Hakes Associates are recognised as one of the leading young architectural practices of their generation in the UK and were the youngest winners of an RIBA award in 2002.

Described by Kenneth Powell as a young practice with "spontaneity, verve and sensitivity" and by leading Architect Will Alsop as designing with "poetic radicalism", Hakes Associates have gone from strength to strength in recent years winning competitions and commissions within the UK and internationally in countries as diverse as the USA, the UAE and recently in Russia.