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Delighted to see our Edith Neville Primary School for @wemakecamden published in @dezeen yesterday.

The project has been a total labour of love for the practice since 2014. It has been a real collaborative effort with the school community, consultants and our own internal team. It couldn’t have been delivered without the sterling effort of so many people.

The wider design team aren’t listed on the dezeen article so this post is to acknowledge the amazing work done by so many hands over the last 8 years.

Hayhurst & Co design team:
Jamie Wakeford, Amy Waite, Bronya Meredith, Rory Lean, Mariko Whittaker, Antonis Papamichael, Nick Hayhurst, Jonathan Nicholls.

Consultant Team:
Landscape Design: Howard Miller Design (@hmillerbros)
Structural Engineer: @priceandmyers
MEP Engineer: @maxfordhamllp
Project Manager: Urban Logik
Quantity Surveyor: Currie & Brown
Principal Designer: Currie & Brown
Employer’s Agent: Capital Property & Construction
Fire Consultant: Exova
Contractor: Neilcott Construction
Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

#edithneville #edithnevilleprimaryschool #camdenschools #school #schooldesign #learningspaces #architecture #londonarchitecture #schoolarchitecture

We are thrilled to announce that we have won ‘Education Architect of the Year’ at this year’s Architect of the Year Awards.

This validates almost two decades of work delivering publicly-funded school projects for young children and their school communities.

More posts (with the actual work!) to follow…

Photo Credit: @richardc100

#schooldesign #educationbuilding #architectureaward #architecture

Big congratulations to Ruby Sleigh and Marina Konstantopoulou from the Hayhurst & Co team who both passed their RIBA Part 3 with flying colours today…!

Ruby is currently working on a new development of 6 homes on a backland site in north-London which we will be submitting for planning soon. In addition to practice, Ruby also teaches on the MArch course at Oxford Brookes University and is helping lead the practice’s sustainability initiatives.

Marina is leading two residential projects which are both on site. A refurbishment and extension of a house in Swiss Cottage and a retrofit of a 1960s house in Hackney. Marina is helping lead the practices’ approach to visual representation techniques.

Delighted that our Green House in Tottenham has won the ‘Custom and self-build project of the year’ at the Structural Timber Awards ceremony on Wednesday night.

#greenhouse #hayhurstandco #selfbuild #custombuild #timber #structuraltimber #architectureaward #timberhouse

The lovely RIBA Journal article is now on-line on the RIBA Journal website. Extracted here…

Have a read…!

‘A different world’

Edith Neville Primary School in Somers Town, London for Camden Council is our first new-build school project and a building that synthesises so many of the practice’s educational and architectural principles. It is amazing to see it in print – it has been a long time coming! We will be sharing more about the project in coming weeks and months.

Thank you RIBA Journal and Chris Foges for such a thorough, careful and astute write up.

‘Edith Neville is the sort of ambitious, generous and situation-specific building that routinely filled architecture magazines and awards lists in the late 2000s, until the government had an abrupt change of heart and insisted instead on standardisation and efficiency’

‘Hayhurst & Co’s intricate, light-filled building is bursting with architectural ideas and extraordinary spatial events, but none is simply indulgent: every move is rooted in a coherent educational ethos – and evident empathy with young children’

‘Its effect has been profound, says Ruby Nasser, Headteacher. “Some parents cried when we first showed them around” The children are noticeably calmer, she notes, and have greater self-esteem – not least because their school is a match for flashy buildings springing up on every side of Somers Town. Too few new school heads could say the same, but it is what every child deserves”

A different world indeed.

@ribajournal @chris.foges @wemakecamden #edithneville #edithnevilleprimaryschool #school #schoolbuilding #camden #hayhurstandco #schooldesign #learningspaces

I went for a wander yesterday into the hills of deepest Croydon to see Hayes Primary School in Kenley 10 years after it opened.

In 2010, the scheme had a CABE design review panel and I remember them saying – in a disparaging way – how filthy the screen would be over time because of the proximity of the trees and that overall the scheme lacked legibility between building and landscape.

I remember saying that I wouldn’t mind if in 10 years time the screen became really mossy and sappy as it would symbolise being enmeshed in its sylvan setting and visually indistinguishable from its landscape and that was the architectural ambition. I’m not sure that comment went down very well.

However, I can report that the school looks as good as new (and has done at every point I have revisited or wandered past over the years). The screen still looks sharp and dynamic and the landscape has now matured around it. The building feels quite bold yet synthesised in its landscape context.

I’ll take another trip back in another 10 years.

#hayesprimaryschool #thehayesprimaryschool #croydon #hayhurstandco #schooldesign #educationspaces #spacesforlearning #school #schoolbuilding #architecture #londonarchitecture

Hayes Primary School, Croydon. 2010-2012. Following on from last week’s post marking 10 years since the opening of Hayes – a bit more nourishment….

Here are some of the design drawings for Hayes that explore the use of CLT and the relationship between building, material and landscape.

Image 1. This was our first CLT project. It was a hybrid structure (along with some block work walls and steel beams). The CLT is conceived as one of a series of timber interventions.

Image 2. We spent a lot of time testing how CLT elements would read and be expressed relative to one another and the spaces they made. This photo shows the corner of a classroom where CLT wall meets CLT furniture meets removable CLT perforated panel that provides ventilation.

Images 3-6. The CLT was also used to make a 650mm-thick, 60m-long furniture wall that separated the classrooms and the circulation spaces. It provided storage – it looked really heavy (it was heavy!) but it wasn’t structural. The CLT elements were used horizontally and biscuit jointed at the corners. A visual expression of the language of trees in a sylvan site.

Images 7-10 The extension was located at the front of the school – just high enough that the previous building would be concealed from view and giving the impression if a new building. The roof behind the screen varied in angle to provide natural ventilation to the classrooms. The order of the landscape followed suit.

#hayesprimaryschool #hayhurstandco #schooldesign #clt #learningspaces #architecture #architecturaldrawings #timber #wood #anoldiebutagoodie #school #schoolbuilding #architecture #londonarchitecture

10 years old…! 🎉🎉🎉

10 years ago today, our extension to Hayes Primary School in Kenley, Croydon opened its doors for the first time…

A vibrant extension to a tired and out-dated school building at the heart of its community. The extension provided 4 new infant classrooms, an ICT Lab, a small hall and new administration facilities.

The main façade of the building has a reflective steel brise-soleil that provides shade from solar glare and over-heating to the teaching spaces as well as giving a uniformed building elevation. The perforations vary in size: larger at the bottom to let light in and gradually getting smaller to the top to allow for a greater level of reflection. 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.

