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We’ve been shortlisted for Architecture Business of the Year for the second year running. After winning last year, it’s encouraging Read More

We’re looking forward to attending MIPIM from 10–13 March. Stephen and Claire Hodder will be in Cannes across the four Read More

An engaging discussion at this morning’s Climate Ready event explored the value of reusing our existing building stock, highlighting the Read More

Earlier this week, claire hodder, Managing Director, and Matt Dawson, Associate Director, visited the project to review the latest works Read More

We’re delighted to share that St Michael’s Manchester has been shortlisted in the MIPIM Awards 2026 for Best Workplace Experience! Read More

Hodder+Partners are delighted to announce the successful Gateway 2 application for the Haymarket development, our Bristol PBSA & Co-living development, set to Read More

MArch2 Students from the Continuity atelier from Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) visited St Michael’s Manchester as part of their Read More

We are pleased to announce that Samantha Dale has been promoted from Senior Architect to Associate at Hodder + Partners. Read More

Have your say… The consultation on our proposal for Zone H will be open for three weeks from Thursday 27 Read More

We are pleased to share the proposals for the latest development, Plot H, located at the gateway to the wider Read More

There’s been a range of media coverage this morning following the latest update on The Hotspur Press project. Several outlets Read More

We were pleased to welcome Tom Stannard, Chief Executive of Manchester City Council, to our studio on Friday, alongside Stephen Read More

No.1 St Michael’s Manchester has been designated “Super Prime” by the British Council for Offices (BCO), one of only three Read More

A clear view of No.2 St Michael’s Manchester from Chotto Matte, from the top of the completed Phase 1. From Read More

Chotto Matte at St Michael’s Manchester Launch Party, Last night, some of the team at Hodder & Partners had the Read More

A brilliant evening at Place North’s unveiling event last night, looking ahead to an expanded northern presence at MIPIM 2026. Read More

Exciting Launch in Manchester! Last night, members of the Hodder+Partners team were delighted to attend the official launch of CyanLines. Read More

This month marks 25 years since the completion of the Corporation Street Bridge, a project born from devastation, designed as Read More

We’re proud to share that our Associate Director, Nick Wright, has been appointed to Salford’s newly established Design Review Forum, Read More

Here’s an internal walk through the Grade II listed Brunswick Mill during the partial demolition phase before it’s ongoing restoration Read More

Excited to share a glimpse of our latest design development model, a 3D printed concept for The Kiosk, the central Read More

Great to see the progress on site at No.2 St Michael’s on Wednesday, with a tour led by Antony Dewar Read More

On Friday, some members of the team at Hodder + Partners made the trip from Manchester to Nottingham to visit Read More

Congratulations to Uka Luvsansambuu and Rucha Valimbe on passing their Part 3, a major milestone and the final step to Read More

Our Associate Richard Newman was there to celebrate and said: “Grateful for the invite to Renaissance’s new office opening — Read More

New tenants. Bespoke fit-outs. A defining moment for the city. At Hodder + Partners, we’re proud to see St. Michael’s Read More

We’re excited to be part of the North delegation heading to MIPIM 2026 with Place North. Preparations are well underway, Read More

We’re proud to share that our Founding Director, Stephen Hodder MBE, and Managing Director, claire hodder, are featured in this Read More

Exciting News 🎙️ Our Founding Director, Stephen Hodder MBE, features in the latest episode of Scheming, a Place North West Read More

Our Associate Director Matt Dawson and Senior Architect Samantha Dale attended the Meet the Practice event yesterday at Manchester School Read More

Great to be at the opening party of Circolo Popolare at St Michael’s Manchester last night. It was fantastic to Read More

We are delighted to announce that Hodder and Partners was awarded Architectural Practice of the Year at both the Insider Read More

Meet us at UKREiiF 2025! Our Founding Director, Stephen Hodder MBE, and Managing Director, claire hodder, will be attending UKREiiF Read More

