HAT Projects

Progress on site at for ... Bullseye window opening up views in and out of the newly opened up yard, lovely paint on walls in sample room.

contractors, team, funding.

We are super excited that the renovation of Trinity Square, just yards from our studio, is under way for ! Already are making fantastic progress.

Check out the tired 1970s brickwork before and after a Doff clean and raking out the bad cement mortar for new lime pointing so it can breathe...plus carefully cutting out and replacing damaged bricks. Railings lifted out surprisingly well for reuse, and the non-functional French drain around the Grade 1 listed church cleaned out ready for proper drainage to be installed so the building will no longer be so damp. Weldon Stone, specialist masons, have carefully lifted broken gravestones to be repaired and reset.

A very special project, looking after it with while is on mat leave!

Laurice, our wonderful Part 1, is soon going to be off to do her Part 2, after two years with us! So we are seeking a new team member. This is a job for an energetic, curious, quick-learning person, who can be either a Part 1 or a relatively recently graduated Part 2. You must be local to as it is full-time in our studio here. Hand-drawing, attention to detail and good design eye essential. We will teach you a huge amount. Please get in touch!

And thank you Laurice for all your hard work! 💚

We are so pleased that the planning application for the Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community, including our designs for Gateway Place, has now been submitted for planning approval. We are particularly excited that our design for Gateway Place – a group of community and workspace buildings around a new public square – will be the first phase to be constructed, a real signal of the intent to create a thriving and vibrant community that goes far beyond just the provision of new homes.

Designed in regenerative and low-carbon materials, including hempcrete and stone, Gateway Place will serve both existing residents around the site – providing early years nursery, park-and-ride facilities, café and business units - and provide for the daily needs of the first new residents.

The quality and ambition of this project is the result of bold leadership from , fantastic collaboration with and as the lead masterplanners, and the wider team of brilliant people at and so many more. But a big thank you particularly to as project director holding fast to an incredibly ambitious vision.

We are really bad at posting. But here are some great site photos from Rebecca on site today at . So exciting to see the yard opening up finally to the main entrance! This move is what unlocks the whole complex. Keep scrolling for our design stage visual of that space...

Delighted that the Felixstowe Seafront Development Strategy, which we have developed for , has been formally adopted! An initial wave of projects from the strategy are now going straight into the next stages of delivery.

Been super fun working with the ESC team on this as well as with the brilliant seafront businesses, the Town Council, Historic England and the Environment Agency.

'I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.' So said Peter Brook, the theatre director, and it remains a guiding principle.

It's so lovely to see St Nicholas Square coming to life in all kinds of ways. People making it their own, at quiet times and busy times. It's a good reminder that public spaces don't always need loads of 'stuff'...sometimes an empty space is the space people need.

PB has been an inspiration since our earliest days: was lucky enough to work with him in her pre-architecture life.

If you spot the square being used in lovely and unexpected ways, tag us! The above are from Rebecca in our team; .persent; and catching 's Family First Thursday filling the square with bubbles today. 💚

Some photos from which is underway on site for . Always exciting to uncover the bones of the building, along with - of course - plenty of discoveries. This building has already had many lives and much adaptation. We are addressing dry rot, guano, underpinning and many other remedial works alongside the new-build extensions starting to take shape. Our Associate Rebecca Kalbfell doing a fantastic job steering the process.

Funded by and others, great teamwork with . as contractor.