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Breaking Ground at Bartlett Arboretum

Celebrating Excellence: Snug Architects Wins Best of Houzz 2025 for Design

We are thrilled to announce that Snug Architects has been honoured with the Best of Houzz 2025 Award for Design! This recognition is a testament to our team's relentless passion for innovative design and our commitment to creating spaces that are bot...

Award Win: City of Winchester Trust The Valley

We are delighted that Snug Architects has won the City of Winchester Trust Award for The Valley, Winchester’s largest affordable housing scheme. As a practice born in Winchester, this recognition means a great deal to us. Designed to work with the si...

How we ensure BNG is a genuine net gain for all our stakeholders.

A good architect will ensure BNG intelligently and creatively adds value to your development. Ian Hambleton, director at Biodiversity Units UK wrote an interesting promotional piece in New Civil Engineer about managing the risks and challenges of t...

Outline Application for 65 Units Submitted at Old Street, Stubbington

Snug have recently submitted an Outline Application for 65 new homes on behalf of Bargate Homes. The scheme, sits between Stubbington and the Meon Valley, and a few hundred metres from the Solent coastline. It is a contemporary, landscape led scheme ...

Our 2024 Review

Here is a short overview of some of the things we were up to in 2024......

The Snug Way

Our founding director, Paul Bulkeley, was invited to deliver the Inspiration Hour talk at this year's Royal Society of Architects in Wales annual conference in Cardiff. He chose to share on the importance of designing in accordance with our values. H...

The Trauma Informed Design Guide

This guide sets out our approach to Trauma Informed Design through its application at Hope Street, a pioneering new facility for women in the justice system. ...

A new lease of life for the Connaught Drill Hall in Portsmouth

Snug Architects have developed proposals for a new Cultural Centre in Portsmouth that will safeguard the future of the Grade 2 Listed Connaught Drill Hall. Two alternative proposals have been designed including a new 83,000sqft 90 bed boutique hotel ...

Multiple Awards Won

What a great run we have had on the awards front this year! First we won the RIBA MacEwen Award, the leading architecture award for social purpose projects, for our scheme at Hope Street. This was something we had been pursuing for many years, so was...