A new build 2 bedroom house of 90 sq m in north london. The client faced a typical problem for young people in London and the south east of England and was unable to afford to buy an apartment in the local area. His parents
An office for a small graphic design studio in Clerkenwell, London. The existing shell was part of a series of Victorian buildings that made up a meat smokehouse. Previously dislocated over several floors the studio was consolidated by the insertion of a double height volume and
A head office for a new media company in Clerkenwell, London. A refurbishment of a 6000ft sq single floor of a large industrial building, to create an office for 60 people. The client, innovators in the field of publishing, communications and marketing required a flexible space to
A refurbishment and extension to a typical suburburban 1930's North London house. A housing type that is characteristic of the interwar housing boom that followed the 30's Piccadilly Line extension deep into the suburbs. The house has adapted and extended over the years to respond to changing
An exhibition display, library and office for a private charitable foundation in Kensington, London. The Foundation aims to document and preserve Islamic written heritage. It pursues this aim principally though its work in surveying, imaging, cataloguing, editing and publishing Islamic manuscripts. Islamic manuscripts extant in the world
A refurbishment to a Grade 2* listed house in East Sussex. The house, known locally as 'The Georgian House' was later remodelled by Edwin Lutyens under Norman Shaw. Shaw's work was notable for its neo-Adam decorative plasterwork and Lutyens remodelled for Shaw in the style
The third project in the series of 'cut' types. Each project manipulates an existing building; one is Victorian and the other two are inter-war. They all share a fairly typical need to adapt a pre-existing residential building type to modern family living, but all address
An addition and remodelling to a Victorian house in Twickenham. An imprint of the existing front facade of the house is relocated within a floating stainless steel frame to the front of a new side addition. This floating facade is separated from both the new
The project responds to a sloping site with a 2 storey elevation to the rear and a stepping 3 storey elevation to the front. The rear of the house embeds itself into the landscape and a series of gabion walls provide a transition from the
A rear addition, landscape and internal remodelling to a Grade 2 listed house in East Sussex. The existing listed house is an amalgam of different eras of building. There are 3 key built elements defined by their time periods. The original house, buried within the core