Firm Description

HawkinsBrown is a contemporary architectural practice founded in London in 1988. It now has offices in several locations in the UK, and a growing presence overseas, including a U.S. base in Los Angeles.

Founded 30 years ago by Partners Russell Brown and Roger Hawkins, the internationally-renowned award winning practice employs over 250 architects, interior designers, urban designers and researchers. The firm works across a range of types and scale, in the residential, education, workplace, infrastructure, transport, civic, community and culture sectors.

The practice has completed work on several significant residential projects around the UK, including Burridge Gardens, Park Hill, Agar Grove (Passivhaus). Wenlock Cross, otherwise known as the Cube building, became the tallest cross-laminated timber residential tower in the world when it completed in 2015.

HawkinsBrown is one of the UK’s leading architects in the higher education sector and has worked on a number of academic buildings throughout the country, including the Beecroft Theoretical and Experimental Physics Building for the University of Oxford.

HawkinsBrown completed Here East in 2018, a major project to transform London’s 2012 Olympic broadcast and media centre into the new digital quarter in east London, and is currently working on three new central London Crossrail stations. In 2016 the practice completed the Bartlett School of Architecture for UCL, one of the world’s most prestigious schools of architecture. In 2013 HawkinsBrown was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize for its work on the regeneration of Park Hill in Sheffield.