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Green House, 2021
RIBA London Award 2023
RIBA House of the Year 2023
RIBA London Project Architect of the Year 2023 (Claire Taggart)

Green House is located on a small back lane once surrounded by coach houses, orchards, greenhouses and market gardens: a small area of re-wilded woodland opposite the house remains. The design for Green House draws on this natural history and verdant character of the site: providing a contemporary re-imagining of a domestic greenhouse. A design that blurs the boundaries between inside and outside spaces and re-greens a once unloved site.

A central, top-lit, riad-style atrium connects all living spaces, upstairs and downstairs, and brings daylight into the heart of the house. The atrium assists in cooling the house on hot days through natural stack ventilation with solar glass windows fitted with temperature and rain sensors.

Developed closely with the clients, the living spaces are open plan to maximise the sense of space and flexibility of use. The curtains wrap around the whole atrium to allow the central dining space to be separated off as an awesome, double-height dining hall as well as providing acoustic absorption to the inside spaces.

The simple ‘block’ form of the house was chosen for its simplicity and efficient use of the Cross-Laminated timber (CLT) frame. The end grain has been deliberately exposed and growth rings displayed to visually express how the material has grown. The internal doors are made from CLT notched into the frame avoiding door frames and architraves.

The south-facing front façade is planted with bamboo, with sliding polycarbonate screens that reference the greenhouses that once stood on the site. The plants and screens softly filter the daylight whilst maintaining privacy and provide solar shading on hot summer days.

Location: Tottenham, London
Design Team: Claire Taggart, Holly Crosbie, Jonathan Nicholls, Nick Hayhurst,
Contract Value: £550k
Contractor: Rebuild London
CLT Contractor: Eurban
Structural Engineer: Iain Wright Associates
M&E and Energy Consultants: Mesh Energy
Steelworks: Surrey Steel
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan

#greenhouse #houseoftheyear #newhouse #sustainablehouse #tottenham

Grain House, 2019
RIBA London Award, 2021
RIBA House of the Year Longlist 2021

Grain House is a remodelled and extended Victorian, semi-detached property in the de Beauvoir Conservation Area in Hackney, north London. Designed for a young family, the house connects original and new living spaces and creates a visual link from the entrance, through the family spaces to the garden and on to the new artist’s studio at the back of the site.

Prior to the works, the house was arranged as a series of small, cellular spaces with only a narrow servant stair connecting the living spaces on the lower and upper ground floors. The new design dramatically reconnects these living spaces with the creation of a 2-storey courtyard at the heart of the house that is home to a new Japanese privet tree.

Both the grand staircases, the original one leading upwards and a new one leading downwards, present a threshold between the formal spaces to the Victorian property and the contemporary living spaces below.

The new staircase wraps around the courtyard providing views of the upper branches of the tree and different views through the house and garden as one moves from one level to the next. At the lower ground floor level, the extension helps define the relationship to the garden, with a picture window from the kitchen and a window seat to the dining space.

The palette of materials includes hand-made tiles, natural lime plaster, pre-patinated copper and charred larch. Native timbers were sourced, where possible, and were combined to create a distinctive kitchen made by Sebastian Cox.

The materials have been sourced to mature over time, providing a rich texture of weathered and patinated finishes. The studio, shaped in response to the profile of an old summer house, takes the form of a magical imaginary woodland creature nestling amongst the trees like a piece of inhabited sculpture.

Location: Dalston, London
Design Team: Jonathan Nicholls, Holly Jean Crosbie, Rory Lean, Nick Hayhurst
Contractor: Rebuild London
Kitchen: Sebastian Cox
Structural Engineer: Webb Yates
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan

#grainhouse #home #house #newhome #architecture

Torriano Primary School, 2018
RIBA London Award, 2019
RIBA London Small Project of the Year Award, 2019

The brief for this STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ‘Activity Lab’ for this school in Kentish Town, north London was to provide a ‘space like no other’. The response was to convert a two-storey ‘turret’ at the top of the school and create a small, shiny and shingled roof-top extension with an external learning terrace.

The extension provides a space where primary-school aged children can engage in active and physical experiments and testing of technology-based subjects. The designs were developed through workshops with the school’s pupils and Artist in Residence, Jack Cornell, to explore, test, draw and model the future uses of the space.

The new space features a double-height activity zone with irregular, CNC-cut, laminated ply portals to define the space. The portals include openings that facilitate activities to enhance practical teaching such as where pulleys can be hung or fabric suspended. Constellations are etched into the faces of the timber.

The space also includes fold-down demonstration desks, floor projection equipment and a mezzanine to enable students to gain additional height to undertake practical physics experiments. Externally, the project has an external, south-facing terrace which includes plants in bespoke growing troughs.

Location: Torriano Primary School, Kentish Town, London
Client: London Borough of Camden
Design Team: Claire Taggart, Alex Boyce, Nick Hayhurst,
Project Manager: LB Camden (Paul Greatbatch)
Structural Engineer: Iain Wright Associates
Services Engineer: Edward Pearce LLP
CDM Advisor: Goddard Consulting
Contractor: Bolt & Heeks
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan

@wemakecamden #torrianoprimaryschool #schooldesign #stem #architecture #education

Whole House, 2016
RIBA London Award, 2017
RIBA House of the Year Longlist 2017

Whole House is a home full of contradictions: a house with big ideas on a small site. A house with no windows that is flooded with light. A unique house for a developer client who wished to maximise the development potential of this unloved site.

Bounded by back gardens to Victorian and inter-war housing and a super-sized 1990s mews development, Whole House is a 92m2 house organised around a central courtyard: an exemplar for contemporary, back-land, urban living.

The entrance to the house sits in a wide, deep reveal accessed via a large sliding gate. A smaller gate to the side provides access to the bin store and adds to the sense of depth to this small domestic elevation. The circulation and day-lighting strategies were developed together to create a light, delightful and picturesque promenade as one walks around the house.

Walking around the central courtyard provides views in each direction and a visual connection to the sky and the surrounding roofs and tree-tops. As the stair wraps from bottom to top the scale of the stair varies to provide a faster pace, a slower pace, a wider stair or a narrower stair: design moves that reflect the level of implied privacy and openness of the house.

The main bedroom and bathroom are located at basement level and lit from the pavement light over the central courtyard with a curtain integrated into the cabinetry. At the upper level, the kitchen, dining and living spaces benefit from south light and access to the central courtyard. Each of the four corners of the house has a skylight that extends the length of internal views.

Client: Bramfield Property
Location: Clapham, London
Contract Value: £375K
Design Team: Amy Waite, Jess Lyons, Bronya Meredith, Jonathan Nicholls, Nick Hayhurst,
Structural Engineer: Toynbee Associates
Contractor: Rebuild (London) Ltd.
Photographs: Marcus Peel & Kilian O’Sullivan

@bramfieldstudio #house #home #ribaaward #londonhome #newhome

Pegasus Academy, 2013
RIBA London Award, 2014
Architectural Review School of the Year, 2015

The remodelling and expansion of Pegasus Academy brings together a fragmented site with a series of interventions and extensions that thread new teaching spaces through a complex fabric of existing buildings. The result is a striking transformation of the school that clearly marks the civic pride and significance of a school at the heart of its community.

The concept of a ‘responsive roofscape’ informs a site-wide strategy to revitalise the different learning environments and provide a controlled sense of scale to the new development. Conceived as a series of room-scaled extensions, the design assimilates the pitches and proportions of the Victorian school but plays with the scale and repetition of the roof forms: the language of the Victorian school is adapted to animate and excite a playful and stimulating set of learning environments.

A new ribbon of timber slats at ceiling level within the circulation routes brings the two schools together and connects the new with the old. The miniature peaks of the nursery mimic the Victorian dormer windows of the adjacent Infant Hall. The scale of the pitches vary from one room teaching area to the next, growing in size in response to the age of the children and defining the form of the room beneath.

The new facade brings the two schools together by adopting the pitches and massing of the Victorian buildings at either end. The resultant form leads the eye towards the Victorian Junior Gym building; reinforcing its prime position in the group of buildings that make up the frontage of the school

Client: London Borough of Croydon
Stakeholder: Pegasus Academy Trust
Location: Thornton Heath, London
Design Team: Howard Miller, Anna Ludwig, Jonathan Nicholls, Andrew Ensslen, Ardi Rexhepi, Jess Tettelaar, Nick Hayhurst
Quantity Surveyor: SENSE
Structural Engineer: Iain Wright Associates
M+E Engineer: Hurley Palmer Flat/ MSL
BREEAM: Bianco Sale
Acoustician: Cass Allen
Contractor: Kier/ Morgan Sindall
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan & Anthony Coleman

#hayhurstandco #school #schooldesign #education #croydon

Hayes Primary School, 2012
RIBA National Award 2013

The expansion of Hayes Primary School provides an exciting and vibrant new extension to a tired and out-dated school building; an extension that flickers and glimmers with the reflection of the adjacent trees providing a renewed energy to a building at the heart of its community. The new accommodation is located at the front of the school site providing the opportunity to create the appearance of a new school.

The extension provides new accommodation for an additional 105 pupil spaces, comprising 4 new infant classrooms, ICT Lab, a small hall and new administration facilities.

The building uses an engineered, cross-laminated timber system. This material is also used to form a central storage wall that runs through the new school: a 650mm thick wall, made up from horizontally stacked timber panels that give an internal elevation of exposed timber end-grains.

The solid-timber pieces are cut and stacked to form openings in the wall, through to the classrooms, and with recesses on alternating sides that form shelves for the school library, seats and reading alcoves as well as storage for classroom equipment and teaching materials. When stacked and biscuit-jointed, the end grain of the pre-fabricated element appears as a substantial and solid core at the centre of the school.

This mirror-finished screen, positioned at high-level on the building’s façade, reflects the canopies of the mature trees at the front of the school site, giving the illusion that the mass of the building is reduced. Walking or driving past the building gives the sense of a dynamic elevation: a variable, enlivening and visually-engaging elevation.

