This scheme is a restoration and re-use of the existing collection of buildings which make up Bush Hall, with the addition of two new spaces: a new link building which will be the new Dining Room, and a new standalone Function room. The group of buildings will re-open as a new Hotel and Restaurant sitting alongside the River Lea tributary. Bush Hall appears on the 1766 Dury Andrews map as a
The Polecat Inn is a Grade 2 Listed public house in Prestwood, near Great Missenden. The new restaurant pavilion sits at the rear of the Inn and overlooks the rolling Chilterns landscape to the rear, while the Inn has been restored and relieved of an untidy group of recent extensions. This is an exercise in bringing together old and new in a clear a distinct relationship. The design uses an over-sailing roof,
This project brings back to life a Coaching Inn that had been closed for a number of years. We worked with Oakman Inns and their Architect Basil Smith to produce a quadrangle of buildings, knitting two new hotel wings into the existing buildings. This initial diagram addressed both the interlinked nature of the Hotel-Restaurant-Bar arrangement - where staff and guests can circulate between all these areas, and with the need
A three phase project incorporating and linking together three buildings between Dean Street and Wardour Street for Soho 601 Productions - one of the leading film and tv post-production houses in central London. An exercise in resolving circulation and connections between a series of companies forming one group. The project allows the identity of the companies to be expressed within each building. The main building on Dean Street required complete refurbishment including a
A digital special effects studio in the heart of Soho’s film industry. The client for this normally hidden world wanted to take advantage of the studio’s presence on the street to promote the facility. The ground floor is opened up, a shopfront exterior is created and the interior is installed with bespoke furniture and lighting. Studio, meeting room and other facilities are designed around an open space which is layered using perforated
The fitting out of three large units in the former Harrods depository, as shop, offices and showroom for the fashion designer Ally Capellino. Work included new services and structural alterations with a new glass floor, and the design of fittings and furniture. The concrete finishes and services are left exposed - and materials used in ways that make clear the method of their making, with a simple palette of steel, timber
Part of Hammerson’s mixed use Highcross Development and derived from the building blocks of the Chapman Taylor Masterplan, GLA aimed to invest this unloved building type with a refinement not normally associated with Car Parks. A silver fabric-like mesh cladding encloses the block on three sides while housing lines its west side. Bold colour, signage and lighting provide clear wayfinding from parking floors into the circulation core The glazed public lobby connects
RIBA competition winning proposal for this complex building typology compresses all its disparate functions within one envelope and explores the possibilities of them sitting side by side - a working factory, a series of independent workshops, for smaller scale designer glass production, gallery spaces, cafe, restaurant and other public facilities - under a walk on roof; a public space incorporating glass overlooking the River Wear. The building was awarded Millennium Product