Overview: At the time, our third consecutive commission by the iconic Hearst publishing house was to deliver a complete spatial redesign and interior fit out across all five floors in their flagship 70,915sqft House of Hearst headquarters in Leicester Square, London. Community Impact & Value: Our creation of seven new individual and team working spaces focused on a restructured publishing house culture that moved Hearst away from the solo desk and outdated siloed configuration. Biophilic design principles underpinned the wider holistically sustainable approach, transforming the Workplace through natural materials and use of daylight. Over 200 large scale multi-species of plant life was playfully used throughout, ensuring each of the six repurposed entrance foyers better supported movement, wellbeing, collaborative working and a re-invigorated and exciting social congregation space. Technical Insights & Challenges: Designed and delivered during a national period of Covid-19 lockdown, our first principles approached to the CAT B sustainable retrofit approach reused over 95% of existing building materials, making up 76% of all used materials in the project. These bespoke designs met the clients exacting standards of finish and drove innovation. Key Achievements: The scheme delivered over 50% embodied carbon, saving during construction whilst maintaining operational continuity for all digital publishing. Our adopted Client informed post occupancy analysis models at 3, 6, 9 and 12 month intervals has mapped a similar percentage in operation carbon energy saving. User feedback and technical data has allowed informed decisions for additional layout adoption and budgeting to evolve the new setup and structure in this dynamic industry leading, future of work environment. HOUSE OF HEARST Client: Hearst Value: Confidential Status: Completed Overview: At the time, our third consecutive commission by the iconic Hearst publishing house was to deliver a complete spatial redesign and interior fit out across all five floors in their flagship 70,915sqft House of Hearst headquarters in Leicester Square, London. Community Impact & Value: Our creation of seven new individual and team working spaces focused on a restructured publishing house culture that moved Hearst away from the solo desk and outdated siloed configuration. Biophilic design principles underpinned the wider holistically sustainable approach, transforming the Workplace through natural materials and use of daylight. Over 200 large scale multi-species of plant life was playfully used throughout, ensuring each of the six repurposed entrance foyers better supported movement, wellbeing, collaborative working and a re-invigorated and exciting social congregation space. Technical Insights & Challenges: Designed and delivered during a national period of Covid-19 lockdown, our first principles approached to the CAT B sustainable retrofit approach reused over 95% of existing building materials, making up 76% of all used materials in the project. These bespoke designs met the clients exacting standards of finish and drove innovation. Key Achievements: The scheme delivered over 50% embodied carbon, saving during construction whilst maintaining operational continuity for all digital publishing. Our adopted Client informed post occupancy analysis models at 3, 6, 9 and 12 month intervals has mapped a similar percentage in operation carbon energy saving. User feedback and technical data has allowed informed decisions for additional layout adoption and budgeting to evolve the new setup and structure in this dynamic industry leading, future of work environment.

