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