Client: London Borough of Croydon
Stakeholder: The Hayes Primary School
Location: Kenley, Surrey
Design Team: Jonathan Nicholls, Graham Parton, Lizzie Ruinard, JessTettelaar, Ardi Rexhepi, Nick Hayhurst.
Quantity Surveyor: Davis Langdon (now Aecom)
Structural Engineer: Crofton Design
CLT Engineers and Supplier: Eurban
M+E Engineer: Crofton Design/ MSL
CDMC: GEP Safety
Contractor: Kier
Landscape Consultant: PIP Partnership Ltd
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan, Richard Nicholson

Hairy House, 2011
RIBA National Award 2012
RIBA London Small Project of the Year Award 2012

Hairy House, named because of the wildflower turf roof, is an extension to a Victorian end of terrace house. Replacing a dilapidated lean-to, the extension provides a new family kitchen, dining and play space. The simplicity of the brief was combined with the opportunities afforded by the site’s unusual geometry and topography to create a unique architectural response.

The design of this room – a simple rear extension – is conceived as an architectural negotiation between the order of the existing Victorian house and the patterns of modern domestic life.

The lower ground floor level is dropped to provide a 2.8m floor-to-ceiling height that matches the proportions and sense of space of the existing house. The ceiling line is angled up towards the south-west and the afternoon sun which defines the angle of the slate cladding on the rear elevation.

As one enters the house, the hall connecting the staircase to the existing house widens to provide ‘shuffle-space’ for someone coming out of the utility room with a laundry basket whilst the conventional timber floorboards used on the long stairs reduce in module size as they approach the original tiling in the entrance hall.

Inside the new kitchen and dining space, the formality of a space for dining is combined with the informality of a window seat. The seat itself is sculpted and lined in vertical timer boards to emulate traditional Victorian panelling. A curtain to the rear window is housed within the timber lining.

Client: Lucy Carmichael and Gareth Langdon
Location: Hammersmith, London
Design Team: Anna Ludwig, Richard Macrae, Nick Hayhurst
Structural Engineer: Iain Wright Associates
Kitchen Design: Gareth Langdon
Contractor: Rebuild London
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan

#hayhurstandco #houseextension #ribaaward #architecture #house

Are you an architect with highly-developed detail design skills and site experience who wants to work on unique and crafted one-off homes at Stages 4 and 5?

We are currently working on a wide range of exciting projects including one-off homes, community, cultural and affordable housing projects around the UK.

As a senior architect, you will have a minimum of 5 years’ post-qualification experience, excellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to a creative team-working environment.

Hayhurst & Co is an equal opportunities employer and a member of the London Practice Forum. We are keen to receive applications from a diverse range of candidates and we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups.

*Essentials*
1. RIBA Part 3 qualified with a minimum five years’ post qualification experience
2. Exquisite bespoke detailing skills with a passion for materials, craft and the environment
3. Excellent Revit and delivery skills
4. Experience of contract administration and acting as project architect on traditionally-procured projects through RIBA Stage 5
5. Experience of being in client, consultant and contractor-facing roles and having an ability to foster excellent external relationships

*Desirables*
1. Ability to support an associate lead a team and help mentor recently-qualified architects and architectural assistants
2. Understanding and experience of Passivhaus design, LETI principles and low energy buildings
3. Experience of working with Grade I, II* and II listed buildings and approaches to how they are retrofitted

The salary will be within our senior architect range of £43,000.00 – £50,250.00 per annum plus company benefits including enhanced leave and parental allowances. The role is full-time and studio-based with a start date in February/ March 2026.

Please submit a PDF of your CV, portfolio and professional work samples (less than 5 MB, no web links) to jobs@hayhurstand.co.uk. Please also submit a cover e-mail with the subject line “Senior Architect – your name”. No agencies please.

Deadline for applications is 5pm on 2nd January, 2026
Interviews will commence the week of 5th January, 2026

#architecturejob

It’s was all CLT at Filwood this week…

Delicious criss-cross structures and tapering windows beginning to look like the sketches.

Some delicate joints and well-scripted BWIC developing alongside the relationship with the retrofitted building.

Photo credit: Christina Agoston-Vas (Project Architect)

#clt #crosslaminatedtimber #structuraltimber #filwood @filwoodcentre #bristolarchitecture @bucklandtimber_glulam @brayandslaughter #hayhurstandco

If you happen to be in Plymouth on Tuesday evening…

Jonathan will be giving a lecture entitled ‘Space to Learn’ to @parcsplymouth – Plymouth Architectural Society – on Tuesday 11th November.

Jonathan will be talking about our approach to designing bespoke homes, innovative schools and impactful community projects across the South-West.

The Lecture will be at 5pm on the 6th Floor of the Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth.

See you there…!

#hayhurstandco #lecture #architecturelecture #plymoutharchitecture #devonsrchitecture @plymuni

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

Nick will be one of 4 speakers talking at the AJ Webinar at 11am this morning about best practice in community engagement and getting the fee right.

The webinar will focus on the different engagement strategy that Hayhurst & Co has employed working with @youandme_archi on the development of Filwood Community Centre in Bristol for @bristolcouncil

Hosted by @hattiehartman from the @architectsjournal , Nick will be talking alongside Holly Lewis from @we_made_that Tim Forster from AWW Architects and Simon Berry from Fresh Projects.

Come listen…! Link in bio.

#hayhurstandco #community #engagement @filwoodcentre #bristol

Green House. September afternoons…

Thank you so much to our amazing clients Tom & Amandine for opening up their house again this year….!

#greenhouse #hayhurstandco @opencity_uk

Always lovely to see Green House in print and included in Top 10 sees for this year’s Open House.

They’re ‘weird and wonderful’ … Yesterday, it was the pin-up project for the Evening Standards “10 best homes to visit at this year’s Open House festival”

* Please note that this is pre-booked tours only through the @opencity_uk website.

https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/ interiors/open-house-festival-top-picks-private-homes-b1245787.html

@opencity_uk #openhouse #openhouse2025 #greenhouse #hayhurstsndco #houseoftheyear #ribahouseoftheyear #houseoftheyear2023 #ribahouseoftheyear2023 @eveningstandard_in @carocomms

Studio Outing…!

We had a great studio outing last week centred around Stratford, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Hackney Wick seeing a great array of buildings and landscapes.

Photos in slightly rambling order from the Hayhurst & Co team – itinerary included;

1. Saddler’s Wells East by @odonnell_tuomey
2. @lcflondon_ by @alliesandmorrison
3. @londonaquaticcentre by @zahahadidarchitects
4. @hackney_bridge by @turner.works
5. V&A Storefront by @diller_scofidio_renfro
6. Chowdhury Walk by @aljawadpike
7. @cratebrewery aka The White Building by @officedka

Especially big thanks to Michael Fostiropoulous & Katie Nelson from @turner.works for the show & tell and tour of the amazing and resourceful Hackney Bridge.

#hayhurstandco #studioawayday #awayday #studioouting

Last week we welcomed Hana and Stevie, Y10 students from Charter School North Dulwich into the studio for work experience.

They took part in the studios activities – visiting site, sitting in on design sessions, Architectural Assistants Julia and Carl shared their portfolios and Dovile showed them some of her first year students work from the Bartlett.

They also had their own project – a home and garden for an artist of their choice on the roof of our Spitalfields studio. Stevie chose artist Damien Hirst and Hana chose music producer Zack Nahome.

They carried out a survey, developed a brief and a design using hand-drawing, sketchup and enscape concluding with a presentation of their proposals to the team on our Friday show & tell.

Well done Stevie & Hana 👏👏👏

@tcsnorthdulwich #workexperience @charterdesign #hayhurstsndco

Last week Ruby Sleigh – Hayhurst & Co’s sustainability and regenerative design lead – participated in ICSA2025, the 6th International Conference on Structures and Architecture, which focused this year on reuse.

Ruby presented in the special session ‘Kind Structures and Architecture’ with a paper on adaptive reuse in non-human worlds, specifically the adaptation of industrialised structures used to farm animals. Uniting biodiversity and climate crises with contemporary ethical and social crises, her paper explored the reimagination and expansion of co-design towards multispecies partnerings.

Excited by innovative material studies to reuse demolition concrete; making reuse of structural timber standard practice and learning how computational analysis and design could facilitate localised earth constructions, Ruby will be further developing the practice’s sustainability road map over the coming weeks. In particular, how to anchor these academic knowledges into professional practice and the built environment into our London & Bristol studios.

Ruby’s paper is part of the Special Issue published by Springer Journal – available Open Access for the next 5 weeks here: https://link.springer.com/collections/dcaffihijf

The main conference proceedings can be accessed here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.1201/9781003658641/structures-architecture-mario-rinke-marie-frier-hvejsel?context=ubx&refId=7d0abd4e-8bce-4f43-8182-193cf9033d75

#icsa2025 #kindstructuresandarchitecture #sustainability #regenerativematerials

Nick had the pleasure of being in Hong Kong this last week as Chair of the RIBA Validation Panel at the Chinese University in Hong Kong (CUHK) along with Athina Moustaka, James Lai, Michael Ng and Tracy Flanagan.

Highlights included an amazing array of physical models and the school’s own roof-top allotments. The architecture school is located in its own purpose-built building on the steeply-sloped CU campus in the Sha Tin district of the New Territories.

#riba #ribaeducation #cuhkarchitecture

Photoshoot with @kilianosullivan at our recently completed refurbishment and extension of a Grade-II listed house in De Beauvoir Square is currently underway…!

Some of the London studio popped in for a little show and tell too!

#photoshoot #photoshootinprogress #houseextension #londonhouse #londonhouseextension #timber #timberpergola #pergola #photographer #photographeratwork

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.”

#northseaeastwood #northsea #eastwood #cromer #northnorfolk #cromerarchitecture #norfolkarchitecture #flint #flinthouse @hayhurstandco #riba #ribaaward #ribaeast #smallprojectoftheyear

Our Associate Claire Taggart is heading to @FOOTPRINTplus tomorrow, particularly looking forward to some stones, steel and re-use talks on the agenda. If you’re going and want to grab a coffee and have a chat drop her a message on the FOOTPRINT+ app.

