ACME designed Pavilion, Stratford is showcased as part of The New Together exhibition at Casa Platform in Venice.

More details here

We welcome Amanda and Vojtech into their new roles as ACME's first Employee Trustee Directors!

“I’m delighted to have the opportunity to represent ACME Employees in this way and looking forward to learning with others how becoming an EOT can help to enhance ACME as an exceptional place to work.” 

Amanda Callaghan, Senior Architect & Employee Trustee

“Ever since I joined ACME as a London School of Architecture part-time Part I almost 6 years ago ACME has been an incredibly supportive and enabling creative environment that allowed me to grow. I believe that ACME stands out as a workspace of becoming, where young designers feel encouraged to thrive, and are also given the opportunity to do so. As an Employee Trustee, I hope to contribute towards a company where future generations of ACMEers will benefit from the same warm, trusting, and welcoming environment as I could.” 

Vojtech Nemec, Architect & Employee Trustee

ACME is delighted to announce that the Employees of ACME London have acquired 100% of the shares in the company.

Since its inception in 2007, ACME has aspired to work for the benefit of all staff, sharing its profits transparently and equitably. Becoming Employee owned does not change how we work and does not change our purpose to create outstanding projects, with joy and sustainable profit. It formalises legally how we have intended to run the company from the start.

Our new holding company, ACME Overlord, owns all of the shares on behalf of all current and future employees, overseen by our new ACME Employee Ownership Trust (EOT). We welcome our five Trustees to the Board of our EOT. Our two Independent Trustees are Hanif Kara and Helen Hyde; the Employee Trustees are Amanda Callaghan and Vojtech Nemec; joined by Friedrich Ludewig as our Founder Trustee.

We are looking forward to working with our Trustees and all of our new ACME company owners in this exciting new Chapter for ACME London.

Each year, ACME take part in Architects Benevolent Society 5km fun-run event - raising awareness and funds to help those in need within the architectural community. Our much loved resident working cocker spaniel, Juno, led team ACME this year.

ACME celebrates its 16th birthday with clients, collaborators and friends in our newly renovated Tabernacle basement event space.

Many thanks to all who joined us for a lovely evening!

REWE Green Farming has been shortlisted for Exemplary Buildings in the State of Hesse 2023 Award - "Connecting Society, City and Countryside".

This State Prize for Architecture and Urban Development celebrates sustainable, pioneering social, green-blue and gray infrastructure projects within the region of Hesse, Germany.

More details here.

Copr Bay Bridge is shortlisted for the Pineapples 2023 - Infrastructure Award. A new gateway for Swansea - Copr Bay Bridge is a celebration of the city’s past, present and future. The 49m structure spans six lanes of busy traffic, safely reconnecting the city centre to one of Swansea’s greatest assets - its world-renowned coastline.

Copr Bay Bridge is a key part of the £135m Copr Bay urban transformation which has reactivated a previously underutilised plot of land and delivered the 3,500 capacity Swansea Arena and new public realm including the 1.1 acre Amy Dillwyn Park - the largest green roof in Wales.

More information here.

The Earls Court Development Company (ECDC) has revealed the first details of its masterplan for the redevelopment of the former exhibition centre in west London. ACME is working with ECDC as commercial plot architect alongside masterplanners Studio Egret West, Hawkins Brown, landscape architects SLA, and phase one plot architects, Haworth Tompkins, Macreanor Lavington, Sheppard Robson, DRMM and Serie Architects. 

A long neglected, largely derelict 40-acre site in Zone 1 London will be reinstated as a destination of wonder. It is a landscape-led 680,000 sqm development which aims to go beyond net zero and become a climate-positive neighbourhood. The first phase expected commence in 2025.

Read AJ article here.

PSLab invited us to an evening in their Bermondsey studio, where they showcased their well designed and considered lighting and how this affects our mood, materials, atmosphere and activity.

PSLab previously assisted ACME with the design of our Victoria Gate Arcade building pendant, the prototype of which hangs in one of our meeting rooms, and miniature versions in our kitchen.

We look forward to collaborations in the future.

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) hosts the 2023 LK.E. Ozolins Lecture ‘Food for Thought’, exploring the future of food production within urban environments.

Conversation is led by architect Carolyn Steel, leading thinker on food and cities - and includes ACME’s Friedrich Ludewig, Jago van Bergen from Van Bergen Kolpa Architects and David West from Studio Egret West.

