Homes Award for Later Living/Supported Living Design of the Year

Flamingo Tiki

AIA Central States Region Interior Architecture Honor Award

The well

AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards - Honor Award for Commercial Architecture; AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards - COTE Award

Western Gateway Elementary

AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards - Merit Award for K-12 Education

Social Capital

AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards - Merit Award for Adaptive Reuse

Classen16

AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards - Citation Award for Large Commercial Architecture

Wheeler Block 13

AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards - Citation award for Interior Architecture

Planning

Canada Water zone F

holloway

ST VINCENT WORKS SILVERTHORNE LANE

BOLAND’S BAKERY

Lisson Grove

In November Westminster Council’s planning committee voted unanimously to approve AHMM’s proposals for the redevelopment of the site at 26-46 Lisson Grove in west London.

WEST ONE SHOPPING CENTRE

227 Wood Lane

In November Hammersmith and Fulham planning committee granted planning permission for 227 Wood Lane, a residential building for Women’s Pioneer Housing, a suffragist organisation founded in 1920.

Botanic House Hills Road

ANGEL SQUARE

217 HARROW ROAD

In September 217 Harrow Road was granted planning consent by Westminster Council. The scheme includes a purpose-built facility for homeless charity St Mungo’s and a mixed tenure residential tower.

royal street

ONE TEMPLE WAY

In June AHMM’s proposal for the reinvention and extension of the locally listed former Bristol Evening Post Building at One Temple Way in central Bristol was granted planning permission.

Blackhorse lane

keith house

THE CITIZEN

BUTE STREET, CARDIFF

KINGSWEAR ROAD

Southwick

Work in Progress

GOOGLE INDIA

2 RUSKIN SQUARE

The Arc

242 Marylebone

In March work began on site at 242 Marylebone, a project that extends and refurbishes the nine storey Woolworth House in the Dorset Square Conservation Area in the City of Westminster.

Ferry Island

Works have begun at Ferry Island the third phase of the ‘Heart of Hale’, Argent Related’s scheme in Tottenham Hale, north London.

palmerston court

1 Keskidee Square

Belgrove House

Deptford Landings Plot 5

Assembly Buildings B and C

Wheeler Residential

Practice and Culture

Spring Conference

ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION

AHMM AT LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE

OPEN HOUSE LONDON 2022

PAUL MONAGHAN CHAIRS THE DAVIDSON PRIZE JUDGING PANEL

WADE SCARAMUCCI JOINS OKLAHOMA BOARD

In March Director Wade Scaramucci was appointed to the Board of Governors of the Licensed Architects, Landscape Architects and Registered Commercial Interior Designers of Oklahoma.

ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION RESIDENTS

PAUL MONAGHAN APPOINTED AS MAYOR’S DESIGN ADVOCATE

CYCLE TO MIPIM 2022

Annual Research Trip

PEDELLE 2022

Sustainability

NET ZERO CARBON: A GUIDE FOR ARCHITECTS

INTEGRATED BUILDING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AT BURNTWOOD SCHOOL

The AJ CLIMATE CHAMPIONS PODCAST

In May Dr Craig Robertson was interviewed for the AJ’s Climate Champions podcast series to discuss a Post Occupancy Evaluation study carried out in collaboration with UCL. Access it here.

PhD Studentship

Science based targets

Fifthman

Fifthman Bookshop

The Post Building

University of Amsterdam

Partnerships

BUILDING UTOPIA

CHICKENSHED PERFORMANCE AT THE RIBA

SUMMER SCHOOL

‘MEN’S SHED’ VISIT TO WHITE COLLAR FACTORY

SKETCH CLUB DRAWING FROM COLOMBIA

ARCHITECTS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY #TIME2SKETCH

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

ED&I Lead

black history month

Women's history month

In March we invited architect and author Dr. Jane Hall to talk with Patricia Ribeiro and the practice about her new book 'Woman Made: Great Women Designers’.