Overview: A former children’s hospital sat on the 0.33HA central Swanley site in Kent prior to the Client’s 1970’s sheltered housing provision. Having reached the end of its life, wholesale fit for purpose new social housing outweighed refurbishment of the shared HMOs to provide a truly sustainable provision of 22 new much needed 3 bedroom, six person houses. Community Impact & Value: The 11 socially rented and 11 shared ownership properties make the most of natural daylight through orientation and comprehension of the original, well-considered hospital footprints. Swanley’s rich Victorian history as a thriving horticultural and healing environment served the sick of London for generations. This ideal of social prescription saw wellbeing thrive. It seems only right that our project respects this and provides high quality social housing in this mature verdant setting. We have retained all 25 mature trees, including 12 oaks, 3 large horse chestnuts and several beautiful signature cherry and maples, with approximately 1500sqm of new and enhanced existing green habitat. Densification of the site was possible due to the innovative housing typologies set around a central courtyard, landscaped to provide functional car parking and useable community amenity. Technical Insights & Challenges: Our approach of contextual and environmental conditions builds on West Kent Housing Association’s aspirations for best in class. With 100% A-rated SAP (2023) certification, this fabric first approach sees sustainable principles supported with PV arrays and locally sourced material selection. The palette of natural tones ensures the contemporary robust brickwork designs bed the highly energy efficient housing typologies into the existing varied local vernacular. Key Achievements: The delivery stages will be supported through the appointment of local trades and contractors to ensure locally needed housing also supports local jobs and training. HEATH CLOSE Client: West Kent Housing Association Value: Confidential Status: Planning Overview: A former children’s hospital sat on the 0.33HA central Swanley site in Kent prior to the Client’s 1970’s sheltered housing provision. Having reached the end of its life, wholesale fit for purpose new social housing outweighed refurbishment of the shared HMOs to provide a truly sustainable provision of 22 new much needed 3 bedroom, six person houses. Community Impact & Value: The 11 socially rented and 11 shared ownership properties make the most of natural daylight through orientation and comprehension of the original, well-considered hospital footprints. Swanley’s rich Victorian history as a thriving horticultural and healing environment served the sick of London for generations. This ideal of social prescription saw wellbeing thrive. It seems only right that our project respects this and provides high quality social housing in this mature verdant setting. We have retained all 25 mature trees, including 12 oaks, 3 large horse chestnuts and several beautiful signature cherry and maples, with approximately 1500sqm of new and enhanced existing green habitat. Densification of the site was possible due to the innovative housing typologies set around a central courtyard, landscaped to provide functional car parking and useable community amenity. Technical Insights & Challenges: Our approach of contextual and environmental conditions builds on West Kent Housing Association’s aspirations for best in class. With 100% A-rated SAP (2023) certification, this fabric first approach sees sustainable principles supported with PV arrays and locally sourced material selection. The palette of natural tones ensures the contemporary robust brickwork designs bed the highly energy efficient housing typologies into the existing varied local vernacular. Key Achievements: The delivery stages will be supported through the appointment of local trades and contractors to ensure locally needed housing also supports local jobs and training.

Overview: Responding to Exeter’s growing demand for student housing, the scheme delivers a six-storey, 180-unit purpose-built accommodation on the former Unit 1 nightclub site in the Grecian Quarter. The U-shaped building of 5,285 sqm encloses a landscaped central courtyard, providing a social and spatial focus, while transparent ground-floor frontages engage with Summerland Street and Verney Street. Each self-contained studio includes a bathroom and kitchenette, complemented by shared amenities such as a lounge, study areas, gym, gaming and podcast rooms, and laundry facilities. The development replaces a post-war building with a contemporary, contextually sensitive scheme that enhances the townscape and preserves key heritage views. Community Impact & Value: Working closely with Spinnaker Estates and the local authority, the design supports both student life and the wider urban community. The central courtyard and cycle routes link to the neighbouring Printworks development, fostering shared outdoor spaces and improved connectivity. Active street frontages, enhanced pedestrian crossings, and careful consideration of views towards St Sidwell’s Methodist Church reinforce the scheme’s civic presence. By delivering high-quality, sustainable homes close to city-centre institutions, the project contributes to long-term student retention, local economic investment, and the ongoing regeneration of the Grecian Quarter. Technical Insights & Challenges: The site presented a number of constraints, including level changes, adjacency to The Printworks, and conservation sensitivities. Building massing and façade articulation were carefully developed to mitigate overlooking while protecting important heritage views. As a non-high-risk building, the scheme incorporates a robust fire strategy alongside a sustainability-led design approach, with a target of net zero in operation. The roof integrates a blue biosolar system, combining photovoltaic panels with green