Growing talent, growing region: Celebrating senior promotions

We’re delighted to announce that Adam Spall has been promoted to director, joining our practice ownership, and Hira Teirney has been promoted to regional director, stepping up from her role as associate director.

Both promotions come at a genuinely exciting moment for us across the South. Our Bristol team is delivering some of its most ambitious and varied work to date, and these appointments are a direct reflection of the talent, dedication and energy that have made that possible. Adam and Hira join existing directors Karle Burford, Gary Overton and Bill Storer, bringing real depth, experience and drive to our Southern leadership.

This is a growth story we’re incredibly proud of:

• A growing portfolio of high-profile commissions 
• An expanding regional reach across the South West, Wales, the South East and London
• A team that has worked hard, delivered brilliantly and continues to raise the bar

These promotions celebrate all of that, and the people at the centre of it. Adam is a talented, creative designer whose passion for sustainable, people-centred buildings runs through everything he does. With broad experience across offices, leisure facilities, schools, universities, and residential developments, Adam brings both imaginative vision and analytical rigour to every project he leads.

Adam has been with AHR for more than 20 years and his promotion to director is a recognition of his outstanding contribution to AHR’s growth across the South West. He has built meaningful, lasting relationships with clients and has designed an impressive range of buildings that have secured multiple RIBA and BCO Awards. Adam is currently leading high profile projects at Brabazon, Wapping Wharf North and the Cranbrook Leisure and Wellbeing Centre, demonstrating a varied and ambitious pipeline of future work.

Hira’s story at AHR is one of consistent excellence, determination and growth. In nearly 20 years with the practice, she has developed from project architect to one of the most respected and recognised designers in the region. Two of Hira’s recent projects have won RIBA awards, and she was named Project Architect of the Year for her contribution to an innovative education building supporting the next generation of student engineers in Bristol.

Hira’s collaborative instinct, her genuine care for the people she works with and her passion for design that improves lives make her a natural leader. As regional director, Hira leads our work on Bristol Temple Meads Southern Gateway - the first phase of the Temple Quarter regeneration, one of the largest regeneration schemes in Europe - a project that speaks directly to everything she believes great design can achieve.

A region with real momentum

Our Bristol team works across a brilliantly diverse range of building types and sectors, and right now, the portfolio reflects some of the most exciting and significant work the practice has ever delivered in the South.

This breadth reflects years of deliberate investment in talent, relationships and regional knowledge. It is the result of a team that has worked hard to earn the trust of clients and communities and that is motivated to keep doing so.

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