Projects

Our masterplan for Albion Square won unanimous approval from Hull’s planning committee. Our design includes 226 new homes and a large urban park, providing environmental and wellbeing benefits.

Our plan arranges four mixed-use blocks around the new park, designed to reflect the city’s history and respond to the surrounding context. Low-rise housing will harmonise with the existing Georgian terraces, and the Three Ships—the UK’s largest restored mural—will be returned to its original position.

FaulknerBrowns’ vision for the south Boho site in Middlesbrough will revitalise the area, creating a vibrant space to live, work and enjoy.

The project will provide 340 new homes, a hotel and 13,000 square metres of workspace and hotels. These will be set in the context of public gardens, an orchard and the historic market square.

The new developments will celebrate the site’s rich heritage and natural features while providing a high standard of contemporary living.

Brett Wharf seeks to transform a traditionally industrial part of Gateshead into a thriving cultural destination. The project will provide 262 rental properties, offices, retail space, cafés and restaurants.

Given the site's position among heritage assets, our design seeks to integrate the buildings into the unique fabric of the area. Our design respects the lower pedestrian deck of the High Level Bridge: split over two buildings, the forms rise and fall as they move away from the listed structure.

Located on a constrained site in Oldham, this 1,200-place academy provides a versatile space for learning, playing and socialising. The materials and form of the buildings reference the area’s historic mill buildings.

The masonry four-storey teaching block contains learning spaces, a generous atrium and admin spaces, centred around a double-height dining hall. This connects with an external courtyard with sports, play and social spaces, which is framed by two metal clad double-height blocks containing the main hall and sports hall. This careful design maximises space for sports facilities on a challenging urban site.

This velodrome was designed to demystify high-performance sport and make indoor cycling more accessible. The design team’s knowledge of both community and elite sports, particularly the inter-relationships between cycling and other sports, were key to winning this high-profile commission.

As well as the cycling track, the centre features a running track with views of the surrounding park, a sports hall, dance studios and a fitness suite, making it a dynamic venue for leisure and high-level training. The centre offers childcare, reducing barriers to entry, and spaces for meetings and social events, as well as a café with views of the sports hall.

This integrated primary and secondary school represents a significant investment in learning and community in this historically deprived area of Leeds.

The site sits across the congested A58 road, presenting a design challenge, which we addressed by constructing a pedestrian footbridge to safely connect the second floor of the building to a stair and lift tower on the other side of the road.

The building is organised into three distinct areas: community facilities stacked vertically around a dining atrium with a Hellerup-style staircase, a primary school below and a secondary school above.

Designed to double the capacity of the existing centre, this project includes two Olympic-sized ice rinks, a gym, dance studios, a community space and a café. It supports competitive skating, ice hockey and public sessions.

Visually, the building is a striking example of modern architecture. It is wrapped in a striking copper-hued band.

The centre is designed to support biodiversity: it is anchored by a plinth that incorporates bird and bat boxes and is covered in climbing plants that provide habitats for insects and birds. The rink is also the first in the UK to use filtered and recycled ice melt water to create and feed new wetland habitats.

The ice halls have insulated cladding, which helps to maintain optimum conditions for ice, and roof-mounted photovoltaic panels that provide green energy. The centre is fully powered by electricity, making it the most sustainable ice centre in the UK.

Commissioned by Derby City Council, Moorways Sports Village is a swimming and leisure centre designed to provide facilities for elite training as well as recreational spaces to enhance health and wellbeing in the local community.

The centre features a ten-lane, 50-metre swimming pool, leisure water area and teaching pool, as well as a gym, health and fitness studio, café and soft-play areas. The swimming and training areas intersect, creating views between key spaces and encouraging connection. The main pool has moveable floors and booms, meaning it can support multiple activities concurrently.

The building’s silver-toned aluminium external cladding references the neighbouring Rolls-Royce Aerospace Campus.

FaulknerBrowns is leading the renewal and expansion of the much-loved Spani Outdoor Pool (now Mundy Park Pool) in Coquitlam, British Columbia, to meet current sustainability and accessibility standards as well as modern community needs.

The project includes a leisure pool with beach entry, a lazy river, warm-water lap pool, hot pool and a renovated 25m competition tank.

The new design minimises the pool’s impact on the surrounding area through careful planning to minimise noise, traffic and land use. Our design ensures the facility is equipped to host organised swimming events—with features such as starting platforms, timing equipment and spectator seating—meaning the venue can be used for both competitive and leisure swimming, increasing its commercial value.

This venue is set to become a landmark for both Dublin and Ireland as part of the Sport Ireland Campus masterplan, providing Cricket Ireland with a permanent, world-class home. The centre will promote and support cricket at international, national, and local community levels.

