Hampshire County Architects


Hampshire County Architects is the old name for Hampshire County Council Architecture, the in-house architecture and design department of HCC Property Services in Hampshire, UK. Over the years the multi-disciplinary team has developed a particular reputation for good school design and is also notable as the only sizeable public-sector county architecture studio remaining, following many years in the UK of outsourcing to the private sector. In 1991 County Architect Colin Stansfield Smith won a RIBA Gold Medal award.

Staff

The team built its reputation in the 1980s under the leadership of Colin Stansfield Smith who arrived in 1974 and was county architect until 1992. As a result of his work at Hampshire County Council, was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal in 1991. and was knighted in 1993.
In 2005 the department employed 57 architects. In 2013 the department employs over 270 architects, landscape architects, building surveyors, engineers, estates surveyors and interior designers.
Types of project work includes; education and schools; early years and children's centres; older person's homes and extra care; heritage and community buildings;office rationalisation and flexible working and co-location of public services

Key building projects