The bus shelters on Old Mill Street, Manchester, deploy distinctive patterning and colouration to mark the stops as distinctive and individual destinations. As part of Old Mill Streets shared space, the both address issues of accessibility while contributing to the distinctive street scape.

Lasercut steel panels sandwich coloured glass, green to one side of the street, pink to the other. As light falls though these panels it generates atmospheric effects of colour an pattern, transforming the everyday activity of waiting for a bus into a richer experience.

The shelters were designed after winning a competition run by Urban Splash in collaboration with GMPTE, Manchesters transport authority.

The Heerlijkheid Bridge acts as a gateway, a connection and a sign. It forms the entrance to the new Heerlijkheid park, and providing both a welcoming gesture while integrating security. Built from a steel structure, clad in wood the bridge spells out 'Hoogvliet Heerlijkheid' in supergraphic cut outs - a giant sized, walk-through sign.

Soft Hercules is a stool cast from foam rubber - the soft squishy stuff that is usually used to make stress balls. The bust of Hercules, usually something solid both in its material and the culture it represents becomes unexpectedly soft, deforming a recognizable object into stranger shapes when it is sat on. It uses the plasticity of rubber to suggest a more uncertain and doubtful state.

The project involves the refurbishment and extension of an existing Edwardian Library in Croydon, South London. FAT were originally commissioned by Croydon Council to undertake a feasibility study of the library looking at how it could be modernised to achieve contemporary access requirements. The ground floor of the building included several difficult changes in level while the lower floor and rear garden remained inaccessible. In addition the building fabric was in poor condition and the original interior detailing lost under a number of additions and modifications.

FAT's redesign results in a completely new entrance sequence and 50% more usable floor area. The lower ground floor has been completely opened up to form a children's library and community meetings rooms which also provide access to the rear garden. At the front of the library a striking new reading room and entrance pavilion has been placed to one side of the original entrance. This new structure resolves the various access issues in a generously proportioned new entrance sequence and also provides an elegant new reading space inside.

The building fabric has been refurbished and upgraded both internally and externally. Original features have been retained within a new, spacious interior that emphasises the fine proportions of the original building. New bespoke shelves and furniture - also designed by FAT - provide subtle reading niches and seating alcoves and are on castors to allow flexible arrangements and future expansion.

The pavilion is constructed from pale white pre-cast concrete with a highly polished surface which harmonises with the stone detailing of the original building. At the top of the pavilion is a metre high three dimensional 'frieze', a literal sign that proudly announces the building's civic function.

FAT have redesigned Selfridges new contemporary womenswear department in the landmark Oxford Street store.

The floor is organised around three main areas. The first is Europe's longest denim wall. Here a canopy, formed by a seemingly chaotic explosion of timber struts frames the space. Both raw and expressive, the canopy plays against a background of sharp graphic legibility formed by the denim shelves. Visual languages of direct pragmatism and more glamorous theatricality are combined to explore the dialogues of workwear and luxury that run through contemporary denim design.

Selfridges' Basics area plays on the idea of ordinariness made strangely special. A series of overscaled coat hangers become a surreal means of display (so that normal sized hangers hang from their giant cousins). Crates and boxes become pop-graphic plinths through the use of dyed wood laminates and planks of formica.

The contemporary area is a space that introduces new and experimental designers. It is defined by an orange poured resin spill and a chromed frame outline of a house creating a flexible, customisable space that works like a shop-within-a-shop, allowing brands and designers to take ownership of the space.

Around these anchor points mats for brands including Vivienne Westwood, Alexander Wang and Zadig and Voltaire respond to FATs design guidelines. Giant billboards apparently lean against the perimeter wall, providing a consistent horizon to the space.

The space is characterised throughout by painted floor patterns recalling abstracted and overscaled industrial markings. Tables and plinths develop a consistent language linking the varied areas.

This building, commissioned by a local developer to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the founding of the city of Amersfoort, sits on an important site adjacent to the Koppel poort (an ancient gateway) in the medieval walls of the old city and fronts onto the River Eem.

FAT were required to create an extraordinary architectural object which would relate to both the old city and to the mostly 19th Century warehouses along the riverfront. The exterior of the building is constructed using pre-cast concrete panels. It address both the infrastructural view and from passing trains on the eastern flank of the building through its graphic and colour while the intricate detail of the facade also addresses the riverside.

Internally, the building is a restaurant and has a grand ceremonial quality created by the theatrically designed staircases and the complex inter-relationship between the central atrium and the balconies/viewing points which overlook it

FAT won a competition to design this two storey building as part of the Liverpool 1 masterplan in Liverpool city centre. It is located in the former Church Yard arcade.

The design introduces an intriguing and delightful new building into the covered arcade, using references that include ornamental and decorative street furniture as well as the tiled and patterned facades of the Victorian buildings of Liverpool. Our approach has been to design a building within a building, distinct from its surroundings and acting as a gateway or landmark to the new development.

The facade is expressed as a decorative tiled screen and the series of facets along it alter the buildings interior spaces and provide niches for seating and views into Church Yard from the first floor cafe and ground floor retail units. Shop fronts are as large as possible and all windows are tall and vertical in aspect. The terrace cafe area animates the arcade, connecting it to the street life of Liverpool beyond.

The BBC Studios is a 3.6ha production village situated in Roath Basin, a 20ha area of former industrial land in Cardiff, otherwise known as the new home of Dr Who. The area is being developed Igloo Regeneration Partnership.

The production village consists of a 260m long office block and eight studio facilities with outdoor filming spaces. For this project, Fat developed a facade using motifs which reference the dock warehouses, wave forms and the gothic architecture of Cardiff. The playful facade, seen across the dock from The Bay - Cardiff's new town centre - reinforces the civic connection between the city and its waterfront.

FAT are currently Lead Designer on the 11.2M GBP refurbishment of the International School and Community College, Birmingham, following our involvement in Bovis Lend Lease's successful bid to be Construction Partner on Birmingham's BSF programme. The 57,478m2 site is to be upgraded in line with Birmingham City Council's BSF education principles and the project includes the demolition of some existing buildings, refurbishment of the existing ones and the construction of three new extensions that total 560 sqM. The reconfigured buildings will dramatically improve the accessibility and use of the school. A new entrance pavilion will provide a much needed single point of entry and a highly visible marker for visitors and students.