Purcell’s 2023 project highlights

2023 Frameworks

We are delighted that Purcell won a place on four major frameworks this year:

• Palace of Westminster Framework
• The Cambridge University Framework
• The UEA Framework
• The NHS public projects Framework

Our Surveying team are continuing to condition survey Plymouth’s historic buildings and our contract for this has been renewed for 2024.

Our Heritage Consultancy team collaborated with HTA Design to win a competition for a new landscape-led regeneration of Canterbury, Kent. The Canterbury Connected project follows a successful application to the government’s Levelling Up Fund which was awarded in January and aims to reinforce the historic cathedral city’s position as a global heritage destination.

Project wins in Asia Pacific

In Hong Kong we won three significant heritage projects:

• Maryknoll
• King Yin Lei
• Nga Tsin Wai

In Tasmania we continue to work across all major public buildings including Government House, The Treasury Complex, Parliament House, and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

2023 Project Completions

• National Portrait Gallery, London
• V&A Photography Centre, London
• Catford Broadway Theatre, London
• Elizabeth Tower, London
• Camden Town Hall, London
• Battersea Power Station, London
• The new South Asia Gallery at Manchester Museum
• Stowe House State Dining Room, Stowe
• Boston Manor House, London
• Kensington Palace Orangery Learning Centre, London
• Camden Town Hall, London
• Ledston Hall, Ledston
• Queen Mary University roof extension, London
• The Cancer Support Centre, Norwich
• The Faith Gallery at Auckland Castle in collaboration with Niall McLaughlin Architects, Bishop Auckland

More achievements

• Porthcawl Pavilion, South Wales was awarded levelling-up funding
• The Wrexham Museum of Two Halves for football and local heritage, achieved planning consent
• Shoemakers Museum, Somerset achieved planning consent
• Jumbo Water Tower adaptive reuse project in Colchester achieved Round 1 National Lottery Heritage Funding
• Our Sydney office Completed the New South Wales Parliament House Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly projects, and are continuing to work on the Façade conservation works, to be finalised early in 2024
• In Hong Kong we have completed the enhancement of the Red Room and the Library at the Hong Kong Club

Award wins in 2023

• RIBA National Award – Radley College Chapel Extension
• RIBA South Award – Radley College Chapel Extension
• RIBA South Building of the Year Award – Radley College Chapel Extension
• RIBA Conservation Award – Radley College Chapel Extension
• RIBA North East Award – Newcastle Cathedral Common Ground in Sacred Spaces
• Civic Trust Conservation Award – Boston Manor House
• Brick Award – Kensington Palace Orangery Learning Centre
• Yorkshire Property Award for Refurbishment – Ledston Hall
• Georgian Group Restoration Award – Stowe House
• Georgian Group Diaphoros Prize – Windsor Castle Inner Hall

Radley College was also a finalist at the WAF Awards and despite not winning the award, we were proud to present our project in Singapore at WAF this year and were delighted to see two of our collaborative projects win: The V&A Photography Centre (with Gibson Thornley) and Battersea Power Station (Wilkinson Eyre)