The final of our mixed media collages was prepared recently for a Grade ll listed house project we are currently working on. The neutral palette of the existing property is broken with pops of colour, giving the space a new, bold character. The materials appear in the following order:– Grestec, design two, TCD35607 tile;– Mapei,…
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Here is another pair of our recently dismantled mood boards, or “mixed media collages” as our local artist Maureen Grayson named them. They were prepared for the latest phase of the listed Arts & Crafts Living project which we completed last Autumn. Board no1 contains materials and finishes of the side extension. This muddy-boots-entrance and…
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We are dismantling our collection of mood boards prepared over the last 18 months or so in order to make space for new projects. Before their constituent parts make it back into our sample library, we thought to photograph and share these beautiful compositions. It is always exciting to witness these small, two-dimensional compositions morph…
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Photo shoot with wonderful Agnese Sanvito. It’s always such a pleasure working with Agnese and we look forward to seeing her take on our project.
We take pride in being a practice with sustainability at its core. On our most-recently completed project we were lucky that our clients shared the same attitude towards the environment as we do. They were supportive in our specifying sustainable, low-carbon materials like timber and timber-based in preference to phenolics and polystyrene for insulation or steel…
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Here is some further learning from our last Winter’s-completed project: this time it is future-proofing the existing UK housing stock for living with too much sunshine (!). As climate change becomes an issue for more and more home owners, we look to our Mediterranean neighbours for clues.The most sustainable option is to provide external shading. This could…
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Last Winter we completed deep retrofit and partial re-model of a detached house originally built in 1930s. By far the most difficult of our tasks was to improve the performance of the spread-out volume the house morphed into by 2020s. The haphazardly-growth of the nineties, most of which was south-facing almost doubled the square footage…
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The secret garden behind our listed building project in Hampstead was an inspiration for green roof atop the studio building opening onto it.
We use birch ply regularly in our projects, just like in the loft of this listed house. We specify legally-certified ply from Finland or Latvia or we use maple-faced alternative from Garnica ensuring no Russian-trafficked ply enters our sites.
How should you approach designing an extension to a listed building? It’s the question RIBAjournal appropriately asks. Alongside Donald Insall Associates and Will Gamble Architects, we are delighted to have played our part in providing the answers. Click the link to see a full article but here is a teaser: RIBAjournal: How did you reach a decision about appropriate size and…
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