THE CLEARING COTTAGE

New-Build Home on a Grade II Listed Estate

Hawkhurst | Kent

The Clearing Cottage located just off the high street, nestled in the shade of woods, is proposed as an urban farmhouse clad in blackened treated timber. The cottage is in dialogue with the main house of the property, a white painted timber clapboard Georgian family home with Victorian and more modern additi0ns. This Grade 2 Listed house is set deeper into the site and has been historically referred to as ‘The Clearing.’

THE CLEARING COTTAGE

New-Build Home on a Grade II Listed Estate

Hawkhurst | Kent

THE MEWS

Artist Studio

Paddington, London | W2

The Mews is a 3-storey brick building, located in the Northeast corner at the end of a row of terraced mews. The original purpose had stables on the ground floor and warehouse/ storage on the floors above. A crane still adorns the front, just above a bridge which links two of the mews together. More recently the building with fairly convential and contemporary interior had been used as offices. We converted this into live-work for a painter, reintroducing materials and character back into the building.

TALBOT ROAD

Victorian Terrace House

Notting Hill | W2

In addition to the general refurbishment of the total house, the owners of this Victorian Terrace house have asked that that the lower ground floor be completely replaced with a new kitchen with concrete floor and underfloor heating. This new space opens up into the garden with enlarged opening and flush floor.

THE CLEARING COTTAGE

New-Build Home on a Grade II Listed Estate

Hawkhurst | Kent

THE CLEARING COTTAGE

New-Build Home on a Grade II Listed Estate

Hawkhurst | Kent

THE CLEARING COTTAGE

New-Build Home on a Grade II Listed Estate

Hawkhurst | Kent

THE CLEARING COTTAGE

New-Build Home on a Grade II Listed Estate

Hawkhurst | Kent

TARA MATA

Countryside Home Refurbishment and Extension

Kingsdown | Kent

Near the picturesque village of Kingsdown, not far from the Cliffs of Dover, we were asked to design an extension to an existing house on a secluded, well-situated property with substantial views into the surrounding valley. Our brief was to provide a new extension and renovation of a rather unremarkable, yet potentially charming, mid-century cottage. On the ground floor, we provided a generous, open plan living-dining-kitchen area with double-sided fireplace. This main room of the extension provides our client couple generous spaces for their frequent weekend gatherings of friends. On the first floor is a substantial office-sitting room commanding views to the surrounding landscape.

OPEN PAVILION

Prescot Market Place "Re-imagining Market Place" RIBA Competition

Prescot, Knowsley | UK

Strategically located between Liverpool and Manchester, Prescot is one of Merseyside’s most historic market towns with a rich and active history of coal mining, pottery and even watch making. The town has the added distinction of having been home to the first purpose-built Elizabethan theatre outside of London. The town is currently undergoing an ambitious, five-year redevelopment plan to conserve and celebrate the town’s historic buildings and spaces. Prescot Market Place is central to this plan.

WHO

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THE CLEARING COTTAGE

New-Build Home on a Grade II Listed Estate

Hawkhurst | Kent

THE CLEARING COTTAGE

New-Build Home on a Grade II Listed Estate

Hawkhurst | Kent

FOWLER ROAD

Mews House as Writer's Studio

Islington, London | N1

We were asked by our previous clients (Cross Street) to return to their home and incorporate this small two-storey mews building to the back of Cross Street on Fowler Road. This building was purchased from dressmaker-tailor, who worked there for over 25 years. The space was filled with fabrics with hardly a stitch of space to work. The new use of the building is a writing studio with the capacity to also work as accomodation for a guest, whether a friend, or contributer to their work, such as a writer, director, editor. Studio office space is on the ground floor, connecting to a second studio with sofa bed and bathroom.

WILKES STREET

Grade II Listed French Huguenot Terrace House

Spitalfields, London | E1

The interior of this Grade 2 Listed house in Spitalfields had still retained many of its original features, including timber wall partitions with panelling, original floorboards, cornicing and architraves. Acknowledging the critical value of this property’s Grade 2 listing and heritage, our design approach throughout is to maintain all period features, treating the introduction of anything new literally as ‘pieces of furniture’ - distinct elements separate from the main architecture and easily removable.

BERLIN MEMORIAL FOR UNITY AND FREEDOM

Memorial for Unity & Freedom - International Competition

Berlin

To commemorate the peaceful revolution of 09 November 1989 this design competition is investigating the possibility to understand a monument as a participatory land professionals, the citizens are invited to pass through, thus causing a feeling of peace and unity.

LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

Victorian Terrace House

Notting Hill, London | W11

This large Grade 2 Listed Victorian terrace house was originally designed as part of a unified scheme, conceived as a series of bow-fronted terraced houses, of which the two ends are flat fronted. This run of around ten houses was built between 1860-62. Each of them has four storeys, plus basement and overlooks an internal, communal crescent-shaped garden with trees.

LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

Victorian Terrace House

Notting Hill, London | W11

LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

Victorian Terrace House

Notting Hill, London | W11

THE CLEARING COTTAGE

New-Build Home on a Grade II Listed Estate

Hawkhurst | Kent

THE CLEARING COTTAGE

New-Build Home on a Grade II Listed Estate

Hawkhurst | Kent

MONMOUTH ROAD

Georgian Grade II Listed Terrace House

Notting Hill, London | W2

Our proposal for the renovation of this property, a grade II listed Georgian house and Victorian Artist’s Studio in the Bayswater Conservation Area, seeks to enhance the historic character of the main dwelling through the refurbishment and introduction of details and materials that are in keeping with its listed status.

LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

Victorian Terrace House

Notting Hill, London | W11

YERBURY PRIMARY SCHOOL

Science Lab

Tufnell Park | London

Formerly used as a cloakroom and storage, Yerbury School’s new science lab ‘Q’ in North London has been reconfigured to provide children a dedicated place to ask fundamental questions related to science by watching tadpoles become frogs, testing how sound travels through materials and exploring why things go up and why things fall down. ‘Q’ stands for questioning.

WHAT

THE CLEARING COTTAGE

New-Build Home on a Grade II Listed Estate

Hawkhurst | Kent

LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

Victorian Terrace House

Notting Hill, London | W11

ALDERSHOF-RUDOWER-CHAUSSEE

Competition

Berlin - Aldershof

The competition brief was to provide an urban design proposal and partial design development for laboratories and offices of companies engaged in the research and development of micro-electronics and optics. The site is a former site of the research centre for aerospace engineering during the second World War.

CHARLES TASHIMA

ARCHITECTURE

ALDERSHOF-RUDOWER-CHAUSSEE

Competition

Berlin - Aldershof

The urban design strategy was based upon a series of 5 buildings with a flexible floor plan set upon a “green” modulated ground level, housing the parking at a half sub-level and the workshops. The project received an honourable mention.

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