infrastructure, and the building is designed to connect to Exeter’s emerging District Heating network. Tight programme pressures required close collaboration between architectural, engineering, and sustainability teams, supported by extensive HRB versus non-HRB viability testing. Key Achievements: The project delivers an efficient, site-responsive layout within the constraints of a brownfield plot, informed by a sustainability strategy embedded from the outset. A fabric-first approach supports the net zero in operation target and was developed through close collaboration with MEP, energy, and sustainability consultants. The architectural response balances the protection of heritage views with a positive contribution to the local townscape, resulting in an active, civic-facing scheme aligned with Exeter’s wider urban regeneration objectives. THE FABRIC WORKS Client: Spinnaker Value: 24 million Status: Planning Overview: Responding to Exeter’s growing demand for student housing, the scheme delivers a six-storey, 180-unit purpose-built accommodation on the former Unit 1 nightclub site in the Grecian Quarter. The U-shaped building of 5,285 sqm encloses a landscaped central courtyard, providing a social and spatial focus, while transparent ground-floor frontages engage with Summerland Street and Verney Street. Each self-contained studio includes a bathroom and kitchenette, complemented by shared amenities such as a lounge, study areas, gym, gaming and podcast rooms, and laundry facilities. The development replaces a post-war building with a contemporary, contextually sensitive scheme that enhances the townscape and preserves key heritage views. Community Impact & Value: Working closely with Spinnaker Estates and the local authority, the design supports both student life and the wider urban community. The central courtyard and cycle routes link to the neighbouring Printworks development, fostering shared outdoor spaces and improved connectivity. Active street frontages, enhanced pedestrian crossings, and careful consideration of views towards St Sidwell’s Methodist Church reinforce the scheme’s civic presence. By delivering high-quality, sustainable homes close to city-centre institutions, the project contributes to long-term student retention, local economic investment, and the ongoing regeneration of the Grecian Quarter. Technical Insights & Challenges: The site presented a number of constraints, including level changes, adjacency to The Printworks, and conservation sensitivities. Building massing and façade articulation were carefully developed to mitigate overlooking while protecting important heritage views. As a non-high-risk building, the scheme incorporates a robust fire strategy alongside a sustainability-led design approach, with a target of net zero in operation. The roof integrates a blue biosolar system, combining photovoltaic panels with green infrastructure, and the building is designed to connect to Exeter’s emerging District Heating network. Tight programme pressures required close collaboration between architectural, engineering, and sustainability teams, supported by extensive HRB versus non-HRB viability testing. Key Achievements: The project delivers an efficient, site-responsive layout within the constraints of a brownfield plot, informed by a sustainability strategy embedded from the outset. A fabric-first approach supports the net zero in operation target and was developed through close collaboration with MEP, energy, and sustainability consultants. The architectural response balances the protection of heritage views with a positive contribution to the local townscape, resulting in an active, civic-facing scheme aligned with Exeter’s wider urban regeneration objectives.

Overview: Originally constructed in 2009 and set amongst some of the only remaining ancient oaks in London’s Highgate Conservation Area, this single-storey family home was touted as a forward-thinking timber framed building. Our sensitively contemporary refurbishment and extension of the property centred around a shared ethos of low-carbon construction whilst echoing the qualities of the ecologically-innovative original. Community Impact & Value: Asymmetrically nestled into a semi-sunken back garden plot, the fragmented nature of the internal arrangement posed a number of challenges requiring a unified response. Obstacles included bedrooms opening onto main entrances, and principal rooms suffering from a lack of connection to the garden. The proposed concept methodically addressed these constraints, creating a simpler flow and separation between communal and private spaces. Technical Insights & Challenges: We repaired the disconnection between the landscape and the existing house through the provision of full height sliding doors and refurbished clerestory windows. Introducing sliding windows for all adjacent rooms also established a powerful visual and physical connection, combined with a new landscape strategy and the flourishing green roof. Both new and existing external timber are finished in black, helping the building sit effortlessly amongst the landscape. A number of sustainability strategies were implemented inside and out, including the inclusion of temperature-controlled stack and cross ventilation, permeable paving, green roofs and flood protection. Prioritising the retention and upgrading of existing fabric where possible minimised embodied carbon. The primary timber structure and cladding of the original building were extended to create an architecturally and conceptually-sensitive addition that blurred the lines between old and new. Key Achievements: The formed directional vistas from each space provide concealed yet subtly interconnected spaces that exude privacy while helping to foster togetherness for the family. CHURCH ROAD Client: Private Residential Value: Confidential Status: Completed - Awards: Dezeen Awards 2022 Urban House category - Longlist NLA Don't Move, Improve 2022 