Client: Concord London
Sector: Mixed use
Area: 250,000 sqft
Value: £125m
Status: Completed 2023
“The architects have responded imaginatively to all the different constraints of the site, producing a design that will genuinely enhance the character and appearance of the area”
– English Heritage, February 2015
The redevelopment of this entire city block provides 79 private and affordable apartments, together with retail, restaurants and community facilities to all 4 streets, and public car parking in the basement.
The greatly improved public realm provides active shop frontages, wider streets and a new home for the weekly Marylebone Farmers’ Market.
Internally, it is a building without corridors - all the apartments are reached via a beautiful central courtyard. The apartments themselves are meticulously planned, each one enjoying a large verandah and generously proportioned rooms.
The concrete structure is clad in a distinctive and robust glazed ceramic facade, with cast aluminium balustrades adding to the richness of the detail. The architecture fits in with its Marylebone setting whilst being uncompromisingly contemporary.
Client: Concord London
Sector: Residential
Area: 50,000 sqft
Value: £24.5m
Status: Detail design
This fine end of terrace building provides 31 apartments, as well as retail at street level. Responding to its context, the building has a characteristic architectural rhythm and scale, incorporating bay windows and distinctive cast aluminium balconies, whose pattern is inspired by the glaze on Japanese porcelain. A combination of precast concrete, Portland stone and cast aluminium provides a rich palette of materials combined in a highly contemporary fashion.
Client: Regal London
Sector: Residential
Area: 70,000 sqft
Value: £26m
Status: Completed 2019
Awards:
2021 Shortlisted for ArchDaily building of the year
German Design Council 2020:
- Innovative Material: Winner
- Innovative Architecture: Selection
2019 WORLD ARCHITECTURE NEWS Award: - Residential category: Finalist
2019 What House Award: - BEST EXTERIOR
This ten-storey residential building comprises 49 apartments in London’s St John’s Wood.
The surrounding area is characterized by mid 20th Century mansion blocks, the nicest of which are in the Art Deco style. Our design drew inspiration from the Art Deco form, the curved bays being one of the building’s signature features. Also, the imprint of a leaf motif is a modern interpretation of the Deco pattern with its precise geometry and clear lines.
Designed from the inside out, each apartment is internally planned to make the most of the views, the best of which are at oblique angles to the site. This led to the creation of the building’s characteristic articulated bays in elevation and ensures that every apartment is dual aspect.
The facade is striking and refined. We made the decision to produce an exterior composed entirely of cast aluminium, evoking stature and longevity, as if carved out from a single block of metal. We were able to mold the aluminium and carve bespoke patterns and textured shapes, producing a structure that is finely crafted; made from recycled materials; locally sourced from Essex, and manufactured by a dedicated team of highly skilled tradespeople. As such, there is provenance between the resulting design and its manufacture. At some distant time in the future, it will be recycled itself.
The cast aluminum facade and the imprinted leaf pattern are unique to this project and a reference to neighbouring Regents Park. It brings the elevations to life, capturing the light and shade, and the colour changes depending on the light conditions.
At ground level, the building presents an open frontage onto the street, with a generous canopy welcoming people into the lobby. The ground floor plinth is clad in roman brick, giving the building a robust and beautifully detailed base.
Client: Portland Property Ltd
Sector: Commercial
Area: 40,000 sqft
Value: 7.5M
Status: Completed 2019
A substantial renovation and extension of this ‘Grade II’ listed office building (the old Corn Exchange) in the City of London, consists of the refurbishment of the historic facade and an addition of 3 floors of high-quality office accommodation. The office floor plates will be generous and well lit, cores are substantially reconfigured and a new reception upgrades the user experience. The building was completed in early 2019.
Client: Berkeley Homes (East Thames)
Sector: Residential
Area: 760,405 sqft
Value: Confidential
Status: Under Construction
This substantial plot on an amazing section of The Thames, will provide 675 new homes in 6 striking buildings. Being located adjacent to a new urban park, the buildings a configured to maximise views towards the river and through the site, creating a visual extension of the park.
