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  • 24 August, 2023

    Turning Unwanted Samples into Educational Treasures

    As of 2020, the construction sector was responsible for an alarming third of the UK’s total waste output. Driven by our dedication to sustainability and propelled by our B-Corp certification, we are committed to finding inventive solutions to minimize our impact on the construction industry’s......

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  • 16 August, 2023

    Building Design Awards 2023 Finalists

    We are delighted to announce Holland Harvey are finalist in two categories for the Building Design Awards 2023! We have been shortlisted for Retail and Leisure Architect of the Year and it is a testament to the excellent team we have, as they consistently design creative......

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  • 20 July, 2023

    STIMULATING WELLNESS, Hotel Designs Roundtable

    You will feel well in a space, if you feel good about the objects and the materials that have been used to create it. – Richard Holland, Co-founding director, Holland Harvey STIMULATING WELLNESS, a roundtable brought to you by @hoteldesigns and @geberituk , featuring Richard Holland, Hamish Kilburn and......

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  • 06 July, 2023

    B Corp and the Built Environment LFA 2023

    Thank you to everyone that attended our London Festival of Architecture panel discussion on ‘B Corp and the Built Environment’, with a special thank you to our esteemed panelists and chair for their participation and valuable insights into their B Corp journeys so far. Ben Cross,......

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  • 28 June, 2023

    Pedalos at Victoria Park Lake

    For Holland Harvey’s 2023 summer activity, we stayed local and headed to Victoria Park Lake take in the stunning Chinese Pagoda on pedalos, before heading into the park for a game of rounders. It was the perfect way to unwind and celebrate our hard work......

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  • 09 June, 2023

    Making Profit with Purpose, Business of Architecture Podcast

    In Business of Architecture’s podcast episode, ‘Making Profit with Purpose,’ our co-founders Richard Holland and Jonathan Harvey engage in a compelling discussion about the economic and business advantages that come with achieving B Corp certification. This thought-provoking conversation sheds light on the power of financial......

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  • 01 June, 2023

    FOOTPRINT+ 2023

    Directors Richard Holland & Jonathan Harvey will be attending FOOTPRINT+ in Brighton next week! FOOTPRINT+ is an annual event that brings together key players in the UK property market to explore innovative approaches for achieving Net Zero in real estate. Feel free to get in touch if you would like......

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  • 01 June, 2023

    Sustainability is not a Trend

    Holland Harvey has a values-led approach to design. As a Certified B Corporation we are proud to meet high standards of environmental and social impact. We are also in the process of completing our ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) accreditation. Our approach to sustainability is ingrained within......

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  • 19 May, 2023

    LFA 2023

    Join us at LFA 2023 for our panel discussion on ‘B-Corp and the Built Environment’. Chairing the event is Thomas Aquilina, Co-director of New Architecture Writers and co-founder of the publishing collective Afterparti, and we will be joined by fellow B-Corp’s in the built environment......

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  • 18 May, 2023

    UKREIIF 2023

    Richard Holland was in Leeds on the 17th May 2023 for UKREiiF, a prominent platform that brings together key stakeholder in the UK real estate landscape, including investors, developers, and policymakers. It was an opportunity to catch up with existing clients, and potential new ones,......

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  • 17 May, 2023

    IHIF 2023

    Directors and co-founders, Richard Holland & Jonathan Harvey attended the International Hospitality Investment Forum (IHIF) in Berlin on the 16th May 2023. IHIF is a premier global event that brings together industry leaders, investors, and professionals to discuss and explore opportunities in the dynamic and ever-evolving hospitality......

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  • 01 May, 2023

    Design with a Conscience

    Holland Harvey was founded on the belief that design should make a positive environmental and social impact. The origin of our practice was an organisation called “Free Architecture” which paired architectural studios with third-sector clients in response to the proliferation of competition culture that pervades......

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  • 06 April, 2023

    B-Corp Month 2023

    At Holland Harvey, we are proud to be a certified B Corporation. That’s why we were excited to participate in B-Corp month 2023, which had the theme of “We Go Beyond.”  Throughout March, we took to Instagram to showcase the various ways in which we......

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  • 18 March, 2023

    MIPIM 2023

    What a week at MIPIM 2023! It was Holland Harvey’s first time at the conference, but even though Richard Holland & Jonathan Harvey were first timers, they could not have felt more welcome as part of the RIBA delegation in The London Stand! It was......