Watch online here

Shoreline Crescent's curved façade made from glazed white bricks is fully revealed on site at Folkestone. A playful interpretation of the clinker brick sits within the concave rhythms of the south façade.

More information on the project here.

ACME is delighted to receive planning for the re-envisioning of Swansea's Castle  Square. Throughout the design process, locals have told us just how important green space in the city centre is, and this project helps to deliver significantly more landscape.

The new Castle Square will revitalise an important civic space with an interactive water feature, biodiverse planting and new routes. Two pavilions will be embedded into the existing landscape with green roofs above.  inspired by Swansea's history at the centre of copper production and celebrating local low carbon materials in the use of local timber and welsh stone.

As we all look back at a successful 2022 for ACME, we would like to thank our clients, consultants, colleagues and friends, without whom we would not be here. We wish you a great break and look forward to working with you in the new year.

60 Aldgate received planning approval early this year. We have worked on the wider masterplan for this site in the City of London since 2012. Following a first successful planning application in 2016, we have worked with the client and the Planning Authority to improve the original consent.

The new 60 Aldgate building is more sustainable, achieving Net-Zero Carbon, and provides landscaped terraces to many of its terraced floors. The building fully cantilevers from its central core, creating an amazing column free entrance on Aldgate High Street, thereby entirely avoiding the London Underground lines below.

 

ACME won the international competition for the Dusseldorf Flingern masterplan in 2021. The site has now been split into two parts, with Swiss Life acquiring the 73,200 sqm main site to realize the visionary, forward-looking long term masterplan. Swiss Life will be working with ACME to create a diversified urban district combining living and working space with gastronomy, retail and local recreational facilities. 1,500 units will provide new housing for the local population.

The first part of the site, the existing METRO AG and METRO Deutschland headquarters, will be developed by Metro into an office campus centered around food excellence. This first phase of the masterplan has now received METRO board approval to commence to Planning Application. New Public spaces will be completed in 2025, opening out into the wider Flingern Campus, thus creating the stepping stones for the second part of the masterplan, which Swiss Life will bring to site from 2027 onwards.

Florattica, the ACME designed rooftop bar in the City of London, is finally open. Located on the 11th floor of the Canopy by Hilton Hotel London, with its own ground floor entrance and a rooftop terrace with sweeping views of the City of London skyline, St. Paul’s Cathedral and across Whitechapel.

The floral ceiling was installed by Phohm, composed of preserved gypsophila, achillea and bloom broom, and is the largest permanent installation of its kind in the UK. It is as beautiful in real life as we had imagined it.

Open for bookings here

Stratford Pavilion has won Prix Versailles 2022 - Europe Special Prize for Exterior. The Prix Versailles celebrates the world’s best architecture and design projects - architecture capable of driving intelligent sustainability worldwide.

The project has also been shortlisted for the The World Title, results will be revealed on 15 December 2022 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.

 

Join us to discuss the emerging proposals for the restoration of Folkestone's Grade*II Leas Lift, the new café, tours and activities. This is a chance to meet the team delivering the scheme, ask any questions, share your thoughts and tell us your memories of riding Leas Lift.

When: 2-3 December 2022, 11:00-14:00hrs
Where: Urban Room Folkestone, Harbour Street, CT20 1TP

More information here

Following a design competition by the Earls Court Development Company (ECDC) in the summer of 2022, ACME are delighted to be appointed as plot architect working on the former Earls Court Exhibition Centre site. ACME will re-create a sense of wonder and arrival from Earl’s Court Station by deliver a signature office building at the key entrance to the site on Warwick Road in Kensington & Chelsea.

We will be working alongside the masterplanner team of Hawkins/Brown, Studio Egret West and SLA as well as a number of other architects. Closed to the public for 150 years, the first phase of the development will create a new east-west public route across the site, a generous public open space, new homes and rich mix of cultural spaces and workplaces. The Planning Application is due to be submitted in 2023, with construction to commence in 2025.

More information here

We are excited to announce that Canopy by Hilton, London City is the Gold Key Awards 2022 winner - Guest Room.

Congratulations to all involved! Special thanks to ACME’s architecture & interiors hotel team.

Mark Broom, Associate Director at ACME, joins the Zak World of Facades Conference this afternoon for discussion of Stratford Pavilion's timber façade, completed in 2021.

ACME designed REWE Green Farming is the Grand Prix - Red Dot Design Award Winner 2022!

