We are delighted that our playful little flint number – ‘North Sea East Wood’ – has won a RIBA East Award and RIBA East Small Project of the Year Award – the best project under £500k in East Anglia this year.
Thank you @riba and @ribaeast for the awards and thank you to everyone involved;
Structural Engineer: Iain Wright Associates (Andrew Lucas)
Contractor: AJ Copper Builders
Planting: Stark Gardens
Building Control: Building Insight
Hayhurst & Co. team: Tony Berongoy, Marina Konstantopoulou and Nick Hayhurst
The awards citation noted;
“Architect Hayhurst & Co. is well known for a variety of inventive house extension projects in London, where the practice’s office is based. In this case, however, their approach is deployed instead to remodel a 1980s pattern-book bungalow for practice founder Nick Hayhurst’s parents, on a steeply sloping site in Norfolk…
For the new extension’s external elevations, the blockwork core is faced here and there with flint, making playful use of a traditional Norfolk building material while also introducing a visually relaxed feel to the scheme. Exquisitely detailed and constructed with a commendably modest budget, this is an architectural project which exults in the poetry of the everyday.
Yet the subtle internal planning and the scooped-out curvaceous volumes in the ceilings are evidence of a keen architectural sensibility. An ingenious three-way timber glazed door that slides and pivots enables the dining area to be easily opened up to the outside or else closed off as desired. This is undoubtedly a bungalow with a twist.”
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