‘Thermal Comfort and Joy: Energy Efficiency Lessons from Historic Interiors’ Sarah Khan gave a talk at the BIID event on Historic Textiles on 23rd of May at the The Art Workers Guild in Bloomsbury, London. The evening featured two lectures, one by the textile expert John Miners, followed by Sarah’s talk. Sarah’s talk introduced historic […]
Read MoreEvery project shortlisted for a RIBA Regional Award is visited by a carefully selected jury of leading architects and relevant experts in the built environment. So it’s not the RIBA deciding which projects get shortlisted and which go on to win – that task falls to our architects’ fellow members and peers. Sarah Khan is […]
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Our Partner Sarah Khan writes in the Winter SPAB Magazine about her research into sustainability. The article focuses on some traditional methods, which can be re-introduced to improve comfort in traditional builidngs in a zero-carbon way. A snapshot of the article is reproduced below:
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Appletree farmhouse has won the Hertfordshire Architects Association Awards 2018 for Building Conservation in the open category. This project comprised the sensitive and meticulous repair of a Grade II listed farmhouse on the edge of Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Works included careful repairs to roofs, brickwork and timber frames, and the successful use […]
Read MoreThe Heritage Statement is a standard requirement of planning applications involving heritage assets. Sarah Khan talks to RIBA about some key issues to consider when writing a Heritage stement for a succesful Listed Building Consent Application. The article can be read on RIBA’s website, it is also reproduced below. How to write a successful Heritage […]
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Appletree farmhouse has been Highly Commended at the Hertfordshire Building Futures Awards in the Retrofit for the Future category. The awards ceremony took place at Knebworth house on the evening of 4th October 2018. Judge’s comments: ‘A masterclass in striking an appropriate balance between preserving the historic aspects of a building, whilst creating a modern […]
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Our Practice Partner, Sarah Khan is leading a tour of St Leonards, Shoreditch on 5th of October, 2018. This is a free evening of architecture and archaeology talks discussing the unique history of St Leonard’s Shoreditch, from its Norman roots and Shakespearean worshippers to its current Georgian structure, and hopes for the future preservation of […]
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In this December/January’s issue of the RICS Conservation Journal, Dr. Robyn Pender, Historic England’s Senior Architectural Conservator discusses ‘Holistic Histories’: how looking to the past could inform future building use. She mentions our Partner Sarah Khan’s research at the Grade I listed Architectural Association in Bedford Square as an example, where Sarah re-introduced some historic […]
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At Stroud Green we have succeeded in gaining Planning Permission on a site with a 20 year history of refusals. The back garden site is in a Conservation Area, overlooked by neighbouring properties, and has serious privacy and streetscape issues. Numerous attempts by other architects have failed to secure a viable use of this site […]
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Roger Mears Architects were commissioned by a Charity Water Incorporated, to develop proposals for a sensitive redevelopment of Clerkenwell Firestation. This is a Grade II listed redundant building identified by the Mayor of London for sale. Our vision was to create a local museum space and exhibition space, cafe, information centre, key worker/ student housing […]
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