The Marriott Portsmouth hotel required extensive updating and remodelling to revitalise its appearance and operation while improving its thermal and acoustic performance. Taking advantage of a highly visible position on the main route into the city
This family house inhabits the old walls of a ruined olive press in southern Sicily. A lightweight timber frame provides a distinct contrast to the heavy stonework, allowing a highly glazed dining and kitchen space to feel a part of the surrounding
Family House, Noto - a projecting framed colonnade and overhangs protect spaces within from the summer sun.
Open, airy spaces connect with the surrounding olive groves looking across the hills to the coast below, while old stones walls provide calm retreat.
Cowes Studio School relies on the remodelling of an Edwardian primary schoolhouse. The original school’s cellular structure is opened up around a distinctive new core defining a loop of informal spaces that are connected to the activity of the class
A second phase, housing specialist marine engineering rooms defines a new entrance, reorienting the old building and securing outdoor teaching areas in one move. Its form references the existing buildings, while its contrasting gable of glazed and e
A meeting house for the Hammersmith Quakers is set within a tight network of Victorian terrace houses, on a site cleared following World War II bomb damage. The new building reinstates the continuous brick façades of the neighbourhood houses, loopin
This loop defines a circular, non-hierarchical meeting hall, carefully positioned to receive abundant natural light, alongside a reception space that connects the ancillary rooms. The hall is wrapped in layers of perforated brickwork, translucent ba
On a sloping one acre plot surrounded by hedge rows and mature fruit trees so dense it has the feel of a walled garden the proposed house seeks to retains these natural qualities by occupying the perimeter, being considered a part of the largest he
The home swells along its length to define rooms, each focusing on the view, while receiving optimal sunlight, it abstracts the form of the hedgerow in both material and form. It is proposed under planning policy ‘Paragraph 80’ for building new iso
Careful negotiation and in-depth understanding of the planning limitations allowed the transformation and reuse of dilapidated agricultural buildings in the open countryside, which in most instances would not be possible. This spliced connection scu
Briefed to redevelop of the historic Craigston Castle estate, in Aberdeenshire, to ensure its long-term environmental and financial sustainability, five strategic developments were proposed focusing on tourism. In the first phase a housing element,
The Craigston Estate houses make contemporary reference local features in both the typology of the units and their clustered settlement pattern. Grouped together the buildings provide shelter and enclosure, and reduce the visual spread on green-fiel
Orientated Strand Board (OSB) repurposed from construction, waxed and edged to form a natural and varied kitchen finish.
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The proposal for a musical hub combining a hotel and concert venue is expressed directly through the architecture. To accommodate a wide range of musical styles, the design distils expression into a fundamental language of rhythm and tone, shaped by
Slender timber columns extend beyond the building, supporting lighting and canvas canopies for events, their arrangement shifting in tempo to define space and structure. Walls of glass, timber planks and curtains weave between the columns, forming
A lightweight circulation core rises through a redeveloped tower, its skin formed from the column module into a continuous surface, like a piano roll. Glass lifts move through this vertical sequence of light, shadow and framed views beyond the tree
A reconfigured portal frame barn creates spaces for solace and contemplation as the ceremonial hub for an environmental burial initiative. Its very nature is of continuity and transformation, converting the utilitarian to a procession of sculptural
When asked to make a proposal for the centrepiece of a large trade show ‘Ecobuild’ our proposal was to break the relentless grid of these events, creating an assemblage of simple vitrines, removing directionality, but promoting diversity and juxtapo
Temporary pavilion for a consortium of contractors and material suppliers - internal
Temporary pavilion for a consortium of contractors and material suppliers - external
A large low carbon insertion transforms and modernises a tired hotel near Gatwick, providing additional rooms, conference and dining facilities, within a modular skin that balances light and privacy, offering a new unifying identity.
An extension in Hammersmith for a TV chef provides a suitably large kitchen, with a highly distinct roof that seeks to convey the sensation of being within the herb garden itself.
A new house for a constrained site in a beautiful semi-rural location in Kent. The main living spaces are located on the upper floor, taking advantage of long views and optimised natural light. The bedrooms are arranged below, set around a sunken co
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