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Holder Mathias has been at the forefront of designing UK resort and holiday developments since the 1990s. The last decade, with the after-effects of the credit crunch, saw the popularisation of the ‘stay-cation’ and more recently this combined with a raised awareness of the environmental impact of jetting abroad on holiday, ...

Center Parcs Longford Forest Ireland has been chosen as the overall winner of the Wood Awards Ireland (WAI) 2020. Ciaran O’Connor, State Architect, President RIAI and chairperson of the adjudicating panel summed the judges’ requirements: We seek innovation in design and excellence in execution. WAI like wood itself, is not singular ...

Financial services giant Legal & General is investing in a new headquarters for nearly 2,000 staff in the centre of Cardiff in a major boost to the city’s office market and economy. In the one of the biggest office deals ever seen in Wales, and one of the largest in the ...

Holder Mathias has responded to current Government guidance by deploying remote working throughout the Practice, to make our contribution towards protecting both our colleagues and the wider community. We have established systems and team based communications enabling us to achieve business continuity and serve our clients effectively in this difficult period. ...

Holder Mathias Architects has been given the go-ahead with Cardiff based developer Rightacres for its designs for the Cardiff Transport Interchange, a mixed-use development in the heart of the Welsh capital. The project is being funded by Legal & General and is being delivered by construction company ISG. The mixed-use project ...

Center Parcs Longford Forest wins 'Building Project of the Year' at the Irish Building Design Awards 2019. It came top of the peoples choice in the public voting.

Holder Mathias are delighted to announce that this year they have ranked 40 in Building Magazine's Top 50 Architects and 91 in the Top 150 Consultants.

When the anchor supermarket moved out of the centre of a Sussex town it triggered a transition to leisure, which had to be carefully handled, finds Josephine Smit. Download case study article here or view online here    

Holder Mathias proudly sponsored The Leisure Property Forum Annual Dinner alongside law firm Gowling WLG on the 7th May at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London. A raffle also took place at the dinner which raised £3768.00. The proceeds will be split between Gowling WLG’s nominated charity, Buddy Bag Foundation and Holder Mathias’ ...

We are delighted to announce two promotions to Director: Wilco Stekkinger in the London studio and Dean Lazenby in Cardiff. Both Wilco and Dean have been making a Practice wide contribution as well as providing an excellent service to our clients over the past few years and the Partnership is ...

Councillors on Neath Port Talbot Council’s planning committee unanimously supported the application. The new development will involve eight new retail units and a first floor unit with retail, restaurant or leisure use. It will provide a wide range of benefits for the town centre including a much-needed additional quality retail floor ...

Castle Quarter has been shortlisted for The Placemaking Award at this year´s Property Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on 24 April in London. The Castle Quarter site had previously lain undeveloped for many years and presented an eyesore within the City despite sitting in a key City Centre location. The site sits ...

The first phase of refurbishing the Outlet Village, Braintree has been approved, this includes a new footpath linking to the nearby train station. It is hoped the improvements will attract more shoppers to the outlet and new retailers to the area. Landsec took over the shopping village in May 2017, becoming the ...

The Planning Committee approved the plans for the go ahead 7 to 1 in favour of the scheme. The Interchange will provide a 14-stand bus station – to sit below a 249-space car park and 305 rental flats – as well as a separate six-storey office block in the centre ...

Chris has been with the practice for 15 years and worked on major developments for clients including Crest Nicholson, British Land, Forest Holidays, Dukelease, McArthurGlen and U+I. Alongside a significant contribution to managing the London studio, Chris has supervised the practice’s migration to BIM. Chris has experience of delivering complex and ...

A £40m resort in Whitby, North Yorkshire, has been given the go-ahead by Scarborough Borough Council. The Raithwaite Bay Resort, designed by Holder Mathias, is being developed by Yorkshire Ventures.It will include 71 holiday cottages, 82 holiday apartments, 37 forest lodges, as well as a restaurant and welcome hub spread over ...

Swansea Urban Village fully opened in April 2016. Initiated through a £25 million scheme to aid the regeneration, redesign and rebuilding of the High Street and Strand Row areas of Swansea, Urban Village is a vision of sustainable living and working – intimate, yet connected and cosmopolitan, strong on identity ...

Urban Quarter High Street wins 'Best Social New Housing Category' at South Wales Building Excellence Awards 2018. It will go on to compete at the LABC Grand Finals in November.

Peter Gamble attended the ICSC European Outlet Conference in Barcelona on the 25th April 2018. He participated in the panel discussion 'The Evolution of Outlets - Room to Grow', along with Michael Natas - McArthurGlen Group; Alistair Wood - AEG Europe; Jack Busby - Landsec and Richard Beasley - BWP ...

Holder Mathias has completed work on a 136 student ‘studio’ bedroom development called “Livin” at 21-27 City Road in the centre of Cardiff. In support of the regeneration of this important student area, the Livin scheme has been designed as a simple, yet eye-catching addition to the diverse and eclectic ...