Student Site Visit

It was great to welcome architecture students from Unit A Oxford Brookes University taught by @incrementalarchitecture with @rubysleigh and Ruth Cuenca to visit our retrofit and extension of Filwood Community Centre yesterday and observe the work in progress.

It is exciting times as the CLT frame goes up for the new library and just as the existing building as it is most stripped back before new materials start to be installed and to se retrofit in action.

Thank you to our super Project Architect Christina Agoston-Vas for leading the tour and our amazing contractors @brayandslaughter for facilitating the visit…!

@oxfordbrookes @unit_a_obu @filwoodcentre @bristolcouncil #retrofit #community #clt #crosslaminatedtimber #library

It was a pleasure to talk last week to the LSE’s Urban 95 Academy about the principles underlying the design of our Edith Neville Primary School: how it relates to the adjacent public open space and formed a central part of Camden Council’s Community Investment Programme.

We talked about entrances, boundaries, school streets, safeguarding, the idea of ‘bedroom to classroom’ and creating gathering points and community spaces within educational environments.

The LSE Urban95 Academy is a fully-funded executive education programme for municipal leaders from around the world to learn and develop strategies to make cities better for young children and their caregivers. It was fascinating to share experiences and best practice with such a wide variety of architects, landscape architects, urban designers and educationalists.

Thank you to @dinahbornat for the invitation. Thank you to Simon Battisti for the photos.

#edithnevilleprimaryschool @wemakecamden @lsecities @urban95br #centralsomerstown

Now into its sixth month on site, works at Filwood Community Centre have exposed many layers of the building’s history – including this period newspaper cavity closer from Friday 27th August 1937!

After months of carefully stripping back past modifications, linings and layers of paint to retrofit new thermal improvements, outside the ground works are now nearing completion, and later this week the site will see the first delivery of the CLT superstructure. An exciting moment to reflect on the historic form of the building, which over the next few months with be transformed with new layers and the creation of new spaces to serve the local community for generations to come.

@filwoodcentre @bristolcouncil @brayandslaughter @integral_engineering_design @greengaugebec @bd_landscape @youandme_archi #blackboxplanning #hayhurstandco #retrofit #community #bristol #filwood

North Sea East Wood goes international…!

We’re delighted that our remodelling and adaption of a 1980s bungalow in deepest Norfolk has been shortlisted for a @dezeenawards in the house extension category.

From 4,300 entries from 89 countries, the awards have shortlisted 92 projects of which only 5 are in the house extension category and North Sea East Wood the only project in the UK.

The project showcases vernacular materials used in contemporary manner in a rural setting. The irregular plan-form is designed to optimise outward views of North sea and East wood.

We are delighted to be up against practices from Australia, Switzerland Denmark and looking forward to the awards ceremony in November! Best of luck to the other shortlisted practices: @cerastribley @modo_arch @sara_gelibter_architecte #studiomarshallblecher #janhenrikjansenarkitekter

Photo credit: @kilianosullivan

@dezeen #dezeen #northseaeastwood #cromer #cromerhouseextension #norfolk #norfolkhouseextension #architecture #architectureawards #houseextension

We’re delighted to have won a Camden Design Award for our very special Edith Neville Primary School.

The judges complimented the scheme for its amazing light, sense of space and bringing the outside in with each classroom having its own outside space. A design process and outcome that reflects the schools own values (captured here).

Nick and Jamie were at the awards ceremony yesterday evening to pick up the award!

Photo credit: @kilianosullivan

#edithnevilleprimaryschool #camdendesignawards #hayhurstandco #schooldesign @wemakecamden