Ben Hayes
Ben is an architect, researcher and educator. Ben is currently working with high profile clients across the country including the new City Of London Police Box with the City of London Cooperation and London's Vortex Jazz Club.
Prior to co founding Unknown Works, Ben was Project Architect at Niall McLaughlin Architects working on a number public and private projects in the UK, including the RIBA Stephen Laurence prize winning project The Fishing Hut, Hampshire House shortlisted for RIBA house of the year and the Mies Van der Rohe Prize shortlisted Welcome Building of Auckland Castle. Formerly Ben held a senior research position at Rural Urban Lab at the University of Hong Kong exploring the processes of rural to urban transformation across Asia. Ben previously worked at Foster + Partners in both the London and Beijing offices on a number of high profile international projects including Apple Headquarters at Cupertino and a National Art Museum of China in Datong, China.
Ben is a Lecturer and runs a design studio at the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL and has taught on the postgraduate programme at the University of Hong Kong.
He was awarded the RIBA Silver Medal in 2013