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A new house on a leafy road in south west London. The new facilities include a double height reception and living room, bar, snug/study area, gym, bedrooms, bathrooms and landscaped gardens. The client requested an imposing and dramatic building and the practice responded by developing an elaborate baroque influenced design. The design theme has been carried through to every detail within the building. The final building is a show piece for traditional British craft work and detailing and utilizes natural materials including oak joinery, Portland and Yorkstone work, Welsh slate and handmade clay tiles, load bearing handmade brick work with rubbed arches and bronze and copper work.
The brief for this new house was to design a spacious and light filled house for a picture restorer and collector of Arts and Crafts pictures and furniture. The client wanted a design that developed the construction and spatial theories of the Arts and Crafts movement in a contemporary way using traditional materials and construction methods. The house also needed to provide spatial flexibility for the changing needs and requirements of modern family life. The house maximizes the sharp change in level of the site by locating the entrance to the house on the higher ground off a north facing three sided stone courtyard. The high ceiling reception rooms and first and second floor bedrooms are on the lower south facing garden. Handmade bricks and clay roof tiles, Bathstone, oak and painted timber are used extensively throughout the house.
The owners sought a striking, contemporary addition to their Edwardian mock Queen Anne house. The new addition is prominent and overlooks Wimbledon Common. The new building contains the kitchen, dining room and family room and is made up of layered rendered walls with a copper roof. The impressive sliding doors provide the connection to a secluded landscaped terrace at the rear.
A renovation, extension and re-elevation of a 1930s mock Tudor house. The new work takes references from English Arts and Crafts, CR Macintosh and the Swedish architect Gunner Asplund. The house has been extended and remodelled so that the new front aligns with the road and a new front door and entrance porch is arranged around a magnificent London Plane Tree. The new construction divides the house into the formal entertaining areas and informal family areas which includes a double height family room with guest accommodation over a new garage. A feature mahogany staircase replaces the old stair.
The remit was to provide a viable design solution for a 1960's chalet bungalow in need of complete internal and external renovation. The client, a single mother and her daughter requested a cosy, traditional and secure home. The project has been influenced by the Arts and Craft designs of CFA Vosey. With carefully considered but modest additions, the exterior has been dramatically changed from a bland speculative bungalow into a striking vernacular house. A total transformation of the external aspect has been achieved by the introduction of a new hipped roof bay window, tile hanging, a half timbered entrance and a large 'sugar stick' brickwork chimney on the prominent corner of the building. The remodelling of the interior was completed with the inclusion of an oak stairway and an inglenook fireplace.
This new leisure block is within the grounds of a large family house in south London. The new facilities include a double height reception and entertainment room, bar, snug area, Jacuzzi, study, gym, bedroom and landscaped gardens. The client requested an imposing and dramatic building and the practice responded by developing an elaborate baroque influenced design. The theme of design has been carried through to every detail within the building. The final building is a show piece for traditional British craft work and detailing and utilizes natural materials including oak joinery, Portland and Yorkstone work, Welsh slate and handmade clay tiles, load bearing handmade brick work with rubbed arches and bronze and copper work.
A new house on a secluded plot of land in Petersham, close to Richmond in Surrey, it has been carefully located to maximise the garden. The house also has an associated pool with guest accommodation. The main house is approached along a covered walkway and is arranged around a central top lit hall with the private family rooms to the east and south and the more formal reception rooms to the west and north. The house gained planning permission in 2008.
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This is a new house at the end of a secluded lane in Wimbledon. The front of the house is relatively austere and does not give much away much in terms of the layering of the internal spaces and large triple height areas inside the house. The rear of the house, in contrast to the front, is a horizontally layered geometric form of solids and glass opening up to a terraced landscape garden. The main internal space is a triple height hall which winds it way up to a secluded second floor study and roof garden. The hall is shielded from the south facing sun, but is lit by carefully placed windows and rooflights on the south elevation.
A new brick built six bed-roomed house, that due to a restrictive planning authority, has been traditionally designed at the front with reference to details from neighbouring houses, but has a more contemporary interior and rear elevation. The house picks up on the brickwork, stonework and roof tiling of adjacent houses. On the inside, the wide front door leads into a double height hallway with an imposing black oak geometric staircase and an illuminated handrail that rises from the basement up to the first floor. Through the careful placing of rooflights and windows the internal central hall is filled with natural light at all times of the day.
The renovation and extension of a late Victorian brick house presented an opportunity to produce something visually arresting that at the same time provided more space as the existing room layouts were more suited to a 1940s lifestyle than those of 2008. The house was completely remodelled inside with two traditional extensions either side of the front elevation. To the rear there is a contrasting glass fronted addition consisting of a canopy formed out of a white horizontal plane with an orange/red box sliding out from underneath and hovering over the garden.
A 1920s house built for a single person and in need of renovation and extension. The front of the house has been retained and the rooms restored to their original form. The oak panelled hall and dining room has also been refurbished. The rear of the house has been rebuilt from brick, sustainable hardwood and glass so that the reception rooms have clear and unrestricted views of the garden through the large picture windows. The rear west facing part of the house receives sunlight throughout the summer days. This was achieved by the careful placing of windows and roof lights that allow the sun into the back of the house in the morning, afternoon and evening. Through a series of sliding walls and pivot doors, the three rear reception rooms can open up to form one large entertaining space if required.
A standard 1950s developers box house that has been completed turned around and re-orientated towards the south facing garden. The remodeled house includes double height spaces and references to the dramatic and hidden sources for lighting spaces in Baroque churches; influences from the work of John Soane are also evident in the entrance and main living areas. Internally the architecture of this house is influenced by the spatial theories and attention to detail of the English Free School/ Arts and Crafts movement and also the Roundplan concept of Austrian architect Adolf Loos: a complex series of centralized interlocking spaces within a simple overall volume.
A grade 2 listed church occupying a prominent position in Southfields, south west London. The church was remodelled in the 1970s and the nave was divided in two. By the 2000s these works had reached the end of their life in both physical and usable terms. The congregation has continued to grow and the churchs position within the local community is significant. As the church plot is small it has only allowed for a limited amount of well thought through additional new building. A new church hall, gallery, meeting rooms and service areas have been built at the west end of the nave giving a new lease of life to the magnificent west Oriel window. A new entrance, foyer, chapel and offices have been built in a series of geometric solid and glass boxes to the north side and although subservient to the original church, these provide a striking and eye-catching addition to the area.
The renovation and remodeling of a Georgian house subsequently converted into offices. The building has been renovated and restored using period mouldings and details to the main areas. Works also included restoring and repairing paneling and plaster mouldings and features, renovating the original staircase and restoring as much of the building back to its original state as possible. New features, such as fire-escapes and services have been sympathetically incorporated into the existing building.
The renovation of a Georgian building in Borough High Street, Southwark to form retail unit on the ground floor with offices and the first and second floors. The retail units on the ground floors have completely new frontages designed and detailed in a traditional manner.
The re-organisation of the junction of the chancel / nave and the formation of a new dais with a new removable carved oak communion rail and steps and new frameless glass doors and frameless glass screens to the side chapel.
These facilities consist of a new outdoor pool and pool house including changing rooms, all within a newly landscaped and terraced garden. A new gym block, with a guest flat above and garage to the front is located in a independent neo-classical pavilion building to the side of the main house.
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New landscaped garden
Extension to house in Wimbledon
Complete strip out and refurbishment of existing shop on the Ground floor and addition of three new luxury apartments in Wimbledon Village.
