directors Keith Williams + Richard Brown

Founded in 2001 by directors Keith Williams and Richard Brown, Keith Williams Architects is by reputation one of the UK’s leading architectural design practices with a body of work which incorporates a series of exceptional high profile, sustainable, award winning projects for clients in both the private and public sectors.

Based in London, the multi-award winning firm works in the UK and internationally across a broad range of projects including cultural, residential, university and commercial buildings as well as urban design, place making and city masterplanning.

Keith Williams Architects is particularly noted as a leading specialist architect for museum, art gallery, library, civic, theatre, opera, music and performing arts buildings.

Close collaboration with our clients and a leading approach to sustainable design sit at the heart of every project that we undertake.

Recipient of over 40 major design and construction awards, Keith Williams Architects inter alia was shortlisted for the 2017 RIAI Triennial Gold Medal, has twice been nominated for the Stirling Prize, twice won the BD Public Building Architect of the Year Award, twice been recipient of the Chicago Athenaeum Prize as well as having been awarded multiple RIBA, Civic Trust, AIA and RIAI awards.

The firm’s work whilst centred chiefly in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, has encompassed design projects in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Dubai, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sweden and Switzerland reflecting its founder’s belief that architecture is a truly international pursuit.

Keith Williams as founder and director of design, personally initiates and oversees the design of all the firm’s projects, with the support of fellow director, Richard Brown, and key architectural staff.

Each new project is developed in close consultation with the firm’s clients, ensuring that our buildings are as closely tailored to client need, and to the highest possible quality that project budgets can provide.

The architectural team places great emphasis on effective project management, co-ordination and cost control and has undertaken projects with values from £1 million to £300+ million.

OUR SECTORS + SPECIALISMS

CULTURAL BUILDINGS

Theatres, Opera Houses, Conference Centres, Concert Halls, Museums, Art Galleries + Libraries.

CIVIC PROJECTS

Town Halls, Civic Centres, Municipal Offices, Local Government Buildings

UNIVERSITY PROJECTS

HIGH RISE RESIDENTIAL + RESIDENTIAL LED MIXED DEVELOPMENT

COMMERCIAL TOWERS

(Sustainability Research Project)

CITY MASTERPLANNING + URBAN DESIGN

from MEGA Cities of more than 10 million people to Site Specific Placemaking

ONE OFF HOUSES + VILLAS

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

PRODUCT + FURNITURE DESIGN

The firm has been successful in numerous high profile architectural competitions both national and international, and its work has been published worldwide.

Keith Williams : Architecture of the Specific