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Ray Hole Architects

British architectural firm

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ7297627 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ray Hole Architects is an English architectural practice, based in Arundel, specialising in cultural and leisure-based projects. Their work includes:

the VW and Bentley Pavilions at Autostadt

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum (2008) at the London Pavilion, Piccadilly Circus

Hafod Eryri, the new £8.4M Snowdon summit building (2009)

the new Seaton tram station

buildings at Marwell Wildlife.

masterplanning for the Hurghada Cultural Leisure Centre in Egypt

The VW Pavilion at Autostadt won an FX International Design and Architecture Award). Hafod Eryri won the National Eisteddfod of Wales Gold Medal for Architecture in 2009.

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“Ray Hole Architects” enters the record as british architectural firm. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hole, Architects and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hole, Architects and British.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ray Hole Architects” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.