• Architect
• HAT Projects
• B.A. Dip.Arch RIBA ARB

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Tom co-founded Colchester-based HAT Projects in 2007 after previous experience at a senior level within some of the UK’s leading architecture practices.

HAT Projects are award-winning architects and enablers for built environment projects and have a reputation for fresh and imaginative thinking, a collaborative working approach, and a rigorous attention to detail. Since inception the practice has developed an award-winning portfolio of work, within both the private and public sector, which comprises galleries, artist’s studios, workplace projects, housing, and private homes. Approximately half of HAT Projects’ work is in East Anglia.

HAT Projects’ most significant recent project is the new Supporters’ Centre for the Science Museum - officially opened by HRH The Queen in March – which comprises the conversion of an early Edwardian Post Office sorting office into a ‘Salon’ space for events and entertaining. Alongside this, works to Redbridge Town Hall to create a gallery and office accommodation for Space Studios are scheduled to complete in July and the refurbishment of Ely Museum is anticipated to commence in September 2019. HAT Projects is also leading a multi-disciplinary team to develop a Place Plan for Jaywick Sands that incorporates the renewal of the existing plotlands areas as well as new development on 30 hectares of land owned by Tendring District Council.

In 2018 HAT Projects completed a self-initiated project in Colchester town centre to repurpose a 1970s church as a café, makerspace, and their own offices. This project, Trinity Works, has since been long-listed for the RIBA MacEwen Award which celebrates ‘architecture for the common good’.

Tom lives in North Essex and has been a School Governor of the local primary school. He is highly engaged with cultural and community initiatives and is a trustee of Jerwood Arts.