Urban Oasis category - Winner AJ Retrofit Award 2022 House £500,000 and over - Highly commended Overview: Originally constructed in 2009 and set amongst some of the only remaining ancient oaks in London’s Highgate Conservation Area, this single-storey family home was touted as a forward-thinking timber framed building. Our sensitively contemporary refurbishment and extension of the property centred around a shared ethos of low-carbon construction whilst echoing the qualities of the ecologically-innovative original. Community Impact & Value: Asymmetrically nestled into a semi-sunken back garden plot, the fragmented nature of the internal arrangement posed a number of challenges requiring a unified response. Obstacles included bedrooms opening onto main entrances, and principal rooms suffering from a lack of connection to the garden. The proposed concept methodically addressed these constraints, creating a simpler flow and separation between communal and private spaces. Technical Insights & Challenges: We repaired the disconnection between the landscape and the existing house through the provision of full height sliding doors and refurbished clerestory windows. Introducing sliding windows for all adjacent rooms also established a powerful visual and physical connection, combined with a new landscape strategy and the flourishing green roof. Both new and existing external timber are finished in black, helping the building sit effortlessly amongst the landscape. A number of sustainability strategies were implemented inside and out, including the inclusion of temperature-controlled stack and cross ventilation, permeable paving, green roofs and flood protection. Prioritising the retention and upgrading of existing fabric where possible minimised embodied carbon. The primary timber structure and cladding of the original building were extended to create an architecturally and conceptually-sensitive addition that blurred the lines between old and new. Key Achievements: The formed directional vistas from each space provide concealed yet subtly interconnected spaces that exude privacy while helping to foster togetherness for the family.

Overview: Corbett Close is a collection of 11 affordable family homes on the edge of the Green Belt, proposed as part of a trio of developments along Fairchildes Avenue. Our four-storey pavilion orientates itself to views of both the stunning natural setting, and the new green corridor linking the three development sites. A collective vision links our series of proposals, stitching together the street offering a striking, contemporary typology that subtly references the existing built vernacular of New Addington Croydon. Community Impact & Value: An efficient building footprint maximises the landscaping and amenity for the benefit of the residents and the existing local community. Breaking centrally, the volume expresses the position of the stairwell, visually lifting the building. The core is carved, creating space for an open stairwell introducing light from multiple orientations giving a sense of expansiveness with layered views between interconnected volumes. Technical Insights & Challenges: A stepped brick profile creates interest and texture that rises up the building and wraps around to emphasise a corner entrance. The refined material palette includes a brick selection that compliments those of the adjacent sites. These materials origionate from a local quarry that operates the only hand fired kiln in the UK, helping to reduce the carbon footprint of the development and grounding the textured articulation. Key Achievements: Our landscape strategy implements sustainable drainage and planting of new indigenous species with a view to improving local biodiversity and animal habitats. The sensitivity to the edge of greenbelt setting allows these additions to positively contribute to the activity along the green corridor. Improving access routes and reactivating the bridleway bordering the site promotes connectivity and community access. CORBETT CLOSE Client: Brick By Brick Ltd Value: Confidential Status: Planning Overview: Corbett Close is a collection of 11 affordable family homes on the edge of the Green Belt, proposed as part of a trio of developments along Fairchildes Avenue. Our four-storey pavilion orientates itself to views of both the stunning natural setting, and the new green corridor linking the three development sites. A collective vision links our series of proposals, stitching together the street offering a striking, contemporary typology that subtly references the existing built vernacular of New Addington Croydon. Community Impact & Value: An efficient building footprint maximises the landscaping and amenity for the benefit of the residents and the existing local community. Breaking centrally, the volume expresses the position of the stairwell, visually lifting the building. The core is carved, creating space for an open stairwell introducing light from multiple orientations giving a sense of expansiveness with layered views between interconnected volumes. Technical Insights & Challenges: A stepped brick profile creates interest and texture that rises up the building and wraps around to emphasise a corner entrance. The refined material palette includes a brick selection that compliments those of the adjacent sites. These materials origionate from a local quarry that operates the only hand fired kiln in the UK, helping to reduce the carbon footprint of the development and grounding the textured articulation. Key Achievements: Our landscape strategy implements sustainable drainage and planting of new indigenous species with a view to improving local biodiversity and animal habitats. The sensitivity to the edge of greenbelt setting allows these additions to positively contribute to the activity along the green corridor. Improving access routes and reactivating the bridleway bordering the site promotes connectivity and community access.

