In the press: Nice to see our kitchen for Burnt House featured in today’s @dezeen ‘design logbook’ of L-shaped kitchens. In good company with designs from Switzerland, New Zealand and Denmark.
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Work in progress: Current street-scene image and textured elevation for a new villa comprising 7 flats in the East India Estate Conservation Area close to the centre of Croydon.
Built on the site of the old East India Estate, the six main streets in the conservation area are structured as a series of wide parallel roads on which plots were sold off individually in the late 1800s rather than built-out as a single uniform development. Now with many sites redeveloped each street comprises quite a motley crew of homes.
Our design intends to re-assert some order to the street and re-create a ‘crafty’, turn of the century villa behind a re-instated boundary wall and gates to the pavement. The design picks up on the character of the adjacent Edwardian home whilst building up to the same height as most the buildings on the road: the elevations include a high, darker coloured brick plinth with arced window tops set out symmetrically on the primary bay and informally on the recessed bay.
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Model making: It was great to catch up with @sebastiancoxltd at his studio this week.
Sebastian is making a model of Grain House for the forthcoming @nlalondon @dont.move.improve exhibition of the winning projects. Seeing as we won the ‘Materiality and Craftsmanship’ award it seemed only fitting to team up again with Sebastian who worked on the kitchen and some of the cabinetry at Grain House.
The model is designed to articulate the idea behind the project: a series of timber sculptural elements that respond to landscape and context.
The model is made from Ash and the roofs CNC cut to re-create the rhythm of the slats which will then be lightly brushed with a blowtorch to give the roof a graphic edge like the project itself.
Looking forward to seeing it complete and in the exhibition that opens at the end of the month in Coaldrops Yard.
More details to follow…
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Re-posting: Paddy & Keir, @whitakermalem our lovely clients for Garden House, posted this amazing video of the roof last week – 6 years after completion….!
After some winter casualties, Keir has things looking tip top again with pup plants from the ones that are doing well along with new plants from Colombia Road Market.
The experiment continues…! Might have to take another visit ourselves soon…
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