#FP25 #FOOTPRINTplus #SustainableArchitecture #GreenBuilding #ClimateAction #ArchitectLife #FutureOfArchitecture #NetZeroDesign #EcoDesign #SustainabilityMatters #DesignForPlanet #CoffeeAndConvos #ArchitectureConference #BuiltEnvironment

Filwood is go…!

Last week we held the pre-contract meeting for our retrofit and extension of the Filwood Community Centre in Bristol for @bristolcouncil

Works start on site with local Bristol-based Bray & Slaughter on 19th May and we’re super excited.

The project has been traditionally procured and we are carrying out Architectural, Building Regulations Principal Designer and Contract Administration services under the expert and watchful eyes of our Senior Architect Christina Agoston-Vas (Project Architect), Architect Madeline Johnston and Director, Jonathan Nicholls.

We have had amazing support from Matt Brown, our Client and Project Manager, at Bristol and our architectural partners @youandme_archi

The team at the pre-contract meeting includes all of the above and

Structural Engineer: Integral Engineering @integral_engineering_design
MEP, Sustainability & Building physics: Greengauge @greengaugebec
Landscape: BD Landcapes @bd_landscape
QS: Welling

@filwoodcentre #filwood #bristol #bristolarchitecture #community #communitycentre #communityarchitecture #communitycentrearchitecture @brayandslaughter

Photo credit: @youandme_archi

@youandme_archi F for @filwoodcentre

Initial #concept #ideas and #sketches following a series of #codesign #youth #engagement #makercity sessions at @knowlewestmedia

The young people designed a pattern based on #storytelling, #mapping and colour which will be incorporated into the #publiclounge #furniture #sculpture of the new #filwoodlibrary and #communitycentre

@youandme_archi are working on this project as part of a team led by @hayhurstandco to revamp and enlarge the existing #community centre, including the relocation of the #Filwood #public #library into the refurbished building.

@bristolcouncil
#placemaking #regeneration #reuse #heritage #communityengagement #workshops #making

Our proposal for Launceston Library Hub is conceptualised as an extension of the town’s market square which it fronts. A space that is inclusive and open to all,

The project will provides a flexible, open-plan library at ground floor, activity rooms and spaces for community hire to the first-floor, and town council staff offices and Cornwall Council registry services to the top floor.

Theo space will be fully retrofitted with new design elements building on the features on the findings from the consultation and the character of the existing building.

#library #launceston #cornwall #hayhurstandco #cornisharchitecture #listedbuilding #retrofit #adaptivereuse

As part of the design development of our proposals for Launceston Library, we engaged with pupils from four local primary schools to help develop ideas for the design of the children’s library.

Through making ‘stained glass’ windows, the children gave their thoughts on the type of spaces they like to read in and the type of activities they would like the building to host.

The design for the adaption of the building built on their ideas, providing reading nooks and sensory spaces within a new playful structure as part of the Children’s Library.

We worked with Y4 pupils from Windmill Hill Academy, Y2-Y6 pupils from St Stephens Community Academy, Y6 pupils from St Catherine’s Primary School and Y1&Y2 pupils from Launceston Primary School.

The ‘stained glass’ was exhibited in the windows of 6 Broad Street and could be seen from the market square.

#launcestonlibraryandvisitorhub #launcestonlibrary #libraryhub #library #launceston #cornwall #hayhurstandco #cornisharchitecture #listedbuilding #retrofit #adaptivereuse #engagement #stainedglass #stainedglasswindows

We are delighted to have secured planning permission and listed building consent for Launceston Library and Visitor Information Hub: a major new facility in the Cornish town’s historic market square.

The retrofit and adaptive re-use of the Grade-II listed former Barclays Bank, will provide a new home for Launceston public library and create a centrally located and accessible hub for public services for the whole community.

Constructed in 1870, the existing three-storey, purpose-built bank sits in a prominent location in the town with its polychromatic stonework façade and large bracketed clock a symbol of its civic status and public function.

Commissioned by the Town Council, the designs and building uses have been developed to support an active high street and to create a prominent and visible public presence for the Library hub. Enhanced accessibility and visual connections to the public realm have been designed within the constraints of the listed fabric to encourage local businesses to foster a longer daytime economy, to create growth in employment and a more resilient and expanding town-centre economy.

We are looking forward to starting detail design and getting the project on site soon…!

A big thanks for all the hard work by;

Hayhurst & Co. team: Akshara Pulpa, India Hayes, Jonathan Nicholls, Nick Hayhurst
Structural engineer: Pinder Structural Consulting Ltd
Sustainability and services consultant: Greengauge Building Energy Consultants @greengaugebec
Quantity Surveyor: Trevor Humphreys Associates
Fire Consultant: OFR Consultants

#launcestonlibraryandvisitorhub #launcestonlibrary #libraryhub #library #launceston #cornwall #hayhurstandco #cornisharchitecture #listedbuilding #retrofit #adaptivereuse

AMAZING to see ‘North Sea East Wood’ in the @ribajournal in print and web formats. 👌

“Hayhurst & Co’s Norfolk bungalow revamp has star quality…

Architect Nick Hayhurst’s North Sea East Wood transforms a 1980s bungalow in Cromer by opening up the floorplan and adding an extension with a ‘hobbit-like elevation’ “

Thank you John Jervis @swynfen for taking the trip up to Cromer and for such a lovely write-up!

My favourite paragraph reads;

“Wrapped around one wing of the original building, this new addition has a distinct character bestowed by a tightly packed flint dressing, without the usual brick quoins. Two large picture windows give glimpses into – and through – the structure, while an angled chimney stack rises above, undercutting the modernity of the plate glass. For those with a Tolkien-free childhood, a crofter’s cottage might be a more telling comparison. “

#cromer #norfolk #cromerarchitecture #norfolkarchitecture #flint #bungalow #hayhurstandco #architecture #newhouse #house

We are looking for an Architect/ Senior Architect to join our team in London.

We are currently working on a wide range of exciting projects including community and cultural projects and one-off homes around the UK.

As a small-medium sized studio, you will be involved in all aspects of the practice from design, detailing and delivering projects as well as contributing to the development of the practice generally. In the first instance, your focus will be on one-off houses at RIBA Stages 4 & 5.

You will be a talented designer, be interested in materials and sustainability and enjoy following big ideas through to small details. You will enjoy the challenge of working through bespoke detailed design packages on traditionally-procured projects and enjoy working collaboratively with contractors to deliver them on site.

You will have a minimum of three years’ post-qualification experience, have excellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to a creative team-working environment.

You will be able to work in a range of computer packages including Revit, Enscape and the Adobe Creative Suite.

The salary will be within our Architect salary range (£37k-44k per annum) or Senior Architect range (£44k – £52k per annum) depending on your specific qualities and experience. Company benefits include enhanced leave allowance, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay and professional development allowances.

The role is full-time and studio-based with a start date in May 2025. This will be based in our London studio in Spitalfields.

Please submit a PDF of your CV, portfolio and professional work samples (less than 5 MB, no web links) to jobs@hayhurstand.co.uk. Please also submit a cover letter with the subject line “Architect – London – your name”. No agencies please.

Hayhurst & Co is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome and encourage applications from underrepresented groups in the architectural profession.

Deadline for applications is 5pm, Monday 24th March, 2025.

#architecturejobs #hayhurstandco

We are looking for an Architect/ Senior Architect to join our team in Bristol.

We are currently working on a wide range of exciting projects including community and cultural projects and one-off homes around the UK.

As a small-medium sized studio, you will be involved in all aspects of the practice from design, detailing and delivering projects as well as contributing to the development of the practice generally. In the first instance, your focus will be on community projects in the south-west at RIBA Stages 4 & 5.

You will enjoy working directly with communities to deliver positive social impact throughout the design and construction stages. You will have an interest in retrofit strategies, building science and developing bespoke detailed design packages that you follow through onto site.

You will have a minimum of three years’ post-qualification experience, excellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to a creative team-working environment. You will be able to work in a range of computer packages including Revit, Enscape and the Adobe Creative Suite.

The salary will be within our Architect salary range (£37k-44k per annum) or Senior Architect range (£44k – £52k per annum) depending on your specific qualities and experience. Company benefits include enhanced leave allowance, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay and professional development allowances.

The role is full-time and studio-based with a start date in May 2025. This will be based in our Bristol studio in Stokes Croft.

Please submit a PDF of your CV, portfolio and professional work samples (less than 5 MB, no web links) to jobs@hayhurstand.co.uk. Please also submit a cover letter with the subject line “Architect – Bristol – your name”. No agencies please.

Hayhurst & Co is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome and encourage applications from underrepresented groups in the architectural profession.

Deadline for applications is 5pm, Monday 24th March, 2025.

#architecturejobs #architecturebristol #bristolarchitecture #hayhurstandco

Today, we celebrate the amazing and talented women that work at Hayhurst & Co studios in London and Bristol as part of #iwd2025

From left to right, top to bottom our team includes;

Akshara Pulpa (Senior Architect, Bristol) is passionate about repair and retrofit. She is leading the refurbishment of a Grade II listed Launceston Library in Cornwall.

Julia Miroslaw (Architectural Assistant, London) joined our team in the middle of last year and is working on a number of residential projects on tight, challenging sites in London.

Marina Konstantopoulou (Architect, London) is our resident Mental Health First Aider. She is currently leading on a project integrating SEND capacity to a school in West London.

Dovile Ciapaite (Architect, London) is a talented illustrator and is running a number of residential projects in London and Brighton which she combines with teaching at the Bartlett.

Christina Agoston-Vas (Senior Architect, Bristol) is leading our competition-winning £8m retrofit and expansion of Filwood Communbity Centre for Bristol City Council.

Chloe Anderson (Senior Architect, London) is a talented designer who leads a group of residential projects in London and supporting junior staff.

