The “Backstage Building” topping out ceremony was held on the 17 October to mark reaching the highest primary structure of the Glulam timber frame. To mark this milestone, tours of the building site were led by Haworth Tompkins and speeches took place in what will be the new event space with a toast in the Back of House rehearsal room. 

Haworth Tompkins is excited to welcome our first two architectural apprentices to the studio offering both Level 6 and Level 7 opportunities. The apprenticeship programme has been launched to offer a more inclusive and diverse route into architecture, combining work-based learning with academic training. The programme reflects our social value commitments and support for the growth of the profession via alternative and holistic routes...

The Mayor of London has selected Ken Okonkwo, Associate Director at Haworth Tompkins and Mayor’s Design Advocate to the role of Town Architect for the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham. The programme is part of Khan’s wider plans to support local growth and improve design in London through the £1.25 million Local Growth Capacity Support Programme. The two-year pilot scheme will utilise built environment expert knowledge from ten architects in ten locations to ensure that new buildings and public spaces in their respective area ‘benefit all Londoners by promoting quality and inclusion in the built environment’...

St George's Guildhall King's Lynn (Grade I & II) has received planning and listed building consent with unanimous committee decision. Located on the banks of the River Great Ouse in King’s Lynn, the St. George’s Guildhall site is a unique heritage asset with enormous potential to become a major visitor attraction, a landmark performance venue and a vibrant hub for culture, creativity, and local enterprise. As the largest surviving medieval Guildhall in the UK, the refurbishment project will restore the historic and theatrical potency of this unique space...

HT Director Lucy Picardo is taking part in this year's Theatres Trust Conference at The Lowry in Manchester. The theme for the conference 'Making Theatres Thrive' looks to re-examine how theatres can reinforce their role in placemaking, contributing to vibrant and liveable communities and creating a resilient future for all. Lucy is participating in the Capital Lightning Round - 'Design for Resilience', and is presenting Hexagon studio theatre in Reading which revitalises the brutalist 1977 theatre with the creation of a flexible new hub for arts, performance and community uses. The extension and refurbishment will create a new 300-seat auditorium, a café, bar, rooftop terrace, and rehearsal and workshop rooms...

Industria Barking has won Commercial Project of the year at this year’s London Construction Awards with the judges commenting ‘the project is an innovative and elegant design solution and a very exciting use of industrial land, inherently sustainable with a powerful visual impact’.

Haworth Tompkins has completed the transformational redevelopment of The Warburg Institute in London, one of the world’s leading centres for the study of art and culture. Founded by Aby Warburg in Hamburg in 1900, the Warburg Institute has been part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London since 1944. Its open-stack Library, Photographic Collection and Archive serve as an engine for interdisciplinary research, postgraduate teaching and a prestigious events and publication programme. It is housed in a historic Charles Holden Building, as part of the University of London’s Bloomsbury campus...

On Thursday 12th September, HT Associate Director Hugo Braddick took part in an online webinar ‘designing sustainable, employee-centric warehouses’ alongside Holly Lewis, Co-founding partner, We Made That, Mike Teague, Head of Industrial & Logistics at Corstophine & Wright and others. The event was chaired by Architecture Today’s Jason Sayer.

They gathered to discuss a new demand in the market for commissioned work on light industrial spaces with new regulations around sustainability and wellbeing. Hugo presented our recently completed Industria project in Barking for client BeFirst, a multi-level industrial building designed to maximise efficiency, sustainability, and community integration...