Hugh Broughton
Director
MA (HONS) DIP ARCH RIBA
Hugh trained at The University of Edinburgh and set up Hugh Broughton Architects in 1995. His projects have gone on to win many awards from organisations including the RIBA, American Institute of Architects, the Civic Trust, the Architects’ Journal, and the British Construction Industry. In 2023, HBA won Public Building Architect of the Year at the Building Design Awards, and were named the World's Best Small Architecture Firm by Architizer in 2024.
The practice has a strong track record for winning design competitions for schemes that pose huge technical and aesthetic challenges within sensitive or hostile locations. These range from the conservation of The Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich to a series of remote projects including Halley VI Antarctic Research Station, the redevelopment of Scott Base, 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.
Hugh is considered the world’s leading designer of research facilities in the Polar Regions. Through this work, Hugh collaborated with NASA’s Behavioural Health and Performance Team at JSC Houston, helping to establish the acceptable net habitable volume for future long duration exploration class missions.
Closer to home, ingenious reinventions of historic buildings have been the mainstay of Hugh’s career, with high profile clients including English Heritage, the Henry Moore Foundation and the Greenwich Foundation.
Hugh has served on architectural juries, is an assessor for the Civic Trust Awards and lectures worldwide. He is a Trustee of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust and his work has been exhibited widely, including at the Venice Biennale.
Hugh has written numerous articles on contemporary architecture and is the author of two architecture guides - to Madrid and London.