title: Hugh Broughton (architect)
text: # Hugh Broughton (architect)
  
  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
  