Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity
Grade II Listed building

Through the careful introduction of contemporary elements into reinstated historic room hierarchies, planning and listed building consents were secured for this Grade II listed building within Westminster’s Pimlico Conservation Area. Kitchens and bathrooms are designed as pieces of furniture sitting within the historic setting, allowing the elegant and non-invasive integration of modern services. The building has also been extended in response to its locale and the urban typologies of Pimlico.

Hollybrook 
London, E7

Squeezed into the urban fabric of East Ham, the 1937 Trebor Sweet Factory was transformed into a series of refined live / work units. Well received by occupants and developer, the design breathed life into a building of character. A new internal courtyard oversailed by bridges gave the development a social heart, strong circulation patterns, and dual aspect units. The structure was also extended vertically using framed glass boxes following the rhythms of the façade below. Simply finished interiors with sliding walls allow the flexible sub-division of interior space.

University College London
Grade I Listed building

The project resolves a long running conflict between retaining the statue of St Michael Slaying Satan, whilst reopening the Oculus, at the heart of UCL’s Grade I Listed Wilkins Building. The insertion of a new structural glass plinth supports the statue in its original position, whilst re-opening the oculus reestablishes long lost vistas between the ground floor Octagon Gallery and the cupola topped first floor Flaxman Gallery over. The ground floor Octagon ‘non-space’ is transformed into a museum gallery with the showcases taking reference from plaster reliefs in the adjacent Flaxman Gallery.

Camden Business Awards for Best Small Development Scheme

Finalist for Lighting Design Award for Heritage

Highly Commended for Camden Design Award

Shortlisted for AJ Retrofit Award for Heritage 

Hollybrook

Conversion and extension of Grade II Listed former town hall, providing 41 new homes in Bermondsey. Originally the site of the Bermondsey Bath House, the Municipal Office building was purpose-built in 1928-1930 and designed by architect Henry Tansley in emulation of the early 19th Century Greek Revival style.

The scheme creates a range of loft-style apartments throughout the existing building and new second floor penthouses set back from the main façade. The lofts are accessed through the original raised front entrance, which leads visitors to a vertical circulation route via an Imperial-style grand staircase. The nine-window elevation consists of two storeys sitting upon a basement plinth, which is arranged as tripartite with two symmetrical elements flanking a central portico.

The double-height open spaces provide the ideal context for the loft aesthetic, generating a dynamic contrast with the traditional formality of the entrance hall and main staircase areas. The main listed elements of the building include an original coat of arms on the front façade, marble features in the entrance hall and a set of Doric columns supporting the elliptical gallery and the Imperial stair hall. The majority of the facade is constructed in precast concrete blockwork tied back to a brick frame, with additional areas of the building constructed in red- and yellow-stock brick.

London Evening Standard New Homes Award for Best Conversion (large developer)

To work in the city is to re-use the past. By harnessing social history and collective memory, old and new can be married as part of an evolving environment, capable of regeneration and of sustaining the urban continuum long into the future.

Allowing new uses into old structures can create new spatial opportunities that step beyond form following function, providing open narratives for occupation. Who would have built a turbine hall as a contemporary art gallery for Tate Modern?

Our expertise spans the refurbishment of Grade I listed buildings to the reinvention of industrial buildings and their settings, reviving and unlocking the potential of significant spaces and structures.