The Thames Christian School and Battersea Chapel project in South London underscores Henley Halebrown’s continued interest in exploring buildings that create both small spaces for people to interact and a concentric focal space to which we can gravitate intuitively and, by implication, recede from.
Project name
Thames Christian School & Battersea Chapel
Architecture firm
Henley Halebrown
Location
London, United Kingdom
Photography
Nick Kane, David Grandorge
Principal architect
Noel Cash, Jack Hawthorne (Henley Halebrown)
Design team
Lea Daniel, Gavin Hale-Brown, Simon Henley, Craig Linnell, Michael Mee (Henley Halebrown)
Collaborators
Executive architect: HLM. Masterplanning: HTA. Services engineer: Desco. Cost consultant: Martin Arnold. Planning consultant: Montagu Evans. Acoustic engineer: AF Acoustics. Project manager: Taylor Wimpey. Building control: MLM
Structural engineer
Pell Frischman
Client
Winstanley & York Road LLP
Typology
Religious Architecture › Chapel, School
98-100 De Beauvoir Road continues the practice’s work in the adaptive reuse of existing buildings, likening the historic or age-value qualities of pre-existing structures to “objets trouvés” by balancing the need to conserve, express, reinvent or revive what is already there.
Project name
98-100 De Beauvoir Road
Architecture firm
Henley Halebrown
Location
Hackney, London, UK
Photography
David Grandorge, Nick Kane
Principal architect
Francesca Bailey, Neil Rogers
Design team
Gavin Hale-Brown, Simon Henley, Elina Dueker
Collaborators
Quantity Surveyor Castle-Davis (98 De Beauvoir Road), Richard Collis (100 De Beauvoir Road); Services Engineer: AJ Energy; Principal Designer: Quoin; Planning Consultant: CMA Planning; Approved Inspector: Building Control Approval Ltd; Party Wall Surveyor Hamiltons Chartered Surveyors; Suppliers & Sub-Contractors: Precast Concrete Stair & Columns: Amber Precast Group; Steelwork: Fleming Fabrications; Balustrades: Total Metals Works; External Timber Doors & Windows: JCK Joinery; External Metal Glazing: REA Metal Windows Ltd; EPDM Covering: AAC Waterproofing Ltd
Built area
Total NIA 1939 m²; Total GIA 2487 m²
Interior design
(office fit out) Sella Concept (100 De Beauvoir Road)
Civil engineer
Parmarbrook Limited
Structural engineer
Parmarbrook Limited
Construction
Sullivan Brothers Construction
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
