17 October 2024
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6 September 2024
Three things
For RIBA Journal’s “Three things” column we talked about three ways we maximise impact and quality in a challenging funding environment by using standard materials in an unusual way.
10 July 2024
Summer Newsletter
Our latest newsletter is out now, including retrofit projects starting on site for Manhattan Loft Corporation and Raw Material Music & Media, and public realm transformations for Newham and Islington Councils. Subscribe or read it online here!
10 June 2024
New floors, new stories
"This economical retrofit and extension of an existing arts centre provides inspiring new spaces for art, education and activism. It also shows what can be done on a very limited budget – with a bit of design imagination and engineering know-how."
198 Contemporary Arts & Learning is a case study in Designing Timber for Timber Development UK.
20 May 2024
Norwood Narratives
Created by Croydon Council as part of the South Norwood High Streets Heritage Action Zone programme, this exhibition at Stanley Arts features oral histories, student artworks, and cherished memories, all from the local community, which paint a vivid picture of the high street’s past and present – including South Norwood in Print, our collaboration with Europa.
The exhibition is funded by Historic England’s High Street Heritage Action Zone as part of the South Norwood Regeneration Programme delivered by Croydon Council.
19 November 2023
Inspire Future Generations
Young People in the Centre of Brixton, our collaboration with 8 young people from We Rise and Tisserin Engineers for the London Festival of Architecture, has been named as a finalist in the Inspire Future Generation Awards. We're delighted to be on such a great shortlist.
The awards are organised by Thornton Education Trust and promote the value of youth-led design within the built environment sector, aiming to demonstrate how projects like this can share valuable skills, opportunities and knowledge with children and young people, inspire the next generation of designers, and inform future policy
6 October 2023
Photography workshop
In summer we held a photography workshop with Luke O'Donovan in Kingsford Square for Shape Newham - more to follow.
29 September 2023
Competition win
We are delighted to have won the competition for an important town centre site in Folkestone; previously a Debenhams store, it is pictured here in its former incarnation as Bobby's department store.
Ewan Green, director of place at Folkestone and Hythe District Council, said CarverHaggard and its team brought ‘a wide breadth of skills and experience to the project and demonstrated their understanding of the brief and evolving requirements of the project exceptionally well’. Green added: ‘Their experience of working successfully on similar projects, with a focus on ensuring flexibility throughout the building design, will be key to the success of this project.'
Read more at AJ here.
26 September 2023
IN magazine
Two of our projects for London Borough of Bexley – The Engine House and Made In Erith – got a mention in this article in IN magazine about creating social value in public places.
8 September 2023
Open House Festival
Next week two of our projects will be open for the Open House Festival. See Longfield Hall on Friday 15th September and 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning on Saturday 16th September. Read more here or book via the Open House website!
7 September 2023
North End Road
We’ve been working on the community-led redesign of North End Road since 2018, including public space improvements and new tree planting all along this hard-working high street. First few photos by Luke O'Donovan – more to follow soon!
“Improved public realm including ‘dwell spaces’ and widened pavements create more sociable and inclusive places for people to linger and rest.”
GLA City Hall blog
17 July 2023
Summer newsletter
Our summer newsletter is out now - you can read it and subscribe to future issues here! This image shows our project for Islington’s historic Chapel Market, which started on site in May.
4 July 2023
South Norwood in Print
Who gets to write the history of a place? In March 2023 we collaborated with the graphic design studio Europa on two workshops with Year 8 students exploring South Norwood High Street through stories and printmaking. Read the publication online!
3 May 2023
Small Projects Awards
Greenhill Place in Harrow has been shortlisted for the AJ's Small Projects Award, which celebrates the best in built architecture and structures realised on a small budget, and for the RIBA London awards. Once a backland car park, it is now a tree-lined public space. Read more in the Architect's Journal and RIBA Journal.
6 April 2023
AJ Retrofit Award
Our project for 198 CAL has won the AJ Retrofit Award for Cultural and Religious Building up to £5 million.
"The judges were fulsome in their praise of this radical retrofit and extension, describing it variously as ‘a beautiful approach’ that is ‘super-coherent’, brimming with ‘architectural integrity’ and ‘a real sense of trying to retain the best of the building’." Read more on AJ