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  • 02 March, 2023

    DESIGN POD: Sustainability in Materials

    Richard Holland is the first special guest on the newest series of Hotel Designs podcast, DESIGN POD. The episode, hosted by Hamish Kilburn, sponsored by Geberit and produced by Mel Yates, explores the significance of working with hospitality brands that truly understand the value in......

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  • 08 February, 2023

    RIBA x MIPIM 2023

    We are excited to announce that studio founders Richard Holland & Jonathan Harvey will attend MIPIM 2023 as part of the RIBA delegation in The London Stand at MIPIM at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes from the 14-17th March. MIPIM (in French, Le Marché......

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  • 31 January, 2023

    Certified B Corporation™

    Holland Harvey is now a Certified B Corporation™. Following almost a year of reflection, measurement and reform, we are now part of a global community of businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental impact. The Impact Assessment considered five key areas: How is......

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  • 27 January, 2023

    RIBA Architecture Ambassadors

    In 2022 we participated in RIBA’s Architecture Ambassadors program and on the 27th January we had the joy of hosting the final design review with the Year 13 Built Environment Learners from London Design & Engineering UTC. Their brief was to design a community focused......

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  • 25 December, 2022

    Christmas Party 2022

    It’s been an amazing year here at Holland Harvey; we’ve worked on so many incredible projects, welcomed some wonderful new faces, and had a fantastic response to our projects through articles and award nominations! It gave us a lot to celebrate at our Christmas party,......

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  • 01 December, 2022

    FX Design Awards 2022

    Inhabit Queen’s Garden is this year’s winner of the ‘Hotel’ award for the FX Design Awards 2022! This was an incredible project to be part of and we are so proud of our team’s creativity in designing a beautifully unique and sustainably focused hotel.  Thank......

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  • 24 November, 2022

    Work Experience

    Back in August we had the pleasure of having Charlotte in from @ldeutc for her week of work experience! Throughout the week Charlotte experienced the life of a Holland Harvey architect as she designed her own café by developing a design concept, sketching plans, and collating materials......

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  • 07 November, 2022

    Ghent Studio Trip

    On the 21st of October we had our annual studio trip and this year we visited Ghent! After a quick Eurostar we explored this beautiful city and learnt about some of the incredible architecture, such as Vooruit and the Stadhall Pavilion, before enjoying the local......

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  • 20 October, 2022

    Dezeen Awards 2022 Public Vote

    Inhabit Queen’s Garden has been shortlisted for this year’s Dezeen Awards in the Hotel and Short Stay Interiors category.  From the shortlisted projects, the public had their chance to vote for their favorite…and Inhabit came second!! Thank you to everyone that voted, it means the......

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  • 29 September, 2022

    London Design Festival 2022

    This year for the London Design Festival, Director Richard Holland was invited to participate in the panel discussion entitled “Circular Design”. Taking place within the new Inhabit Queen’s Gardens, a Grade II listed building that has been transformed using sustainable materials, the panel discussion focused......

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  • 23 August, 2022

    Designing for Health and Well-being

    Shelter from the Storm is a London-based homeless shelter that provides 42 beds, freshly cooked food and holistic support to its guests to help them reintegrate back into society. Shelter From The Storm (SFTS) approached us with a challenging site, a disused supermarket to be......

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  • 02 August, 2022

    Controlling Design Excellence Internationally

    We love working outside borders. We have worked everywhere from Mexico to China, Europe to the Middle East and everywhere in between. We have developed a refined process for delivering the same creative work we do in the UK, maintaining design excellence whilst also conforming......

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  • 02 August, 2022

    GoBoats and Greenwich Design District

    This year for our summer activity, the team headed to Canary Wharf where we were able to captain our own boats before taking a tour of the fantastic architecture at the new Greenwich Design District. Big thank you to everyone at Holland Harvey, as well......

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  • 01 August, 2022

    Work Experience

    We love being involved in mentoring and working with young aspiring architects, so we were delighted when Zion-Judah from @kingjohn_school contacted the practice and asked to complete his week of work experience with us in July. This is a great opportunity to gain experience and......

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  • 31 May, 2022

    Friday Studio Lunches

    Friday lunches are back, and they’re tastier than ever… Studio culture means everything to us, so every 2nd Friday we all sit down for a meal prepared by two of our colleagues to catch up, unwind, and impress each other with our culinary skills....

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  • 26 May, 2022

    Clerkenwell Design Week

    After a three year hiatus, May saw the return of Clerkenwell Design Week – our team headed out in force to check out what it was all about! CDW runs from the 24th to 26th May 2022. You can find out more information about the......

