We’re very excited to announce that Highfield Park Visitor Centre won the RICS Social Impact Awards 2020 in the Land and Rural Category! Highfield Park Visitor Centre is a new purpose-built visitor centre supporting the Highfield Park Trust’s expanding activities. A new low-key barn style building sits within the hedged perimeter of the previous maintenance […]
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There are certain events that change the course of one’s life. It is these events that we remember in detail and that continue to excite our minds, informing our thoughts and actions today. It was during a journey to west Wales when Roger and his wife discovered an abandoned watermill in a remote valley. Covered […]
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The winner of the IHBC Gus Astley Student Award for 2019 has been selected by guest judge Ben Cowell, Director General of Historic Houses, as Sarah Khan, whose course work on ‘The Ghost in the Machine: Occupants’ influence on the Environmental Performance in a Grade I Listed Building’ was submitted to the former Postgraduate Diploma […]
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We are very pleased to announce that Putney Chapel is a finalist for the ASBP sustainability awards. Our aim was to save the derelict building by providing an imaginative re-use as a dwelling annexe to the nearby cemetery lodge. We were also able to capitalize on the embodied carbon of the existing building which had […]
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We hosted the 2019 SPAB Repair of Old Buildings Course at St Leonard’s Shoreditch on Wednesday 9th October, and also earlier in the year in May, seeing the progress of the West Facade repair project. Site visits are a key part of the course, allowing delegates to see how the principles discussed in the lectures […]
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This simple building for the Highfield Park Trust, built on the site of an old storage compound replaces and supplements facilities used in the original West Lodge nearby. lt now provides a vital hub and a more appropriate base for the Trust’s activities and as a venue for visitors, and local organisations.The generous entrance porch […]
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We are very pleased to announce that Putney Chapel won the Gold Green Apple Award 2019 for Built Environment and Architectural Heritage! Our aim was to save the derelict building by providing an imaginative re-use as a dwelling annexe to the nearby cemetery lodge. We were also able to capitalize on the embodied carbon of […]
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Our practice partner Sarah Khan gave a presentation on ‘What an architect can do for you’ at the House & Garden Festival on 20th June. She also ran an advice clinic on the same day from 11am to 4pm.
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Passing our passion for Architecture to the New Generation! Our Practice Partner Sarah Khan visited Springfield Primary School to talk to year 4 students about how to recognise Tudor architecture and the different materials used at that time. She had a lovely time explaining Tudor Features to the children, with the help of local landmarks. […]
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Rescue project of a derelict London Chapel is a finalist at RICS London awards 2019 in Building Conservation category This project relates to two Gothic Revival Chapels, located in an historic cemetery in Putney; unused for over 30 years and in a state of dereliction. Stonework was deteriorating, the roof damaged and lead gutters stripped, […]
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