Pollard Thomas Edwards

Pollard Thomas Edwards architects (PTEa) is a practice committed to making towns and cities better places to live in. PTEa combines high quality design with explicit social purpose, and marries an understanding of whole community needs with an acute commercial instinct. In architecture, urban design, masterplanning and developing in its own right, PTEa has more than 35 years' experience in both private and public sectors. It is as comfortable tackling huge projects - creating a new town for 10,000 people or reshaping whole neighbourhoods - as it is designing smaller, bespoke buildings such as sports halls, schools or a TV studio.

Commitment to quality and innovation has been rewarded with over 100 design awards in the history of the practice and a high level of repeat business. PTEa has unrivalled experience in architect-led property development. Targeting neglected inner-city sites, where mainstream developers see too much risk, it has united design skills and business acumen to produce many commercially successful schemes. It also pursues joint ventures and is heavily committed to community participation in its endeavours.