We’re incredibly proud to see our Founder, Stephen Hodder MBE, featured in this brilliant episode reflecting on his 40-year journey Read More

Last week our Founding Director, Stephen Hodder, took part in The Walk Series – Season 2, hosted by the modernist Read More

Hotspur Press Article by – Place North West From the restored 19th-century mill to a striking 35-storey tower and new Read More

A Great Day at St Michael’s Manchester Building 1 Part of the Hodder + Partners team had the pleasure of Read More

Double the Celebration! We’re proud to announce that, in addition to being shortlisted at the Construction and Property Awards, we Read More

Staff Spotlight 💡 In another edition of our staff spotlight series, we are featuring Connor Meighan, Connor joined Hodder and Read More

Today, some of our team members came together for a lunchtime session, where we had the opportunity to hear from Read More

We’re proud to celebrate our colleague Connor Meighan for winning third place in the Fentress Architects Global Challenge 2024. This Read More

Staff Spotlight 💡 Next up in the series is Christian Brown. Christian joined Hodder and Partners in 2022 and has Read More

We asked our Associate Director, Nick Wright to speak about some the details he loves about Royal Horticultural Society. “The Read More

Buildings we love: We asked our Associate Director,  Matt Dawson to speak about one of his favourite buildings “Favourite buildings Read More

Next in our staff spotlight series is Oscar Henery. Oscar joined Hodder and Partners in August 2022 and has since Read More

We’re thrilled to announce that our founder, Stephen Hodder MBE, will be a judge at the CN Awards 2025, taking Read More

We were delighted to welcome Manchester School of Architecture Students to Hodder + Partners for an insightful visit into the Read More

Our founder, Stephen Hodder and a professor at the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA), recently took his students on an Read More

Staff Spotlight 💡 Next up in the staff spotlight series is Ben Goble. Ben joined Hodder and Partners in July Read More

Site Walk at St Michael’s Manchester Phase 2 🏗️ Yesterday, some of the Hodder and Partners team had the opportunity Read More

Staff Spotlight 💡 Our next staff spotlight and first one of 2025 is Samantha Dale. Sam joined Hodder + Partners Read More

Season’s Greetings from hodder+partners Our 40th year has been a very busy one and we hope you enjoy a summary Read More

We’re delighted to announce that Christian Brown, Oscar Henery and Connor Meighan have successfully passed the Part 3 examination and Read More

Staff Spotlight 💡 Our December staff spotlight shines on Angelo Turrisi! Angelo joined us almost a year ago and has Read More

We’re thrilled to share a major milestone on-site at St Michael’s Manchester The B1 slab is now fully poured, marking Read More

Topping Out – ALFRETON ROAD, NOTTINGHAM We’re delighted to celebrate a significant milestone in the Alfreton Road project – the Read More

Staff Spotlight Third in our staff spotlight series is Uka Luvsansambuu, Uka joined us earlier this year after having completed Read More

Thank you to the Blackpool Civic Trust On Monday, our founder, Stephen Hodder MBE, delivered the Robert Evan Mills Lecture, Read More

Staff Spotlight Second in our staff spotlight series is Lee Bowen, Lee started his new role with the practice in Read More

Our team at Hodder + Partners enjoyed an inspiring away day in Manchester touring some of our current and completed Read More

On World Cities Day, we celebrate Manchester—a city where history and modern design come together. From industrial heritage buildings to Read More

Staff Spotlight – Rosemary Clowes   Rosie Clowes kicks off our new staff spotlight series. She joined Hodder + Partners in Read More

Exciting plans are underway for the redevelopment of the former Particular Baptist Chapel on Rochdale Road. Cynergy Wellness Residences aims Read More

Exciting progress at No.1 St Michael’s Manchester with the external envelope is taking shape, and it’s looking great. Huge thanks Read More

Exciting progress at Alfreton Road! The development is shaping up at full speed and we could not be any prouder Read More

We had a fantastic time at Insider’s 24th Annual East Midlands Property Dinner! It was wonderful to celebrate with our Read More

Yesterday, our Founding Director, Stephen Hodder, attended his final meeting as Chair of the Construction Industry Council’s Climate Change Committee. Read More

We are delighted to announce that plans for the regeneration of The Hotspur Press building have been approved! The Hotspur Read More

Founding Director, Stephen Hodder will be speaking at this year’s World of Facades on the 9th May. An Evolving Approach Read More

We will be attending UKREiiF again this year in Leeds.