Overview: In Kings Cross Camden, our 945 sqm mixed-used proposal seeks to establish strong connections between the street and existing architecture adjacent to the prominent corner site, re-establishing its relationship to the main street. An extended basement and ground floor accommodate new commercial units and ancillary functions, with five residential units provided in the floors above. Provision is made for the potential addition of a further six storeys, futureproofing the function and viability of the project. Community Impact & Value: The building’s form , material and composition has emerged following in-depth studies of both the site and the conservation area’s architecture and noteworthy adjacent Listed buildings. The result is a textured facade composed of black brick arches set over two storeys, rising in a softer buff brick of the retrofitted volume above. The arches continue a language established by local light-industrial railway buildings and more recent commercial developments, with the retained taller block maintaining its relationship with the setting. Technical Insights & Challenges: The extended ground and first floor re-establish the original building line. A strong new urban corner is aligned along Britannia Street and steps back gently along Gray’s Inn Road, reuniting pedestrian routes and framing a mature London Plane Tree. Refined metal detailing of the ground-floor spaces reinforce a warehouse language that continues to the balustrades of the residential loggia above and provides solar shading for the southern elevation. Key Achievements: New entrances for both new and existing homes replace an isolated fenced-off forecourt, establishing a stronger, more welcoming sense of arrival. At its tallest, the proposed extension extends to nine storeys, a scale similar to surrounding developments further strengthening the site's seamless integration into this preexisting central urban environment. GRAYS INN ROAD Client: CMT Construction Value: Confidential Status: Detailed Design Overview: In Kings Cross Camden, our 945 sqm mixed-used proposal seeks to establish strong connections between the street and existing architecture adjacent to the prominent corner site, re-establishing its relationship to the main street. An extended basement and ground floor accommodate new commercial units and ancillary functions, with five residential units provided in the floors above. Provision is made for the potential addition of a further six storeys, futureproofing the function and viability of the project. Community Impact & Value: The building’s form , material and composition has emerged following in-depth studies of both the site and the conservation area’s architecture and noteworthy adjacent Listed buildings. The result is a textured facade composed of black brick arches set over two storeys, rising in a softer buff brick of the retrofitted volume above. The arches continue a language established by local light-industrial railway buildings and more recent commercial developments, with the retained taller block maintaining its relationship with the setting. Technical Insights & Challenges: The extended ground and first floor re-establish the original building line. A strong new urban corner is aligned along Britannia Street and steps back gently along Gray’s Inn Road, reuniting pedestrian routes and framing a mature London Plane Tree. Refined metal detailing of the ground-floor spaces reinforce a warehouse language that continues to the balustrades of the residential loggia above and provides solar shading for the southern elevation. Key Achievements: New entrances for both new and existing homes replace an isolated fenced-off forecourt, establishing a stronger, more welcoming sense of arrival. At its tallest, the proposed extension extends to nine storeys, a scale similar to surrounding developments further strengthening the site's seamless integration into this preexisting central urban environment.

