One of the UK's first purpose built climbing centres. The brief was to improve an area of disused sports fields which were prone to flooding. The client was a local charity with a desire to bring significant benefit to the local town which had long missed out on investment.
Project name
Avon River Climbing Centre
Architecture firm
Artel31
Location
Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Photography
Pete Helme, Paul Twomey @ TCA
Principal architect
Robert Elkins
Collaborators
Ellendale Environmental (Ecological services), CMS Group Ltd (PM and QS), Langley Design (Street Furniture and Canopies/Stores), Canvas Spaces (Skate Park Design and Build), Walltopia (Climbing Wall Design and Build)
Interior design
Marc Album with support from Artel31
Civil engineer
Giraffe Engineering
Structural engineer
Giraffe Engineering
Environmental & MEP
Greengauge Building Energy Consultants
Construction
Rigg Construction
Material
Steel and timber frame, SIPS wood and steel cladding
Client
Chippenham Borough Lands Charity, The Climbing Academy
Typology
Hospitality › Climbing Center
From Friday 23 September 2022, the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London will host The Future is a Journey to the Past: Stories about Sustainability, an exhibition curated by Mario Cucinella Architects. The exhibition explores past and present notions of sustainability in order to develop the ecological thinking necessary to br...
Title
The Future is a Journey to the Past: Stories about Sustainability
Eligibility
Open to public
Register
https://www.aaschool.ac.uk
Organizer
Mario Cucinella Architects
Date
Friday 23 September – Saturday 29 October. Opening hours: Monday – Saturday: 10am – 7pm
Venue
AA Gallery Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, WC1B 3ES
Casa del Sol is the remodelling of a townhouse in South London to create a generous living space on the lower ground floor and add a new bedroom and bathrooms on the upper floors. An innovative glazed gap was created to define the new kitchen.
Project name
Casa del Sol
Architecture firm
Sophie Nguyen Architects
Location
Brixton, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Photography
Hufton + Crow, Ruth Ward
Principal architect
Sophie Nguyen
Structural engineer
Form Structural Design
Typology
Residential › House
The Cottage, a self build eco barn which used materials from the existing yard setting and contrasted them with a refined design detail, inspired by the agricultural utilitarian construction methods of the surrounds. The Cottage is a replacement dwelling within an existing equestrian facility and farmyard.
Architecture firm
Artel31
Location
Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Principal architect
Robert Elkins
Design team
Richard Charles Jones (Project Architect)
Interior design
Annalise Nicholas - Artel31
Civil engineer
Giraffe Engineering
Structural engineer
Giraffe Engineering
Environmental & MEP
Ellendale Environmental
Visualization
Fred Palmer - Artel31
Tools used
Vectorworks, Blender, Adobe Photoshop
Construction
Mixed - Steel Frame, Masonry and Timber Frame.
Material
Stone, reclaimed brick, Cedar
Client
Mr and Mrs Gyle Thompson
Typology
Residential › House, New Bucolic
One of Watershedd's latest schemes, Green Hedges is perched high on a rolling hillside overlooking Mawgan Porth beach in Cornwall. Featuring seven bedrooms, a large open plan living area and an independently accessed surfboard room and sauna, every element of the architectural and interior design has been composed with serene and sociable modern li...
Project name
Green Hedges
Architecture firm
Watershedd
Location
Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
Photography
Evie Johnstone
Principal architect
Watershedd
Design team
Watershedd, Martin Perry Associates, Louise Holt Design, Millarf & Flo, Selma Klophaus
Interior design
Louise Holt Design
Civil engineer
Noble Construction
Structural engineer
Martin Perry Associates
Environmental & MEP
Noble Construction
Construction
Block cavity walls with stone cladding, steel framed with timber stud wall to the first floor
Material
Cornish Stone, Western Red Cedar Cladding, Zinc Roofing
Typology
Residential › House
Berkshire House II is a substantial 550sqm five bedroom modernist new build home in a suburban village in Berkshire. Occupying a spectacular woodland site overlooking the river Thames, it replaces an existing dilapidated dwelling that one of the clients had grown up in.
Architecture firm
Gregory Phillips Architects
Location
Berkshire, Reading, England, United Kingdom
Principal architect
James Shelton, Gregory Phillips
Design team
James Shelton, Gregory Phillips
Interior design
Gregory Phillips Architects
Civil engineer
Heyne Tillet Steel
Structural engineer
Heyne Tillet Steel
Lighting
London Lighting Corporation
Material
Brick and Timber
Typology
Residential › Single Family Dwelling
This project, for a house in Notting Hill in London, started during the COVID-19 pandemic. With social distancing, the works on site had to be organised differently taking more time to be done, using materials available in existing storage and more personal interpretation from the team on site due to remote communication.
Project name
Lockdown Stair
Architecture firm
Sophie Nguyen Architects
Location
Notting Hill, London, UK
Photography
Hufton + Crow
Principal architect
Sophie Nguyen
Collaborators
FPS Flooring (Floor Specialists)
Supervision
Sophie Nguyen Architects
Visualization
Sophie Nguyen Architects
Construction
Corcoran Builders Ltd
Material
Timber joists, Plywood, Painted MDF, Painted plasterboard
Typology
Residential › House
This exemplary design in Shropshire consists of a 1200 sqm new-build contemporary detached family home set within an inspirational twenty-acre rural site. The concept was to allow the landscaping to blend and interact with the building, blurring their boundaries and rooting the building into its site.
Project name
Shropshire Residence
Architecture firm
Gregory Phillips Architects
Location
Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
Principal architect
Ralph Hill-King, Gregory Phillips
Design team
Ralph Hill-King, Gregory Phillips, Karla Diaz
Interior design
Gregory Phillips
Structural engineer
Ramboll
Lighting
Light Corporation
Visualization
Gregory Phillips
Material
Brick, Concrete, Metal, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