This highest distinction at the Red Dot Award acknowledges REWE Green Farming as Europe’s first green farming supermarket. The ACME designed prototype is a highly adaptable and sustainable market concept, able to fit any site typology. Following optimization of the prototype, the concept will be rolled out by REWE for all new stores.

Friedrich Ludewig, Founding Director of ACME, joined the Big Design Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The conference offers a place for interdisciplinary dialogue on the role of design and architecture in the framework of accelerating global changes.

More information here

ACME has submitted the fourth part of our planning application for the landmark O’Connell Street site at Dublin Central - part of Hammerson’s proposal for the regeneration of this important heritage site in Dublin city. The latest phase includes the restoration of historically important streets and laneways, two new public squares, new pedestrian routes as well as several buildings containing spaces for culture and work, retail and restaurants.

An ACME collaboration with three great Irish Architectural Practices: Grafton Architects, Mola and RKD.

Shoreline Crescent, the first building in our 2016 Folkestone Harbour masterplan, is taking shape. With the scaffolding restarting to come down, the curved facade made from glazed white bricks is finally revealed, and the assembly of balconies has commenced. Behind the wave of the curved bay window facade are a complex set of residential types, from townhouses to lateral townhouses, duplex apartments, flats and penthouses, all with sweeping views over the English Channel. The interior fit-out is progressing at speed, with the project due to complete in early 2023. 

View project here.

ACME try to make a difference in the communities that we work in. ACME's Euston Station team has been working for the last year with Brecknock Primary School, a local school located to the north of the station in Camden. In close liaison with teachers and pupils from Year 5, we have helped them to design a rooftop garden - putting into practice their lessons on simple machines and planting. The resulting design consists of a water wall, perimeter planters, plant watering pulley systems, a green house, a water collection tower and a chalkboard wall. 

With the enthusiastic help of Year 5 students and their teachers, ACME managed to complete the construction of the project on the roof last month using only recycled building materials. The water collection and irrigation system is now operational, in time for students to get seeding and planting in spring 2023.

 Swansea Arena is 6 months old today! This flexible multi-purpose Arena hosts up to 200 performances a year, including music, theatre, comedy and conference events.

The Arena is one part of the ACME designed masterplan, Copr Bay Phase One. An highly ambitious regeneration scheme linking Swansea city centre back its coastline.

Canopy by Hilton, London City has been shortlisted in two categories for the AHEAD Awards Europe 2022: Event Spaces and Visual Identity. The award recognises exceptional design for overall visual identity of the hotel and for its events space.

ACME welcomed a group of Architectural Association students to its office. Leading them were Naiara Vegara and Marie-Isabel de Monseignat-Lavrov - the programme directors for the AA Semester Programme and some of ACME’s first employees!

Folkestone Plot E will create 100 new homes on Folkestone's shoreline with stunning harbour and viaduct views. The scheme includes a shingle beach garden linking to Marine Parade and the boardwalk.

More details here.

ACME’s latest annual Carbon Audit (2021) is complete and available for download here.

We continue discussions with clients to move more buildings to timber and stone frames to radically reduce carbon per sqm. We encourage more architecture practices and developers to carry out annual carbon audits. To encourage uptake, we make our Carbon Audit including all calculations and formulas available to enable others to build on the work we have done.

ACME is featured in Bauwelt 15.2022. Read article here.

Our German speaking Directors, Friedrich, Heidrun and Tim discuss ACME and one of its most pivotal and adventurous projects SAB, Leipzig.

Canopy by Hilton, London City has received a Commendation for City of London - Building of the Year 2022.

This project is an example of creative retention and re-use of existing London building stock. Seven projects were shortlisted by City of London and we are thrilled to receive this award.

View project here.

ACME is delighted to be commissioned for the restoration of Leas Lift, Folkestone. Originally installed in 1885, this Grade II* listed water-balanced funicular railway is one of the oldest water lifts in the UK. 

It is an honour to be part of the team that will bring the Leas Lift back into working life once again, celebrating this destination and rich heritage asset in Folkestone.

This panel discussion explores current discord on the use of rooftops in urban areas, maximising the limited space by using them for public life or the cultivation of food. ACME presented the successful implementation of a rooftop greenhouse in the REWE Green Farming project.

Watch the discussion here.

ACME opened its doors as part of the Studio Lates series for the London Festival of Architecture. LFA is a month long celebration of architecture and city-making, taking place every June across London.

ACME joins the Architects Benevolent Society 5km fun-run event through London - raising awareness and funds to help those in need within the architectural community.
ACME is the winner for biggest team - a huge thanks to all who organised and participated!

