Misplaced Pages

Hugh Giles Keyworth Broughton (born February 1965 in Worcester) is an English architect and one of the world's leading designers of polar research facilities. His practice, Hugh Broughton Architects, was founded in 1995 and is based in London, works internationally. The practice has won several high profile international design competitions, including Halley VI Research Station, Juan Carlos 1 Spanish Antarctic Base, the Atmospheric Watch Observatory in Greenland for the US National Science Foundation and a new health facility on Tristan da Cunha, the world's most remote inhabited island. As of 2020, current polar work includes the redevelopment of Scott Base for Antarctica New Zealand, designed in collaboration with Jasmax; and the modernisation of the Rothera Research Station for the British Antarctic Survey (2023). In 2019 the practice completed the conservation of the Grade I listed Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1696.

The practice has received four RIBA National Awards, one RIBA International Award (2013), and seven RIBA Regional Awards (including 2016, and 2019). Other awards include Museums and Heritage Award 2019, New London Awards 2018, The American Prize for Architecture 2016, Civic Trust Award Special Award for Sustainability 2014, three AJ Retrofit Awards in 2013, and BD International Breakthrough Architect of the Year Award 2012

Hugh lectures internationally and has served on numerous architectural juries including the 2013 RIBA Manser Medal, the 2014 AJ Retrofit Awards, the 2015 RIBA Awards and the Architizer Awards; he is an assessor for the Civic Trust Awards. He was named on the Evening Standard The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2018 - Visualisers: Architecture.

Education

• 1990 BA MA (Hons) Dip Arch, Architecture, University of Edinburgh

Significant buildings

• 2019 The Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, England
• 2018 The Rookery, TUC Congress House, London, England
• 2017 - 2021 (ongoing) Redevelopment of the Dockyard Church, Royal Navy Dockyard, Isle of Sheppey, Sheerness, Kent, originally designed by George Ledwell Taylor in 1828
• 2017 Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Perry Green, Hertfordshire, England
• 2016 The Portland Collection, The Harley Gallery, Welbeck Estate, Nottinghamshire, England

• 2015 Institution of Structural Engineers
• 2014-2018 The Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, England
• 2013 Halley VI Research Station for the British Antarctic Survey

• 2012 Maidstone Museum East Wing

• 2012-ongoing Atmospheric Watch Observatory at Summit Station on the apex of the Greenland ice sheet for the US National Science Foundation

• 2007-ongoing Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base base on Livingston Island

• 2005 British Council Malaysia
• 1998 South Wimbledon District Guides

• 1996-ongoing TUC Congress House, London

Further reading

• Slavid, Ruth (2015). Ice Station: The Creation of Halley VI. Zurich: Park Books. ISBN 9783906027661.
• Jodidio, Philip (2001). Taschen Architecture Now! Vol. 10. Taschen. ISBN 9783836552219.

See also

• British Antarctic Survey
• Congress House
• Greenland ice sheet
• Halley VI Research Station (competition winning design)
• Harley Gallery and Foundation
• Institution of Structural Engineers
• Henry Moore Foundation
• Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base
• Livingston Island
• Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery
• Old Royal Naval College
• Scott Base
• Sheerness Dockyard
• Summit Station
• US National Science Foundation
• Venice Biennale of Architecture

Notes

References

1. "Winners of the 2013 RIBA International Awards for architectural excellence announced". Architecture. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
2. "RIBA awards: The Portland Collection". Architecture. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
3. "RIBA London Award Winners: The Painted Hall". Architecture. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
4. "Painted Hall wins Museums + Heritage Award for Restoration/Conservation Project of the Year". Old Royal Naval College Greenwich. Archived from the original on 14 February 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
5. "2016 Winners: Halley VI Antarctic Research Station". The American Architecture Prize. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
6. "2014 Civic Trust Awards Winners Revealed". Civic Trust Awards. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
7. "AJ exclusive: Winners of the 2013 Retrofit Awards announced". Architects' Journal. 11 September 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
8. "Architect of the Year Awards 2013: International Breakthrough". Building Design Online. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
9. "The A+Awards Jury Academy". Architizer. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
10. "The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2018 - Visualisers: Architecture". Evening Standard. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
11. "The Painted Hall Reopening". Old Royal Naval College Greenwich. 17 January 2019. Archived from the original on 30 July 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
12. "The Rookery". Architecture Today. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
13. "Future Secured For Neglected Treasure Of England's Naval Heritage". Sheerness Dockyard Trust. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
14. Pearman, Hugh (27 April 2016). "The Portland Collection, Worksop". RIBA Journal. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
15. Wise, Louis (27 March 2016). "A vast collection of rare eccentricity". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
16. Morris, Ali (7 March 2016). "Hugh Broughton creates new home for the Dukes of Portland's previously unseen art collection". Wallpaper. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
17. Sooke, Alastair (13 March 2016). "A gigantic treasure chest, stuffed with sparkling loot". The Telegraph. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
18. Featured in "Taschen Architecture Now 10". Taschen Book Catalogue. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
19. Miles, Paul (10 February 2017). "Polar architecture: the research bases built using green ideas". Financial Times. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
20. "How Antarctic bases went from wooden huts to sci-fi chic". BBC News. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
21. "Halley VI and other Antarctic research stations – in pictures". The Guardian. 9 February 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
22. Moore, Rowan (10 February 2013). "Halley VI research station, Antarctica – review". The Observer. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
23. "Winners of the 2013 RIBA International Awards for architectural excellence announced". Royal Institute of British Architects. 13 July 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
24. "HALLEY VI ANTARCTIC RESEARCH STATION - Antarctica, 2013". The Chicago Anthenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
25. "Halley VI Antarctic Research Station Wins 2015 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award". American Society of Civil Engineers. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
26. Olcayto, Rory (26 April 2012). "The story of Goldibox: Maidstone Museum by Hugh Broughton". The Architects' Journal. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
27. Merrick, Jay (19 April 2012). "Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery's new extension is a modern classic". The Independent. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
28. "Brave in the face of history: Maidstone Museum extension by Hugh Broughton Architects". Detail online. 5 February 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
29. "Atmospheric Watch Observatory(AWO)" (PDF). National Science Foundation. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
30. "Juan Carlos I Spanish Antarctic Station". Geoview. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
31. Miles, Paul (10 February 2017). "Polar architecture: the research bases built using green ideas". Financial Times. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
32. Fernández Rubio, Andrés (9 May 2013). "La arquitectura del incierto futuro". El Pais. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
33. Broughton, Hugh. "My First Building". Design Curial. Retrieved 12 March 2017.

External links

• "Directors". Hugh Broughton Architects. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
• "Hugh Broughton". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2 October 2016.

1. "Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006".
2. "Hugh Giles Keyworth BROUGHTON - Personal Appointments (Free information from Companies House)".

• Living people
• 1965 births
• Architects from Worcestershire
• Alumni of the University of Edinburgh