Lexie McDougall (Studio Manager, London) keeps our studio running perfectly, balancing practice management with staff wellbeing.

Claire Taggart (Associate, London) leads one of our two London teams as well as sustainability strategies across all projects in the studio.

India Hayes (Architectural Assistant, Bristol) keeps our Bristol studio in order and is assisting with the design development of a number of projects in Bristol, Devon and Cornwall.

Sahba Akbar (Architectural Assistant, London) is a talented graphic designer and leads many of our competition stage drawings alongside assisting with projects in London.

Maddy Johnston (Architect, Bristol) is leading a 10-home project for care experienced adults for Bath & North East Somerset Council as well as Filwood Community Centre.

Ruby Sleigh (Architect, London) is passionate about all things ecological and is running a number of projects in London and Norfolk alongside teaching at Oxford Brookes.

We are delighted that North Sea East Wood – a remodeled home on the north Norfolk coast – has been shortlisted for an RIBA East award.

We are looking forward to showing the jury around next month!

Photo credit: @kilianosullivan

#northseaeastwood #northsea #eastwood #cromer #northnorfolk #cromerarchitecture #norfolkarchitecture #flint #flinthouse @hayhurstandco #newhome #riba #ribaaward #shortlisted

North Sea East Wood

The extension to the house is finished in local flint and re-uses the clay roof tiles from the demolished garage.

The flint is used simply as a single monolithic material to dress the walls that face the North Sea and East Wood. The picture windows puncture the flint without edge detailing or expression and returns to the side elevation before turning to hung tiles. A variation to its common detailing where flint is used as decorative infil between brickwork.

The result is a cleaner, less fussy and more celebratory.: a contemporary expression of a vernacular material.

#northseaeastwood #northsea #eastwood #cromer #northnorfolk #cromerarchitecture #norfolkarchitecture #flint #flinthouse @hayhurstandco #newhome

Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan (finished photographs)
Photo Credit: Hayhurst & Co (site photographs)

North Sea East Wood

The design of the original 1980s bungalow’s design didn’t acknowledge its site: the living spaces were located on the southern wing of the plan that looked into the rising ground, and its northern wall – with the promise of a view to the North Sea – was solid, broken only by two small windows.

The design relocates the living spaces to the north of the plan in order to capture views with the extension angled to maximise the aspect towards the town’s church and the North Sea. The dining space located to benefit from the southerly aspect with ribbon glazing carving a panoramic view of the foot of East Wood.

The high-level window in the kitchen and skylight over the living area helps get light deeper into the plan whilst providing structured views where the rigidity of the original bungalow meets the spatial ambiguity of its extension.

#northseaeastwood #northsea #eastwood #cromer #northnorfolk #cromerarchitecture #norfolkarchitecture #flint #flinthouse @hayhurstandco #newhome

Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

A new home – ‘North Sea East Wood’ – is published on our website today.

Located at one of the highest points in the north Norfolk town of Cromer, ‘North Sea East Wood’ sits in a unique location between views of the North Sea to the north and East Wood to the south. A remodelled home that sits between the openness of the sea and the density of the woods: between the expansive and the intimate.

The design re-structures the house. It breaks the room-based, orthogonal order of the original 1980s bungalow and enmeshes within and around it a new, spatially-fluid and contextual order structured around views out, bringing light in and the routines of the clients – a retired couple.

The extension is finished in local flint to form a hobbit-like elevation with stepped picture windows on inward-facing planes around a central chimney: an internal language to an external space and a counterpoint to the archetypal coastal typology of wrap-around verandas and covered decks.

#northseaeastwood #northsea #eastwood #cromer #northnorfolk #cromerarchitecture #norfolkarchitecture #flint #flinthouse @hayhurstandco #newhome

Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

Nick will be opening the Edinburgh Architectural Society Semester two lecture series this Friday 17th January.

5pm in the Adam House Lecture Theatre on Chambers Street, Edinburgh University. Come along if you’re in town…!

Nick will be talking about approaches to sustainability, context and innovation and how these are explored and synthesised in a number of recent projects including Garden House and Green House, winner of RIBA House of the Year 2023.

@edinarsoc #architecturelevture @hayhurstandco

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at Hayhurst & Co.

North Sea East Wood looking splendid in the snow.

As we close the studio until 6^th January, we want to thank all the amazing clients and collaborators we have worked with throughout the year. We are looking forward to seeing more project develop and come to fruition in 2025.

Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan

Image Credit: Sahba Akbar

We had our Hayhurst & Co Christmas Outing 2024 this week.. 🎉🎉🎉

This year, the London studio travelled to meet the Bristol studio for a collective festive gathering.

We enjoyed a lovely low-carbon Christmas Dinner thanks to @canteenbristol

A visit to Hayhurst & Co’s Bristol Studio for further cheer and a presentation about our successes in 2024 and plans for the year ahead (more about that later… 😉)

A brisk walk up to Clifton and to its almighty brutal Cathedral (designed by Ronald Weeks of the Percy Thomas Partnership, 1973) to admire its spatial and structural gymnastics.

Back down the hill to @haworthtompkins refurbishment of the @oldvictheatre before an evening of merriment kicked off with a boat tour along the river and, of course, finishing off at @designwestuk ‘The Architect’ bar.

Happy Christmas from everyone at Hayhurst & Co.

Photo credits to various members of the team.

#studytrip #bristol #bristolarchitecture  #hayhurstandco #merrychristmas

Great to see Madeline from our Bristol studio being showcased as an ‘Inspirer’ by @designwestuk …! Text from Design West…

“Be brave, believe in your ideas and never worry about asking questions.”

🔶 Insights from our Autumn Inspirer: Shape My City – Collaborative Workshop #1 Allford Hall Monaghan Morris & Hayhurst and Co

>> Shape My City Inspirer: Madeline Johnston
>> Profession: Architect
>> Company: Hayhurst & Co

✨  What inspires you?

I am interested in the social value of architecture, seeing the built environment as a means of bringing people together. I enjoy developing designs with natural materials, challenging the use of high embodied carbon where it isn’t necessary.

✨  Which building or place inspires you?

Bristol Old Vic (by Haworth Tompkins). The project is a creative expansion of a historic building to create a more welcoming front of house space for the theatre. The resulting space is lively and bustling with an intriguing structural design.

✨  What’s your favourite project?

Filwood Community Centre, it’s really exciting to be part of the architectural team delivering the refurbishment and extension of the existing community centre. Our design focus is about how the architecture can provide for the community whilst using as many natural materials as we can.

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My Career Pathway
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A-Levels: Maths, Philosophy, Art
🔶  AS Level: Physics AS-Level
🔶  Degree: BA(Hons) Architecture at Plymouth University
🔶  Masters of Architecture: UWE Bristol
🔶  Part 3 Qual:  UWE Bristol

Nice little article in the @architectsjournal this week by @merlinfulcher_ about our planning permission for @filwoodcentre from @bristolcouncil

Looking forward to it starting on site in the New Year…!

We are OVER THE MOON that our retrofit and expansion of Filwood Community Centre for Bristol City Council was granted planning permission this week.

The £10m project for the community centre is part of a wider community-led regeneration project initiated by the Knowle West Regeneration Framework in 2012, which includes new housing by @rckarchitects commercial spaces, public realm works, and a high street improvement project by @_architecture00

The revitalised community centre will provide 75 per cent more floor space including a new space for Filwood Library and a public living room alongside enhanced facilities for a range of existing community spaces. The design minimises demolition and celebrates re-use: we have worked closely with @greengaugebec to mastermind a significant retrofit to improve the building’s energy efficiency and to use embodied carbon assessments to inform design decisions at every stage.

Makala Cheung, Director at Filwood Community Centre: “After so many years of working with local residents on a revamped bigger and better centre, it’s amazing to see it coming into reality. I loved our community’s vision for a destination for Knowle West, a place to be proud of and a space for local people to take part in and create culturally relevant activities, that also help with creativity, well-being, and learning.

It has been an intensive year working with our amazing consultant team and we are looking forward to it starting on site in the New Year!

A big thank you to our internal team Christina Agoston-Vas, (Project Architect) Maddy Johnston, Marina Konstantopoulou, James Greig, India Hayes, Jonathan Nicholls & Nick Hayhurst.

And our consultant team @youandme_archi @integral_engineering_design @bd_landscape @gt_llp Black Box Planning, Goddard Consulting and Part B Fire Consultants alongside the amazingly supportive and steady hand of BCC’s @_matt_brown_

@bristolcouncil @filwoodcentre #filwood #knowlewest #bristol #communitycentre #planningpermission

@kilianosullivan capturing the late afternoon autumnal light in Cromer. Photos coming soon…

#cromerarchitecture #norfolkarchitecture

#architecture #flint #cromer

#architecturalphotography

Edith Neville Primary School will be open as part of @opencity_uk on Saturday 21st September between 10am and 1pm with guided tours every 30 minutes (last entry 12.30).

The project won a RIBA National Award in 2023, NLA Best Education Building in London 2023 and a Civic Trust Award in 2024.

Entry to the site will be via the pupil entrance at the junction of Ossulston Street and Polygon Road.

Hope to see you there…!

More info on the Open House website.

#openhouse #openhouselondon

#openhouselondon2023 #opencity

#openschool #hayhurstandco
#camden #edithneville

#edithnevilleprimaryschool

Thank you @merlinfulcher_ and @architectsjournal for including Edith Neville Primary School in your ‘must-see’ in this year’s Open House.

Edith Neville will be open as part of @opencity_uk on Saturday 21st September between 10am-1pm. No need to book. There will be guided tours by our team and the school every half an hour.

We would love to see you there…!

On 8th September 2004, Jonathan Tyler and I set up ‘Tyler Hayhurst’ along with Jonathan Nicholls. We’d recently completed our Part 2s and kind of fell out of the imperfect practice we had been involved with before. We inherited some domestic projects and took out a £10k bank loan: rolled the dice and set out to see where our 26 year olds’ optimism would take us.