Michel Bosauder, Ann Ravens, Keigo Yoshida and Emma Buckley are appointed Associates in 2022.

We thank them for their commitment to the practice and welcome them into ACME's management team.

Álvaro Madrazo and Amanda Callaghan are appointed Senior Architects acknowledging their ongoing dedication to ACME practice projects.

As ACME turned 15 in May 2022, Mark Broom and Eleni Meladaki become Associate Directors. Heidrun Schuhmann, James Denner and Tim Laubinger become Directors. 

We acknowledge their leadership qualities, perseverance and ongoing commitment to the practice.

Folkestone Plot A, the second building in our 2016 Folkestone Harbour masterplan, has received Planning Permission. The building is the smallest block in the masterplan, forming the western endpoint between the Coastal Park, the Lea's Lift Square and the Crescents of the wider masterplan. The block contains just 13 apartments, all with panoramic views of the English channel and the coastline.

See more information here.

REWE Green Farming, Wiesbaden is awarded Store of the Year 2022 by Handelsverband Deutschland (HDE) at the German Retail Real Estate Congress. The jury acknowledge the REWE prototype store as a sustainable industry leader - with its extensive range of local produce, an aquaponic rooftop farm and sustainable, modular construction methods.

ACME is designing a revitalised Castle Square - a more distinctive, vibrant civic space in the heart of Swansea.

The scheme includes two new pavilions, terraced seating areas, new access routes and green infrastructure such as enhanced planting and biodiversity, green roofs and SuDS and a playful water feature. See details here.

 

ACME is thrilled to be working with Homes England and Daedalus Development Company for the regeneration of the historic 42 acre waterfront site at Daedalus, Lee-on-the-Solent.

ACME's scheme will restore historic buildings, create 450,000sq ft of workspace, c.350 new homes and generous public spaces - celebrating the site's rich history and creating a welcoming place to work, live and visit. More information here.

REWE Green Farming, Wiesbaden is one of five projects shortlisted for the International Award for Wood Architecture 2022. An iconic and highly visible simple timber structure forms the main element of a new architectural identity for REWE.

The award winner will be announced at Forum Bois Construction, France on 7 April 2022.

In collaboration with Chesterton Partnership, planning has been submitted for a sustainable and inclusive mixed-use neighbourhood on a brownfield site adjacent to Cambridge North Railway Station. The socially responsible development will include 425 new homes, a transport mobility hub, new workplaces including research & development lab buildings, shops, cafés, restaurants and public spaces for all.

John Keats Primary School partners with ACME for RIBA's Architecture Ambassador programme.

ACME Architects, Ifigeneia Dilaveraki and Maria Perez Vera, facilitate a workshop with students exploring the possibilities of designing in their built environment - experimenting with materials, shape, height, light, transparency and colour.

Stratford Pavilion is shortlisted for Construction News Awards 2022 - Low Carbon Project of the Year.

The £135m Copr Bay Phase One development is now open for all - including the 1.1 acre Copr Bay Coastal Park and the 3,500 capacity Swansea Arena, which hosts its first City Centre Conference tomorrow.

Since 2019, ACME has been working as Masterplan Architect for the Euston Over-Station Development (OSD) - the UK's first large-scale project to have an ambition to deliver absolute zero carbon development.

The new development will seek to positively change local residents’ lives, economic opportunities, and physical and mental health. More details here.

In solidarity with the people of Ukraine, ACME is hiring via www.hireforukraine.org

Swansea bridge opens to the public today. The new pedestrian and cyclist footbridge across Oystermouth Road connects Swansea's city centre with its 3,500 capacity Swansea Arena, the new Coastal Park and the Marina.

Perforations on the bridge side panels, designed in collaboration with Swansea artist Marc Rees, are inspired by the abstracted silhouette of the Swansea emblem, the swan.

Official opening ceremony of Copr Bay Phase One, home to Swansea’s state-of-the-art 3,500 capacity arena – a truly momentous milestone in the city’s transformation.

ACME designed Hunsett Mill in Stalham, Norfork features on Channel 4’s Extraordinary Escapes with Sunetra Sarker and Sandi Toksvig.

Book in your next escape here.

ACME designed Swansea Arena prepares to open its doors to the public! Two housewarming shows are scheduled for 25-26 February 2022 featuring local Welsh talent. Book tickets here for a first glimpse of UK's newest arena.