Ahead of the curve and before we were talking so much about embodied carbon, we used CLT is used as the structure of the building as well as for the central storage wall that runs through the extension: 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.

Amongst others, the project won a 2013 RIBA National Award, the NLA Award for Best Education Building and was the NLA overall winner: Best Building in London in 2013.

Here’s to the next 10 years…!

Photo Credits: @kilianosullivan

#10 #10yearsold #hayesprimaryschool #hayhurstandco  #schooldesign #croydon #clt #crosslaminatedtimber #education #educationspaces #teachingspaces #school #schoolbuilding

The October issue of @houseandgardenuk hits the stands this week and features our very own Grain House on the front cover.

Lovely article inside. An amazing shoot by @mark_anthony_fox and kind works by @dominic_bradbury

Looking forward to seeing the hardcopy.

#homesandgarden #newhome #hackney #grainhouse #hayhurstandco #architecture #londonarchitecture #houseextension #londonextension

Thank you Temi…! A select gathering of the @hayhurstandco crew (i.e. Those not on holiday!) gathered at #theprideofspitalfields on Wednesday evening this week to say farewell and thank you to one of our Part 1s Temi Odele.

Temi joined us last year following the completion of her first-class degree from University of Reading and is going on to the LSA for her Part 2 in September.

We wish her well…!

Great polaroid photo from @ciapaite.dovile

Front page of the @architectsjournal today… Green House is one of the 11 new homes in the country shortlisted for the Manser Medal.

Good luck to all the shortlisted practices…!

#aj #ajawards #manser #mansermedal #architectureaward #newhome #londonarchitecture #architecture

Woohoo… 🎉🎉🎉

Green House longlisted for @dezeenawards_ awards. Only one of three urban houses in the UK to make the list…!

@dezeen #architecture #greenhouse #hayhurstandco #londonarchitecture #newhome

Woohoo… new plants for the studio… 🌴🌴🌴 Going in for the Spitalfields jungle vibe…

#studioplants # hayhurstandco

Our team were delighted to be joined by Luisa and Ima from Harris Academy Falconwood sixth form last week, who came for a week’s work experience in design, model-making and presentation. They got stuck into designing a live brief: family houses on a small infill site behind the office, proposing a top-lit 2 bedroomed home to deal with overlooking and a balcony for outdoor amenity.

They started by surveying the site by hand, drawing and modelling the context to scale, then looked at precedent projects for tight sites within and outside of the office with a trip to end of year shows for inspiration. They developed their proposal by hand and in SketchUp before presenting to the team on Friday afternoon for their first architectural ‘crit’.

Luisa plans to apply for undergraduate courses in architecture next year, whilst Ima is heading for interior design. We wish them both the best of luck and look forward to seeing their designs in the future!

Thanks to Ruby, Temi and Sahba from Hayhurst & Co team from supporting this.

#harrisacademy #harrisacadmeyfalconwood #workexperience #mentoring #architectstraining #hayhurstandco

We are delighted to be shortlisted for BD Individual House Architect of the Year 2022.

In the 5 years since we were last shortlisted, we have been working on a range of new-build homes and low-carbon retrofits of existing homes around the UK. Working with amazing clients, our buildings have formed R&D testbeds for sustainable forms of construction and homes that have been sculpted to suit the owners and their sites’ specific contexts.

The projects featured in our submission were;

Grain House: A re-ordered Victorian house with new circulation wrapping around an external courtyard formed crafted from 6 species of timber for different purposes. A garden studio takes the form of a magical imaginary woodland creature nestling amongst the trees.

Green House: A new-build home for a photographer centred around an awesome, riad-style courtyard and with a verdant, planted front elevation. The home is constructed from CLT, heated via an ASHP and with a natural stacked ventilation strategy.

Messuage House: A deep retrofit of a Grade-II listed house and extension that reads as a series of garden structures stepping up a steeply-sloped site. The landscaping forms a luscious ring of planting around the existing house.

Re-found House: An artist’s home and studio, the new house uses recycled demolition waste from the existing site with crushed rubble and concrete waste formed into terrazzo slabs by a local manufacturers to form a ruinous and luminous outer skin.

Good luck to all the practices shortlisted: @napierclarke @erbarmattes @eldridge_london_architects @mclarenexcell @fletchercranearchitects @shedkm @denizen_works

Fingers crossed for 18th October when the winner will be announced.

#buildingdesign #architectoftheyear #housearchitectoftheyear #housedesign #designinghomes #architecture

We are delighted to be shortlisted for BD Education Architect of the Year 2022.

In the 6 years since we were last shortlisted, we have been working with a range of amazing schools and learning communities to deliver exemplar low-carbon spaces for teaching and learning around the UK. Our projects range from single spaces that enable new forms of STEM teaching through to whole schools that capture the ethos of their communities.

The projects featured in our submission were;

Edith Neville Primary School: A new-build, urban school set around a public-open space and constructed from CLT. The school is centred around a family-scale courtyard that welcomes the community in and an internal ‘gallery’ for exhibition and gathering.

Torriano Primary School: An active STEM lab is created from the conversion of an unloved two-storey turret in this existing school. Constructed around laminated ply portals, is a series of spaces for carrying out different types of science experiments.

Peterchurch Primary School: A new-build passivhaus, NZC 1FE primary school constructed in CLT and clad in thatch in rural Herefordshire. The project was co-designed with pupils and staff and includes a nurture hub and outdoor classrooms.

Clore Learning Centre; A learning space for children of all ages, the Clore Learning Centre at the Grade-II listed RIBA promotes active learning about architecture. The space creates a series of delightful and adaptable interventions to encourage learners to think about the spaces around them.

Good luck to all the practices shortlisted: @waltersandcohen @jmarchitects @sheppard_robson @fcbstudios @henleyhalebrown @iidarchitects @cottverm

Fingers crossed for 18th October when the winner will be announced.

#buildingdesign #architectoftheyear #educationarchitectoftheyear #schooldesign #learningspaces

Woo hoo… We are delighted that our Green House in Tottenham is one of six houses that has been shortlisted for ‘House of the Year’ in the British Homes Awards for houses under 2,500 sq/ft.

Congratulations to the other practices @sw_arch @pad_studiouk @rxarchitects @napierclarke @hlmarchitects

@sundaytimesbritishhomesawards

More on Green house to follow…

Photo credit: @kilianosullivan

#greenhouse #house #newhome #hayhurstandco #clt #plantsofinstagram

Woohoo… Our STEAM lab for Torriano Primary School was Highly Commended by the Camden Design Award jury yesterday evening.

Thank you @gurmeet_sian @fi.macdonald @tvonpreussen @davidmurraykerr

Great to be in such esteemed company and working in a borough with so many great schemes.

Go Camden…!