Back then, we had door blanks for desks and sat on salvaged chairs from a skip. We had a fax machine for sending sketches to builders, were using JCT ’98 contracts and the RIBA even published ‘indicative’ fee scales, hahaha…

In 2007, Jonathan Tyler left the practice to move to America, in 2009 we became ‘Hayhurst & Co’ and in 2013 Jonathan Nicholls became a Director. In 2015, Jamie Wakeford Holder and Claire Taggart – now our Associates – joined the practice and all three have been central to the practice’s success, along with the many talented architects and assistants we’ve had the pleasure of working with.

We put our head above the parapet as the recession emerged. Interested in the playfulness of education projects, the spirit of what a house is and the detailing to execute these. We’re proud of all the work that we have done, especially the 9 RIBA Awards we’ve won (the images on this post) and proud of our 20-strong team across our studios in London and Bristol. Highlights include winning the competition for the Clore Learning Space at the RIBA, winning Education Architect of the Year in 2022 and RIBA House of the Year in 2023 along with Claire winning RIBA London Project Architect of the Year.

Thank you to everyone who has worked with us, staff past and present, clients and collaborators and especially to the contractors who have persevered and made the sometimes-bonkers things we have designed come to life. We have a super exciting set of projects at every design stage at the moment which we are looking forward to sharing in the future.

And so onwards… hopefully more time for ‘double art’ (as I call it), less time on e-mails and – in the week the final report of the Grenfell Inquiry is published – embracing the wider professional roles that society demands of us and being paid the requisite fee to deliver it.

#20 #hayhurstandco

We are delighted to announce that we are one of the 6 architectural practices to be appointed to the Bath and North-East Somerset (B&NES) Council framework.

The appointment strengthens the community projects we are already carrying out in Bristol for Bristol City Council and the libraries, youth centres, and community spaces we are working on across Devon and Cornwall for local town councils.

The B&NES framework will focus on schools, libraries, care homes, council offices, sports and leisure facilities, housing and museums.

We are looking forward to working with the council and local communities to deliver these ambitious projects.

The other practices on the framework include @purcell.architecture @fergusonmannarchitects AWW Architects, BBA Architects, Kendall Kingscott Architects.

@bathnescouncil #hayhurstandco

It was an absolute delight to chair the RIAS 2024 Awards Jury and to announce the winners of the special awards at an event at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh last week.

Along with my fellow jury members @simonbranson Catriona Hill and Daisy Narayanan and the RIAS’s @tamsiethomson and Joanne Hall we shortlisted 17 amazing projects and spent 4 days in March travelling the length and breadth of Scotland to visit each one.

11 of these projects went on to be awarded with a prestigious RIAS 2024 Award. Interestingly, we awarded more awards to retrofits than new-builds and the range of types of retrofit impressive: from faithful restorations, to adaptive re-use to intricate unpicking and reimagining of existing buildings.

Well done to all the shortlisted projects. Some of the highlights (of both shortlisted and winning projects) are captured in the photos;

The jury in the restaurant at Croft No. 3 on the Isle of Mull. @croft3mull by @__fardaa__

The stairwell at Danube Street: a deep retrofit of a flat in a typical Edinburgh tenement block by @architectjj

The flooring at the new Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. @fruitmarketgallery by @reiachandhall @jneilgillespie

The Gala Fairydean Rovers Football Club, Galashiels. Originally by Peter Womersly with Arups. Restored by @reiachandhall

The double helix staircase at Kinning Park, Glasgow. Adapted and reimagined by @_newpractice @becca_mthomas

John McAslan presenting the retrofitted Burrell Collection, Glasgow. @theburrellcollection by @johnmcaslanpartners

Inside the Civic – by Collective Architecture, Glasgow. @collectivearchitecture

The ‘Blackhouse’ at Ardoch, Aberdeenshire by Moxon Architects. @moxonarchitects

The street-scene of Simon Square, Edinburgh. A new mass-timber, urban vernacular block by Fraser Livingstone. @fraser_livingstone_architects

Photo Credit: Photo 1 at the awards: @tiumakko

@riasmembership @natgalleriessco #rias #riasawards

Nick will be talking at the “Building Home Good Living Forum” in Bucharest, Romania on Tuesday 14th May.

Organised by @romaniaconstruieste he will be presenting our Green House – RIBA House of the Year 2023 and one of a number of “extraordinary ordinary houses” from across Europe and joining an international panel of speakers to discuss emerging approaches to the design, technology and sustainability in the design of homes.

Green House shows what can be achieved when both the architect and client are committed to building a sustainable home. The house uses a CLT structure, an atrium for passive ventilation and involved the client being part of creating bespoke finishes. In Nick’s words a “fun-filled, super-eco, pretty-pop home on a low budget”

If you happen to be in Bucharest…

#hayhurstandco #greenhouse #architecturetalk #architecturelecture #upgradeyourhome #internationalgoodlivingforum

We are delighted to be included in the 2024 House & Garden Top 100 best Architects and Interior Designers in the UK.

Thank you to @hattabyng and David Nicholls and the whole team at @houseandgardenuk for including us!

The list comprises practices pushing the boundaries of the design of our homes and we are very honoured to be included on such an esteemed list.

#hayhurstandco #house #garden #houseangarden #2024 #luxuryhouses #newhouse #newhome #londonarchitect #bristolarchitect #devonarchitect

Hayhurst and Co is looking for a RIBA Part 1 architectural assistant to join its London studio.

We are currently working on a wide range of exciting projects including one-off homes, community and cultural projects around the UK.

You will be working on a number of projects at various RIBA stages with a focus on one-off houses in the first instance.

You will have excellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to a creative team-working environment. Ideally, you should be able to work in a range of media including Revit, Enscape, Vectorworks, Adobe Creative Suite as well as an ability to make physical models.

Hayhurst and Co is an equal opportunities employer and a member of the London Practice Forum. We are keen to receive applications from a diverse range of candidates and we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. We support career progression with mentoring support and project experience.

Key requirements:

• RIBA Part 1 or equivalent qualification
• strong design and presentation skills with an interest in materials and the environment
• excellent written and verbal communication skills
• ideally experience in the use of Revit, Adobe Creative Suite and (preferably) Vectorworks
• ability to work well in a team
• excellent time management, organisation, planning and attention to detail, ability to think creatively and problem-solve through design

The salary will be within our architectural assistant salary range of £26k – 28.5k per annum plus company benefits. The role is full-time, studio-based with a start date in May/ June 2024.

Please submit a PDF of your CV, portfolio and professional work samples (less than 5MB, no weblinks) to jobs@hayhurstand.co.uk, subject line “Architectural Assistant London – YOUR NAME” with covering letter. No agencies please.

Deadline for applicants is noon 3 May 2023.

Interviews will commence the week of 6 May 2023.

Hayhurst and Co is looking for Part 2 architectural assistants/ architects to join its studio in Bristol, UK.

We are currently working on a wide range of exciting projects including one-off homes, community and cultural projects around the UK.

You will be working on a number of projects at various RIBA stages with a focus on community projects in the first instance.

As a RIBA Part 2 qualified architectural assistant/ architect, you will have a minimum of one year’s experience in professional practice.

You will have excellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to a creative team-working environment. Ideally, you should be able to work in a range of media including Revit, Enscape, Vectorworks, Adobe Creative Suite as well as an ability to make physical models.

Hayhurst and Co is an equal opportunities employer and a member of the London Practice Forum. We are keen to receive applications from a diverse range of candidates and we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. We support career progression with mentoring support, project experience and assistance for Part 3 studies.

Key requirements:

• RIBA Part 2 or equivalent qualification
• a minimum of one year of practice-based experience
• strong design and presentation skills with an interest in materials and the environment
• excellent written and verbal communication skills
• ideally experience in the use of Revit, Adobe Creative Suite and (preferably) Vectorworks
• ability to work well in a team
• excellent time management, organisation, planning and attention to detail, ability to think creatively and problem-solve through design

The salary will be within our architectural assistant salary range of £31k – 35.5k per annum plus company benefits. The role is full-time, studio-based with a start date in May 2024.

Please submit a PDF of your CV, portfolio and professional work samples (less than 5 MB, no web links) jobs@hayhurstand.co.uk. Please attach a cover letter with the subject line “Architectural Assistant/ Architect Bristol– your name”. No agencies please.

Deadline for applicants is noon 3 May 2023.

Interviews will commence the week of 6 May 2023.

Hayhurst and Co is looking for a senior architect to join its team in London UK.

We are currently working on a wide range of exciting projects including one-off homes, community and cultural projects around the UK.

In the first instance, you will be involved in working on a number of projects at different RIBA stages with a focus on one-off houses at the early RIBA stages and supporting other team members working on one-off homes. As a small to medium sized studio, you will be involved in all aspects of the practice from design, detailing and delivering projects as well as contributing to the development of the practice generally.

As a senior architect, you will have a minimum of five years’ post-qualification experience, excellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to a creative team-working environment. Ideally, you should be able to work in a range of media including Revit, Enscape, Vectorworks and Adobe Creative Suite.

Hayhurst and Co is an equal opportunities employer and a member of the London Practice Forum. We are keen to receive applications from a diverse range of candidates and we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups.

Key requirements:

• RIBA Part 3 (or equivalent qualification)
• minimum five years’ post-qualification experience
• strong design skills with an interest in materials, craft and the environment
• strong technical skills, ability to think through bespoke detailing and experience of leading projects through RIBA stages 4 and 5
• experience of client, consultant and contractor-facing roles and ability to foster excellent external relationships
• ability to support an associate lead a team and help mentor recently-qualified architects and architectural assistants
• understanding and experience of Passivhaus design, LETI principles and low energy buildings
• ideally, experience in the use of Revit, Adobe Creative Suite and (preferably) Vectorworks
• excellent written and verbal communication skills
• excellent time management, organisation, planning and attention to detail

The salary will be within our senior architect range of £42k – £50k per annum plus company benefits. The role is full-time, studio-based with a start date in June/July 2024. This will be based in our London studio.

