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
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
An addition to a C19 farm workers cottage in the Hertfordshire Green Belt. The isolated rural location affords the site uninterrupted views to the flat line of the distant horizon on three sides. These powerful views form the organisation of the addition which forms a
Ashton Porter were invited by Channel 4 to take part in the second series of "Ugly House to Lovely House" presented by George Clarke. The project is situated in an estate of late C20 developer private housing. Whilst the estate is typical of such out-of-town developments