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Hodder+Partners is a medium sized architectural practice based in Manchester. It is the incorporated continuation of Hodder Associates founded in 1983 and offers architectural services together with interior architecture, urban design and master planning, and product design. In 1992 it received the Royal Fine Art Commission/ Sunday Times ‘Building of the Year’ Award for Colne Swimming Pool in Lancashire. This resulted in the appointment to extend Arne Jacobsen’s Grade I listed St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, a client relationship which has now extended for some 15 years. This culminated with the £8.7m Phase II extension, completed in 2005, and which has now received five awards.
In 1996, the practice received the most important award for a single building in British architecture, the inaugural Stirling Prize, for the Centenary Building, University of Salford. It has since won a further 30 major national awards.
The practice has realised significant projects in the leisure, cultural, residential, and commercial sectors, together with the higher education sector.
Current projects include office buildings at 3 St. Paul’s Place, Sheffield, for CTP St James and 4 Piccadilly Place, Manchester for Argent Estates, Chapel Wharf, Salford for Dandara, and a £150m masterplan in Wigan for Maryland Securities.