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Barton Willmore is the UK’s largest independent Planning and Design Practice, serving public and private development industry clients from our 13 regional offices across the UK. Our integrated service enables us to produce comprehensive, yet innovative and deliverable solutions that secure the necessary permissions, deliver high quality design and successful spaces for the wider community with long term sustainability as a key consideration. We offer a personal, high quality consultancy service allowing clients to choose to use the services of the local office to their region or draw specialist or personal advice from any member of the Practice, wherever they are located. Originally established as an Architectural Practice over 80 years ago, Barton Willmore has a strong design-led approach throughout all our disciplines. Our Architectural teams combine high quality, innovative and sustainable design with strong commercial awareness and each member of staff is skilled at guiding developments of all types, from contemporary residential schemes to the refurbishment of listed buildings or development of major integrated urban regeneration schemes.

Carmody Groarke is a London-based architectural practice founded in 2006 by Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke. The practice has developed a reputation for its international work on a wide range of commercial, arts, cultural, heritage, and residential projects. Current projects include a significant refurbishment and extension to the Design Museum in Ghent, Belgium; a new archive building for the national collection of the British Library in Yorkshire; the Bibliothèque Nationale de France Conservation Centre in Amiens, France; the London School of Economics (LSE) Bankside House; and the heritage restoration and significant extension of the London Wall Buildings in the City of London. Completed work include the critically acclaimed Windermere Jetty Museum in the Lake District and a temporary home for Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House. The practice recently completed the transformation of a former 1970s textile workshop on Bethnal Green Road into a contemporary, low-carbon workspace—a compelling model for adaptive commercial reuse. Carmody Groarke’s work has been recognised through several prestigious architectural awards, most recently the Architects’ Journal Design of the Year in 2025. Previous projects have been shortlisted for the EU Mies van der Rohe Award, the 2021 RIBA Building of the Year Stirling Prize, and the Civic Trust National Panel Special Award 2020. Four monographs of the practice’s work have been published by El Croquis, 2G, AMAG, and A+U.

Grafton Architects is an architecture & planning company based out of 12-14 College Green, Dublin, Ireland.