Communal


 

The Practice has a diverse range of expertise in Communal work, exemplified by projects as dissimilar as places of worship, theatres and the public toilets at the Tower of London.

A SELECTION OF CURRENT SCHEMES:

• A new Concert Hall, with ancillary facilities, for an audience of approximately 800, for Saffron Walden County High School.
• Church refurbishment and new communal facilities in Highams Park.
• Church extension and refurbishment in Chingford.

A SELECTION OF COMPLETED PROJECTS:

• Downs Road Church in Hackney with 11, one & two bed flats above.
• The Grange Farm Centre Pavilion and Essex Wildlife Trust's Interpretation Centre in Chigwell, which we won in a limited competition.
• Church refurbishment for Alton Methodist Church.
• New Church building with retention of existing Listed front and side faηades, Day Nursery and 28 affordable flats in Wandsworth Road, SW8, for London & Quadrant HA.
• New Church Hall at St Francis of Assisi in Barkingside.
• 20 flats and bedsits with communal offices and a cafι in Nags Head Road, Enfield, for Christian Action HA.
• A 12 GP surgery with attached Church in Luton - the first Health Centre run by SSAFA (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association).
• New public toilets and baby changing facilities at The Glades Shopping Centre in Bromley, for Capital Shopping Centres.
• The remodelling internally and externally of Wokingham Methodist Church in Berkshire.
• New Salvation Army Halls at Chalk Farm, London NW3 and Wandsworth, London SW18.
• Beacon Youth Centre, containing a new performance/dance studio, for LB Barking and Dagenham.
• A new football pavilion in Blackheath for The London Playing Fields Society.
• The Bradbury Community Centre for Wokingham Methodist Church.
• Estate Regeneration project for the London Borough of Enfield.
• A new pedestrian bridge, multi-storey car parks and a landscaped square at Lakeside Shopping Centre in Thurrock, for Capital Shopping Centres.
• The Gasgoigne Community Centre in Barking.
• The refurbishment of a Franciscan Friary in Stratford, London E15.
• The design of a Community Church complex in Brixham, Devon, won in a limited competition.
• New public toilets at The Tower of London.
• Brentwood Arts Theatre.
• The internal refurbishment and re-lighting of a number of churches.

AWARDS:

• Green Apple Environment Award 2011 for Building and Construction, 'Environmental Education Projects'.
• International Green Apple Award for the Built Environment and Architectural Heritage 2009.
• Tidy Britain Group Award, 'Best London Toilet', Municipal category.

Project Examples