Building on the existing high-performance cricket centre, which currently includes five synthetic nets, sixteen grass nets, and a fielding area, the new development will introduce key improvements, including an international-standard cricket oval and more spectator seating.

This landmark venue will house the first indoor velodrome track in Ireland, creating a permanent home for Cycling Ireland and elite cycling athletes, while helping to promote the sport and its health and wellbeing benefits to the wider community.

Located on the Sport Ireland Campus in Blanchardstown, Dublin, the centre will be suitable to host national and small-to-mid-scale international cycling competitions, as well as a variety of other events. The building and surrounding landscape will create an iconic entrance gateway to the campus at the northern corner of the site, as part of a long-term plan for wider development.

A key aspect of the proposal is to construct the cycling track at first floor level, which allows direct access to the infield area. This maximises utilisation of the space, with the potential for a range of activities, including badminton, basketball and volleyball.

Sustainability has been integral to the design process, from the building form, through to the choice of materials and the design of the engineering systems. The building will use a passive and natural approach to reduce the carbon footprint in both construction and operation.

FaulknerBrown’s redevelopment of Newcastle Civic Centre sought to preserve and enhance one of the city’s most important heritage assets. The Grade II* listed building blends rich history with modern architecture, consisting of a tower and connecting low-rise base with a central plaza.

Our redesign extended the building’s capacity as a civic venue and improved environmental performance, reducing energy consumption by 30%. We created a new entrance to resolve circulation and security issues, adding flexible, informal seating and a public café.

We also enclosed the ground-floor colonnade with a frameless glass façade, creating space for meeting pods that are aligned behind existing columns to minimise their visual impact.

Our redesign of Nottingham Library transformed the space into a hub for creation and knowledge sharing. We achieved this by rethinking the layout in a logical way: people-based spaces are placed at the front of the plan, benefiting from natural light, whereas book stock and administrative areas are positioned towards the back. Group-based activities are clustered at the centre of the plan. This thoughtful design, which includes specific low-stimulus areas, aims to support neurodivergent visitors.

The library is L-shaped and spans three levels, connected by a central entrance. The different ‘zones’ are woven together by a feature timber ceiling—which, along with the metal chandeliers that crown the entrance, celebrates the region’s lace-making industry—and a book wall that runs the length of the internal perimeter. The open-cell ceilings are integral to the ventilation and lighting strategy, with lace-effect lights and swirl diffusers providing comfort and task lighting.

This £43 million landmark project was one of the first integrated schools, sports and leisure projects in the United Kingdom.

The campus includes a primary school, secondary school and swimming pools shared by the schools and local community, as well as sports pitches and changing facilities for the town’s football, rugby and cricket clubs. Enhancing the versatility of the centre, there is also a library, café, climbing wall, soft-play area, fitness suite, sports halls and luxury spa.

The leisure facilities can be accessed separately from either side of the building, allowing them to switch between school and community use while maintaining the safeguarding of children.

This centre was part of a £20 million transformation of the University of Stirling’s sports facilities, which include national tennis and swimming academies.

The new building includes a fitness suite with more than 100 stations, three-court sports hall, indoor cycling studio, strength and conditioning area, and a state-of-the-art performance gym.

Users of the building also benefit from enhanced changing facilities and social spaces, including a café. The building’s glazed frontage exposes a central cylindrical drum with vertical timber fins spaced to create a concertina effect. This feature presents the illusion of motion and acts as a welcoming focal point in the entrance.

FaulknerBrowns have worked with the University of Nottingham to develop the concept design for a new, landmark sports centre in the heart of their Mainland China campus. 

We have drawn on our extensive international experience designing exemplar sports facilities to deliver the aspiration of a new 'Global Sports Park' that will further enhance the University’s established reputation as a leader in University sport. The proposals include an eight-court sports hall, fitness, squash and climbing facilities, as well as an indoor skate bowl and purpose-built e-sports suite.

We collaborated with the Royal Borough of Greenwich (RBG) in the design and delivery of Woolwich Waves, a new state-of-the-art leisure centre and community hub. The building features an array of wet and dry sports facilities, including an eight-lane 25m competition pool, a training pool, several leisure pools, a split-level fitness suite, six-court sports hall, squash courts, exercise studios, a crèche, and soft play. In addition, the building provides expanded facilities for the adjacent Tramshed Youth Theatre, a heritage asset which we refurbished in 2023, including two new multi-purpose spaces, and a physical connection between the two buildings.

Woolwich Waves is the first phase of RBG’s ‘The Woolwich Project’ and sits as the heart of a transformational mixed-use scheme and comprehensive masterplan centred around a health and wellbeing vision; regenerating an important, under-utilised town centre site and creating a vibrant neighbourhood where residents can live, work, play, exercise and relax within walking distances of their homes.