Hugh Broughton (architect)

Hugh Giles Keyworth Broughton (born February 1965 in Worcester) is an English architect and one of the world's leading designers of polar research facilities. His practice, Hugh Broughton Architects, founded in 1995 and based in London, works internationally. The practice has won several high profile international design competitions, including Halley VI Research Station, Juan Carlos 1 Spanish Antarctic Base, the Atmospheric Watch Observatory in Greenland for the US National Science Foundation, a new health facility on Tristan da Cunha, the world's most remote inhabited island, and the redevelopment of Scott Base for Antarctica New Zealand, designed in collaboration with New Zealand firm Jasmax.

As of 2025, current polar work includes the modernisation of the Rothera Research Station for the British Antarctic Survey, and a series of significant projects with the Australian Antarctic Division. In addition to polar expertise, Hugh's practice also specialises in creative conservation - working with institutions to revive and reimagine key heritage buildings. In 2019 the practice completed the conservation of the Grade I listed Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1696, and has since gone on to complete significant projects at Clifford's Tower in York for English Heritage, and has converted the ruins of the fire damaged Sheerness Dockyard Church. Other notable recent works include the international competition winning design to provide a prototype for archaeological shelters at the World Heritage Site of Nea Paphos in Cyprus, and comprehensive renovation of Westminster City Council's underground toilet network across eight key sites. In 2025 Hugh Broughton Architects were announced as the lead architects for a once in a generation renovation of the Palm House at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

The practice has received five RIBA National Awards, one RIBA International Award (2013), and several RIBA Regional Awards for individual projects. Other awards include those from the Civic Trust, Architects' Journal, Dezeen and the AIA. The practice itself has been recognised with the BD International Breakthrough Architect of the Year Award, 2012, Public Building Architect of the Year Award, 2023, Creative Conservation Architect of the Year, 2024, as well as being voted the World's Top Small Architecture Firm in the Architizer A+ Awards 2024, by public vote. Hugh lectures internationally and has served on numerous architectural juries including the 2013 RIBA Manser Medal, the 2014 AJ Retrofit Awards, the 2015 RIBA Awards and the Architizer Awards; he is an assessor for the Civic Trust Awards. He was named on the Evening Standard The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2018 - Visualisers: Architecture.