A big thank you to everyone that attended our 40th anniversary party at RHS Garden Bridgewater. It was good to Read More

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  Founding Director of Hodder+Partners, Stephen Hodder, has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Manchester Society Read More

We are pleased that the appeal for Parrs Wood Lane in Didsbury has been allowed. The development on the former Read More

Climate Framework and CIC today presented key insights on the state of climate education across the built environment sector via Read More

hodder+partners are happy to announce Nick Wright has been promoted to Associate Director. Nick joined hodder+partners in August 2014 after Read More

Today hodder+partners welcomed architectural students from Manchester School of Architecture to our studio here in Castlefield to give an insight Read More

  Earlier this week our Chair Stephen Hodder and Associate Nick Wright attended the Building Beauty Awards hosted at Bloomberg Read More

Hodder+Partners is proud to announce The Welcome Building at the RHS Garden Bridgewater has been shortlisted at The Royal Fine Read More

The Welcome Building won ‘Most Innovative Public Project’ at last week’s Building Innovation Awards.   Hodder and Partners are delighted Read More

In this months issue of Architects Data File, our award winning project ‘The Welcome Building’ is featured: To read the Read More

Hodder+Partners is delighted to announce that the Welcome Building, RHS Garden Bridgewater has won an International Architecture Award 2022, awarded Read More

We are honoured to announce that ‘The Welcome Building, RHS Garden Bridgewater’ has been shortlisted for the International Architecture Awards Read More

Hodder+Partners is delighted to announce that The Welcome Building, has been named North West Building of the Year by the Read More

We are pleased to announce the Welcome Building has achieved two awards in this year’s RIBA North West Awards. From Read More

  We are delighted to announce two further awards for our project The Welcome Building at the RHS Garden Bridgewater Read More

We are delighted to announce that our project The Welcome Building at the RHS Garden Bridgewater has been shortlisted for Read More

We are delighted to announce that The RHS Garden Bridgewater is one of 35 winners in the 2022 Civic Trust Read More

Stephen Hodder recently spoke to Salford University about his work with the MArch students on The Welcome Building RHS Garden Read More

The Winners of the Wood Awards 2021 were announced at last night’s event at the Building Centre London and we Read More

We are delighted our project The Welcome Building at the RHS Garden Bridgewater Worsley is a Regional Finalist at the Read More

We are delighted to announce the practice won two awards last week at two of Manchester’s most prestigious events for Read More

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) will be at COP26 on 11 November to present on ‘Carbon Zero: the professional institutions’ Read More

Our Welcome Building for the Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden at Bridgewater Salford has been shortlisted at this year’s Wood Awards. Read More

Our Welcome Building for the Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden at Bridgewater Salford has been shortlisted at this year’s AJ Architecture Read More

Our Welcome Building for the Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden at Bridgewater Salford has been long listed at this year’s Dezeen Read More

Our residential Great Jackson Street scheme has been given planning approval by Manchester City Council Planning Committee. The site is Read More

We are pleased to announce Hodder+Partners scheme for The Royal Horticultural Society, The RHS Garden Bridgewater Welcome Building has been Read More

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has today launched ‘Carbon Zero: the professional institutions’ climate action plan’ which was spearheaded by Read More

We are pleased to announce Hodder+Partners have been shortlisted for Architect of the Year at this year’s Insider North West Read More