Please submit a PDF of your CV, portfolio and professional work samples (less than 5 MB, no web links) to jobs@hayhurstand.co.uk. Please also submit a cover letter with the subject line “Senior Architect – your name”. No agencies please.

Deadline for applicants is noon 3 May 2024.

Interviews will commence the week of 6 May 2023.

A little work in progress/ nearing completion…. Including two squircles on a diagonal mirrored axis. More to follow…

#hayhurstandco #workinprogress #squircle

Something for the weekend…

Work in progress shots from earlier this week at our whole house remodelling, retrofit and roof-top extension of a 5-storey, 1970s brick-brutal, townhouse in Hampstead.

Images show the Esher-esque arrangement of new stairs leading from lower ground to upper ground and upper ground to first floors at the thin end of a wedge-shaped house that measures 3.5m-wide at its narrowest point. Fanning out in plan, the double height dining space includes a newly formed barrel-vaulted roof.

Final photo looks down from the 4th floor roof terrace through the skylight void to the staircase running between 2nd and 3rd floors.

More to follow…

Hayhurst & Co. Team: Jamie Wakeford Holder, Alex Boyce, Laura Mohirta & Nick Hayhurst
Contractor: Rebuild London Ltd.

#hayhurstandco #stair #stairs #stairporn #stairsofinstagram #townhouse #retrofit #londonhome #doubleheight @vascon975

A super-informative and inspiring visit to @stonemasonry_comp_stonestair in Stamford, Lincolnshire today for some of the Hayhurst & Co team and @structure.workshop

Exploring extraction techniques, manufacturing and cutting processes, mark-making and how different stones respond to water for ongoing projects in London and Bristol.

#stone #stonework #hayhurstandco

We’re delighted that Edith Neville Primary School for @wemakecamden won a @civictrustawards at a ceremony in Manchester on Friday evening.

The Civic Trust Awards are so important as they recognise not only the success of the architectural design but also sustainability, accessibility and projects that provide a positive civic contribution.

“The school exemplifies the transformative impact that thoughtful design can have on education, sustainability, and community well-being” the judges said…

The wonderful new premises for Edith Neville Primary School shows how talented designers collaborating closely with the council and the school community can produce an intricate, beautiful, and child-centred environment, which also complements the surrounding neighbourhood.”

Well done to the whole client and project teams.

#edithneville #edithnevilleprimaryschool #hayhurstandco #school #schooldesign

Good read in yesterday’s @financialtimes by @snfschlee featuring Green House.

#How central heating changed everything about our homes: The ability to make our indoor spaces consistently warm transformed how we live — now, climate change demands a similar upheaval”

Take a 👀 – link in bio.

@ft_weekend @ft_houseandhome #greenhouse #hayhurstandco #heating #home

It was an exciting week last week with Ruby Sleigh and Laura Mohirta from our London studio heading to @futurebuildnow as part of their involvement with @architectscan

As a co-ordinator of the ACAN Circular Economy group, Laura presented their newly released Design Guide, followed by a Circular Surgery workshop unpicking challenges around data ownership and warranties. This provided a great debate around availability and accessibility of reused materials, material passports, scepticism within the insurance industry and how councils can aid transition and implementation of circular economy principles. Both the Circular Economy Design Guide, RIBA overlay and Circular Series can be found on the ACAN website and are certainly worth a look!

Ruby was the session co-ordinator for the ACAN stand this year, assembling a 3 day programme of discussions, workshops and live product demonstrations, including hempcrete construction in practice, circular economy as a co-design process, provocations towards a regenerative planning process, the future of retrofit and a series of interactive workshops from ACAN working groups. Ruby is also a co-ordinator of the ACAN Ecology working group, who launched a new workshop on Wednesday this week staging a ‘multi-species design review panel’ for a contentious planning application, instigating consideration and re-design around non-human residents.

Thank you to #futurebuild for providing a platform for so many inspiring discussions around retrofit, reuse, natural materials and regenerative design. Follow @architectscan for more from their time at FutureBuild and join the WhatsApp groups to get involved!”

#acan #circulareconomy♻️ #ecology

#circulareconomydesignguide

We’re so excited that our super-sized, 1:50 scale model that we have been using to help the co-deisgn process for @filwoodcentre in Knowle West, Bristol is now live…! It is in the @reworkkw shopfront opposite the Community Centre itself…!

We are currently working on inserting the next elements of the model that will come to life at the Filwood Community event today and tomorrow. Come and say hello and take a look at what we have been doing.

We have been collaborating with the amazing @youandme_archi who have led a wide range of community engagement events and activities to help develop the brief and design ideas for the centre.

Today: 3.30-5.30pm: Have your say on our latest designs for Filwood Community Centre and share your ideas. Check out our proposed community living room ideas along with circus performances and free hot dogs.

Tomorrow: 11am-4pm: All the above plus over 40 exhibits, activities and workshops.

CNC cutting: @knowlewestmedia
Model assembly: Hayhurst & Co Architectural Assistant, @ciapaite.dovile

#engagement #architecturalmodel #communitycentre #newcommunitycentre @bristolcouncil #communitybuilding #knowlewest #southbristol

We’re delighted that Jonathan has guest edited this quarter’s edition of Planning Learning Spaces – the specialist journal on school building design for architects, designers and school leaders.

The edition includes schools from around the world as well as our own RIBA National Award-winning Edith Neville Primary School. Jonathan’s editorial highlights the importance of listening and ensuring that our profession’s design of school environments is founded on listening to the specific communities that we design for. He writes;

“We were once asked by the funding-lead for one of the UK’s most prominent educational charities, at the beginning of a commission, ‘are you a listening architect’. The question seemed perverse to us at the time, but the collaborative design relationship that followed revealed how many of the architects they had worked with prior to us, some of whom are the leading architects of the day, were not.

The idea of listening is core to this edition of Planning Learning Spaces. Listening to learners, listening to educators, and successfully processing the experiences of building users and local communities into new designs that support improvements to learning. The work in this edition demonstrates that the process of design, as with education itself, is in continual evolution and no single school model fits all.”

@planninglearningspaces #hayhurstandco #schooldesign #learningspaces #school #schools #schoolarchitecture #schoolarchitect

Nick & Jonathan gave a lecture about Green House – RIBA House of the year 2023 – to a packed audience at the Watershed in Bristol on Thursday evening.

They also talked about a few other projects including our recent commission for the retrofit and expansion of @filwoodcentre for @bristolcouncil

Thank you so much to Design West for the invite. There was a warm reception and some proper questions about landscape, planting, materials and warranties.

Photo credits: @ejstudiouk and @designwestuk

#watershed #bristol #greenhouse #houseoftheyear #houseoftheyear2023 #architecture #newhome #lecture #architecturelecture @w_shed

Hayhurst & Co – Open lecture – Green House, RIBA House of the Year, 2023.

Nick will be talking next Thursday 25th January, 6.30pm at the Watershed in Bristol for @designwestuk

All tickets via the Design West website www.designwest.org.uk

#greenhouse #hayhurstandco #bristol #architecture #architecturetalk #houseoftheyear #houseoftheyear2023

A few recently-taken autumnal photos of Green House moments for a little Christmas Eve cheer.

Happy Christmas from Hayhurst & Co…!

Photo credit: @kilianosullivan

Earlier this week we had our Christmas away day – it was community focussed encompassing a number of recently-completed projects in north-east London.

We started at the NLA-award winning Angel’s Yard in Tottenham designed by @jankatteinarch and run by @launchit_uk . We had an amazing tour by Cliff Dobbs the centre’s manager (thank you Cliff!) talking enabling start-ups, viability and discussing an architecture of economy of means.

Following a hearty brunch, we went ont to Fore Street Living Room Library – also by @jankatteinarch . We were intrigued by the adaptability of the reading spaces as performance spaces and the breadth of activities the library enables.

Next up was @aocarchitecture -designed refurbishment and re-imagining of the Museum of Childhood to become the @young.vam . Lots of chats about the seamless integration of design, graphics and curatorial content and what makes spaces intriguing and curious, (as well as the amazing content!)

We finished up at Lea Bridge Library by @studioweave with timber work by @sebastiancoxltd discussing timber detailing, curved glass and architect/ maker collaborations (we also worked with @sebastiancoxltd on Grain House).

And then onto drinks and dinner (and more drinks, of course) in Walthamstow.

Happy Christmas from everyone at Hayhurst & Co.

Photo credits from various members of the team.

#studytrip #awayday #hayhurstandco #happychristmas

We are over the moon that Green House in Tottenham by Hayhurst & Co, has won RIBA House of the Year 2023. The prestigious award given annually to the UK’s best new architect-designed home.

Green House is a fun-filled, super-eco, pretty-pop home on a low budget. The RIBA Awards judges said it is ‘an extraordinary ordinary house’.

The jury chair, Dido Milne, said: ‘Green House, affectionately known as the “Tottenham Riad”, is a true oasis within the city. It is both airy and cosy, bold yet respectful of its neighbours. Your eye is simultaneously drawn upwards to open sky and down and out across the living room to verdant greenery.

‘The close architect and client relationship, with a joint desire to deliver a truly sustainable home, is evident in all of the design decisions and detailing. On a confined urban site, the house was delivered to a tight budget with an economy of means – and it remains richer for it. ’

Milne added: ‘Nowhere do you feel the site or budget was restricted. It feels both luxurious, homely, deeply private and relaxing. It’s an extraordinary ordinary house and a remarkable collaboration.’

The project would not have been possible without our amazing clients – Amandine and Tom van Schelven, the fantastic contractor – Rebuild London and the brilliant consultant team including Eurban, Iain Wright Associates (Andrew Lucas) and Mesh Energy who worked relentlessly along our team at Hayhurst & Co.; Claire Taggart (Project Architect), Holly Crosbie, Jonathan Nicholls and Nick Hayhurst. Planting by Ollie Allum.

Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

@riba @ribalondon @vascon975 @eurban_limited @meshenergy @amlucas55 @plantingmad

#green #greenhouse #hayhurstandco #tottenham #tottenhamriad #hoty #hoty2023 #houseoftheyear #houseoftheyear2023

We are humbled to have won 3 New London Architecture (NLA) awards at yesterday’s lunchtime ceremony at the Guildhall.

Edith Neville Primary School in Somers Town for @wemakecamden won the best education building in London.

Green House in Tottenham won the ‘Environmental Prize’ for its innovative, low-energy, low-carbon design.

Edith Neville Primary School also won the ‘Wellbeing Prize’ for the wider impact that the school has had on the Somers Town community.

Group photo thanks to co-winner @nicholls.justin
Associate Jamie Wakeford-Holder with the awards for Edith Neville Primary School and Associate Claire Taggart with the award for Green House.

@nlalondon #hayhurstandco #camden #tottenham #londonarchitecture #greenhouse #edithnevilleprimaryschool #environmental #wellbeing

Claire Taggart, Associate at Hayhurst & Co, will be talking about our RIBA House of the Year-shortlisted ‘Green House’ at this morning’s @ribajournal webinar on bespoke house design.

It’s free and between 9-11.30am – tune in!

See eventbrite link in bio to register.

Claire – who won RIBA London Project Architect of the Year on the project – will be talking alongside Marion Baeli from @studiopdp Ann Nesbit from @annnisbetstudio Nicholas Lyon’s from Lyons Architects.

#hayhurstandco #greenhouse #ribajournal #architecturewebinar

We are really excited to have won the bid to design a new roof-top garden and cafe in the place of a dis-used car park right in the centre of St Austell – Cornwall’s largest town and a stone’s throw from the Eden Project.

The project will form the first of several key regeneration schemes identified in a recent masterplan for the town. The project will create a significant new public space and community asset for the town. The project is funded from the Cornwall Council ‘Shared Prosperity Fund’.

We are working with an amazing team including

@hemingwaydesign @integral_engineering_design @propagatingdan @aecom
#staustell #cornwall #community #hayhurstandco

House of the Year shortlist spotlight: Green House, Tottenham, London by Hayhurst & Co (@hayhurstandco)

Tucked away down an alley in London’s Tottenham, this exceptional five-bedroom house blurs boundaries between inside and outdoor spaces. A ‘riad’ style central atrium, bamboo and sliding polycarbonate screens, reference the greenhouses that once stood on the site. At the same time, double-aspect views of the gardens and a roof terrace further emphasise the connection to nature. A simple block form plan and creative use of sustainable materials inform the aesthetic, providing generous space and light within the modest budget.

👉 Explore this shortlisted project at architecture.com/houseoftheyear, or via the link in our bio.

🏆 The winner of RIBA House of the Year will be announced on 30 November 2023.

#HouseOfTheYear #RIBAawards

Green House, Tottenham. Shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2023.

The RIBA Journal writes:

Although the House of the Year jury had done its homework in advance of visiting, the impact of the house still came as a surprise. ‘When you step inside, it is so much more than drawings and photos suggest,’ it reported. ‘Your eye is simultaneously drawn skywards through the lightwell at the heart of the plan – a beautiful calm space – and down and out across the main living space towards a verdant rear garden.’

Jurors praised the blurring of boundaries between interior and exterior, sensitivity to neighbours, and rich spatial organisation. ‘Although the house was designed to be efficient in response to site and budget,’ said jury member Bev Dockray, “it felt luxurious, homely, deeply private and relaxing.

An “extraordinary ordinary” house.’

The winner will be announced on 30th November.

@riba @ribajournal @ribalondon #hayhurstandco #greenhouse #tottenham #haringey #london #architecture #house #home

We are delighted to announce that our Green House in Tottenham has been shortlisted as one of the 6 houses in this year’s RIBA House of the Year.

The RIBA’s jury chair, Dido Milne said this year’s shortlist ‘includes a range of exciting new typologies, including a rethink of the family terraced house and a model for collective rural living.’
She added: ‘Here we have everything; from homes inserted into tight urban sites and new life breathed into existing structures, to detached rural homes where the architect has been given free rein to reimagine the baronial hall or lakeside retreat.

‘Localism is a recurring theme, with architects engaging with the local vernacular without being slaves to tradition, and local sourcing of materials targeting both embodied and operational carbon to deliver genuinely sustainable design.

Milne described the ‘most notable aspect’ of the year’s projects as ‘the power of “collaboration” to deliver great buildings.’

She said: ‘The fundamental importance of the client and architect relationship is evident in all the shortlisted projects which demonstrate demonstrate how an architect can bring a client’s dreams to life.’

A massive shout out to our super -collaborative clients (you know who you are… 😉) and the super-talented team at Hayhurst & Co.

Congratulations to all the teams behind the shortlisted projects.

More to follow on Green House shortly…

@riba #houseoftheyear #houseoftheyear2023 #greenhouse #hayhurstandco #house #architecture #londonarchitecture #newhouse

Nick was honoured to be a judge for this year’s @ribajournal Rising Stars who were announced yesterday.

Nick was part of an amazing panel of fellow judges comprising @eleanor.young.336 Eva MacNamara Lucy Clark @bettsbubbles sifting through and discussing all the entries.

As noted in the editorial, this year’s cohort are leading architecture into areas beyond traditional boundaries – so many young architects engaged in community, climate challenge and care for the environments they are making and awareness of who they are making them for. The future’s of the profession is looking exciting!

Well done everyone. @clementine.blakemore @elena.arch @marfsummers @sophiamalik_studio @j.h.purkiss @larrybotchway @j.w.hawthorne @oliverbeetschen Faye Sedgewick @hamzashaikh.design

#ribarisingstars #risingstars #ribarisingstars2023

Our competition winning design for Filwood Community Centre in Bristol is based around the construction of a series of 2D MMC extensions plugged in to the existing building which will receive a non-structural retrofit.

The approach include extending to the front of the building to create a civic presence at the top of Filwood Broadway to showcase the activities taking place in the centre. Extensions in the courtyard to help provide a more fluid connection between in and out and to activate the external spaces and a nursery with secure play-space and accommodation for hire to the rear of the site in a building that is conceived as the centre’s ‘third hall’.

Together, this creates an architectural strategy that minimises demolition, maximises the potential social value with strategically-placed ‘enabling interventions’ that increases the centre’s useable floor area by 75%.

An architectural approach of retrofit and intervention. Along with @youandme_archi @bd_landscape @integral_engineering_design and @greengaugebec we will be working with the Knowle West community over the next 12 months with the project due to be on site during 2025.

Drawings: Sahba Akbar & Dovile Ciapaite

#competitionwinner #architecturalcompetition #bristolarchitecture #retrofit #hayhurstandco

We are thrilled to announce that we have won the competition to overhaul the Filwood Community Centre in Bristol.

We have been totally inspired by the work that the centre does for the Knowle West Community and are looking forward to working with Bristol City Council and an amazing array of local stakeholders to help realise their vision for a new centre.

Architecture: Hayhurst & Co with @youandme_archi
Structures: @integral_engineering_design
MEP & Sustainability: @greengaugebec
Landscape: @bd_landscape

Hayhurst & Co. Team: Sahba Akbar, Dovile Ciapaite, Jonathan Nicholls and Nick Hayhurst.

We are looking for a RIBA Part 2 architectural assistant to join our London studio.

We are currently working on a wide range of exciting projects including one-off homes, community and cultural projects around the UK.

You will be working on a number of projects at various RIBA stages with a focus on one-off homes in the first instance.

As a RIBA Part 2 qualified architectural assistant you will have a minimum of one years’ experience in professional practice. You will have excellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to a creative team-working environment. Ideally, you should be able to work in a range of media including Revit, Enscape, Vectorworks, Adobe Creative Suite as well as an ability to make physical models.

🔗 Full Details🔗

Please submit a PDF of your CV, portfolio and professional work samples (less than 5MB, no weblinks) to jobs@hayhurstand.co.uk, subject line “Architectural Assistant – YOUR NAME” with covering letter. No agencies please.

Deadline for applicants is end of day, November 1, 2023.

Interviews will commence the week of November 13, 2023.

Starting in January 2024.

We are looking for a Senior Architect to join our team.

We are currently working on a wide range of exciting projects including one-off homes, community and cultural projects around the UK.

You will be involved in working on a number of projects at different RIBA stages with a focus on community projects in the south-west at the early RIBA stages and supporting other team members working on one-off homes. As a small studio, you will be involved in all aspects of the practice from design, detailing and delivering projects as well as contributing to the development of the practice generally.

As a Senior Architect, you will have a minimum of five years’ post-qualification experience, excellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to a creative team-working environment.

🔗 Full Details 🔗

Please submit a PDF of your CV, portfolio and professional work samples (less than 5MB, no weblinks) to jobs@hayhurstand.co.uk, subject line “Senior Architect – your name” with covering letter.

Deadline for applicants is end of day, November 1, 2023.

Interviews will commence the week of November 13, 2023.

Starting in January 2024.

‘A masterclass in bringing a Victorian house back to life with a glorious extension’

A lovely article about Grain House in @houseandgardenuk Lots of talk about materials and weathering and creating spaces that are both subtle and dynamic.

Words by @dominic_bradbury
Photographs by @mark_anthony_fox

#grainhouse #hayhurstandco #timber #londonarchitecture #home #house #houseextension

Flashback to last Saturday and a cracking sunny day for Open House 2023.

Thank you to our clients at Edith Neville Primary School for opening up their buildings and all the 500 or so people that visited both buildings.

A few photos from the day. Photo credits: Lexie McDougall, Claire Taggart, Marina Konstantopoulou and Nick Hayhurst.

@opencity_uk #hayhurstandco #edithnevilleprimaryschool #greenhouse #openhouse #openhouse2023

Nick will be talking tomorrow (Wednesday 13th September) at 11am as part of the ‘winning work in education and healthcare’ series.

