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 […]
Shishukunj International School, Bhuj, Gujarat, India
Shishukunj International School, Bhuj, Gujarat, India The SIS Bhuj school campus is a sustainable development within the kutch salt-marsh ecosystem of Gujarat. The school is conceived as a series of cluster modules in response to both the landscape and teaching ethos of the school. The buildings are literally built from the rock and dust of […]
Vanillabazaar, Harrow, London
Vanillabazaar, Harrow, London Our client wanted to use their new premises to exemplify their growing brand and local presence. This involved getting all aspects of their organisation – administration, marketing, warehousing, processing and distribution – within a single commercial retail unit in Harrow’s town centre. At the same time, company leaders aspired to reinforce the […]
Club Quarters Hotel, Gracechurch Street, London
Club Quarters Hotel, Gracechurch Street, London An excellent example of what can happen when a visionary client wants to convert a historic banking address in the middle of the City into a luxury business hotel. This is both an exploration of how an urban neighbourhood changes with time and a method of providing low-carbon development […]
Ocean Music Venue, Mare Street, London
Ocean Music Venue, Mare Street, London This large site on a busy high street comprised the refurbishment and integration of two historic buildings, a Methodist Hall and a Carnegie Library, into a multi-use space. The largest components of the newly made interior became three broadcast-quality performance spaces, leaving ample room for the home of the […]
Shishukunj Bhavan Centre, Edgware, London
Shishukunj Bhavan Centre, Edgware, London The idea was to turn a 1950s office building into a flexible community centre. MAAPS solution was to design a space that provide a level of cross-pollination amongst different activities and age groups. We applied open staircases and random-appearing internal windows to do this, as well as bring light and […]