The RHS Garden Bridgewater is featured in a four part documentary commencing Monday 10th May, The Great Northern Garden Build Read More

Stephen joined Paul Swaddle of NBS Digital Construction Conversations recently to talk about his projects, practice, and teaching roles, including Read More

Former RIBA President and inaugural Stirling Prize winner Stephen Hodder has joined Manchester School of Architecture. A vastly experienced practising Read More

Hodder+Partners are pleased to announce the appointment of Simon Guineberteau, Nick Wright and Richard Newman as Associates. Simon has been Read More

We are pleased to announce that we were awarded the Structural Timber Awards 2020 ‘Architect of the Year’ at yesterday’s Read More

Following Government guidelines Hodder+Partners will once again be working remotely from Wednesday 6th January. Staff are all set up securely Read More

Our new 39 storey residential King’s Tower scheme has been given planning approval by Sheffield Council’s planning committee. The 117 Read More

Hodder and Partners are delighted to have won the Best Tall Building Façade Engineering Project at the Tall Building Awards Read More

Following Government guidelines Hodder+Partners will again be working remotely from Thursday 5th November.   Staff are all set up securely Read More

Our New Cross project for Balfour Beatty Investments has achieved Practical Completion.  Newly named Broadside, the scheme is a residential Read More

Hodder + Partners has submitted plans for a 39-storey residential tower in central Sheffield that could become one of Yorkshire’s Read More

We are pleased to announce that our Project for the Royal Horticultural Society Garden Bridgewater in Salford has been shortlisted Read More

Sue Biggs, Director General of The Royal Horticultural Society, gave an update on The RHS Garden Bridgewater and our Welcome Read More

Hodder+Partners are pleased announce we have now reopened the office at SGI Studios after the Covid-19 lockdown. We are adhering Read More

Andrew Bullmore, Hoare Lea’s Head of Innovation interviewed Stephen Hodder for their podcast recently. Together they discuss Stephen’s unique journey Read More

Our Plaza 1821 scheme at Liverpool Waters for Peel Land and Property Group has completed on site. Plaza 1821 forms Read More

Due to the current Covid-19 situation Hodder+Partners are now working remotely. Staff are all set up securely at home and Read More

Our Duncan House project on Stratford High Street E15 for Watkin Jones has been shortlisted for three categories in the Read More

Hodder+Partners are delighted to once again be Partners of the Manchester at MIPIM delegation at this year’s event in March. Read More

The Royal Horticultural Society has announced that the RHS Garden Bridgewater in Worsley will open it’s doors to the public Read More

Hodder+Partners were delighted to have Salford University Part Two Architecture student Abby Cassady here at the practice over the summer. Read More

Altrincham’s businesses will be sparkling from this Saturday as they dress their windows for Christmas and to enter 2019’s Festive Read More

Two topping out ceremonies in as many weeks! The final piece of the green roof was placed on the Welcome Read More

Our Duncan House scheme for Watkin Jones has now reached practical completion in Stratford, London.  The mixed use development consists Read More

Our Between Towns Road scheme in Oxford for Watkin Jones has completed on site.  The project, now renamed Between Towns Read More

Professor Peter Walker Director of Architecture and Digital Design Professor of Construction Science and Management at Salford University’s School of Read More

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) inaugurated Stephen Hodder MBE as its new Chair at its Council Meeting on 11 June Read More

Along with 16 other UK winners of the RIBA Stirling Prize, Hodder + Partners has signed an open letter declaring Read More

An exciting opportunity has become available at Hodder+Partners as an Office Administrator. You will be the first point of contact Read More

Hodder+Partners are delighted to once again be Partners of the Manchester at MIPIM delegation at this year’s event next week. Read More

Market House in Newcastle has reached completion, with student accommodation operator Fresh Student Living having accepted its first tenants. Market Read More

2018 has been a busy year for the practice!  Merry Christmas from all of us here at Hodder + Partners. Read More