#camdendesignawards #torrianoprimaryschool #schooldesign #steameducation #hayhurstandco

In March this year, I spent three days chairing he RIBA Awards jury for projects in south-west London – the winners of which were announced today.

Along with my esteemed co-judges Julian de Metz, Vicki Macgregor and Euan Millar-McMeeken and co-ordinated by the RIBA’s Jessica Davies, we visited homes, schools, spaces for London’s diverse communities and buildings for national institutions.

We met clients and stakeholder who talked about the amazing journeys their architects had taken them on and architects who had navigated technical, legislative and contractual challenges to deliver such incredible buildings over what has been a very difficult few years for all of us.

We discussed sustainability, social value and architectural enquiry and how the buildings we design contribute to the places we inhabit, the cities we live in and the development of architectural discourse.

A big congratulations to all the winners – very well deserved.

The photo be @julian_de_metz is of me in the riotous Mountain View by @can_agram

@riba @ribalondon @expoartlondon @julian_de_metz

With some of our recent commissions, we have been thinking about new school buildings in street scenes and how they relate to existing buildings.

Did a little trip past our expansion to Pegasus Academy in Thornton Heath yesterday. Still looking 👍

(This photo is by @kilianosullivan – Palace was playing at home yesterday so the buses were all backed up which wouldn’t have made for a great post…)

#pegasusacademy #croydonschools #schoolbuildings #thorntonheath #hayhurstandco #gold #goldschool

Good things to come to those how wait… almost  finished on site in Cromer.

#hayhurstandco #cromer #norfolk #onsite #newhome #norfolkextension #houseextension #flint #timber #underconstruction #flintdormer #goodthingscometothosewhowait

Sunshine and blue skies. Laughter and play. Medicine for a cold, overcast January morning.

PS. Really love the cheekiness in the first image.

Edith Neville Primary School, Camden from September 2021.

Landscape Design: @mrhowardmiller
Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

#edithneville #edithnevilleprimaryschool #learningspaces #schooldesign #playground #plantsofinstagram #learninglandscapes #somerstown #camden #hayhurstandco

This week, the RIBA announced they are holding a competition for a £20m re-masterplan of the Institute and the first phase of its refurbishment and transformation into a new cultural, learning, work, broadcasting and members’ hub.

In 2017, we won the RIBA competition to overhaul the 4th floor office spaces into a new Clore Learning Space. In 2019, we completed the project: the first learning space in the UK dedicated to the learning of architecture.

The Clore Studio invites visitors to engage physically with the space, developing an understanding of the architecture that surrounds us every day, whilst providing a practical and flexible space for a wide range of learning programmes. The space is a made up of series of delightful and adaptable interventions that promote an understanding of architecture through interactive learning; observing, testing, making and sharing.

Display cabinets proudly exhibit work produced by RIBA learning programmes, while magnetic & drawable folding cabinet fronts enable presentation of work and display of drawings. Tiered bamboo steps and modular stools provide flexible seating for lectures and workshops or can be used as work surfaces or exhibition plinths. Ceiling frames allow construction of large-scale installations or sub-division of the space.

Looking forward to the next stage of the Institute’s development.

Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

#hayhurstandco  @riba @ribacomps #66portlandplace #clorelearningspace #cloreduffieldfoundation #competition #architecturecompetition

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at Hayhurst and Co. 🎄🎄🕺🏻🍷💃🏾🍷

Green House looking splendid and festive…! Loving the galleried CLT, curtains and tree look…!

Photo Credit: @tomvanschelven

#greenhouse #hayhurstandco #merrychristmas

An essential event!: It was great to be at the book launch of “Kolobok – A Russian bun, on the Run!” yesterday evening – a children’s book illustrated by our very own talented architectural assistant @ciapaite.dovile

Kolobok is a folk story about a bread bun that runs away on an adventure through the forest who skilfully avoids being caught and eaten by various animals.

Translated and adapted by @sianvalvis
Published by Fontanka
Distributed by Thames and Hudson

Available in hardback from all good bookshops…!

#artwordsbookshop #foyles #bricklanebookshop #dauntbooks #waterstones

#kolobok #russianbun #dovileciapaite

#childrensbookillustration #bookillustration #litograph #risograph #pantone #picturebook #russianfolktale #storytelling #folktaleillustration #natureillustration #graphicdesign #childrenspublishing #markmaking #illustrationartists #print

ON. THE. BOX.

Grain House is on Grand Designs House of the Year this evening at 9pm on Channel 4. Tune in…!

As @kevin.mccloud1 says: “A home full of unexpected delight. You have a tree in the house, inside, I mean outside, inside”

@riba @sebastiancoxltd @vascon975 @webbyates #houseoftheyear #houseoftheyear021 #granddesigns #grainhouse #hayhurstandco #onthebox @channel4 #insideoutside #plantsofinstagram #treesofinstagram #timber

On site in Norfolk: Landscape connections – frames, steps and reveals (and a portaloo….🙄) in plan and section.

#ruinedhouse #cromer #norfolk #hayhurstandco #landscapeviews #framedviews #steps #reveals #newhome #houseextension #norfolkextensioon

Grain House: Long listed for RIBA House of the Year.

#grainhouse #hackney #riba @riba #houseoftheyear #houseoftheyear2021 #hayhusrtandco #timber #grain #house #architecture #newhome #houseextension

It was great to be at @yourallypally yesterday evening for the @haringeycouncil Design Awards ceremony.

We are thrilled that Green House in Tottenham won;

Most sustainable Building,
Best Individual house and
Overall Winner

Showing off the awards are our client, the amazing @tomvanschelven, and and talented Associate and Project Architect, Claire Taggart.

Thank you to the judging panel, council officers and members that gave the project the awards.

#greenhouse #hayhurstandco #tottenham #haringey #haringeydesignawards #sustainability #mostsustainable #mostsustainablebuilding #besthouse #bestindividualhouse #overallwinner

We have an exciting opportunity for a graduate Part 1 architectural assistant to join our growing team in London.

We are currently working on a wide range of projects from one-off houses, to new-build schools through to estate regenerations strategies. The position will involve work on a number of projects through all RIBA stages with a focus on one-off houses in the first instance.

We are looking for an RIBA Part 1 qualified graduate with skills in the production of drawings, visual materials, computer and physical model making. The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic individual with a creative drive, excellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to a creative team-working environment.

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 Requirement:

– RIBA part 1 (or equivalent qualification)
-strong design skills with an interest in materials and the environment
-excellent written and verbal communication skills
-proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and CAD packages (ideally vectorworks)
-effective interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team
-good communication and presentation skills
-excellent time management, organisation, planning and attention to detail
-ability to think creatively and problem solve through design

Please submit a PDF of your CV, portfolio (less than 10MB and no links to file sharing applications or websites) with covering letter to jobs@hayhurstand.co.uk

The starting salary will be £25k per annum plus company benefits. Start date is the beginning of November 2021.