In particular, Nick will be showing recent case study schools projects as part of a webinar that will ask the question, ‘how can we accelerate the upgrade of the UK’s school estate?’

#wwieh #assemblemediagroup

Green House will be open as part of @opencity_uk on Saturday 16th September between 2pm and 5pm with guided tours every 15 minutes (last entry 4.30pm).

Address is 25 Jansons Road, London, N15 4JU. More info on the Open House website.

Hope to see you there…!

#openhouse #openhouselondon #openhouselondon2023  #opencity #greenhouse #hayhurstandco

Edith Neville Primary School will be open as part of @opencity_uk on Saturday 16th September between 10am and 1pm with guided tours every 30 minutes (last entry 12.30).

Entry to the site will be via the pupil entrance at the junction of Ossulston Street and Polygon Road.

Hope to see you there…!

More info on the Open House website.

#openhouse #openhouselondon #openhouselondon2023 #opencity #openschool #hayhurstandco
#camden #edithneville #edithnevilleprimaryschool

‘Plants that plug homes into nature’

A lovely piece about our Green House in @ft_houseandhome by @amyfrearson this morning.

“As the facade is south-facing, Hayhurst & Co developed a 60cm-deep multi-layer facade fronted by translucent polycarbonate panels. They slide open to reveal a layer of plants which in turn screen windows. This creates a low-tech system that can be adapted to offer different levels of daylight, shade and privacy. You have two lines of control, which you can manipulate at different times of day.”

Green House will be open in as part of Open House @opencity_uk on Saturday 16th September – more to follow…

#greenhouse #hayhurstandco #newhome #plantsofinstagram

Preparation is everything.

1:2 construction drawings of every junction for a bespoke, site-made European oak-framed seat/ window/ door-set (or a ‘windoor’ as the contractor has decided to call it.)

#window #door #windor #detaildrawings #onsite

We are absolutely delighted that our Edith Neville Primary School for Camden Council is on the front page of the September issue of @architectsjournal that explores the theme of ‘neighbourhood’. Part of Camden Council’s Community Investment Programme (CIP), the school is featured alongside @adamkhanarch Community Facilities as part of a wider scheme masterplanned by @dsdha_architecture and in collaboration with @moco_arch and @drmm_architects

In her Editorial, AJ Editor Emily Booth, writes that “there is a careful opening-up of space, coupled with an understanding of the need for children and communities to feel secure – as Nick Hayhurst explains of the Edith Neville Primary School design: ‘It was developed around the idea of a family-scale courtyard, an “oasis” that welcomes families into the heart of the school site.’

A big thank you to Emily Booth and Rob Wilson for such a lovely write up. Today, it is has also been announced that the school is shortlisted for the 2023 AJ Awards: for the best education building in the UK.

The project has been a labour of love to work on since we were first appointed in 2014 – we all realised very soon that projects with this level of impact on a community and neighbourhood are rare. We are lucky to have worked on such with such a fantastic team of consultants and within our own studio.

We agree with Emily’s final statement: “Great neighbourhoods should indeed be a rock on which communities can build and grow – and architects should help them flourish” More investment and more commitment for schemes such as Central Somers Town is where local and central government funding needs to be placed.

A link to the full article is in our bio.

Client: @wemakecamden
Project Management: Urban Logik
Landscape: @mrhowardmiller
Structures: @priceandmyers
MEP & Sustainability: @maxfordhamllp
QS & CDM: Currie & Brown
Contractor: Neilcott Construction

Hayhurst & Co Team: (past & present)
Jamie Wakeford-Holder (Project Architect), Jonathan Nicholls, Bronya Meredith, Amy Waite, Mariko Whittaker, Rory Lean, Antonis Papamichael, Nick Hayhurst

Photo Credits: @kilianosullivan
Communications: @goodfellowcomms

#neighbourhood

Work in progress:

A bricolage of re-used, locally-found and hacked materials are assembled, placed and re-placed to form a new home and artist’s studio in Peckham, south London.

Materials include re-used brick (some horizontal and some on end), terrazzo formed from crushed glass from the nearby bars and made a mile away, old floorboards threaded and resumed together to form surfaces and linings.

Some smooth, some rough – some material relationships jarring, some complementary.

Still work in progress, trying to find an architectural language for the bricolage – not there yet – needs more roughing-up.

Project Team: Marina Konstantopoulou, Ruby Sleigh, Claire Taggart, Jonathan Nicholls, Nick Hayhurst

Images: Marina Konstantopoulou

#workinprogress #notthereyet #reuse #materials #needsroughingup #newhome #newstudio

BIG NEWS…! We’re delighted to announce that Green House is one of the 20 homes long-listed for RIBA House of the Year 2023.

#greenhouse #hayhurstandco #houseoftheyear #houseoftheyear2023 #newhouse #newhome #architecture #londonarchitecture

Something for the weekend…

WIP sketches for the remodeling of an Edwardian home in South London.

Mixing and matching: Cabinetry elements on cabinetry elements which obfuscate the reading of the original plan form blended with the tones and patterns of the retained original features.

#houserefurbishment #home #house #edwardianhome #architecture #houseremodelling

A little studio excursion and spot of lunch for some of the Hayhurst & Co crew on Wednesday lunchtime.

Lots of conversation about the construction sequence of yurts, the centre spacing and depth of glu-lam timbers and whether a pavilion has to be centrifrugal to be a pavilion.

#pavilion #serpentine

Boom… we’re delighted to announce that we have finally received planning for a new micro-house: a single-storey, 1-bedroomed home on a dis-used site in Earl’s Court.

After 2 refused planning applications, 1 appeal hearing (where we won on 3 out of the 4 reasons for refusal) and then 1 further planning application, we finally received planning consent at committee from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea this week.

The house represents the smallest possible home allowable under the London Plan 2021 and the NDSS (Nationally Described Space Standards). A 37m2, 1-bedroomed-1 person, single-storey home with a 5m2 courtyard, bin store and cycle parking. The site sits in a gap between rows of 5-storey stucco-fronted established C19th terraces in a conservation area and under a substantial Cat A tree: the design works around almost every constraint imaginable.

We looking to forward to building it out with our client who will make it their home.

Whilst one might – quite reasonably – question whether we should really work to minimums, it shows the potential of micro-sites such as this throughout London to deliver housing. We’re all for scrutiny and rigour in design and planning process, but really, does it need to be this difficult to gain panning consent for a single home?

Project Team: Claire Taggart (Project Architect), Ruby Sleigh, Sahba Akbar (Images), Nick Hayhurst.

#planning #planningconsent #newhouse #microhouse #londonhouse #house

We are absolutely thrilled that our Edith Neville Primary School for Camden Council has won an @riba National Award.

It is one of 36 projects across the country to receive the award and the only school building on the list.

Denise Bennetts, Chair of the RIBA Awards Jury, described the project as ‘remarkably inventive and the design process closely involved with its community’.

Congratulations to the whole team who have made the project such a success.

Client: @wemakecamden
Project Management: Urban Logik
Landscape: @mrhowardmiller
Structures: @priceandmyers
MEP & Sustainability: @maxfordhamllp
QS & CDM: Currie & Brown
Contractor: Neilcott Construction

Hayhurst & Co Team: (past & present)
Jamie Wakeford-Holder (Project Architect), Jonathan Nicholls, Bronya Meredith, Amy Waite, Mariko Whittaker, Rory Lean, Antonis Papamichael, Nick Hayhurst.

Photo Credit: Killian O’Sullivan

#edithnevilleprimaryschool #hayhurstandco #architecture #riba #ribaaward #ribanationalaward #ribaaward2023

An oldie but a goodie…

‘Barn-ish, Brighton-ish’ – in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex – is on the market with @themodernhouse

The refurbishment of the Grade-II listed former Coach House was completed in 2015 with the transformation of the parking area into a garden in 2017.

The existing structure and fabric were retained and new floors and wall linings installed where the spaces were being converted from the previous garages into new residential use. The refurbished spaces were sculpted around the existing structure to enable the new elements to be clearly read against the historic fabric: maximising the armature of the existing Coach House.

Constructed within the existing building’s timber-framed shell, the design provides new single-storey and double-height spaces in this long, thin building. The design features a double-height space that creates display space for the owner’s collection of records and books as well as a discreet picture window with views through to the adjacent first floor space.

Photos c/o The Modern House

#onthemarket #architectureforsale #barnish #brightonish #hayhurstandco #themodernhouse

‘No place for plastics in our oceans’

The Year 3 shop-front window looking amazing at Edith Neville Primary School this morning…

#edithnevilleprimaryschool #schooldesign #school #shopfront #schooldisplay #display

A lovely little article by Jan-Carlos Kucharek in the RIBA Journal as part of their ‘Making Buildings’ series. Jan-Carlos is in conversation with Tom Van Schelven (client), Claire Taggart (RIBA Project Architect of the Year, no less…) and Nick Hayhurst about the challenges behind building Green House.

Talking planning (the simple bit), material selection (the fun bit) and procuring MMC for residential projects, building warranties (the tricky bits) amongst other things.

Link to the article in our bio.

#greenhouse #tottenham #planning #procurement #materials #newhome #londonarchitecture @ribajournal #ribajournal

Oh my days… we had an amazing evening at the RIBA Awards 2023 winning a total of THREE awards…!

RIBA regional award for Edith Neville Primary School in Central Somers Town. Associate, Jamie Wakeford Holder and client Mark Hopson (Camden Council/ Urban Logik) picked up the award from Jury Chair, Barbara Weiss.

@riba @ribalondon #riba #ribaawards #greenhouse #edithnevilleprimaryschool #camden #tottenham @wemakecamden

Oh my days… we had an amazing evening at the RIBA Awards 2023 winning a total of THREE awards…!

RIBA regional award for Green House in Tottenham. Associate, Claire Taggart and client Tom van Schelven picked up the award from Jury Chair, Barbara Weiss.

@riba @ribalondon #riba #ribaawards #greenhouse #edithnevilleprimaryschool #camden #tottenham @wemakecamden