The stepped floor plan creates the distinctive building form and ensures most apartments are dual aspect, 75% of which enjoy direct river views. The furthest distance to walk from the lift to the apartment front door is just 7m.
Client: Kaunas Municipality, Lithuania
Sector: Culture
Area: NA
Value: €25m
Status: Competition
A concert hall complex located on the bank of the Nemunas River, Kaunas, a site of great natural beauty, home to significant wildlife and much loved by the local people.
The presence and importance of Nature is a key influence for the design as is the openness of the design, which signifies the democratic nature of the building and its accessibility to all.. Generous terraces and public areas wrap around two brick-clad auditoriums that house a 1500 seat hall and 700 seat flexible auditorium. Our building is read as a clearly manmade intervention: A series of strata, rising out of the established natural landscape.
The building’s open, welcoming and informal composition reflects the confidence of Lithuania’s democratic age, the antithesis of the more formal civic buildings, born out of past generations, that sit across the river. It celebrates the new Lithuania.
Client: Berkeley East Thames
Sector: Residential/ mixed use
Area: 550,000 sqft
Value: Confidential
Status: Scheme Design
Located at the eastern fringe of the Royal Arsenal Masterplan, on a site currently accommodating the Crossrail Station ventilation ducts and escape routes, the challenge is to develop a scheme that turned the site challenges and constraints into opportunities.
4 buildings are arranged around a garden deck, which itself spans over the station box. This new public garden creates a major urban space for new and existing residents, acting as an anchor point within the masterplan, and also connecting into the established townscape beyond.
The apartments themselves are configured with generous open plan living and large, full width terraces. This creates true indoor/outdoor living, whilst also shading the facade from overheating in summer months.
Located in the beautiful shoreline district of Dunderave, this mixed use development on Marine Drive, West Vancouver, creates 40 apartments, as well as retail and office accommodation, and below grade parking and extensive landscaping.
The architecture is rooted in its Dunderave location and climate, responding to the amazing ocean views, and constructed from the same limestone seam that sits below the site. The highly articulated and sculptural form optimises the openness of the architecture, and is configured to shade the facade during summer months. Along Marine Drive itself, new shops, restaurants and widened sidewalks, greatly improve the pedestrian experience.
Within the site two highly landscaped gardens provide new public amenities - and connect Marine Drive to Dunderave Lane both visually and physically.
The design is engineered utilising passive house design principles, significantly reducing mechanical plant requirements and in use running costs.
Client: Far East Consortium
Sector: Mixed Use/ Residential
Area: 600,000 sqft
Value: Confidential
Status: Concept
Signature Hi Rise residential development on a compact site in Canary Wharf, providing over 600 homes with additional commercial and social amenities at street level.
The residential floorplans are articulated to create 8 corner apartments per floor, increasing sales value and generating the highly articulated building form. At roof level protected sky gardens give residents panoramic views over London. At street the street level the development encloses the DLR, allowing the building to front onto Marsh Wall directly and unifying the site into a coherent whole.
Wrapped in a unitised bronze framed glazed skin, the development benefits from Passive House design principles, comprising MVHR units to provide heating, cooling and hot water to each unit. This greatly reduces running costs and minimises plant room requirements and riser sizes, improving floors plate efficiency.
Client: Green Oak Development
Sector: Residential + Culture
Area: 130,000 sqft
Value: Confidential
Status: Schematic Design
Located at the very centre of the city of white Rock, this residential building utilises Passive House engineering principles to ensure sustainability is at the core of the design.
The building is raised off the ground to create a new public park for the city, part of the city’s ambition to increase the amount of useable green space available for citizens. the aerodynamic triangular form ensures every apartment gains direct ocean views, whilst minimising the impact of the building on neighbouring plots.
A public gallery is suspended from the structure to create a cultural hub in the heart of the city.