Overview: This 55 home masterplan for an edge of village development in East Sussex brings sustainability and social value to the forefront of a successful scheme on the 5.6HA former agricultural site. When delivered, our prescribed, ‘within 15-mile sourcing of materials’, sees local clays used to ensure the contemporary brickwork designs bed the highly energy efficient homes into the existing local vernacular. Community Impact & Value: By knitting into the local green infrastructure and existing footpath network our ‘green finger parks’ ensure a series of distinct characters to our ‘place first’ approach. We ensure each home looks over uplifted and new habitat, increasing biodiversity by a 57% net gain. Open green space and public accessible shared amenity also covers 20% of the site. The thriving village extension builds on the rich local history, 22 listed buildings, cottages and farm typologies, all within the Conservation Area. Natural play and SUDS are wide swales and attenuation depressions that become natural amphitheatres and boardwalks. Technical Insights & Challenges: Focused and open public consultation events, supported by the local developer’s understanding, ensured collaborative engagement with sustainability driving the co-created brief. A mixture of passive and active measures are introduced, with an efficient fabric and airtight envelope achieving 100% A-rated SAP (2023) certification for the new homes. The fabric first approach is supported by air-source heat pumps paired with grey water recycling and low operational energy use with comprehensive electrical charging with full adaptability. Key Achievements: The delivery stages will be supported with a parallel project that sees the potential for 100% onsite energy generation and a green electrical tariff, showing cutting edge design and sustainability can sitting harmoniously in this mature woodland village setting. EAST HOATHLY Client: Oakford Developments Value: Confidential Status: Planning Overview: This 55 home masterplan for an edge of village development in East Sussex brings sustainability and social value to the forefront of a successful scheme on the 5.6HA former agricultural site. When delivered, our prescribed, ‘within 15-mile sourcing of materials’, sees local clays used to ensure the contemporary brickwork designs bed the highly energy efficient homes into the existing local vernacular. Community Impact & Value: By knitting into the local green infrastructure and existing footpath network our ‘green finger parks’ ensure a series of distinct characters to our ‘place first’ approach. We ensure each home looks over uplifted and new habitat, increasing biodiversity by a 57% net gain. Open green space and public accessible shared amenity also covers 20% of the site. The thriving village extension builds on the rich local history, 22 listed buildings, cottages and farm typologies, all within the Conservation Area. Natural play and SUDS are wide swales and attenuation depressions that become natural amphitheatres and boardwalks. Technical Insights & Challenges: Focused and open public consultation events, supported by the local developer’s understanding, ensured collaborative engagement with sustainability driving the co-created brief. A mixture of passive and active measures are introduced, with an efficient fabric and airtight envelope achieving 100% A-rated SAP (2023) certification for the new homes. The fabric first approach is supported by air-source heat pumps paired with grey water recycling and low operational energy use with comprehensive electrical charging with full adaptability. Key Achievements: The delivery stages will be supported with a parallel project that sees the potential for 100% onsite energy generation and a green electrical tariff, showing cutting edge design and sustainability can sitting harmoniously in this mature woodland village setting.

Overview: Sitting prominently within this north oxford estate, the location is perfect to contextually develop the mansion block typology created for these three interlocked development sites. 21 new 100% social rented flats sit within this three-storey chamfered block. Community Impact & Value: Being a former primary school and then home to the Charity Emmaus’ workshops, the portfolio planning approach and then phased construction, enabled this site release to provide much needed homes. Supported by the new community centre at the adjacent Dora Carr Close, Westlands Drive provides a key element of our ambitious high quality social housing scheme. Technical Insights & Challenges: The three-storey residential block is split into two distinct sections with a covered external courtyard. Secure access through the central core provides residents with an enchanting winter garden space with access bridges to their units. The then Code Level 4 and the Code for Sustainable Homes helped make this an exemplar sustainable new housing scheme and led multi-aspect design to ensure enhanced internal quality of accommodation could be provide at an entry point in the market. This 5.5m facing distance allow natural ventilation and duel/triple aspect living in otherwise an a-typical internalised corridor arrangement. Under the white brick aesthetic, thermal mass is exposed via the pre-cast plank system and pre-cast stairs, helping to moderate and retain latent heat, reducing the heating and cooling demands. Key Achievements: Undertaking the detailed design and site delivery, the wider 100 home scheme design by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) for Kevin McCloud’s development company HAB, builds on the joint venture with and housing association GreenSquare Group and Oxford City Council. Much needed accommodation for people at risk of homelessness as well as those on the housing register balances high quality design with affordability. WESTLANDS DRIVE Client: Local Authority JV Value: 2.8 million Status: Planning Overview: Sitting prominently within this north oxford estate, the location is perfect to contextually develop the mansion block typology created for these three interlocked development sites. 