Glenn Howells

Howells was born in Stourbridge, England and educated in Plymouth.

His practice, Glenn Howells Architects (GHA), has offices in Birmingham and London. Howells founded his practice in London in 1990 but later moved the main office to Birmingham in 1992. GHA now employs 120 people in its Birmingham and London studios and works across the UK in many sectors including masterplanning, residential, offices, education, retail, health, hotel and leisure.

Early projects included the award-winning Custard Factory, an affordable creative business space in Birmingham for developer Bennie Gray and a series of arts projects including the Market Place Theatre in Armagh, Northern Ireland that won a RIBA regional award and the Courtyard Theatre in Hereford.

The practice subsequently expanded into residential and mixed-use regeneration schemes with a series of projects for innovative developer Urban Splash. These included Timber Wharf and Burton Place in Manchester and the remodeling of Birmingham's landmark Rotunda office building into residential use.

Among its public projects is the Savill Building at Windsor Great Park, shortlisted for the 2007 RIBA Stirling Prize. The competition winning scheme run by The Crown Estate, was intended to create a gateway to the listed gardens reflecting the character and quality of the park. The building grouped all visitor facilities under a grid shell roof creating a series of linked spaces. The roof is constructed from larch and clad with green oak from sustainable sources from the Windsor Estate. It is supported by an earth structure on the entrance side which houses ancillary facilities, while the garden side is elevated on legs to take advantage of the views. It opened to the public in June 2006.

Today, GHA is working on a number of large scale masterplans including thousands of homes as part of the regeneration of London's former docks and the mixed-use redevelopment of the historically sensitive Paradise Circus area of central Birmingham for Argent.

GHA's projects have won a diverse range of awards including those of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the British Council for offices, National Homebuilder, Housing Design and RICS awards, Civic Trust and Civic Voice awards, and Concrete Society and Brick Awards

Masterplanning

Royal Wharf, Royal Docks, Paradise, Birmingham, Maple Quays, Canada Water, London, London City Island

Housing

Parkside, Cambridge, Printworks, London , Rotunda, Birmingham, Southside, Birmingham, Timber Wharf, Manchester, The Triangle, Swindon, Urbanest King's Cross, London , Wardian, London

Single Houses

Glass House, Hampstead

Moat House, Dorsington

Workplace

Eleven Brindley Place, Birmingham

Maltings Place, Bermondsey, London

One St Peter's Square, Manchester

Severn Trent Water, Shrewsbury

Ty Admiral, Cardiff

Public and Education

Bramall Music Building, Birmingham

Lime Street Gateway, Liverpool

National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

National Film and Television School

Newman University

Saint Martin's School, Solihull

Savill Building, Windsor Great Park

The Courtyard, Hereford

The Marketplace, Armagh, Northern Ireland

Westonbirt Aboretum, Tetbury

Westonbirt Walkway, Tetbury

Retail and Leisure

Edgbaston Priory Club, Birmingham

Gloucester Services, Gloucester

John Lewis, Exeter

John Lewis, Oxford

Health and Extra Care

Brassington Avenue, Sutton Coldfield

One Bayshill Road, Cheltenham

Institute of Translational Medicine, Birmingham

TouchBase, Birmingham

University Hospital Birmingham