Last updated 11th May 2023
Rolfe Judd
Rolfe Judd is an international firm of architects, town planners and interior designers, based near the Oval in south London. The firm offers services individually or in combination and it works on projects valued from £3-200 million in office, urban retail, residential, leisure and mixed development.
Today, the group has a portfolio of offices, refurbishment, prime residential, urban and affordable housing, retail & leisure, education and hotels schemes. The firm operates through three divisions, Architecture; Rolfe Judd Planning, which focuses on town planning services and Rolfe Judd Interiors.
According to the 2021 issue of the AJ 100 league table, Rolfe Judd ranked 92nd among UK architects practices; down from 86th in the previous year. The league table shows fees paid to the firm”s UK offices was £6.94 million and it employed 29 architects out of a total staff of 45. The firm was shortlisted for the AJ100 fastest-growing practice of the year award in 2019.
Rolfe Judd has a strong mix of blue chip clients and it has been involved in some major mixed-use schemes in London including the Hyde in Hendon and 54, Marsh Wall on the Isle of Dogs. Notable landmark schemes where the firm has worked include new stations at Twickenham and Guildford and the redevelopment of 36 Queen St in the City for London & Oriental as well as the refurbishment of offices at 5 Cheapside, above St Paul”s tube station.
The firm has longstanding links with Surrey County Cricket Club and recently worked on its new One Oval Square expansion of the grounds and facilities at Kia Oval, providing a conferencing and hospitality suite and an extra 2,500 spectator seats.
Meanwhile, the Twickenham Station Redevelopment where Rolfe Judd worked involving 121 new homes was recently shortlisted in the “Development of the Year” category at the Property Week Resi Awards.
Financials
To view the financials for Rolfe Judd Architecture Ltd., go to Companies House and use Company ID 01439773
The latest results for the main operating company Rolfe Judd Architecture Ltd. show turnover rose to £5.62 million in the year to end-September 2021, up from £5.4 million previously and pre-tax profits almost doubled to £448,191 from £274,465 previously. Meanwhile, the group had cash at bank of £1.33 million, up from £1.07 million previously.
Operations
Rolfe Judd has been involved with a number of prestige schemes in London recently. In March 2023, Rolfe Judd acted as planning consultants on John McAslan + Partners’ post-fire remodelling of Britain’s largest mosque with a new landmark entrance and administrative building on the five-storey 21,000 sqm Baitul Futuh in Morden.
Meanwhile, the planning and architecture teams at Rolfe Judd are working for Berkeley Homes on Oval Village to develop the design and layout of a redevelopment involving over 1,300 new homes.
In March 2023, an affordable housing scheme at Snaresbrook Station scheme for Pocket Living, where Rolfe Judd worked, received a resolution to grant from the London Borough of Redbridge. The redevelopment involves 74 new affordable homes on a brownfield site. In recent years, the firm has also worked with Network Rail on a design for Guildford Station and it designed a redevelopment at Twickenham Station.
In January 2023, Rolfe Judd secured planning permission from a refurbishment and extension of Mott MacDonald House in the London Borough of Croydon for its client Patrizia. The project will create a building of over 9,140 sq m along with landscaping and public realm improvements.
Earlier, in summer 2022, Rolfe Judd secured planning permission for a major mixed use redevelopment for Hadley Goodmayes involving the redevelopment of a former retail site in Goodmayes in north east London to create some 1,342 sq m of new commercial and community floorspace and 568 homes within 7 new buildings.
In spring 2023, Rolfe Judd’s scheme at Osiers Road (now known as Willow Walk) which provides 168 affordable homes and commercial floorspace was shortlisted at the Planning Awards 2023 in the category of Planning for Affordable Housing.
Glenigan data
Glenigan data highlight some key projects in the pipeline where Rolfe Judd has worked. They show that the firm is a planning consultant on Ballymore Properties’ £50 million Castle in the Cluster scheme in Tower Hamlets involving over 350 houses and 75 flats where work is due to start in summer 2023 (Project ID: 19264627). Glenigan data also shows that Rolfe Judd is a master planner and architect on Blackrock Investment Management UK’s £88 million Colosseum Retail Park Development Phase 1 in Enfield involving around 450 new homes and commercial space and where work is due to start in late summer 2023 (Project ID: 21371125).
Conclusion: strong track record on mixed use schemes bodes well
Rolfe Judd remains one of the leading lights on the London architectural scene. The group has succeeded in winning planning permission on some of the largest mixed use schemes; where demand is likely to persist in the light of the shortage of housing in the capital and the trend towards higher densities. Whilst demand for the firm”s services in the commercial office sector is likely to be more subdued in line with the sector, its growing reputation in the buoyant regeneration sector – particularly around railway stations – should serve it well.
Winning work with Rolfe Judd
Rolfe Judd aims to combine quality design with a strong commitment to client service. The firm puts a premium on team effort and it recognises that most successful projects are the result of team effort. Rolfe Judd Architecture has responded to the need for new technologies and building types to meet CO2 emissions legislation and the growing use of renewable energy systems and it embraces building information modelling. It has worked closely with developers to design and deliver low environmental impact projects.
Key contacts:
Andrew Long, Director
Email: along@rolfe-judd.co.uk
Tel: 0207 5561500
Matthew Gray, Director
Email matthewg@rolfe-judd.co.uk
Tel 0207 556 1500