Client: CLS Holdings
Sector: Residential
Area: 45,000 sqft
Value: Confidential
Status: Planning
The Albert Embankment has undergone substantial changes with a series of new developments which are changing the townscape and urban character. Within this changing setting, The Rose pub is a well-liked establishment, but in need of considerable renovation.
Our proposal seeks to substantially renovate and refurbish The Rose, improving the quality of the building and giving it new life, and to use the pub as a generator for the new development above.
We propose to add a striking new residential development, which grows out of the building fabric of the Rose and forms a fine addition to the emerging skyline along the river. The combination of these two uses creates a truly unique building for Lambeth and a model strategy for the preservation and enhancement of valuable buildings within developing areas.
To facilitate the construction of such a structure requires exceptional engineering, ensuring that new addition would become a truly unique building for Lambeth.
Client: Paddington Arts
Sector: Culture
Area: 12,000 sqft
Value: Confidential
Status: Pre-Application
Paddington Arts is a vital, self funding, community hub, providing performance, rehearsal and gathering spaces for all members of the local community. Our scheme replaces part of the site with a new structure that accommodates multi functional spaces to be used by the community in a variety of ways, from pottery classes, to rehearsals for the Notting Hill Carnival, to community meetings.
The design follows Passive House design principles to ensure higher thermal performance, greatly reduced running costs and less plant space within the building. Its vibrant external form, utilising painted cast aluminium extrusions, expresses the positive and uplifting ethos of the centre and its role within the community.
This legacy development will allow the centre to remain self funding and put it on a firm footing for future generations.
Client: St George West London
Sector: Residential / Mixed Use
Area: 40,000 sqm
Value: Confidential
Status: Under Construction
Born out of a public vote to choose the right architectural team, this development provides 155 affordable and private residential apartments, in addition to retail at street level and a substantial new community garden. Located at the heart of Kingston town centre, our scheme synthesises this historic site, with contemporary construction materials and techniques to bring a level of architectural craftsmanship to Kingston. It is the centrepiece of a wider 320 apartment development and forms a symbolic gateway to the historic town beyond.
Image credit: St George West London
Client: Al Khozoma Management Company
Sector: Hospitality
Area: 250,000 sqft
Value: £62m
Status: On site construction
A 5-star luxury hotel located next to the Al Faisaliyah skyscraper, The plot is located in the hart of Riyadh on one of main city roads, King Fahd Road. The hotel comprises of 4 blocks and 3 atriums across 8 floors.
The refurbishment of the existing hotel includes 224 guest rooms & suites, atriums, meeting rooms, the main lobby, a Spa and the Il Terrazzo Restaurant.
Specialist interior design has been carried out by Tihany Designs based in New York, with Simon Bowden acting as Executive architect.
The project will be executed in 2 phases, this allows the current hotel to continue its existing operation.
Visualisations provided by Tihany Designs
Client: Confidential
Sector: Private villa
Area: 16,000 sqft
Value: £7M
Status: Developed design
Our design for this private villa in Hampstead replaces an existing 1970s mock Georgian house. The design maximises the potential of the restricted site and wraps around the existing mature garden, retaining all the existing fine mature trees. The house is for a young and expanding family. The design creates a large open plan and double height living room which faces directly onto the garden, and around which all of the other spaces are organised. The living room has a large double height glazed wall which folds back during the summer to open the house up entirely to the outside. The glazing is shaded by a generous canopy that helps blur the lines between inside and outside. This is a contemporary house on a grand scale, but it is also highly efficient. As such there are no internal corridors, no wasted space but increased value.
Client: Private
Sector: Residential
Area: 1,500sqft
Value: Confidential
Status: Concept design
A private 2-bedroom villa in Tulum, Mexico, with an external swimming pool a single bedroom guest house at the front of the plot. The design, with its open plan layout and cantilevered roof, is a reference to the American experimental Case Study Houses of the 1950s and 60s.
The proposal is for a steel structural frame with composite panels between and large full-height glazing, which opens the house up to the garden. The steel structure is extended in a form of a canopy, which blurs the lines between inside and outside.