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  • 20 May, 2022

    SFTS Bed Pods

    Continuing our partnership with Shelter from the Storm, Holland Harvey was given a brief to create a set of sleeping pods that could be inserted into the existing dormitories, with the aim of creating more robust, generous & private sleeping areas for 36 guests. Hh......

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  • 13 May, 2022

    LFA 2022 Studio Lates

    As part of the London Festival of Architecture 2022 – we will be opening our studio to the public as part of the “Studio Lates” programme. Don’t like things going to waste? Neither do we. Together with our friends at Granby Workshop and Kelham Island......

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  • 12 March, 2022

    Collaborative Practice

    We are delighted to have signed up as a partner practice to the University of Sheffield School of Architecture’s Collaborative Practice programme, especially as our own Part II architectural assistant Chris Darby completed the course in 2021. The Collaborative Practice course appealed to me because it......

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  • 08 March, 2022

    International Women’s Day 2022

    To celebrate International Women’s Day, we spoke to Holland Harvey’s studio assistant Karyn who studied History of Art at The University of Glasgow, with a specific focus on women in art: The inequality seen in many art galleries collections reflects how the absence of women’s......

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  • 21 December, 2021

    Exhibition at Technische Universität München

    We are honoured that our project for homelessness charity Shelter from the Storm recently featured as part of “Who’s Next?” exhibition at the Technische Universität München, Architektur Museum in Germany. HOMELESSNESS, ARCHITECTURE AND CITIES: With the Coronavirus crisis, the urgency of homelessness has worsened worldwide.......

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  • 14 December, 2021

    The First Shop in the World

    Greenwich is a long-established neighbourhood steeped in maritime and astrological history. Its rich heritage is felt in classical buildings such as the Old Royal Naval College and the Royal Observatory. Billed as “the first shop in the world” due to its proximity to the Meridian......

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  • 24 November, 2021

    Panzer’s x Waddesdon Estate

    Earlier this year Holland Harvey were invited to work on a proposal commissioned by the Waddesdon Estate in Aylesbury. Working with Panzer’s, the project looked to convert a series of unused agricultural sheds into a campus of food production and retail set within the historic......

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  • 11 November, 2021

    RIBA Architecture Ambassadors

    Earlier in the year Holland Harvey joined the RIBA Architecture Ambassadors programme which partners practices with teachers to ‘empower and inspire children and young people to explore and voice their opinion about their built environment’. We have been partnered with the London Design & Engineering......

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  • 09 November, 2021

    Redirecting waste from landfill

    According to Defra, in 2018 the waste generated in the UK by construction, demolition, and excavation activities accounted for 62% of total waste. The vast majority of this waste, 67.8 million tonnes, was non-hazardous construction waste from building sites. At our second hotel project for......

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  • 05 November, 2021

    Workspace Design Show

    Earlier this month, Director Richard Holland was invited to speak on a panel at the Workspace Design Show 2021. The topic of the talk was “Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainable Commercial Architecture” and was chaired by Managing Editor of the RIBA Journal, Isabelle Priest. Alongside Richard,......

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  • 23 September, 2021

    Qandor Roundtable

    Director, Richard Holland, was recently invited to speak at the Qandor Platinum Member’s roundtable, presenting the practice and our work. Qandor is an “exclusive club for business owners, entrepreneurs and investors in property and construction” with a focus on sharing value and building relationships. The......

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  • 22 September, 2021

    Canoeing in Hackney Wick

    It’s been a challenging 18 months for the whole world, so to say thank you to our wonderful team, we took the whole studio canoeing up the River Lee Navigation in Hackney Wick. Thank you to the guys at Moo Canoe for hosting us – we......

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  • 21 September, 2021

    London Design Festival 2021

    Director Richard Holland was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion as part of the London Design Festival 2021. Entitled “Creating Sustainable Spaces” the panel discussion explored the topic of responsible design, and how Inhabit is striving to make the world around it a better place,......

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  • 20 September, 2021

    Farmer J opens in Canary Wharf

    We were thrilled to open our first restaurant for Farmer J in London’s Canary Wharf. Offering high quality, freshly cooked food to city workers, this site forms the first of a number of imminent openings across the capital and we are very excited to be working......

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  • 11 July, 2021

    B_Together opens in St. John’s Wood

    We are thrilled to see the opening of our project for B_Together on St. John’s Wood High Street. The project comprises a family-focused member’s club, with workspace, studios, games rooms, club lounge and fully accredited children’s nursery. There is also a brasserie, At Feast, and......

