{"id":381910,"date":"2026-01-21T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381910\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:45:10","slug":"iconic-ipswich-willis-building-to-become-tech-firm-halos-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381910\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Iconic’ Ipswich Willis building to become tech firm Halo’s HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamilton founded Halo in his mother-in-law’s spare room<\/a> and currently employs about 200 people in two Stowmarket offices.<\/p>\n

It was initially Ipswich Town’s shirt sleeve sponsor from 2023, but now has its logo on front and centre on the home kit.<\/p>\n

“Ipswich is the natural choice. Half our team live in Ipswich, within a 10-minute walk of our new location,” he said, explaining the move, which will begin this spring. <\/p>\n

It will continue to have an office in Stowmarket – keeping the one with a slide, bar and pool table.<\/p>\n

“Why the Willis Building? It’s iconic – we had a look around many buildings, and there was just something different and we thought we could see ourselves here for the rest of our years.<\/p>\n

The Willis Building celebrated its half century in 2025<\/a>, and Hamilton said he could “see that this will be Halo’s home for the next 50 years”.<\/p>\n

The all-glass exterior building in Ipswich was opened with a roof garden and an indoor swimming pool, which is still there but is not in use.<\/p>\n

It was described by another world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid as “a timeless classic – a vision of what is possible”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton founded Halo in his mother-in-law’s spare room and currently employs about 200 people in two Stowmarket offices.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-381910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}