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Our annual practice day took us to Lille, on an early Eurostar from St Pancras. Worth every minute of the 5am alarms. The morning took us through the old town, from Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille to the Vieille Bourse, the Grand'Place, the Chamber of Commerce belfry and the Opera. Seeing them alongside the history that shaped them gave us a different understanding of the buildings, and as architects that is exactly what we came for. All that walking gave us a good appetite, and lun

This summer Matthew Gibbs, one of our Associate Directors, celebrates 20 years with the practice. Matt first joined us as a senior architect. Since then he has worked in several sectors, with a particular focus on residential and education projects. His work ranges from Midhurst Rother Academy in the South Downs National Park to Stapleton House in Islington, a ten-storey student accommodation building for UNITE and London Metropolitan University. In recent years he has led th

This year's volunteering day took us to the Upper Test Valley in Whitchurch, where we spent the day helping to control the spread of invasive Himalayan Balsam across the water meadows of the River Test. We also tackled the Monkey Flower that had completely clogged a stream in the Orchid Meadow, and by the end of the day it was flowing freely again. As architects we spend a lot of time thinking about and influencing the environment around us, so it was particularly rewarding t

We are delighted to share that Hobbs View (also known as Southbrook Cottages) has been named Residential Development of the Year at the South Coast Property Awards. The judging panel recognised the scheme for its impressive application of sustainable architectural design principles, highlighting it as a repeatable solution that uses traditional building methods to address a particularly challenging sector of the housing market. Hobbs View is a pilot 'Zero Energy' project deli

Last week, ArchitecturePLB Directors Paul Phasey and Paul Conway travelled to the Royal Armouries in Leeds to join more than 16,000 professionals at UKREiiF, the UK's premier forum for real estate investment and infrastructure. Now firmly established as one of the most important dates in the built environment calendar, UKREiiF brings together the people and the conversations that genuinely move our regions forward. Over the course of the event, local authorities, developers,

We are delighted to announce that The Holme and Homestal plots received a resolution to grant planning approval at Eastleigh Borough Council's Planning Committee, as part of the approval for nearly 1,000 new homes at One Horton Heath. It's been a privilege to be part of the wider consultant team working alongside Stantec, Johns Associates Ltd, Tyler Grange | B Corp™, Cotswold Archaeology, Re-Format, and Hilson Moran on this ambitious and community-focused development for East

Our team recently visited the Infinity Labs site to see the ongoing construction works being delivered by Amiri Construction . It was great to see the formwork and falsework cleared, revealing the exposed aggregate RC frame floor plates with their distinctive layer cake appearance. The cast-in-situ special finish RC walls are being prepared, with the structural framing system (SFS) progressing to the west elevation and first fix MEP works now underway. Roof steels and invert