Refurbishment of a 3 storey Edwardian House in the Muswell Hill Conservation Area.
The external scope includes replacement of all existing windows with new in matching timber profiles, new stained glass windows, full restoration of the brick facades, new Welsh slate roofing, skylights and hard landscaping.
The interior has been stripped right back to the structure, rewired, replumbed and remodelled, with clues from the existing house and its remaining fabric taken as the starting point for every room.
The project features new bespoke oak joinery throughout, three new bathrooms with stone floors, a two storey rear extension for the kitchen with study above.
Photography Mary Gaudin
Interior remodelling of a 2 storey apartment on the Thames. The apartment sits near the finishing line of the Oxford / Cambridge boat race, at a bend in the river with an unobstructed views east and west.
Views are created through the interior to give a sense of the bigger whole. Oak is used for both flooring and skirting, and run across the base of internal doors. It is also taken diagonally up both walls of the stair to the sunroom above.
Photos: Mary Gaudin
Single storey side extension in Haringey Conservation Area.
The timber is off site prefabricated by a specialist frame contractor in Devon, fully designed in advance, stood up and checked, then dismantled, brought to site and rebuilt in place.
Timber frame and sliding doors are made with solid Douglas Fir.
Due for completion December 2019.
Fit out for a Japanese restaurant within a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse in Covent Garden.
Each floor is minute so the programme had to be stacked, one function on each level. The design seeks to make simple well-proportioned rooms that hint at the interior’s Georgian origins.
Photos: Gili Merin
A new modern art gallery space, in the St James Conservation Area. Planned opening May 2020. Fit out of ground and lower ground floors with structural works,.
Fit out of a restaurant in Kingsland Road, Dalston for chef Brett Redman and Natalie Lee-Joe.
The room lies on an axis with the pedestrian crossing, so a direct relationship was sought with the street. A roof shape sits over the dining area and is folded it back up over the kitchen, creating a simple form when viewed from afar. At night, the interior has a lantern like quality.
The bar is made of sycamore. The floor is oak laid diagonally. The walls and bar front are light grey Valchromat.
Photos: Mary Gaudin
A book made in collaboration with New Zealand photographer Mary Gaudin.
Now sold out.
It provides a photo essay on two houses by New Zealand architect John Scott (1924-92); the Werry House and the Francis House, which sit side by side.
They are late works in good condition, but have slipped from memory and today are largely unknown.
Our intention was to focus on just a few things in these buildings; doors and windows, gutters and eaves and thresholds between interior and garden.
These simple facts of building are common to almost every house, so commonplace in fact as to barely register in discussion of architecture today.
However in Scott's hands these facts became ideas which he returned to throughout his life.
Competition for an artist’s workspace in Brockley, in a mews characterised by a long dirt road. Held against Huge Strange Architects of London and Yo Shimada of Tato Architects, Japan.
Claude Megson Counter Constructions is the first publication on the work of this important New Zealand architect.
The book features a photo essay of five key buildings taken by Jackie Meiring and drawings from Megson’s archive. Book design by Seb McLauchlan.
It can be purchased at:
Photos: Jackie Meiring, aerial ‘Open to View’
“This astute book fills a lamentable gap in our written architectural history and returns to prominence one of our most intriguing architects.” Dr Andrew Barrie, review, Architecture New Zealand