The deadline for applications is 5pm, Wednesday 20 October 2021

#hayhurstandco #architecturejobs #joinourteam #architecturalassistant

Feels like a mustard-coloured curtain kinda morning…

Photo of #greenhouse By @kilianosullivan

#hayhurstandco #newhouse #newhome #curtains #mustardyellow #mustard #mustardcoloured #curtainsofinstagram #architecture #londonarchitecture

Awaiting the beginning of lunchtime play with trepidation at our Edith Neville Primary School…

@kilianosullivan is ready to capture it!

#edithnevilleprimaryschool #edithneville #camden #londonschool #newschool #schooldesign #playspace #londonarchitecture #architecture #howardmiller

Great to see Hackney’s finest – our very own Garden House – being used by @riba as the poster project for their new ‘Find an Architect’ campaign.

After 6 years, the roof is still looking  👌 thanks to Keir’s green fingers.

Thank you so much to our clients @whitakermalem for agreeing to so this for the RIBA.

#riba #whitakermslem #gardenhouse #hayhurstandco #green #greenroof #hackney #newhome # newhouse #londonarchitecture #architecture

Another sneaky peak: this time inside. Green House.

Photograph by @kilianosullivan

#greenhouse #hayhurstandco #sneakypeek #crosslaminatedtimber #clt #plantsofinstagram #newhome #newhouse #londonarchitecture

Nick’s been allowed to use his coloured pens this morning…

A working drawing for the setting out of the tiles that form the hearth, steps and library area at Ruined House in Norfolk.

#handdrawing #colouredpens #architecturaldrawing #workingdrawing

Open House 2021: We will be opening the doors of two of our recently completed projects this Saturday 11th September as part of Open House 2021.

Torriano Primary School. Between 10am and 1pm we will be at Torriano Primary School in Kentish Town which we completed in 2019. The project created the first primary-school STEM Activity Lab in the country and comprises the re-mdoelling of a 2-storey turret on top of an existing Victorian school building to to provide a space for dynamic hands-on experiments including a CNC-cut internal structure, shiny shingled cladding and a living façade. Winner of RIBA Award, RIBA Small project of the year Award, AJ Retrofit Award and Civic Trust Award. No booking required – just turn up and say hello!

Green House. Between 3pm and 6pm we will be at Green House in Tottenham which we completed only a few months ago. A new CLT-framed house built on a site once occupied by market garden greenhouses. The house features a planted façade with sliding external screens and a riad-style central atrium assisting with natural daylighting, ventilation and cooling. Pre-book only – don’t just rock-up!

@opencitylondon #opencity #openhouse #openhouse2021 #torrianoprimaryschool #greenhouse #hayhurstandco

Studio trip: it was great for the Hayhurst & Co team to visit our recently-completed Green House yesterday evening. Lots of chat about CLT, ASHPs, stack ventilation, internal curtains and visual connections.

It finished off a day taking our first set of photos with @kilianosullivan and with guest appearance from contractor @vascon975

Big thanks and great hosting from @tomvanschelven @amandine.neysesvanschelven

#newhouse #londonarchitecture #hayhurstandco #greenhouse #crosslaminatedtimber #clt

Sneaky peak: First complete image of Green House from our amazingly-talented resident-photographer @tomvanschelven

#greenhouse #hayhurstandco

Crikey… what a week for Grain House…!

We are delighted to announce that Grain House in Hackney has won an RIBA Award on top of being 1 of 10 houses in the UK shortlisted for the Manser Medal and 1 of 25 across the world shortlisted for the dezeen ‘residential rebirth’ project of the year award…

This post is to the team…

To our amazing clients – Lucy and Max.

To the ever-patient contractor – Kosta and his team at Rebuild London.

To the timber master craftsman that is – @sebastiancoxltd for making the kitchen and one-off pieces of joinery.

To the team that holds it all up – @webbyates

And our own team who made it all happen – Holly Crosbie, Jon Nicholls and Nick Hayhurst.

#teamwork

Shortlisted for the Manser Medal…! 🕺🕺

Grain House is on the shortlist for the Manser Medal – AJ House of the Year Award. One of the 10 best homes completed in the country this year. Winner announced on 17th November.

#grainhouse #hackney #hayhurstandco @architectsjournal #mansermedal #architectureaward #houseextension #architecture #londonarchitecture

Exhibition: Great to see our Grain House in the @nla @dont.move.improve exhibition at @coaldropsyard yesterday.

Go and take a … it’s on until 21st September.

The project is exhibited amongst the 8 other category winners that were judged to be the 9 best house extensions completed in London last year. Grain House won the ‘Materiality and Craftmanship’ Award which recognises projects that take particular care and attention to material selection, finishing and detailing.

#grainhouse #hayhurstandco #houseextension #exhibition #besthouseextension #awardwinning #materiality #craftmanship #nla #dontmoveimprove

Testing testing: Jonathan and Alex on the studio’s roof terrace testing coursing strategies for re-using brick on a new project. Good to back in the studio and collaborating in person…!

#backinthestudio #studiolife #studio #brick #reusingbricks #collaboration

Whoop whoop…! Delighted that Grain House in Hackney has been long listed for the dezeen 2021 awards in the ‘residential rebirth’ category. Looking forward to seeing the shortlist…

#houseextension #houserefurbishment #grainhouse #hayhurstandco #hackney #grain #timber #dezeen #dezeenaward #architectureaward #design @dezeen

On site: the windows, hearth and internal spaces, framed views and moments are taking shape – quite literally! Mark the carpenter from AJ Cooper (pictured) working pretty hard.

Getting exciting…!

#cromer #norfolk #hayhurstandco #ruinedhouse #shape #takingshape #underconstruction #ajcooper #houseextension #houserefurbishment

Green House: Almost complete this week.

Looking pretty hot ‘n’ feeling pretty cool….😎

#newhouse #greenhouse #hayhurstandco #plantsofinstagram #londonarchitecture #architecture #newhome #clt #timberconstruction #polycarbonate

Exhibition model: The model of Grain House made by @sebastiancoxltd was finished this week and is now in place at the @nlalondon @dont.move.improve exhibition of the winning projects at Unit 5, Coal Drops Yard until 21st September.

As we won the ‘Materiality and Craftsmanship’ award we teamed up again with Sebastian who worked on the kitchen and some of the cabinetry at Grain House to make the model. It is made from Ash and the roofs CNC cut to re-create the rhythm of the slats that are lightly brushed with a blowtorch to give the roof a graphic edge like the project itself.

Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

#grainhouse #hayhurstandco #modelmaking #wood #woodenmodel #timbersculpture #wip #exhibition #modelmakinginprogress #hackney

We have an exciting opportunity for a graduate Part 2 architectural assistant to join our growing team in London.

We are currently working on a wide range of projects from one-off houses, to new-build schools through to estate regeneration strategies. The position will involve work on a number of projects through all RIBA stages with a focus on residential projects in the first instance.

We are looking for an RIBA Part 2 qualified graduate with a year’s professional practice experience that includes using Revit in their Part 1 experience. The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic individual with a grounded understanding of practice, excellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to a creative team-working environment. You should have the ability 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.

Key requirements:

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

Please submit a PDF of your CV, portfolio and professional work samples (less than 10MB and no links to file sharing applications or websites) with covering letter to jobs@hayhurstand.co.uk.

The starting salary will be £30k per annum plus company benefits. Start date is the beginning of August 2021.

The deadline for applications is 5pm, Thursday 8th July 2021

In the press: Nice to see our kitchen for Burnt House featured in today’s @dezeen ‘design logbook’ of L-shaped kitchens. In good company with designs from Switzerland, New Zealand and Denmark.

#hayhurstandco #kitchendesign #kitchen #interiorarchitecture #lshapedkitchen #timber #inthepress

Work in progress: Current street-scene image and textured elevation for a new villa comprising 7 flats in the East India Estate Conservation Area close to the centre of Croydon.

Built on the site of the old East India Estate, the six main streets in the conservation area are structured as a series of wide parallel roads on which plots were sold off individually in the late 1800s rather than built-out as a single uniform development. Now with many sites redeveloped each street comprises quite a motley crew of homes.

Our design intends to re-assert some order to the street and re-create a ‘crafty’, turn of the century villa behind a re-instated boundary wall and gates to the pavement. The design picks up on the character of the adjacent Edwardian home whilst building up to the same height as most the buildings on the road: the elevations include a high, darker coloured brick plinth with arced window tops set out symmetrically on the primary bay and informally on the recessed bay.

#hayhurstandco #villa #newvilla #curvedwindows #arcedwindows #redbrickhousing #newhousing #londonhousing #newhomes #housing

Model making: It was great to catch up with @sebastiancoxltd at his studio this week.

Sebastian is making a model of Grain House for the forthcoming @nlalondon @dont.move.improve exhibition of the winning projects. Seeing as we won the ‘Materiality and Craftsmanship’ award it seemed only fitting to team up again with Sebastian who worked on the kitchen and some of the cabinetry at Grain House.

The model is designed to articulate the idea behind the project: a series of timber sculptural elements that respond to landscape and context.

The model is made from Ash and the roofs CNC cut to re-create the rhythm of the slats which will then be lightly brushed with a blowtorch to give the roof a graphic edge like the project itself.

Looking forward to seeing it complete and in the exhibition that opens at the end of the month in Coaldrops Yard.

More details to follow…

#grainhouse #hayhurstandco #modelmaking #wood #woodenmodel #timbersculpture #wip #modelmakinginprogress #hackney

Re-posting: Paddy & Keir, @whitakermalem our lovely clients for Garden House, posted this amazing video of the roof last week – 6 years after completion….!

After some winter casualties, Keir has things looking tip top again with pup plants from the ones that are doing well along with new plants from Colombia Road Market.

The experiment continues…! Might have to take another visit ourselves soon…

#gardenhouse #hayhurstandco #paddyandkeir #whitakermalem #greenroof #urbangreening #experimentalroof #plantedroof #plantsofinstagram

Exhibition: Looking forward to exhibiting Grain House at the @nlalondon @dont.move.improve at Coal Drops Yard later this summer along with a fantastic set of winners…!

#hayhurstandco #dontmoveimprove #grainhouse #architectureexhibition

Work in progress: A test section for a pied-a-terre in west London.

We have been developing options for a 58m2 micro-site: a gap between buildings and under a tree in Earls Court, west London.

This has included testing different ways of creating ‘discrete’ space: different roof profiles, structured green roofs and ways in which daylight falls into the accommodation through the leaves in the tree.

#microsite #discretesite #newhome #londonarchitecture #londonhome #architecturalsection #architecturaldrawing

Expert witness planning inquiry success: In spring last year, Nick was appointed by Lewisham Council planning department to act as the Local Authority’s architectural Expert Witness in the case of a school building that had not been built in compliance with the original consent.

We prepared an assessment of design, townscape and technical matters in response to appeals lodged against the serving of a multi-option enforcement notice and refusal of a section 73 application as well as providing alternative design proposals that could be implemented to remedy the planning breaches.

Following an intense 5-day planning inquiry in March this year which included impassioned evidence from local residents and the school community as well as expert evidence, the appeal decisions were published this week: the council won with the Inspector agreeing with our evidence and upholding both appeals.

Team: Nick Hayhurst, Jamie Wakeford Holder, Marina Konstantopoulou

Timber Triumph. Grain House. Check out this video that @nlalondon @dont.move.improve made of our ‘Grain House’ in Hackney as the winner of the ‘Materiality & Craftsmanship Award’. The link is in the bio .

The video really shows off the spatial and material ideas as well as how the internal spaces open up to the courtyard and garden.

Big shout out to the team:

Project Architect: Holly Crosbie
Project Director: Jon Nicholls
Contractor: Rebuild London
Engineers: @webbyates

#houseextension #houseimprovement #extension #grainhouse #hayhurstandco #timber #londonarchitecture #hackney #courtyard

Whoop whoop… We are delighted that Grain House has won the 2021 @nlalondon @dont.move.improve ‘Materiality and Craftmanship’ Award.

The awards citation says:

The prize recognises designs that take particular attention to detail and care when considering materials and finishes: Grain House demonstrates innovative material choices and construction techniques.

Native timber species have been used across the project, the plan configuration is if anything against the grain of a Victorian terraced layout, with a resultantly different sequence of spaces and spatial feel. Walls are of natural and clay plaster, while fully inset timber doors lead out onto the garden, where the extension’s naturally weathered Siberian larch-clad roof is visible, above a charred larch below the canopy.

The studio at the end of the garden echoes the timber-clad theme, providing a convenient space for homeworking, with roof joints rotated in plan to give a roof that gives ornamentation to the structure, plus a picture window back to the main house.

‘I’m very impressed by the detailing of the junction of the roof and the walls. It’s worked very nicely’ – @pgsmurray, Judge.

‘He was saying it’s gnarly, but it’s actually pretty perfect. That’s quite difficult to get right… It’s perfectly intimate’ – Amin Taha, Judge.

