We create innovative customer experiences for our retail and leisure clients.
AEW Architects delivers retail and leisure architecture, masterplanning and regeneration, creating destinations that respond to changing consumer, community and commercial needs
Our experience spans town centre regeneration, shopping parks, retail units, restaurants, hotels, sports and leisure facilities and cinemas.
We combine commercial understanding with a strong focus on placemaking, customer experience and community engagement. We also support clients with funding applications and wider regeneration strategies, including Future High Streets and Towns Fund programmes. Recent projects include Stockroom and the wider Merseyway regeneration in Stockport, Oldham Spindles, Pioneer Place in Burnley and Halifax Leisure Centre, alongside national retail and restaurant rollouts for major brands.
Retail & Leisure Projects
Pioneer Place, Burnley Leisure-led regeneration in Burnley
Retail & Leisure
Co-op, Steeple Claydon The sustainable future of retail
Retail & Leisure
Hotel Football, Manchester A hotel inspired by the beautiful game
Retail & Leisure
Merseyway Shopping Centre, Stockport Revitalising Stockport Town Centre
Retail & Leisure
Our Retail & Leisure Experts
Our Retail & Leisure team combines architectural, interior design and masterplanning expertise to deliver projects that respond to evolving consumer and leisure trends, keeping user experience at the heart of our designs. Their experience spans fast-paced rollouts for leading retail and restaurant brands, alongside bespoke projects for private clients, retail parks, shopping centres, sports facilities, hotels and mixed-use developments. This integrated expertise enables efficient, commercially focused solutions across every scale.
Phil Hepworth
Director
Danielle Purves
Director
Eamon O’Hara
Director
Rob Dickson
Associate
Jonathan Sheridan
Associate
Tom Scott-Smith
Associate
Liz Durcan
Associate
Meg Wood
Associate
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Client Testimonial
“AEW are always available and flexible with us and can ramp up their resource to suit demand. The team are always proactive and available and turn designs around quickly. They are just a good bunch of people to work with!”Gareth Hudson Former UK and Ireland Development Director (McDonald’s Restaurants)
- Hotel Football, Manchester - 138-bedroom hotel and supporters club inspired by the beautiful game.
- Market Walk, Chorley - 78,000 sqft 8-unit retail centre including a multiplex cinema.
