Royal Festival Hall – The Official Record 1951
Rising up from the bank across the river from Charing Cross, the Royal Festival Hall demands to be noticed. Its architectural openness predates the grey Brutalism of its neighbours in the Southbank Centre and the National Theatre to the east, physically linking our present day back to the 1951 Festival of Britain. The Festival of […]
Lewis Road – Twice Brewed
Case Study Lewis Road – Twice Brewed Field House, Lewis Road, Kettering Field House began with a difficult suburban condition: a former caretaker’s bungalow site bounded on three sides by a secondary school, overlooked from multiple directions, and positioned within a street where contemporary architecture would have been easy to resist. The existing condition. Constrained, […]
The Jewel Hotel, W 51st Street, New York – Refining a compact interior model into a premium market position
Case Study The Jewel Hotel, W 51st Street, New York – Refining a compact interior model into a premium market position Context The Jewel Hotel sits in Midtown Manhattan, a prime location adjacent to Rockefeller Center and Fifth Avenue. The project was authored by Peter Mance during his tenure as Interiors Director at Robert Hutson […]
Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort – Strategic repositioning of a live hospitality asset in a competitive island market
Case Study Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort – Strategic repositioning of a live hospitality asset in a competitive island market Context The Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort is a large beachfront hospitality asset operating under a global brand, located within a highly sensitive coastal environment. The project involved the repositioning of the resort while remaining […]
Club Quarters, Covent Garden – Developing a commercially viable subterranean room typology
Case Study Club Quarters, Covent Garden – Developing a commercially viable subterranean room typology Context Two underused basement floors within a central London business hotel.No natural light. No conventional drainage. No established room model. The brief was not simply to “fit out” the space, but to determine whether it could become credible, revenue-generating inventory within the […]
Cotton Street, Poplar – Reconstructing a Georgian Edge within a Conservation Area
Case Study Cotton Street, Poplar – Reconstructing a Georgian Edge within a Conservation Area Context 40 Cotton Street sits within the All Saints Church Conservation Area in Poplar. The site occupies a sensitive threshold condition: Opposite the Grade II* listed All Saints Church Framing a historic Georgian square Adjacent to listed terraces on Bazely Street […]
Greenbank, Chalbury – Planning Approval in an AONB and Conservation Area
Planning Case Study Greenbank, Charlbury – Planning Approval in an AONB and Conservation Area Planning Policy and Site Context Greenbank is located on the western edge of Charlbury, within both the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and the Charlbury Conservation Area. The site occupies a sensitive position in long-distance views across the Evenlode […]
Between Declaration and Work
Over the Yuletide break, our attention settled on things that asked for very little of it . . .
Stripping back, to go forward
Every designer has an origin — a point where observation, curiosity, and making first converge . . .
Rooms without a view: How two underused basement floors became a new typology for business travel
Club Quarters Hotel Covent Garden, Holborn offered a rare design opportunity: two underused, windowless basement floors presented not as a problem, but as a prompt . . .