Earth Day: The amount of embodied carbon used in the design of every-day residential projects is not talked about as much as it should be. As today is Earth Day, we are talking about it…!

On ‘Grain House’, we limited the use of concrete and steel and used timber where we could both as a structure and as a finish. We worked with @webbyates who calculated the embodied carbon of the project to be just 191 kgCO2e/m2. This allows the house extension and new garden studio to come in well below the RIBA 2030 domestic target of 300 kgCO2e/m2.

But, there is still a lot more to do and we are going to keep talking about it…

#earthday2021 #earthday #riba2030climatechallenge #timber #embodiedcarbon

On site: Our flint-flavoured dormer window looking good in yesterday’s midday sun.

#flint #cromer #norfolk #housextension #hayhurstandco #dormerwindow #flintdormer #underconstruction

We have an exciting opportunity for two recently-qualified architects to join our growing team in London.

We are currently working on a wide range of projects from one-off houses, to new-build schools through to estate regeneration strategies. The position will involve work on a number of projects through all RIBA stages with a focus on either one-off homes or education and community projects in the first instance.

We are looking for a talented designer with experience of taking projects through design, detailed design and construction stages: a team player with an appetite to think big alongside an eye for the nitty-gritty and who isn’t shy of technical challenges. The successful candidate will be a design-led motivated architect that can deliver high-quality projects.

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) and be ARB registered
·UK-based practice experience
·strong design skills and technical detailing knowledge
·experience across all RIBA work stages (particularly working at RIBA Stages 4 and 5 in the UK)
·experience of UK regulatory framework including building regulations and CDM
·excellent written and verbal communication skills
·proficiency in Revit, Adobe Creative Suite and Vectorworks preferred
·effective interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team
·good communication and presentation skills
·excellent time management, organisation, planning and attention to detail
·ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
·ability to multitask while working under pressure
·ability to think creatively and problem solve through design

Please submit a PDF of your CV, portfolio and professional work samples (less than 10MB and no links to file sharing applications or websites) with covering letter to jobs@hayhurstand.co.uk. Salaries will be in the upper half of the range set out in the RIBA Guide.

Deadline: Friday 23 April

Nice Bond: We have recently been appointed to refurbish and retrofit a Grade II listed house in the village of Orston in Nottinghamshire.

The 3-storey farmhouse dates from the early C18th is constructed of mixed stretchers and headers in a rather lovely Flemish bond. Definitely worthy of a close-up!

#bond #brickbond #brick #flemishbond #orston

Work in progress: a new double-height entrance carved out of an existing school building in north London. The project will create a new community facility and early-years centre with new shared landscaped spaces.

#architecturaldrawing #architecturaldiagram #diagram #communityspace #hayhurstandco

Whoop whoop…! Grain House has been shortlisted for the @nlalondon @dont.move.improve 2021. The shortlisted entries have published in @dezeen and other journals today.

Looking forward to the winners being announced…

Project Architect: Holly Crosbie
Photo credit: @kilianosullivan
Structures: @webbyates

#nla #newlondonarchitecture #dontmoveimprove #dontmoveimprove2021 #grainhouse #hayhurstandco #newhome #houseextension #londonarchitecture #architecture

On site: ‘Green House’ was looking mighty fine on site this week…

The atrium in the centre of the house is looking pretty sharp: the balustrades and staircase are in and we’re looking forward to the CLT doors going in the gaps…

Project Architect: Claire Taggart
Photo Credit: Jonathan Nicholls

#clt #timberengineering #hayhurstandco #newhome #londonarchitecture

On site: flinty fresh on a sunny Sunday in north Norfolk.

Most the scaffold was struck this week revealing the flint work in all its glory. In the morning sun you can see it’s texture and the micro-shadows on each flint.

Looking forward to the rest of the progress on the project.

#cromer #norfolk #flint #ruinedhouse #chimney #flintchimney #houseextension #norfolkarchitecture #hayhurstandco #ajcooper

Landscape dialogues: with a number of new commissions in the studio, we have been thinking a lot about how we make material and tectonic interventions in landscape spaces this week.

How we layer landscape and how we layer our interventions within it. How we synthesise these conditions rather than having one dominate the other. How do our designs reveal the dialogue between the man-made and the natural and how does it play out in terms of hierarchy, texture and tone.

Looking forward to sharing our work in progress soon.

Image is from Grain House. Photo credit: @kilianosullivan

#nature #manmade #landscape #intervention #materials

Lecture: If you happen to be in Leicester this evening (so to speak) pop in…

Nick will be giving an open lecture to the Architecture School at the Leicester School of Architecture, De Montford University entitled ‘Essays in Play’ where he will be talking about about a number of current projects for schools and learning spaces.

#architecturelecture #demontfortuniversity #leicesterschoolofarchitecture #hayhurstandco

No cigar: Hayhurst & Co. were really pleased to have been invitied by @studio.aki to collaborate in an invited RIBA competition for a series of public realm upgrades across east London’s iconic Becontree Estate.

Our entry looked at working with local residents to turn under-used corners of the estate into bio-diverse and active green spaces.

We didn’t make it this time but well done to @nimtimarchitects for winning the competition. Looks great…!

#competitionentry #notthistime #architecturalcollaboration #collaboration #beacontree #beacontreeestate

Pinch punch, Grand Designs front cover of the month… hahaha

The March issue includes a lovely 14-page article on ‘Grain House’ in Hackney written by Anna Winston entitled ‘Everything Connected’.

Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

#grainhouse #granddesigns #frontcover #hayhurstandco #houseextension #houserenovation #londonarchitecture #domesticarchitetcure #home @granddesignstv @granddesigns_uk

Hayhurst & Co Project Architect, Tony Berongoy, will be talking in a careers summit with ‘GT Scholars’ tomorrow, Saturday 27th February alongside a range of diverse professionals from a range of careers and industries.

This is an event for 13-18 year olds and is free to sign up and attend.

The day is split into a number of discussions and masterclasses and Tony will be speaking in one panel and moderating another panel about STEM careers. Sign up…!

www.careerssummit.gtscholars.org
@gtscholars

#mentoring #hayhurstandco

We were thrilled to have Faith from St Saviour’s and St Olave’s and Nancy from Charter East Dulwich in the studio last week as part of the RE—SET—GO programme: 2 of the 18 paid work placements for 16-24 year olds from under-represented groups that live in Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark or Wandsworth.

Faith and Nancy helped research and develop design ideas for sustainable green and blue roof strategies for a number of new homes on infil sites around London that we are currently developing designs for. They were researching, sketching, 3D-modelling, sharing and presenting ideas with the team.