21 new 100% social rented flats sit within this three-storey chamfered block. Community Impact & Value: Being a former primary school and then home to the Charity Emmaus’ workshops, the portfolio planning approach and then phased construction, enabled this site release to provide much needed homes. Supported by the new community centre at the adjacent Dora Carr Close, Westlands Drive provides a key element of our ambitious high quality social housing scheme. Technical Insights & Challenges: The three-storey residential block is split into two distinct sections with a covered external courtyard. Secure access through the central core provides residents with an enchanting winter garden space with access bridges to their units. The then Code Level 4 and the Code for Sustainable Homes helped make this an exemplar sustainable new housing scheme and led multi-aspect design to ensure enhanced internal quality of accommodation could be provide at an entry point in the market. This 5.5m facing distance allow natural ventilation and duel/triple aspect living in otherwise an a-typical internalised corridor arrangement. Under the white brick aesthetic, thermal mass is exposed via the pre-cast plank system and pre-cast stairs, helping to moderate and retain latent heat, reducing the heating and cooling demands. Key Achievements: Undertaking the detailed design and site delivery, the wider 100 home scheme design by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) for Kevin McCloud’s development company HAB, builds on the joint venture with and housing association GreenSquare Group and Oxford City Council. Much needed accommodation for people at risk of homelessness as well as those on the housing register balances high quality design with affordability.

Overview: This prominent 11 storey former office block on the High Road, is remodelled and extended to prove 260 new residential apartments with four new 5 storey buildings to the west, on the previous carparking. The 235,269 sqm / 2,532,415 sqft mixed use development reactivates this brownfield site. The scheme is served by a significant new basement and 660 sqm of podium landscape, providing a central courtyard. The new ground floor commercial space in Barnet House provides activation and a tranquil space is formed that new residents enjoy. The landscape also traverses the 4.5m level change across the site to the adjacent Baxendale Gardens and the surrounding streets. Community Impact & Value: Ever Ready House, designed in 1966 by Richard Seifert was re-named Barnet House in 1986. It has sat empty since the most recent tenant and local employer, London Brough of Barnet, relocated in 2021. Whilst this residential focus refurbishment provides new local homes and commercial employment, it also ensures this significant scale local landmark is enhanced to provide a high-quality new investment to the Whetstone town centre, driving wider economic investment. Technical Insights & Challenges: Refurbishment rather than demolition provides a significant embodied carbon saving for the scheme, whilst also a challenging conversion to new residential best practice provisions. Innovative slab extension, increase the original building floorplates from 723sqm to 1190sqm, as well as in height, enlarging the building to 13 storeys. This enables additional staircases and triple aspect units to be formed benefiting from far reaching views over London. Taken through planning by Tate Hindle, we are undertaking detail design and delivery with CField Construction and the Client, Meadow. Key Achievements: Reuse and adaptation are embedded in sound sustainable strategies addressing decarbonisation aligning with our Studio values of retrofit and fabric first approaches. BARNET HOUSE Client: Meadow Value: 75 million Status: Construction Overview: This prominent 11 storey former office block on the High Road, is remodelled and extended to prove 260 new residential apartments with four new 5 storey buildings to the west, on the previous carparking. The 235,269 sqm / 2,532,415 sqft mixed use development reactivates this brownfield site. The scheme is served by a significant new basement and 660 sqm of podium landscape, providing a central courtyard. The new ground floor commercial space in Barnet House provides activation and a tranquil space is formed that new residents enjoy. The landscape also traverses the 4.5m level change across the site to the adjacent Baxendale Gardens and the surrounding streets. Community Impact & Value: Ever Ready House, designed in 1966 by Richard Seifert was re-named Barnet House in 1986. It has sat empty since the most recent tenant and local employer, London Brough of Barnet, relocated in 2021. Whilst this residential focus refurbishment provides new local homes and commercial employment, it also ensures this significant scale local landmark is enhanced to provide a high-quality new investment to the Whetstone town centre, driving wider economic investment. Technical Insights & Challenges: Refurbishment rather than demolition provides a significant embodied carbon saving for the scheme, whilst also a challenging conversion to new residential best practice provisions. Innovative slab extension, increase the original building floorplates from 723sqm to 1190sqm, as well as in height, enlarging the building to 13 storeys. This enables additional staircases and triple aspect units to be formed benefiting from far reaching views over London. Taken through planning by Tate Hindle, we are undertaking detail design and delivery with CField Construction and the Client, Meadow. Key Achievements: Reuse and adaptation are embedded in sound sustainable strategies addressing decarbonisation aligning with our Studio values of retrofit and fabric first approaches.