Our new 28 storey mixed-use Hotspur Press scheme has been given planning approval by Manchester City Council. The tower will Read More

In July, our Chairman, Stephen Hodder MBE was appointed as Deputy Chair of the Construction Industry Council. Here he talks Read More

At a meeting of its Council on 26 June 2018, Members of the Construction Industry Council (CIC) appointed Stephen Hodder Read More

“What differentiates this from other residential projects that we are seeing in the city at the moment is that retention Read More

The landmark Manchester city centre mixed-use redevelopment project St Michael’s will go-ahead – after the Secretary of State confirmed that Read More

Our practice is organising a bike ride fundraiser event to raise money for the RIBA Future Architects Pledge. On the Read More

Our Managing Director Claire Hodder, will be joining her sons Matthew and Ollie who will be running in the 5k Read More

Our spotlight series hopes to shine a light on some of the great architectural minds of Hodder+Partners and discover what Read More

A Hodder+Partners designed residential-led mixed-use development just outside Manchester city centre is due to start on site. The scheme – Read More

Last year we launched our brand new blog series, Spotlight. This series hopes to shine a light on some of Read More

As MIPIM drew to a close our chairman Stephen Hodder discussed how busy the practice has been and will continue Read More

“It’s just such an exciting project for Salford”. Our chairman spoke from MIPIM in Cannes about the importance of our Read More

“There is so much going on in the city at the moment” Watch our Chairman Stephen Hodder discuss this years Read More

In November we launched Contexts: The Work of Hodder + Partners to critically review the achievements and culture of the Read More

Senior Project Architect Shane McCamley has joined Hodder + Partners after having worked at several prestigious London based practices. Shane’s Read More

Last year we launched our brand new blog series, Spotlight. This series hopes to shine a light on some of Read More

Hodder+Partners are delighted to once again be Partners of the Manchester at MIPIM delegation at this year’s event in March. Read More

Having worked on projects across the UK in 2017 in Manchester, London, Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield, to name but a Read More

With the planning application finally submitted for St. Michael’s Manchester, we sat down with our Chairman Stephen Hodder to discuss Read More

Hodder+Partners has appointed Angela Pownall as Associate of the architectural practice. Angela joined Hodder+Partners – which offers services across all Read More

We’re delighted to announce that Hodder+Partners has been shortlisted for Architect of the Year at the upcoming North West Residential Read More

More than 140 guests including TV personality and architect George Clarke attended Hodder+Partners’ 25th anniversary celebration in Manchester city centre. Read More

With the annual Stirling Prize award ceremony being held on Tuesday, 31st October we sat down with our chairman, Stephen Read More

Contextualising the work of influential architectural practice, Hodder+Partners is the subject of the latest book from the Royal Institute of Read More

A £19 million mixed-use scheme designed by Hodder+Partners has been approved by Manchester City Council. The 25 Rochdale Road site Read More

We are pleased to announce that our Cambridge Street project has been shortlisted for an AJ Architecture Award. These are Read More

We are seeking a highly motivated Project Architect with 5 to 10 years’ post-qualification experience. You will have experience in Read More

Hodder+Partners has appointed Emma Watson as the architectural practice continues to strengthen its design and commercial capabilities. Emma joins from Read More

A £19 million mixed-use scheme designed by Hodder+Partners has been submitted to Manchester Planning Authority. If approved, the 25 Rochdale Read More

The average employee spends nearly half of the working day in the office, and over 245 days a year. Over Read More

We have appointed three new team members to support the ongoing growth of the practice. Richard Newman, Simina Ionescu and Read More

Introducing our new blog series, Spotlight. With a hugely influential and inspiring team of creatives, we thought we’d shine a Read More

Last week, we attended the annual Manchester Architects Awards ceremony where our design for the RHS Bridgewater Garden Welcome Building Read More

RHS The fifth RHS Garden in Salford, Greater Manchester has been granted planning permission in principle. The proposals include a Read More