RE—SET—GO is led by @we_made_that @if_do and @gortscott. Hayhurst & Co. is one of the employer partners that make up @forum.london, a collective of 21 leading London architectural practices who care about the city, its people and its built environment.

Funding support comes from Stride, who campaign to build networks that inspire imaginations, encourage collaboration and the exchange of knowledge.

Big thank you to Project Architect Tony Berongoy and Claire Taggart for guiding Faith and Nancy through the week.

#resetgo #workexperience #hayhurstandco

Today, we are reminiscing about our project for Marble Arch Island after yesterday’s unveiling of @mvrdv proposal of ‘Marble Arch Hill’.

In 2016, we won an invited competition to design a new café, event space and landscaped public realm on the same spot. The competition win involved the planting of the dis-used subterranean walkways and the creation of a new timber boardwalk at grade with two mirror-clad, planted pavilions.

It also included trees raised on mirror clad planters raised off the ground. The aim to was to recreate the Italian sunken gardens that once existed on the west side of Hyde Park and to create an immersive landscape experience that would act as a threshold between the hubbub of Oxford Street and the tranquility of Hyde Park.

Images: Holly Crosbie, @studioarchetype

#marblearch #marblearchisland #pavilion #competitionwinner #theonethatgotaway #boardwalk #sunkengarden #hydepark #hayhurstandco

A snowy studio day on our terrace in Fournier Street. #fournierstreet #hayhurstandco

In the press: Great to see Grain House on the front page of Italian architecture and design journal ‘Abitare’ this month.

There is an 8-page article inside entitled ‘Welcomed by a privet – love it…

Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

#grainhouse #hayhurstandco @abitare_magazine #houseextension #londonarchitecture #hackney #londonhouse

First Ideas: We are currently developing designs for the refurbishment of a 3-storey post-war town-house in north London.

Work in progress images are exploring the architectural journey through the house: spatial connections, material language and transitions from ‘rich’ spaces to ‘light’ spaces.

#workinprogress #hayhurstandco #architecturalimages #londonarchitecture #architecturaljourney

Wood on wood: The central atrium space at ‘Green House’ – a new 5-bedroomed House In north London – was opened up this week.

The photograph shows the varying use of CLT (as joists, ring-beams, floors and walls) to help form depth within the spaces. Spatially, the changes in floor level and the opening up of the central, double-height dining space create layering and thresholds in section.

Project Architect and Photo Credit: Claire Taggart

#greenhouse #clt #woodonwood #newhome #londonarchitecture #hayhurstandco @eurban_limited

Pegasus Academy: Clearing up old photos on my laptop and found this from c. 2015 of Pegasus Academy in Thornton Heath. Let there be more gold in 2021…

#moregold #goldschool #thegoldschool #pegasusacademy #croydon

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year 🌲🕺🕺

The image underneath is from the CLT frame at Green House. A new-build, 5-bedroomed house currently on-site in north London. Watch this space for more in the New Year…

Photo Credit & Project Architect: Claire Taggart

#greenhouse #hayhurstandco #merrychristmas #clt #crosslaminatedtimber #onsite #inconstruction #sustainableconstruction #wood #timberbuilding

On site: Blue skies for our last visit before Christmas… The 3G pitch is down, trees are in. Looking forward to the children occupying the whole site in the New Year.

Photo Credit & Project Associate: Jamie Wakeford Holder

#edithnevilleprimaryschool #hayhurstandco #schooldesign #learningspaces #onsite #londonarchitecture

Grain House: We are pleased to announce that Grain House is one of the 47 projects shortlisted for the Hackney Design Awards. The awards for different categories are being announced every day this week with the main awards on Thursday. Watch this space…!

#hackney #hackneydesignawards #designawards #houseextension #londonhouse #grainhouse #hayhurstandco

We’re delighted to be one of the 21 members of the London Practice Forum participating in RE—SET—GO, a programme that will make space for excluded voices and pilot ways to build more progressive and representative architectural communities.

RE—SET—GO will be offering 18 paid work placements for 16-24 year olds from under-represented groups that live in Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark or Wandsworth. Applications are now open and the deadline to apply is 6pm, 11 January 2021.

See: re-set-go.xyz

Despite the built environment’s influence on our everyday lives, women and Black, Asian and multi ethnic groups are still under-represented in the professions that shape it.

We want to help correct the bias in who gets to shape the cities we live and work in. We know that much more needs to be done to create opportunities in architectural practice, which has a poor track record when it comes to wider participation and diversity.

A number of activities will operate over the coming year, including paid work experience; participative workshops; knowledge exchange events; and 1-to-1 mentoring sessions to support future generations of architects, designers and architecture practices. The programme will provide opportunities for Black, Asian and multi ethnic individuals and women from the boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Wandsworth. It is employer-led and will give more than 150 individuals from under-represented backgrounds experience, skills and connections to prepare for employment in architecture practice.

RE—SET—GO is led by @we_made_that @if_do and @gortscott. Employer partners are formed from the @forum.london, a collective of 21 leading London architectural practices which care about the city, its people and its built environment.

Funding support comes from Stride, who campaign to build networks that inspire imaginations, encourage collaboration and the exchange of knowledge.

Planning Consent Week: 4 approvals in 4 different boroughs (Croydon, Haringey, Islington & Westminster)

Approvals include the development of 20 affordable homes in Atlanta Court, Thornton Heath, Croydon for @brickbybrickldn that was approved at planning committee on Thursday evening.

Constructed in red brick with gold-coloured windows (local reference ) the design includes arched brickwork to denote openings to shared accesses and circulation areas and curved balconies staggered between floors to maximise their access to daylight and sunlight.

Swipe to the left for the full elevation.

Project Architect: Tony Berongoy
Project Assistant: Chester Kendell

#planningsuccess #atlantacourt #hayhurstandco #affordablehomes #newhomes #brick #goldwindows

On site this week: The boundary treatment and landscaping works for Edith Neville Primary School are well on their way…

The incline in the elevations treatment responds to the widening of the newly formed public open space and creates a visually permeable edge to the school site. Looking forward to the planting and clearer skies!

Photo Credit: Jamie Wakeford Holder (Project Associate)

#schooldesign #boundarytreatment #edithnevilleprimaryschool #edithneville #candenschools

New Commission: Hayhurst & Co have been appointed by Camden Council to develop designs for the conversion of the Carlton Primary School into a new Early Year Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Community Hub.

This exciting project will include new spaces for Early Years provision, healthcare spaces, children centre spaces as well as a range of spaces for family support, adult community learning and employability services. Watch this space…

#newproject #communityspaces #educationspaces #communityhub

On site: I see you church tower, and I raise you with my chimney.

