20th August 2019
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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,
21st November 2018
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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
11th August 2017
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RIBA competition entry which takes the traditional language of white cricket screens and timber pavilions and translates these to create a striking building in a triangular form. The triangle plan sits between existing pitches, facing both wickets at an ideal viewing angle, while the third side overlooks and helps screen and separate games court, children’s play space and other community functions.
Timber screening provides shading, security and simple form of enclosure
10th August 2017
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Part of Chapman Taylor’s central Leicester masterplan for Hammerson, GLA were responsible for the set out and design of the streets and public spaces within the mixed use Highcross development.
The proposal uses a simple palette of materials with a varied colour granite runner laid in an oversized granite herringbone patterned base to direct movement through new streets and into a new square and central plaza. Inlaid lighting highlights movement into
10th August 2017
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This is a bridge in the spirit of simple bridges with minimal structure, leaving the emphasis on a sinuous bridge deck which becomes a singular sculptural form.
The ‘S’ shape deck floats above the river and seeks to exploit the site’s striking topography and views with the least intrusion from surrounding structure as possible.
The contoured form highlights movement and the flow of routes, bringing the language of the park to meet
10th August 2017
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The Rochdale Canal Bridge is a footbridge linking three points over the Rochdale Canal in Ancoats, Manchester. The design won an open RIBA Competition and forms part of Urban Splash’s New Islington development.
The bridge needed to allow the passage of canal boats whilst also connecting the banks with minimum changes in level for pedestrians. The resulting structure, engineered by Michael Hadi Associates, places the backbone of the bridge above the
10th August 2017
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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