Hewitt Studios recently won an invited competition to redesign the Freshford Village Memorial Hall, near Bath. Their vision was to provide a welcoming and attractive multipurpose focus for local community activity, complementing its outstanding rural setting.
Upon the arrival of their new baby daughter, the need for additional family space meant that the client’s existing 1950s three bed house desperately needed extending. The brief called for two additional bedrooms upstairs and a large open-plan family space with light, views and access to the beautiful garden at ground floor.
Forbo Flooring Systems’ unique in-house design service has brought to life a striking new refurbishment project at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, where a wide range of Forbo’s textile and resilient products have been specified as part of an exciting integrated flooring solution.
The aim was to provide a stimulating and modern study area, that was attractive and engaging to students, enhancing the overall image of the University,” comments Sarah Gorey, Furnishing & Design Manager at the University, who specified the products.
A terraced house set within a Conservation Area in a quiet West London Street has been refurbished and extended by Manser Medal winning practice Pitman Tozer, creating a family home and garden annex.
“The new Energy Centres for the 2012 London Olympics champion power generation as an integral presence in two East London communities – two vital pieces of utilities infrastructure for the Olympic and Paralympic Games and ensuing Legacy. The practices response is distinct in both form and function – a strong 21st Century industrial aesthetic.”
SIR JOHN ARMITT
CHAIRMAN, OLYMPIC DELIVERY AUTHORITY
The house is sited on a tree lined suburban road in Cheshire and was designed for a young family couple. On the road, the house types are suburban; conservative, bland and mock traditional. Our approach was to create a fresh contemporary version of the suburban house type; one that reacts to its context and is tailored to suit the specific needs of the client.
The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards has invited the ‘overall’ restaurant and bar winners from the last four years to ‘think outside the box’ and create four different themed pop-up spaces using only white products.
The veins and arteries of London’s infrastructure networks are exposed across the industrial wastelands of the Lea Valley in East London, dividing and fragmenting the landscape, creating splinters of dislocated, inaccessible gap space.
The house, a grade 2 listed building, set opposite Hampstead Heath was designed by Ewen Christian, an RIBA president and Gold medalist, and built in 1881. The brief was to return the 900 sqm four storey building, previously divided into four flats, into a single-family home and to add a new subterranean swimming pool to the side of the house and a garage for 3 cars over the pool.
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