On site with ‘Ruined House’ in Cromer earlier this week.

#churchtower #chimney #cromer #norfolk #newhome #constructionsite #onsite

Hayhurst and Co director Jonathan Nicholls will be talking to architects about Architects working with Architects this afternoon for the RIBA South West Small & Emerging Practice Network and sharing his thoughts on what can be achieved by working collaboratively.

Hayhurst and Co have successfully collaborated with architects small and large and we strongly believe the future of public commissions lie in the rewards and benefits gained by creating plural and more diverse teams.

#hayhurstandco #collaboration #ribasouthwest #architectcollaboration

Winner…! Delighted that the Central Somers Town masterplan has won ‘Building Magazine’s award for ‘Delivering Social Value’ for all the people of Somers Town.

We worked for Camden Council alongside #dsdha @moco_arch @drmmarchitects_studio and @adamkhanarch. Completing soon, our project for Edith Neville Primary School will form the first stage of the project.

#socialvalue #deliveringsocialvalue #buildingawards #buildingswards2020 #edithnevilleprimaryschool #centralsomerstown #hayhurstandco #masterplan #awardwinning

Always nice to see our work in the @architectsjournal

#inthepress #grasmereroad #hayhurstandco #newhomes #planningconsent

Grain House: A year on.

At the end of September, we commissioned another set of photos of Grain House. They show a year’s worth of weathering to the timber cladding and at the point when there are still leaves on the trees. Settling in nicely…

Photo Credit @kilianosullivan

#grainhouse #hayhurstandco #hayhurst&co #hackney #hackneyhome #hackneyhouse #houseextension #londonhouseextension #londonhome #timber #timbercladding

Part of a city: Edith Neville Primary School on site from the sky. The image from drone footage taken earlier this year shows the scale of the emerging building in the context of the scale of the city.

On the left the Grade-II listed Charrington Street running north and south and on the right – the other side of the main line – the King’s Cross development.

The project forms the first stage of a landscape-led masterplan for the development of Central Somers Town working alongside @dsdha_architecture @drmmarchitects_studio @moco_arch and @adamkhanarch

Drone footage by @alexmciveraerial c/o DSDHA.

#school #city #schooldesign #hayhurstandco #camden #learningspaces #whitebuilding #landscape #cityscape #edithnevilleprimaryschool

The big back door project: Photography in motion with @kilianosullivan at a recently completed project in Islington.

#bigbackdoor #islington #houserefurbishment #londonarchitecture #hayhurstandco #photographersatwork

In Education: This evening, Jonathan is presenting ongoing research into the creation of healthy learning spaces and applying what we’ve learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic to improve existing school buildings.

The work, done with the Association for Learning Environments (A4LE) is currently looking at the DFE’s Baseline School Designs and how we might retrofit existing schools to improve buildings that perform poorly with regards to the new rules on hygiene and virus-transfer.

#schooldesign #a4le #covidresponse #learningspaces #associationforlearningenvironments

School’s back! Today is the first day that most schools in England are re-opening after almost six months.

Over the next few weeks we will be re-sharing some of the innovative and ground-breaking school work we have done over the last 10 years.

This image is from Whitehorse Manor Primary School (part of the Pegasus Academy Trust). The photo by @anthony_coleman_photo was featured on the front page of the @thearchitecturalreview following the school being awarded the 2015 AR Schools Award. Like many of the photographs of our schools projects, we aim to have them photographed as active and occupied spaces that reveal acts of play, learning and living.

#schooldesign #architecture #londonarchitecture #learningspaces

On site: Changing spaces. The point when the internal walls come down is one of the most exciting and revealing parts of the remodelling process. On site with ‘Ruined House’ in north Norfolk.

#hayhurstandco #ruinedhouse #houseextension #norfolkarchitecture #newhome #constructionsite #workinprogress #cromer

Grain House on front page of AJ on-line today…!

@architectsjournal #grainhouse #hayhurstandco

Ruined House: Staring on site today, Ruined House is the remodelling and extension of a 1980s, H-plan, pattern book bungalow. Set high up on a ridge in Cromer, north Norfolk, the existing house fails to capture the sea views to the north or open up to the woods to the south.

The design adds a series of site-specific, flint-clad interventions around an over-sized flint chimney: interventions that appear to pre-date the existing house and, conversely, appear as the ruin around which the existing house was built.

Completing in Spring 2021. #ruinedhouse #hayhurstandco #norfolkarchitecture #home #houseextension #cromer

Garden House: Lovely to see Garden House re-published on @archdaily this morning. One of our favourite homes for the amazing @whitakermalem completed in 2015.

Happy Sundays.

Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

#gardenhouse #hayhurstandco #archdaily #homesoflondon #london #architecture #home #oneoffhouse

Education Research: This week Jonathan has been leading a session at the Association For Learning Environments (A4LE) ‘Designing Spaces for Future Focused Schools: Beyond COVID’ conference.

Jonathan was looking at how we might find opportunities for positive permanent change to the design of existing learning spaces in the light of new technology and teaching practices rather than the implementation of temporary mitigation and pop-up solutions as a response to the spread of an infectious-diseases.

Issues discussed included openings, table design, information graphics, visibility and connections to outside spaces. Small modifications with small capital investments but with large impacts.

#education #learningspaces #schooldesign #schoolsforthefuture #a4le #beyondcovid #beyondcovid19

Lockdown look: The planters we designed for the fourth floor terrace at the RIBA are looking great and the plants are surviving lockdown thanks to the green-fingered security guard.

The design includes mobile, irregular-shaped planters and seats set at different heights that tesselate to form a continuous balustrade to the terrace.

Project Architect, Claire Taggart, took these photos on her visit this week. We are looking forward to this space being used by the Clore Learning Centre when 66 Portland Place re-opens.

@riba #clorelearningcentre #66portlandplace #outdoorlearning #plantsofinstagram #planters #roofterrace #outdoorclassroom #creativebalustrades #balustrade

In Education: We are pleased to share some of the work that Nick’s students have carried out as part of the MArch ‘Future Practice’ module he runs @soad_brighton.

The module encourages students to explore the potential agency of the architect in contemporary society and to reflect on their own professional ethics and design practices. All of this year’s papers taught and written under lockdown.

1. Nam Vu: Urban Greening: An exploration of the GLA’s Urban Greening Factor (image of St Paul’s being retrofitted to meet Urban Greening Factor)
2. Una Harran: Kindness and the activist Architect
3. Annette Saavedra: Post-human Practice

STaught with @hollyjeany and @tberongoy and with contributions from @joseph_zealhenry Alison Courtinho from @brickbybrickldn and Wilf Meynell from @studiobark.

#architecturestudents #studentwork #futurepractice