lgbtq+ history month

Date	Title	Location
14.12.22	Ibex House granted planning permission	date221214
14.12.22	Planning approval for No 1 Blackhorse Lane	date221214
05.12.22	WAF Awards 2022	date221205
05.12.22	Gingerbread City 2022	date221205
01.12.22	FX Awards 2022 EH Smith	date221201
01.12.22	AHMM school collaboration wins Architecture in Schools prize	date221201
29.11.22	New London Awards 2022 Hawley Wharf 330 Gray's Inn Road 76 Upper Ground	date221129
18.11.22	Planning consent for Lisson Grove	date221118
16.11.22	AIA Central Oklahoma Design Excellence Awards Social Capital Classen16 The Well Western Gateway Elementary Wheeler Block 13	date221116
11.11.22	Brick Awards 2022 The Alder Centre	date221111
09.11.22	AHMM APPOINTS EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION LEAD	date221109
07.11.22	Net zero carbon: a guide for architects	date221107
02.11.22	Building Better Healthcare Awards 2022 The Alder Centre	date221102
02.11.22	Building Awards 2022 Bream Street	date221102
21.10.22	AIA Central States Excellence in Design Awards Flamingo Tiki	date221021
20.10.22	Pre-let agreed at Lansdowne House Lansdowne House	date221020
19.10.22	Planning permission for Dovercourt Road	date221019
06.10.22	AT Awards shortlist 2022 University of Amsterdam	date221006
06.10.22	British Homes Awards 2022 The Vincent Wimbledon House	date221006
22.09.22	Planning success for 217 Harrow Road 217 Harrow Road	date220922
16.09.22	Planning win for the Citizen The Citizen	date220916
12.09.22	Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022	date220912
08.09.22	The Arc tops out	date220908
08.09.22	Planning success for Southwick	date220908
26.09.22	AHMM welcomes five new Architecture Foundation residents White Collar Factory	date220926
07.09.22	Open House London 2022 White Collar Factory The Post Building 1 Finsbury Avenue EH Smith	date220907
06.09.22	Planning approval for Angel Square	date220906
23.08.22	AJ Architecture Awards 2022 shortlists White Collar Factory New Shire Hall Bream Street	date220823
04.08.22	Holloway wins WAFX Award Holloway	date220804
28.07.22	The Palm House at Kew The Palm House at Kew	date220728
20.07.22	Google India starts on site Google India	date220720
12.07.22	Cambridgeshire Council officially opens New Shire Hall New Shire Hall	date220712
07.07.22	Pedelle 2022	date220707
11.07.22	WAF Awards shortlist 2022 The Alder Centre 10 Lewis Cubitt Square Tower Hamlets Town Hall Bream Street Lansdowne House 330 Gray's Inn Road Wimbledon House Holloway	date220711
07.07.22	Building Utopia	date220707
22.07.22	@sohoplace: first new build West End theatre in 50 years opens this autumn	date220722
01.08.22	Summer School 2022	date220801
13.06.22	Special performance with young people from Chickenshed	date220613
08.06.22	AHMM at London Festival of Architecture White Collar Factory Morelands	date220608
07.06.22	Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022 Tower Hamlets Town Hall	date220607
07.07.22	Planning success for West One Shopping Centre	date220707
27.05.22	Church Road prize winner of the 2022 Don’t Move, Improve! Church Road	date220527
25.05.22	Paul Monaghan appointed as a Mayor’s Design Advocate	date220525
13.06.22	Architecture Foundation and AHMM residency programme 2022 White Collar Factory	date220613
15.06.22	Applications open for AHMM Summer School 2022	date220615
23.06.22	RIBA National Awards 2022	date220623
13.05.22	The Alder Centre wins AIA UK Excellence in Design Award 2022 The Alder Centre	date220513
11.05.22	Dr Craig Robertson joins the AJ’s Climate Champions podcast	date220511
11.05.22	2 Ruskin Square tops out 2 Ruskin Square	date220511
09.05.22	The Alder Centre shortlisted for the AIA UK Excellence in Design Awards 2022 The Alder Centre	date220509
05.05.22	2022 RIBA London Award winners The Post Building Hawley Wharf Breakers Place	date220505
05.05.22	Planning success for One Temple Way	date220505
05.05.22	Planning approval for St Vincent Works	date220505
29.04.22	TWO NEW BAILEY SQUARE WINS BCO NORTHERN REGION AWARD Two New Bailey	date220429
27.04.22	Three AHMM projects shortlisted for the Building London Planning Awards 2022 The Post Building Hawley Wharf Park Central West, Elephant Park Park Central East, Elephant Park	date220427
21.04.22	PLANNING APPROVAL FOR Keith House	date220421
08.04.22	1 New Park Square completes at Edinburgh Park 1 New Park Square	date220408
01.04.22	10 Lewis Cubitt Square opens 10 Lewis Cubitt Square	date220401
31.03.22	Topping out ceremony at the Rowe The Rowe	date220331
30.03.22	Housing Design Awards shortlist Leinster Avenue Cardiff Bute Street Riverside Community Living	date220330
30.03.22	Planning success for Kingswear Road	date220330
10.03.22	AHMM Director joins Oklahoma architects’ licensing board	date220310
08.03.22	CIVIC TRUST AWARDS 2022 The Alder Centre	date220308
01.03.22	2022 RIBA Regional Award shortlists announced The Post Building Two New Bailey Hawley Wharf The Vincent Breakers Place Wimbledon House	date220301
18.02.22	AHMM appointed for St Mary’s Hospital redevelopment	date220218
17.02.22	Integrated building performance evaluation at Burntwood School Burntwood School	date220217
04.02.22	National Apprenticeships Week 2022	date220204
04.02.22	Planning permission for Boland’s Bakery in Dublin	date220204
21.01.22	Cycle to MIPIM 2022	date220121
17.12.21	Alder Centre in running for MacEwen Award and Civic Trust Award	date211217
02.02.22	Paul Monaghan joins The Davidson Prize judging panel	date220202
02.02.22	Planning success for Cardiff Bute Street	date220202

