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Designing new neighbourhoods
HAL Architects has helped design some of London’s most successful, new prime riverside neighbourhoods, being involved over several years and all stages of development.
We’ve helped create new narratives for these places and the experiences they offer, driving their appeal, viability, and sustainability. From masterplanning and designing marketing pavilions, to winning detailed planning and delivering large-scale apartment buildings.
The practice has delivered more than 1,000 apartments with another 1000-plus in planning in London, alongside a wider range of schemes of different uses and scales.
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How we work with clients
Our involvement with larger schemes has helped clients respond to changing market conditions and regulations, and to enhance viability when needed.
We test assumptions with the client and the project team using a series of collaborative workshops to seek improvements in efficiency, costings and viability.
We recently helped increase the net sellable area of a central London scheme by 12% within the same gross external area, for example.
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Improving planning outcomes
We engage positively with communities and local authorities to help the planning process run smoothly, to develop the brief for a project, to improve community relations and build confidence through considered, thoughtful design.
Working with officers, politicians, and a local design review panel in north London we were able to justify increasing a town centre scheme from eight to 18 storeys.
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Re-use, refit, re-purpose
We believe in simple, legible architecture enhanced through the careful use of materials, texture, pattern and colour - an approach we’ve developed in a range of projects of varying type and scale.
With existing buildings, we assess the potential for re-use,
refurbishment, or re-purposing. If replacement proves optimal, we will examine the potential for recycling or re-use of reclaimed materials, on or off site.
With new buildings, we will pursue a passive design strategy to ensure the building itself and the materials used, its energy and water systems, will minimise environmental impacts.
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Our studios
HAL Architects has studios in central London and Liverpool and is led by Hal Currey.
The senior team at HAL are long-standing colleagues and include Nick Martin, Clark Hill and David Murphy. Paul Dickenson brings his considerable experience to project planning and delivery.
We combine practice with teaching and have strong associations with the Bartlett (UCL), and Liverpool University.
