Take 2: Alison Brooks submits revised plans for tile-clad Hampstead house
1/8 Reworked designs. Submitted late 2020. Front elevation
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Alison Brooks Architects has submitted revised plans for a new house within the Hampstead Conservation Area featuring a teal-coloured, faïence tile façade
The practice lodged its initial plans to replace an ‘unremarkable’ 1960s three-storey semi-detached house in Frognal Gardens, north-west London, in December 2019.
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However, that application was withdrawn in November last year and the proposal tweaked, primarily to address comments on the plans raised by Camden Council and the borough’s design review panel in March 2020. Althought the panel had praised the scheme and said the ‘opulence and originality of the materiality’ would make the finished house a ‘special building’, it asked for a reduction in its mass to prevent it ‘seeming over-dominant’.
Mica Architects has been crowned Architect of the Year at Building Design’s prestigious annual awards.
The practice was honoured with the Gold Award for overall winner at the ceremony which was streamed on Building Design’s website today and watched live by hundreds of architects, clients and their collaborators.
As well as being named Architect of the Year, Mica – the practice born out of Rick Mather Architects in 2017 following Mather’s death – also scooped the award for Refurbishment Architect of the Year.
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Mica Architects’ refurbishment of Fairfield Halls in Croydon
The judges – who underlined the importance of restoring and repurposing existing buildings at a time of climate crisis – praised Mica’s entry for its high standard and variety of work. This included converting London’s famous Centre Point tower into flats, restoring Croydon’s 1962 Fairfield Halls to its former glory and rescuing crumbling 12
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Alison Brooks Architects has created a landmark structure in the emerging area of Kings Cross in London, part of its Central Masterplan. The proposed mixed-use urban block containing 158 dwellings will reinforce the neighborhood’s “
unique sense of place and celebrate its emerging and historic contexts”.
Emerging as one of the most animated and inclusive places in London, Kings Cross will receive “an equally joyful building”, as projects architects Alison Brooks state. Located strategically to the north of Lewis Cubitt Park, the intervention entitled Cadence puts in place a mixed-use urban block that responds to its concept. Imagined as a “
Camden Council names winner for hotly contested Camley Street scheme
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS), working with Architecture 00 and Studio Woodroffe Papa, has won a Camden Council competition to design a major £136 million regeneration of two light industrial parks just north of King’s Cross
The team will draw up plans for a ‘highly sustainable, inclusive and innovative’ mixed-use transformation of a 0.53ha plot at 120-136 Camley Street and a nearby 1.09ha site at 3-30 Cedar Way.
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It is understood rival teams competing for the estimated £3.3 million contract included Arup with Alison Brooks Architects; Haworth Tompkins with Feilden Fowles, Níall McLaughlin Architects and Metropolitan Workshop; Maccreanor Lavington; and Sheppard Robson with dRMM.