The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025

We are delighted to announce that ADAM Architecture has been recognised in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025.

The Sunday Times survey highlights the best places to work across the UK. This nationwide workplace survey honours and celebrates the UK’s top employers –which number over 500 organisations across industries and scale –and highlights the best workplaces for women, the LGBTQIA+ community, disabled employees, ethnic minorities, younger and older workers, as well as those that provide the best wellbeing support.

The Sunday Times partnered with employee-experience platform WorkL to deliver fresh insights into the qualities that make the best workplaces. The awards uses 26 questions from WorkL’s employee engagement survey, developed by behavioural scientists, data analysts, psychologists, business leaders, academics and other independent parties to most accurately monitor employee engagement, wellbeing and discretionary effort in the workplace. To achieve a high overall engagement score, an organisation must score well across WorkL’s six-step framework:

Reward and Recognition

Instilling Pride

Information Sharing

Empowerment

Wellbeing

Job Satisfaction

Our success in the survey reflects our commitment to a positive, balanced workplace. As a company we recognise the importance of work-life balance, we have both agile and flexible working policies in place and promote activities which enrich our working lives. Our staff are encouraged to progress the thinking and practice of traditional architecture and urbanism in all aspects of their work. We support our staff with career development, offering training, mentoring, opportunities to join professional organisations, and encourage staff to determine their own career path. We offer a variety of workplace activities ranging from the ADAM Future Group (a young professionals’ group), Women in ADAM Architecture, mentoring, life drawing and various other sporting and socialising opportunities. Our studio environments are positive spaces, with a focus on the enjoyment of being at work and staff well-being.

Here is some feedback from our employees:

Katie Pottrill, Senior Associate Architect, says: "ADAM Architecture is a motivating and inspiring workplace that challenges and supports individuals in equal measure, resulting in a diverse team of highly skilled individuals leading the way in classical and traditional design who are also keen to invest in the next generation and pass on the wealth of knowledge. The quality of mentoring and investment in staff development in my experience has been second to none, with commitment, diligence and hard work always rewarded."

Servanda Rodriguez de la Rosa, Architect, says: "I first heard about ADAM at an INTBAU Conference in Spain. I had lost hope in ever being able to practice traditional architecture, so I was extremely excited that there was somewhere I could pursue my interest in classical and traditional design. I think ADAM is a wonderful place to work for many reasons, but the main ones are how kind people are, the quality of the projects we work on, the possibility to work flexibly and the opportunities for growth within the practice."

Nico Carstens, Architectural Technician, says: "After working for various architectural companies in the housing industry I was delighted to hear that ADAM Architecture was looking to employ architectural technologists. The practice's focus on traditional design principles and attention to detail aligns with my understanding of what constitutes exceptional architecture. The emphasis on collaboration and teamwork at ADAM Architecture creates a positive and supportive working environment that fosters innovation and creativity, which I really appreciate, along with the opportunities for professional growth and development."

If this sounds like a team you would like to be part of, we would love to hear from you - take a look at our current vacancies on our careers page.