Overview: On a private road amongst the rolling downlands and lush meadows of Ashridge Estate sits Birchwood, an ageing 1970s family home within a verdant plot surrounded by ancient trees. Our proposed refurbishment sensitively works with the existing building and its magnificent setting within The Chilterns, an Area of Natural Beauty, to create a low-carbon, locally-crafted renovation. Community Impact & Value: It is more common locally, to demolish and replace dated homes. Here, we retain, recycle and reuse existing elements as part of a retrofirst approach that transforms a dated building into a contemporary home. Strengthening the connection between the interiors and the landscape guides the design and unification of both new and existing spaces. Each elevation is unique in composition but united in material and ethos, reading as a whole, orienting itself towards the rich and varied views of the landscape. Technical Insights & Challenges: Local materials and craftsmanship create a new twist on the prevailing vernacular, referencing the strong architectural tradition in The Chilterns and creating a meaningful connection to its history. Hand-crafted tiles face the first floor walls and seamlessly clad the roof, accomplishing a form that is simultaneously refined and contextual. Below, the ground floor palette of knapped flint gabions in varied tones, metal canopies and floor-to-ceiling openings create an elegant datum. Key Achievements: Our sustainability strategy adopts a ‘fabric-first’ low carbon approach, working to upgrade the existing building before proposing anything new. We are minimising the use of new building fabric, thereby combining environmental and economical benefits. Utilisation of innovative solar shading applications facilitate control of the internal climate and reduces energy demand whilst allowing natural light to filter deep into the plan. BIRCHWOOD Client: Private Value: Confidential Status: Detailed Design Overview: On a private road amongst the rolling downlands and lush meadows of Ashridge Estate sits Birchwood, an ageing 1970s family home within a verdant plot surrounded by ancient trees. Our proposed refurbishment sensitively works with the existing building and its magnificent setting within The Chilterns, an Area of Natural Beauty, to create a low-carbon, locally-crafted renovation. Community Impact & Value: It is more common locally, to demolish and replace dated homes. Here, we retain, recycle and reuse existing elements as part of a retrofirst approach that transforms a dated building into a contemporary home. Strengthening the connection between the interiors and the landscape guides the design and unification of both new and existing spaces. Each elevation is unique in composition but united in material and ethos, reading as a whole, orienting itself towards the rich and varied views of the landscape. Technical Insights & Challenges: Local materials and craftsmanship create a new twist on the prevailing vernacular, referencing the strong architectural tradition in The Chilterns and creating a meaningful connection to its history. Hand-crafted tiles face the first floor walls and seamlessly clad the roof, accomplishing a form that is simultaneously refined and contextual. Below, the ground floor palette of knapped flint gabions in varied tones, metal canopies and floor-to-ceiling openings create an elegant datum. Key Achievements: Our sustainability strategy adopts a ‘fabric-first’ low carbon approach, working to upgrade the existing building before proposing anything new. We are minimising the use of new building fabric, thereby combining environmental and economical benefits. Utilisation of innovative solar shading applications facilitate control of the internal climate and reduces energy demand whilst allowing natural light to filter deep into the plan.