Join ACME and knippershelbig discussing the exemplary sustainability project REWE Green Farming - Market of the Future.
When: 02.02.2022, 18:00hrs GMT

ACME is delighted that UK's first Canopy by Hilton hotel situated Aldgate, London is featured in Sleeper Magazine's 100th edition.

Read article here.

ACME's vision for Metro Campus - a diverse, lively, sustainable urban quarter in the middle of the Rhine metropolis of Düsseldorf is featured in Polis magazine.

Read article here.

ACME designed Canopy By Hilton, London City features in Cosmopolitan magazine's Best Hotels in London.

Read article here.

Very relevant theme of RE-USE for Bauwelt's first issue of 2022. REWE Market of the Future (Green Farming) is featured.

Read article here.

Happy 2022 from everyone at ACME.

The ACME Carbon Audit for 2020 is complete and available for download here.
In addition to reviewing our projects and office carbon use, we have included a carbon audit of our office renovations and working from home due to COVID-19.

ACME key sustainability targets include:
- Reduce embodied carbon
- Assess operational carbon of completed ACME buildings
- Evaluate and increase biodiversity within our projects
- Audit the positive impact of green spaces and trees within ACME projects

Stratford Pavilion is longlisted for the RIBAJ 2022 MacEwan Award - a celebration of sustainable public architecture for the common good.
See award longlist here.

Berlin's newest pedestrian and cycle bridge, Golda-Meir-Steg, designed by ACME opens to the public today!

Spanning the Berlin-Spandauer-Schifffahrtskanal, it creates an East-West link between two divided districts: the new Europacity and the Mitte district.

View project here

ACME designed Bumpers Oast is shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2021 and will feature on Channel 4’s Grand Designs this evening at 9pm! Watch online here.

Kevin McCloud, Damion Burrows and Michelle Ogundehin visit the homes competing for UK’s most prestigious award for a new house or extension. 

ACME enjoys a winter site visit to the recently completed Stratford Pavilion. This vertical piazza is a new place in Stratford to gather, relax and enjoy views of the Olympic Park and the developing East Bank from the publicly accessible rooftop.

Site work continues to progress well for Folkestone Harbour & Seafront residential development. Phase one, consisting of 84 homes, is due for completion late 2022.  Each new home will have spectacular views out to sea and along the coastline, as well as access to a new shared communal green space. 

ACME joins the Sustainability Stage at London Build Expo 2021 for a discussion about Healthy Buildings, Spaces and People with Hawkins\Brown, PRP, UCL, Manea Kella and Morris+Company.

Canopy by Hilton London City Hotel and Portsoken Community Centre in Aldgate celebrate their official opening today!

City of London’s Alderman and Sheriff Nicholas Lyons led the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Bumpers Oast has been selected as a finalist for RIBA House of the Year 2021. The winner will be announced during Channel 4’s Grand Designs: House of the Year, which will air later this year.

UK's first Canopy by Hilton opens in London! Located in Aldgate, the hotel design by ACME is inspired by the area's rich local heritage. Open for bookings here

ACME celebrates the soft opening of Canopy by Hilton, London City. The hotel will open for bookings from 20 October 2021! 

ACME's mixed-use Metro Campus scheme will create a diverse, lively urban quarter for the city of Düsseldorf.

A collaboration with Stadt Land Fluss, Kieran Fraser Landscape Design and Transsolar.

IQL Pavilion in Stratford is the overall winner at the Structural Timber Awards 2021. Split over three floors, the Pavilion is an extremely lightweight timber structure that sits on top of a DLR tunnel with limited allowances for additional weight or foundations. 

Constructed using cross-laminated and glue-laminated timber panels, only shallow concrete foundations were needed. Timber has a much lower carbon footprint than more traditional materials and provides warmth and tactility to the interior.

Friedrich Ludewig and Heidrun Schuhmann of ACME join the discussion about urban redevelopment, innovation and sustainability strategies at Ettersburger Gespräch 2021. REWE Market of the Future prototype is presented as an exemplary case study. More information here

Haugen, Stratford's new alpine-inspired D&D food destination opens today! Located on Endeavour Square, the BREEAM Outstanding Timber Building designed by ACME provides two floors of restaurants and bars, and a rooftop terrace open to all, with stunning views of London's Olympic Park, London Aquatics Centre and the emerging East Bank.

ACME designed REWE Market of the Future features in ICON magazine's best buildings of 2021.

Read article here.

Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB) building in Leipzig, Germany was officially opened today with a ceremony of over 100 guests to mark the occasion.

