News
Alison Brooks Architects turns thirty
07.2026
This year marks thirty years of Alison Brooks Architects. To celebrate this milestone, we welcomed friends, collaborators, contributors and supporters to our newly expanded Alison Brooks Architects studio for an evening of celebration.
To mark the occasion, we presented a special exhibition reflecting on 30 years of practice. Showcasing the evolution of ABA from the exhibition detailed the ideas, projects and partnerships that have defined the studio’s journey.
A series of newly commissioned models highlighted key moments in the practice’s development, tracing the progression of our work across housing, education, culture and mixed-use projects. Alongside these milestones, the exhibition also looked ahead, illustrating the ambitions and opportunities that will shape the next chapter of Alison Brooks Architects.
Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate this significant anniversary. We look forward to continuing the conversations, collaborations and shared achievements that will define the years ahead.
Photo by Jane Lam
Alison Brooks appointed OBE
06.2026
We’re delighted to announce the Founder and Principle Director of Alison Brooks Architects, Alison Brooks has has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to architecture. The King’s Birthday Honours mark the extraordinary contributions and service of people across the UK.
Rubicon wins RIBA East Award
05.2026
We’re proud to announce that Rubicon has won a RIBA East, Regional Award.
Rubicon is an operational net zero carbon, 186-dwelling residential development in Eddington conceived for our clients, the University of Cambridge and Hill Group UK. Situated at the at the southern edge of the 150-hectare Eddington urban extension, the scheme integrates cycling, community spaces and shared landscapes – forming a threshold between the neighbourhood and the wetlands beyond. Combining warehouse-loft typologies with the collegiate court model, the scheme offers a coherent approach to high-density, low-rise living. Drawing upon 19th-century mill typologies traditionally found in rural settings, the scheme’s hand-glazed bricks, curved corners and undulating roofline echo the Cambridgeshire landscape.
We’re grateful to the jury for taking the time to engage with the buildings as they are lived in and experienced. They commended the project for “how rigorously both architect and client stewarded the project’s core design ambitions…” They described the result of ABA’s perseverance as “impeccably detailed and executed and spatially generous,” ultimately commenting on the outstanding impression it provides as a first encounter with the Eddington – North West Cambridge Development neighbourhood in Cambridge.
Previously, ABA’s Knights Park, also part of the Eddington development, has won a Regional RIBA East award.
First Public Release for University of Toronto Project
04.2026
We are excited to share the first public release of our designs for the revitalisation of the Claude T. Bissell Building at the University of Toronto.
The project, developed in collaboration with Executive Architects Adamson Associates, proposes a comprehensive reimagining of the Brutalist icon at the heart of the St. George Campus, opening up its cellular interior, creating a new pavilion-style entrance on Sussex Avenue, and establishing a genuine social heart for the Faculty of Information.
The University of Toronto has both announced the project and launched a dedicated page where you can follow the progress of the revitalisation. Visit it here.
TC 163 – Alison Brooks Architects: Architecture 2004 – 2024
12.2025
Our new practice monograph, Alison Brooks Architects: Architecture 2004–2024, is out now.
Published by international architectural magazine, TC Cuadernos, this dual English and Spanish edition (TC 163) captures two decades of our work. The 386-page monograph charts 18 built works completed in the past 20 years, extensively documented with descriptive texts, photographs, drawings and emblematic construction details that illuminate each project’s tectonic and conceptual intent.
The portfolio showcases Alison Brooks Architects’ ethos, demonstrating how the practice fuses an endlessly inventive architectural imagination with a profound sensitivity to the diverse cultural and natural histories that form each project’s provenance.
Contributors
Introduction by Ricardo Meri de la Maza, ‘On the Essence of Alison Brooks’ Architecture’
Interview between Jose Maria de Lapuerta with Alison Brooks
Alison Brooks Architects
Publisher
TC Cuadernos
English, Spanish
386 Pages, Paperback
ISBN: 978-84-17753-60-3
Also available for purchase at your local independent bookstore.
Knights Park Wins Architecture Masterprize ‘Best of Best’
12.2025
We are thrilled to announce that Knights Park in Eddington, North West Cambridge – in collaboration with Pollard Thomas Edwards – has won an Architecture Masterprize ‘Best of Best’ award from submissions spanning over 72 countries.
Named ‘Best of Best’ in the Residential Architecture Multi-Unit category, this new neighbourhood features ‘through’ houses spanning street to mews, ‘palazzo’ apartments that carry forward the tradition of set-piece urban architecture, and garden-access blocks. A shared design language unifies both architects’ contributions, merging civic sensibilities across the development and generous green infrastructure.
We are honoured to be recognised alongside works by Álvaro Siza Vieira, Kengo Kuma, Zaha Hadid Architects and Shigeru Ban, and are especially proud to have delivered the net-zero carbon development of 249 homes within the University of Cambridge and The Hill Group’s 150-hectare Eddington urban extension.