27 March 2014
Brixton Toolbox
Our project for the Brixton Toolbox consortium has been shortlisted by Lambeth Council for the Meanwhile at Pope's Road competition. A group of local businesses and community organisations will provide youth training and support for emerging technology and food businesses.
Working with Lambeth College, Toolbox will provide substantial training opportunities for young people, and adults with learning difficulties and disabilities.
Working with somewhereto_ and Code7, Toolbox will provide access to an extraordinary space for young people to express themselves and hold public events.
Working with the Brixton BID, Toolbox will provide a place for businesses from the edge of Brixton Town Centre to find new customers, and to promote Brixton as a destination in London.
26 March 2014
Pavilion in Leipzig
Work on site for the pavilion commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Designed in collaboration with Oliver Klimpel and the System-Design Class at the school, it was constructed with the help of our students at The CASS Studio 8. Finished photos to follow!
22 December 2013
Gallery opening
We have received the first photographs of the Factory Gallery project, which has just opened in Kuala Lumpur. This evening shot shows the open garden pavilion. The 'vent block' wall behind it encloses the garden and the gallery block can be seen to the right. More to follow.
31 October 2013
Community Hub
Our project for a Community Hub at Longfield Hall, a Grade II listed late Victorian building in Camberwell, has just won funding from SIB and My Community Rights. The funding will allow the Friends of Longfield Hall to develop a plan to maintain and improve the hall for future generations.
Built in 1887, the Hall is one of the community buildings built as part of the Minet Estate around Myatt's Fields. A private development, the estate contained house types for a wide range of incomes as well as schools, a community hall, a library, a park with sports facilities, churches, and shops.
1 September 2013
Award nomination
Our Black and White Gallery project has been shortlisted for an INSIDE award at the World Architecture Festival, which takes place in Singapore in October.
20 August 2013
On site
A new shot from the KD gallery project currently on site in Kuala Lumpur. The retaining wall of local quartz rubble has been completed, and the steel frames for two of the three pavilions have been erected. The first few courses of the wall of ventilating concrete blockwork have been laid, showing the outline of the garden courtyard that will enclose the buildings. More to follow.
15 July 2013
Electric Light Station
The Electric Light Station opens today; a temporary pavilion designed and built by us and our students in Studio 8 of the Cass School of Architecture as part of Islington Exhibits, an initiative to unlock hidden venues in Islington and give artists and craftspeople a space to display their work.
Exploring the historic use of the site, the structure recalls industrial and religious archetypes. It is designed to create an informal backdrop for public events and a contemplative interior space with specific qualities of light and sound.
It is made from 2" x 1" softwood and other materials partially recycled from the Cass Summer Show. Thanks to Price & Myers for assistance with structural design.
26 June 2013
Exhibition at the Cass
The Cass summer show opens today. Our students in Studio 8 have been looking at London City Airport; first investigating its disjointed and neglected surroundings, then making design proposals for new buildings to serve the airport and the local community. The show runs until Sunday 5th July in Spring House on Holloway Road.
1 June 2013
Solid and Liquid
First shots from Solid and Liquid, an exhibition held by the System-Design class at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts. The exhibition is being held in a glazed park pavilion from the DDR era in Potsdam, and we contributed a bookshelf (in the background of this shot) which refers to the interlocking geometry of the 1970s precast concrete structures in the park.
16 April 2013
Vauxhall Gardens
Our competition entry for the RIBA competition for Vauxhall - The Missing Link. Vauxhall Gardens will run along the viaduct between the new Nine Elms underground station and Lambeth Palace.
Three follies are proposed at key points along the viaduct to create connections to the Green Link and the Thames. The follies are designed to recall elements of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens: The House, The Colonnade and The Walk.
17 March 2013
Hot off the press
First shots from our recently completed gallery project in Kuala Lumpur. On a corner plot surrounded by construction sites, the gallery is designed as a series of distinct volumes clad in galvanised expanded metal. The walls at low level are clad in "Shanghai Plaster", a traditional local form of pebbledash, with a serrated profile enhancing the play of shadow in Malaysia's soft light conditions.
25 February 2013
Planning permission
We have won planning permission for five flats and extended office space at the rooftop of a former warehouse building in Spitalfields. A contemporary interpretation of the adjacent roofscapes, the extension is clad in perforated anodised aluminium. The flats are arranged around internal courtyards with terraces looking at the City of London.
20 February 2013
Gallery completion
A first photograph of the completed gallery in Singapore, looking from the gallery space through two of the three captured gardens. Drawing from the precedent of the "black and white" house, a hybrid between Malayan vernacular typologies and British half-timbered decoration, the layers of construction are treated in alternating black and white finishes.
3 December 2012
Studio 8 in Leipzig
A collaboration between our students in The Cass Studio 8 and Professor Oliver Klimpel's Klasse System-Design at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig.
The exhibition News from Nowhere ran from 19th - 26th November 2012 as the culmination of an interdisciplinary workshop. Five display structures were designed and built by the students, then used as the basis of a joint exhibition of the work of the two studios; the structures will be adapted and re-used in future exhibitions.
22 October 2012
Site at night
A few recent night shots from the gallery project in Singapore, which is approaching completion.