The April edition of The Architects Journal features our Cambridge Street scheme in Manchester. As part of the AJ’s special Read More

Plans have now been submitted for the Plaza 1821 site which forms part of Peel Group’s Liverpool Waters and located Read More

We are pleased to announce that two of our projects have been shortlisted for the RIBA Awards. Cambridge Street has Read More

hodder+partners will again be attending MIPIM in Cannes as Partners in the Manchester delegation.  Chairman Stephen Hodder and Managing Director Read More

We would like to welcome our most recent employees Rebecca Thompson, Anna Lucas, Jack Richards, Jess Webb and Lynsey Stott Read More

Hodder+Partners is an award winning architectural practice looking to recruit a talented, highly motivated and enthusiastic architect to strengthen our Read More

An exhibition of Hodder+Partners most notable projects is to be held at the CUBE Gallery. The event that was kindly Read More

Hodder+Partners can announce that plans for a new student accommodation scheme providing 140 studio bedrooms in Oxford has been granted Read More

Hodder+Partners are pleased to announce that the 37 storey student tower on the junction of Great Marlborough Street and New Read More

Ducie Court Block A has reached practical completion with student operator The Sanctuary Group taking possession of the building and Read More

Hodder+Partners are proud to announce that their Chairman Stephen Hodder has been named President Elect of the Royal Institute of Read More

Daisy Bank Road is a new build development consisting of 8no. semi-detached three-storey dwellings. The units are separated into four Read More

Manchester City Council has approved Hodder + Partners’ proposed redevelopment of Richard Seifert’s 1965 Gateway House, next to Piccadilliy Station Read More

The student residential tower at Great Marlborough Street, Manchester for Student Castle has risen to 34 storeys, and is beginning Read More

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On 10 July Hodder+Partners is cycling from Manchester to Blackpool to raise money for Christie’s. Please visit our JustGiving page Read More

Our proposals for Gateway House, Manchester won the ‘Un-built’ category in the Manchester Society of Architects’ Awards 2011 announced last Read More

Stephen has been elected RIBA Vice-President Nations + Regions (Membership) He said, “Since becoming a Council Member some two years Read More

The clients brief was to refurbish a 1930s seven storey building and provide mixed use accommodation within the heart of Read More

The office building for Argent Estates/Carlyle Group has received a commendation in the Manchester Society of Architect’s Design Awards 2010. Read More

The 37 storey proposal for student accommodation for Student Castle was approved by Manchester City Council’s Planning and Highway Committee Read More

Hodder + Partners has won an invited competition for the redevelopment of Gateway House and Station Approach adjacent to Piccadilly Read More

4 Piccadilly Place for Argent Estates/The Carlyle Group has been completed on programme and within budget. The £20.6m building provides Read More

Stephen Hodder has been selected for CABE’s National Design Review Panel, together with Places Matter!, the north west regional design Read More

The redevelopment of 121 Banbury Road for St Clare’s College, Oxford, has received planning permission and Listed Building Consent. Production Read More

The redevelopment of Tynemouth Station, which comprises the restoration of the fine cast iron canopies (working with Latham Architects), a Read More

Four Piccadilly Place for Argent Estates is nearing completion. The 110,000sqft Grade A office building, which also comprises 10500 sqft Read More

Tynemouth Station received a commendation in the ‘unbuilt’ category in this years awards held at the CUBE Gallery, Manchester.

Hodder + Partners is pleased to be partnering the City of Manchester at MIPIM 2008. It is particularly significant that, Read More

2008 has seen a continuation of the remarkable growth in workload with new commissions for two new residential buildings in Read More

Mirabel Street residential tower of 71 apartments on Mirabel Street in Manchester has received detail planning permission (see portfolio). The Read More

The practice has commenced on site with 194 apartments on Hathersage Road in Manchester for MCR Property. The apartments are Read More