Due to the local climate, no thermal insulation is required. Instead, the design needs to allow for appropriate shading and ventilation to avoid overheating. Proximity to the ocean and ground conditions require special treatment to the steel elements of the structure to avoid corrosion due to high salinity in the ground and air.
Client: Kaunas City Municipality
Sector: Culture
Area: 10,000 sqft
Value: €25m
Status: Competition
The proposal for a new Science and Innovation Museum located on the Nemunas Island in Kaunas, a landmark visitor attraction as well as being the new symbol of the scientific research being undertaken in the city.
The triangular form generated by the three principle galleries, curated under the central themes of Human, Machine, and Nature. Each of the angles point towards and connects the building to contextual references: the adjacent sport arena, the new convention centre to the south, and the Old Town. The main circulation within the building is via a fantastic spiral stair rising up through the open atrium.
The museum is constructed from a robust palette of fair faced concrete, both in situ and precast, exposed painted steelwork and a combination of opaque and clear glazing systems. A highly flexible raised floor system throughout increases the adaptability of the building and galleries to future exhibitions and functions.
Client: Sejong City Municipality, S. Korea
Sector: Cultural
Area: 1,200,000 sqft
Value: Confidential
Status: Competition
A masterplan for a national museum complex and park for the City of Sejong, South Korea. Sejong is a newly established city with a growing population and administrative center, and the masterplan will provide a world class cultural district aspiring to be on a par with Berlin’s Museuminsel or the Smithsonian in the US.
Our proposal is arranged on 2 key axis through the site that connect the 4 neighboring districts: The town center to the west, the national park to the east, and the residential areas to the north and south.
Our proposal introduces a series of very ordered, rational and phaseable museums expressed as courtyard buildings, echoing the traditional South Korean Hanok typology. On the other side of the central boulevard are pavilion buildings, integrated into the landscape, and serving as smaller museums, cafes or viewing platforms.
The ‘Oculus’ is a circular bridge that spans the adjacent river and is a key part of the first phase of the development, providing a high quality residential experience for people to be able to walk to the museums from the town center.
Client: Press Association
Sector: Residential
Area: 64,500 sqft
Value: £65m
Status: Planning
This substantial renovation of a 1980s office building in Victoria into a modern apartment building, comprising 32 meticulously planned apartments.
Re-clad in a rich palette of precast concrete and cast bronze, this contemporary refurbishment creates a robust and substantial building, whilst recycling the existing structural frame. Planning permission was granted in February 2016.
Client: Westminster City Council
Sector: Product
Value: Confidential
Status: Planning
Our design for a drinking fountain in Paddington Street Gardens, Marylebone, promotes the importance of drinking water in a playful and visually striking way. We have worked with FSE foundry to create a product that can be fabricated out of a single piece of cast aluminium, and once the initial mould is made, can be easily reproduced in other locations.
The design was developed with the help of children in the nearby St Vincents RC Primary School, and influenced by the pop-art lettering of artist Robert Indiana’s signature works of the late 1960s.
Client: R&D
Sector: Workplace
Area: N/A
Value: Confidential
Status: Design development
Lightness and performance in building materials is explored through the use of fabric as a facade material, employed here as a double insulated layer, and supported by an elegant light weight arched steel frame. It generates a building module that can be extended in two directions, depending on site requirements, and is a development of the out of town retail shed, replacing crinkly tin with fabric. The translucent roof lets in filtered daylight and provides first class accommodation for functions ranging from call centres, warehouses and retail units.
27-28 The Quadrant Gateway House occupies an important site in Richmond, adjacent to the railway station.
The project is a comprehensive redevelopment of the site, enhancing its contribution to the townscape. The proposal includes the renovation of an existing 1960’s office building and car park structure, creating new office spaces and increasing the employment offer in Richmond. Careful consideration has been given to the close proximity of the railway lines and the implementation of the scheme.
The new buildings would broadly enhance the character of the area, restoring the street line and establishing clear areas of the public realm.