“The architecturally outstanding ensemble expresses the bank's serving function for the community. With its forum, it creates a high-quality public space in the centre of Leipzig. The innovative forest of columns impresses with its play of light and shadow and its transparency and permeability." - Philipp Oswalt, Professor at the University of Kassel, former head of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

For the Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB) in Leipzig, ACME has developed the building cores to prioritise stairs over lifts. The usual fire escape stair void has been widened to ensure daylight on all levels. Acoustic absorption has been installed in the soffit to allow the core to remain open to the offices. The core enclosure has been cast in-situ, with precast steps and railings. To invite more use of the stair, the concrete for steps and railings has been precast and polished, making it feel more precious.

Final construction site visit before the public opening of the SAB building in Leipzig, Germany. The new office headquarters of Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB) is nearly complete and will be officially opened on 9th September 2021. 

ACME won the international competition in 2013, and after a long construction journey, we look forward to the citizens of Leipzig exploring the public space for the first time. Located next to Leipzig's main train station and occupying an entire block in the city centre, the site is defined through an L shaped building framing a new public space. The building provides 500 workspaces, a conference centre, auditorium, consultation rooms and a restaurant.

H1 development, one of the most sustainable new office buildings in London, progresses to planning stage. This is ACME's tallest timber building to date and it sets a new benchmark for timber structures in the city.

Located directly beside Elephant Park, greenery surrounds the ground floor level and extends up onto the south-facing stepped outdoor terraces located on every level of the building. The new building form sensitively responds to site constraints and provides modern, flexible, and open workspace that is adaptable for the future. 

Bumpers Oast, Kent wins RIBA South East Award 2021. The jury felt that was a very successful, enjoyable and thought-provoking work of architecture. It is a celebration of a client-architect relationship that has led to such an unusual building.

The first residential building within phase 1 of Folkestone Seafront in Kent is well underway, creating 84 new beachfront homes.

In a playful nod to adjacent Victorian seaside estates, the development creates new urban crescents, articulated with curved bay windows and balconies. Expansive sea views on the beach side will be complemented by a raised communal garden on the wind-protected side of the crescent.

Bumpers Oast is shortlisted for World Architecture Festival 2021 - House & Villa (Rural/Nature) - Completed Buildings Award.

The traditional oast house form has been reimagined by ACME to create a new home within the rolling landscape and apple orchards of Kent. The building is highly insulated and designed to passive house standards of airtightness, with the oast cones used to encourage slow air movement and purge ventilation from high level openings during the summer.

The new office building for Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB), the Development Bank of the Free State of Saxony, nears completion. Employees begin to move in this month and the official opening will take place in September 2021.

ACME won the international competition in 2013. Our design revisits the typology of a bank as an imposing institution: the usual front of columns has been dissolved into a forest of supports. These new columns work hard - supporting, shading, sheltering the open space and geothermally cooling and heating the SAB building.

ACME wins Metro Campus urban planning competition. The jury, consisting of renowned architects, urban planners and landscape architects, representatives of Metro Properties, as well as Düsseldorf politicians and administrators unanimously voted for ACME's sustainable design which references the local history of the site. 

This mixed-use scheme will create a diverse, lively urban quarter for the city of Düsseldorf. A collaboration with Stadt Land Fluss and Kieran Fraser Landscape Design.

ACME joins The Plan's Virtual Perspective Forum - Panel Discussion: Creating Experiences on the 29th of June 2021 at 1:30PM BST. Sheena Seeley and Tim Laubinger discuss how design skills and sensitivity toward context, materials and natural elements build a multi-sensory journey for the end-user.

Planning has been submitted for 3 of 6 plots for the ambitious mixed-use 2.2ha site, Dublin Central. The masterplan proposals include two new public squares, new pedestrian routes, a fully integrated metro link station for O'Connell Street and the restoration of historically important streets and laneways. 

The scheme will ensure the area around Nos.14-17 Moore Street, a National Monument due to its role in the Easter Rising is appropriately restored. An ACME collaboration with Grafton Architects, Mola Architecture and RKD for Hammerson.

During these final months on site, construction continues at speed. Phase 1 - which includes the iconic Swansea Arena, a coastal park, a pedestrian and cycle bridge, 33 homes, a carpark and 500m² of commercial space - is due for completion in Autumn 2021.

REWE’s Market of the Future in Wiesbaden is now open. This is a prototype for a new adaptable and sustainable market concept, able to fit any site typology. An iconic and highly visible timber structure forms the main element of a new architectural identity for REWE.