Urban Splash are recognised internationally as pioneers in urban regeneration and city centre living. After only 14 years, we’ve created 3,000 new jobs, £100 million of new homes, 1,500,000 sq ft of commercial space and have received 242 awards to date, including an MBE for one of our founders, Tom Bloxham. The very first Urban Splash development was in Liverpool, in Concert Square in 1993, turning a load of crumbly warehouses into the first loft-apartments in the North West. Back then, Beavis and Butthead were sniggering away on our TVs, Liverpool was waking from a fifteen year nightmare and Urban Splash was based in a little potting shed in the city.

So who’ll build this thing? Well, it would be a letdown if, after all the fancy-dan drawings, grand promises, in-depth conversations and snappy brochures, we passed it on to the first cowboy to knock on the door or whoever has the biggest Yellow Pages ad. We believe and invest in our projects. And, to prove it, we build them ourselves. Urban Splash Build has already constructed £500 million quids worth of award winning homes, offices, shops, cafes, gardens and more all over the UK. We trust our team and after so many successful schemes together, we couldn’t ask for a better bunch of workers to have a better understanding of our - and more importantly YOUR - high standards.

Steering the process of social housing and public consultation was Maritime Housing Association. The Association is a subsidiary of the Regenda Group, formed in 2002 when Cheshire based Templar Housing Association merged with Merseyside based Maritime Housing. The Group grew rapidly over the next few years as Oldham based West Pennine joined in 2004 and Poulton based Wyre became the next member in 2005. The group has brought these four associations together to produce one cohesive organisation.

With a mixed portfolio of over 13,000 general needs, sheltered, supported and shared ownership homes in urban and rural locations across 30 north west local authorities, the mission of the Group is to “make the North West a better place to live”. The Regenda Group offers a strong financial and developmental core to support the local delivery of services to communities and neighbourhoods. The Regenda Group is about helping people. The way they deliver services is driven by strong resident involvement. In short, they make communities better places to live.

Liverpool City Council recognised that the L1 area was in desperate need of regeneration and commissioned architects Llewellyn Davies to produce the L1 Masterplan. This recommended, amongst other things, that the Great George Street area should be redeveloped with a new mixed tenure scheme to replace the existing municipal housing. A developer competition was launched in 2002 and Urban Splash were appointed as the Council's preferred developer to deliver an exciting mixed use scheme, boasting cutting edge architecture and design to generate a new sustainable community.

shedkm is an innovative UK architectural practice with a reputation for consistently delivering award winning buildings. From it’s Liverpool roots, over the last eleven years the studio has built a nationwide portfolio of work. There’s no house style, but all projects are driven by a strong design ethos and a dedicated, enthusiastic teamof architects based in Liverpool’s cultural quarter.

In essence shedkm take a problem, expose the parts and put together a solution based on logic and style. But more than this, they are enthusiastic, have fun and keep to modernist principles. shedkm believe architecture should be simple, direct and unambiguous. A philosophy that has been successfully applied across a wide range of projects, whether new build, conversion, housing, retail or hotel. 

Alison Brooks Architects is recognised as one of Britain’s leading ‘new generation’ architects. ABA’s design approach is intensely site and client specific, drawing from the broader cultural context of each project to produce highly inventive work. Described as “cross-fertilisation”, this approach has generated an award winning body of work, noted for its inspired manipulation of space, inventive use of materials and profound sensory environments.

ABA has combined the production of experimental houses with major arts buildings such as the new Folkestone Performing Arts and Business Centre, larger scale housing and urban design. This has led to successful team collaborations on significant housing and mixed use developments such as Tribeca. Since its inception in 1996, the practice has won or been shortlisted in 21 architectural competitions and has won 16 awards for architectural quality. Alison Brooks herself has served as juror for both the RIBA Awards and the Young Architect of the Year Awards and has taught and lectured internationally.

Riches Hawley Mikhail is a young practice of award winning architects offering a broad range of skills, from finely crafted buildings to experience of public realm consultation and housing design. They make architecture that has a lightness of touch, a sense of humour and contributes towards a socially and environmentally sustainable future. The practice was short-listed for Young Architect of the Year in 2007 and received a Housing Design Award for its affordable housing in Elmswell, Suffolk.

RHMA are committed to delivering immaculately detailed and constructed architecture. The team has a thorough understanding of the building process and its materials and technologies, demonstrated by the success of their built work. Between them the RHM partners have been recipients of two RIBA Awards, the AJ First Building Award and the Rome Scholarship. The practice shows consideration for the environment and the future of the planet, aiming to achieve the minimum possible ecological impact. RHMA enjoys working within the parameters of a budget and believes good design can be affordable.

Querkraft is a Vienna based practice founded in November 1998 and constitutes three partner architects, Jakob Dunkl, Gerd Erhartt and Peter Sapp. Literally translated, ‘querkraft’ is the art of lateral thinking. Querkraft work as a team and the art of lateral thinking is the core of their creative strategy and personal diversities. Querkraft regards architecture as art. To them architecture is sustainable, appropriate and physical. Its beauty comes from the inside and the content shapes the building. They see architecture as a cross-sectional matter which has to fulfil requirements on a functional, an economic and an artistic level. Form is the expression of a conception.

Querkraft architects are a diverse group. They are individuals with different qualities and interests. They are conscious of synergy and mutual learning as well as the decision to prefer a good solution to a personal sentimentality.