FAT will be designing a new community library and nursery in Bentley, Walsall.

FAT have recently submitted a planning application for the 19 storey mixed-use tower. CABE will be reviewing the scheme as part of the planning process.

The BLF (Big Lottery Fund) awarded a grant of £1.37m to re-furbish and extend the existing locally listed library in Thornton Heath. FAT will be submitting a planning application shortly.

FAT is nominated in the catagory of Public Housing Architect of the Year at the Building Design Architect of the Year Awards. FAT were highly commended at these awards.

The Villa, part of the Heerlijkheid Hoogvliet, is well underway. Completion is expected in Dec. 07

Islington Square has been selected for Channel 4's top 50 new buildings. Vote for us on the C4 website

The Museum of Croydon has been shortlisted for an FX Design Award for best Museum or Exhibition Space 2007.

FATs Sint Lucas project has received a European Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects. This prestigious prize is awarded yearly for outstanding contributions to architectural design in Europe.

The Hoogvliet Heerlijkheid project - a park, community building and ancillary features - is on site now. There are archives of construction pictures on the Wimby! website.

FAT and Manchester Methodist Housing Group's joint entry has won first place in a competition to regenerate a site in Sheffield. The competition was organised by Sheffield City Council as part of their Housing Market Renewal Programme and comprises 35 new houses, a public park and new 'homezone' street. The site is on Lindsay Road in the Parsons Cross area of Sheffield.

Fat together with Great Places Housing Group, Urban Splash and the residents of the Cardroom Estate were named Regeneration Partnership of the Year for the Islington Square development at the recent Regeneration Awards. This award comes immediately after the same team won Best Partnership Development at the Whathouse? Awards in November.

Find out more about the awards at: http://www.building.co.uk/awards

FAT have been chosen for the English Partnerships' Architecture Consultants Panel 2006-2010. The panel includes 20 of the most innovative and progressive practices from UK and Europe to undertake EP projects intended as exemplars for the construction industry. Consultants on the framework will also contribute to regular discussions of technical and policy issues.

FAT have been shortlisted for an exciting design competition to reinvent the Blackpool seafront. ReBlackpool are seeking inspiring designs for 3.5km of public promenade that will be vying to become one of the Living Landmark projects backed by the Big Lottery Fund.

Find out more about the competition at www.thepeoplesplayground.co.uk

FAT's project for the Sint Lucas Art Academy in Holland has been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture: The Mies van der Rohe Award.

This is the second time the practice's work has been nominated for this prestigious award, the Blue House was short-listed in 2003.

Islington Square has won another prize; the Best Partnership Development at the 2006 What House? Awards.

The partnership of Great Places Housing Group (formerly MMHG), Urban Splash and FAT architects was praised for both the "sensational" design of the houses themselves and the way the residents were involved throughout the process.

The judges report concluded: "Islington Square in every sense lifts the spirits".

Read more about the awards at: http://www.whathouse.co.uk

Islington Square has won Best Public Housing Project at the 2006 Brick Development Association Awards. The judges described the scheme as "a bold approach to contemporary housing" that had "raised the tone of the entire area" and commended the quality of craftsmanship thoughout.

For more information on the awards go to: http://www.brick.org.uk

The Museum of Croydon opens at the Croydon Clocktower complex. Sept 06

Islington Square featured on the BBC Culture Show. Oct 06

FAT were voted Arena's Men of the Year for creative endeavor alongside film director Terry Gilliam and musician Richard Hawley. Plus we got to sit on the same table as Heidi from the Sugababes. July 06

FAT have just completed two projects for London restaurauteur Oliver Peyton. The first - Meals - is a restaurant and cafe on the first floor of Heal's department store on Tottenaham Court Road. On the ground floor entrance of the same building is a new bakery shop called Peyton and Byrne, also designed by FAT. Sept 06

A talk on the “Sint Lucas Art Acadamy” at Tate Modern as part of the Architecture Foundations 'Real Architecture' series.

Sam, Sean and Charles are lecturing at the RCA on 25/04/06

Fat are this years winners of the prestigious Architecture Foundation Next Generation Award. Sean receives prize and gives address at MIPIM, Cannes. 03/06

Fat has a solo show at Stroom, Den Haag.

It is on until the 9th April. For more, see http://www.stroom.nl/

'In a Lonely Place' opens at the RIBA in London. 16th March to the 2nd May 2006

An associated talk by Fat is scheduled for the 2nd May.

Our 'Nonument' project will be featured on a Dutch stamp, issued on the 6th Jan 2006. It is part of a series of 5 stamps celebrating public projects in the Netherlands. The other stamps feature works by Robert Smithson, Daniel Buren, Olafur Eliasson and Sigurdur Gudmundsson.

Fat were awarded 'Best Public Project' for the Nonument project in the Hague at the FX design awards.

Fat will be lecturing at Yale on 26th Jan 2006

Fat were selected as winners of the Old Mill Street Bus Shelter competition. The project moves into detail design now.

Fat were runners up in the Urban Splash 'Pub of the Future' competition.