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Completed projects

The rowe

soho place

One Portwall Square

10 Lewis Cubitt Square

egham gateway west

Shoreditch village Phase 2

Knowle DGE 6th Form

1-4 Marble Arch

FUTURE DREAMS HOUSE

1 NEW PARK SQUARE

New shire hall

Flamingo Tiki

Kingswood College Extension

The Tea Building

Woodward Pizza

Fried Taco

Awards

The Alder Centre

The Post Building

Hawley Wharf

Bream Street

Breakers Place

Google Pancras Square

Two New Bailey Square

Wimbledon House

Holloway

The Vincent

Flamingo Tiki

The well

Western Gateway Elementary

Social Capital

Classen16

Wheeler Block 13

Planning

Canada Water zone F

holloway

ST VINCENT WORKS SILVERTHORNE LANE

BOLAND’S BAKERY

Lisson Grove

WEST ONE SHOPPING CENTRE

227 Wood Lane

Botanic House Hills Road

ANGEL SQUARE

217 HARROW ROAD

royal street

ONE TEMPLE WAY

Blackhorse lane

keith house

THE CITIZEN

BUTE STREET, CARDIFF

KINGSWEAR ROAD

Southwick

Work in Progress

GOOGLE INDIA

2 RUSKIN SQUARE

The Arc

242 Marylebone

Ferry Island

palmerston court

1 Keskidee Square

Belgrove House

Deptford Landings Plot 5

Assembly Buildings B and C

Wheeler Residential

Practice and Culture

Spring Conference

ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION

AHMM AT LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE

OPEN HOUSE LONDON 2022

PAUL MONAGHAN CHAIRS THE DAVIDSON PRIZE JUDGING PANEL

WADE SCARAMUCCI JOINS OKLAHOMA BOARD

ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION RESIDENTS

PAUL MONAGHAN APPOINTED AS MAYOR’S DESIGN ADVOCATE

CYCLE TO MIPIM 2022

Annual Research Trip

PEDELLE 2022

Sustainability

NET ZERO CARBON: A GUIDE FOR ARCHITECTS

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