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  • 02 February, 2021

    Granby Workshop x Inhabit

    Part of the Turner Prizing winning Assemble, Granby Workshop are a Liverpool based manufacturer of architectural ceramics. Exploring the “creative potential” of manufacturing techniques, they create distinctive and playful ceramics for buildings and interiors. At our second hotel for Inhabit, they have collected stone and......

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  • 25 January, 2021

    Cornerstone awarded Michelin Star

    A huge congratulations to @cheftombrown and the @cornerstonehackney team on being awarded their first Michelin star! Here’s where it all started for us, a CGI of our design that we commissioned back when the restaurant was just an empty shell… what an incredible achievement, well......

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  • 14 December, 2020

    Hackney planning success

    Often the most subtle architectural intervention can have the greatest impact on our quality of life. That is true of our fully glazed bathhouse extension that has just been granted planning consent by LB Hackney. Nestled in the verdant landscape of this Victorian property, it......

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  • 04 December, 2020

    St Pancras Christmas Tree

    As London re-opens for the festive period, it’s time for something a bit different. We present the ‘Tree of Hope’, our recent collaboration with @elan_cafe in @stpancrasinternational station. It has been a year like no other, so to show our gratitude for the commitment, compassion......

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  • 29 November, 2020

    Westminster Planning Success

    Our scheme for two new build houses in Westminster was unanimously approved by planning committee this week, with members offering “particular praise for the quality of design and use of land”. The scheme occupies a previously unused gap between two Victorian terraces and will provide......

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  • 21 November, 2020

    Emergency Homes for Young People

    We were honoured that our project for @sftslondon features as a contribution to the debate about #homelessness in this new @RIBA supported campaign by @moco_arch and @johnmcaslanpartners The number of young people recorded sleeping rough increased by 50% from April to June 2020, and yet there are......

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  • 27 October, 2020

    Inhabit becomes part of the Design Hotels portfolio

    We are thrilled to announce that our project for @inhabit_hotels is now part of the @design_hotels portfolio....

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  • 22 September, 2020

    “Hotel Architect of the Year” Brit List 2020

    We are thrilled to be nominated for the Hotel Designs Brit List 2020 ‘Architect of the Year’ award for our work with Inhabit Hotels. Now more than ever, we should recognise and celebrate the leading individuals who are consistently and meaningfully at the forefront of......

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  • 01 September, 2020

    ‘Shelter from the Storm’ COVID screens provide protection to those in need

    For most of us lockdown was spent in the safety of our homes - but for those less fortunate we designed these screens to protect guests and volunteers alike at homeless shelter, Shelter from the Storm, in north London....

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  • 17 July, 2020

    Exploring dilapidation and decay in rural Norfolk

    We have been appointed to undertake a feasibility study for a grade II listed farmhouse and its outbuildings in rural Norfolk. We will be exploring themes of dilapidation and decay and considering ways in which heritage assets can be preserved through strategic sustainable development, for......

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  • 06 May, 2020

    Glenburn Stables site progress

    Construction work progresses at pace on our project to convert this stunning 18th Century stable complex in the Scottish Borders into two guest apartments. The building is Grade C listed and on the heritage buildings at risk register. We have been working closely with the......

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  • 15 April, 2020

    K’in housing development starts on site

    Even in a crisis, we are all connected. Thrilled to announce our housing project in Tulum, Mexico has broken ground. Although progress will be slower due to the current situation, we are focused on the future, and looking forward to visiting site in the coming......

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  • 05 March, 2020

    Antwerp 2020

    Last weekend we braved the inclement weather on our annual studio outing to Antwerp, Belgium. Despite the rain we still managed to see some incredible architecture and become immersed in this inspiring city. Highlights included the @zahahadidarchitects Port Authority building in all its dramatic glory and......

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  • 26 February, 2020

    Surface Thinking

    Studio director Richard Holland was recently invited to speak on a panel at @surfacethinking hosted by the editor of @hoteldesigns about our recent work with @inhabit_hotels and the use of biophilic materials in hospitality design – “an expression of the inherent human need to affiliate......

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  • 10 July, 2019

    Can Sustainable Design Transform Communities?

    Can Sustainable Design Transform Communities? Goldfinger launches new academy courses to teach craft and sustainable woodworking to the community. Our friends at Goldfinger recently announced the launch of their much anticipated Goldfinger Academy. A place of learning, inclusion and empowerment for the local community that......

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  • 24 June, 2019

    London Festival of Architecture 2019

    Humanising Homelessness: A Duty of Care We recently organised a debate as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2019 at Sessions House in Clerkenwell – kindly hosted by our friends at Ennismore. Our discussion focused on our recent project for charity Shelter from the......

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