Our leisure, culture and community projects place the needs of the local community front and centre, to deliver lasting social value. We bring people together to inspire, reflect, have fun, and create unforgettable experiences.
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Unique community-centred experiences
Whether we’re doing a feasibility for an accessible theatre, designing a new leisure centre, or reimagining a valued community asset, our ambitious team deliver leisure, culture and community spaces with uniqueness, richness and depth. Creating lasting memories, in stunning destinations.
Through close, continuous engagement with our clients, key stakeholders, and local communities, we focus on delivering better experiences, preserving and enhancing local heritage, regenerating neglected areas, and securing financial stability for our clients.
Sector leadership
Our expertise
We’ve redeveloped, extended, reorganised and reimagined listed town halls, iconic museum buildings, and run-down civic centres. To make our existing venues and attractions more financially viable, and diversify their audiences to ensure a sustainable long-term future.
Our conservation and retrofit specialists undertake in-depth analysis of the building fabric, and its context – including any planned developments. Working closely with our clients, we carry out detailed engagement with key stakeholders, end users and the wider community. We take all this knowledge to develop thoughtful solutions that preserve and protect local heritage, while exploiting the potential of our important community assets.
Our masterplanning, architecture and landscape architecture teams work with local authorities around the UK and Ireland to create regeneration strategies that deliver community-focused long-term, affordable change.
Our town and city centres play a more important role than ever in ensuring the vitality and prosperity of communities throughout the UK and Ireland. And the significance of creating new hospitality, leisure, culture and community venues cannot be underestimated; a key driver in successful regeneration projects, these venues are greater than the sum of their parts. They bring new people into the hearts of our towns and cities, raise the profile of the location and attract new business opportunities.
Sustainability and social value are embedded into every HLM project from the outset. Our sustainability and MMC specialists work with our design teams and clients to deliver exemplary sustainable buildings and public realm. We support our clients’ net zero carbon plans delivering strategies that reduce carbon emissions, maximise energy efficiency, and lower operating costs.
We’re proud that two of our community projects for Wokingham Borough Council have surpassed government targets. Carnival Hub is one of the UK’s most energy-efficient leisure centres, and Dinton Activity Centre is being used as a case study for local authorities across the UK to successfully develop net zero carbon civic buildings.
Designing for inclusion is a collaborative process – between our design teams and our clients, their stakeholders, and the communities we all serve.
Throughout the design process, we use our thoughtful design toolkit to set evidence-based social value milestones and measurements: At RIBA Stage 0, we always ask what problem or need are we trying to resolve? And ultimately, how do we create places and spaces that continue to generate social value long after we’ve left?
Our continuously evolving practice is to keep asking questions and – in collaboration with our clients – make sure we’re overcoming barriers to reach the most disadvantaged, and asking them the right questions.
Reimagining our built heritage
We’ve redeveloped, extended, reorganised and reimagined listed town halls, iconic museum buildings, and run-down civic centres. To make our existing venues and attractions more financially viable, and diversify their audiences to ensure a sustainable long-term future.
Our conservation and retrofit specialists undertake in-depth analysis of the building fabric, and its context – including any planned developments. Working closely with our clients, we carry out detailed engagement with key stakeholders, end users and the wider community. We take all this knowledge to develop thoughtful solutions that preserve and protect local heritage, while exploiting the potential of our important community assets.
Key drivers for regeneration
Our masterplanning, architecture and landscape architecture teams work with local authorities around the UK and Ireland to create regeneration strategies that deliver community-focused long-term, affordable change.
Our town and city centres play a more important role than ever in ensuring the vitality and prosperity of communities throughout the UK and Ireland. And the significance of creating new hospitality, leisure, culture and community venues cannot be underestimated; a key driver in successful regeneration projects, these venues are greater than the sum of their parts. They bring new people into the hearts of our towns and cities, raise the profile of the location and attract new business opportunities.
Setting the benchmark for net zero carbon
Sustainability and social value are embedded into every HLM project from the outset. Our sustainability and MMC specialists work with our design teams and clients to deliver exemplary sustainable buildings and public realm. We support our clients’ net zero carbon plans delivering strategies that reduce carbon emissions, maximise energy efficiency, and lower operating costs.
We’re proud that two of our community projects for Wokingham Borough Council have surpassed government targets. Carnival Hub is one of the UK’s most energy-efficient leisure centres, and Dinton Activity Centre is being used as a case study for local authorities across the UK to successfully develop net zero carbon civic buildings.
Inclusion in practice
Designing for inclusion is a collaborative process – between our design teams and our clients, their stakeholders, and the communities we all serve.
Throughout the design process, we use our thoughtful design toolkit to set evidence-based social value milestones and measurements: At RIBA Stage 0, we always ask what problem or need are we trying to resolve? And ultimately, how do we create places and spaces that continue to generate social value long after we’ve left?
Our continuously evolving practice is to keep asking questions and – in collaboration with our clients – make sure we’re overcoming barriers to reach the most disadvantaged, and asking them the right questions.
