We are happy to announce that last night Clapham One won Development of the Year at the Property Week RESI Awards 2013. Despite loathing the term “resi” to describe people’s homes, we and our development partners Cathedral Group and United House are very excited to win this prestigious award. Congratulations to everyone who helped to deliver this multi-award winning project.

Our Guild House rooftop pavilion project has been granted planning permission. The project represents the first steps toward realising ‘London’s Sporting Village’, Studio Egret West’s masterplan for the Surrey Canal Triangle in London.

The masterplan will deliver up to 2000 jobs and 2400 homes in one of the most deprived areas of  inner London. The development will transform the site into a 21st century village based around a new regional centre for sporting excellence.
 
The rooftop pavilion will become the new base for our client, Renewal, and will provide a vantage point to witness this change. Sitting above Guild House, an Edwardian fruit merchants warehouse, the rooftop pavilion is conceived as an undulating stainless steel box, reflecting the changing conditions of the landscape and site around it as the masterplan develops. The pavilion will be completed in the late summer of 2013.  

Work on Studio Egret West’s extension to Greenwich Community Centre and new Incubator Units, part of the Cathedral Group’s MVMNT regeneration project, has begun on site!

The facilities will provide meeting and gallery spaces for the community centre as well as a café to complement the new residential quarter. In addition the incubator units will provide a range of commercial studio spaces to further contribute to the revitalisation of this part of Greenwich.

Today we visited Tolworth Broadway as construction has now fully kicked off.  In the roundabout concrete footers and retaining walls are being poured for the new Greenway ramps that will connect at grade to the existing bridge.  There are also two crews of masons excavating the old worn out paving and replacing them with new high quality pavements on each side of the street. 

The five different types of paving on the pavements are subtle with slightly different characteristics but work well to create the desired frontages for each shop front as conceptualized.  Raised seating platforms are also being constructed around existing trees and tree pits are being dug for all of the new trees.  The crews are working their way down toward the roundabout and once the pavements are completed the central Greenway will be constructed in one go to fully connect into the new roundabout section. Completion is expected for September and seems to be on target.  It’s great to see nearly four years of consultation and design come to fruition.

Studio Egret West have completed the first phase of commercial units as part of the wider redevelopment of Park Hill in Sheffield. Known as ‘Gilbert Studios’, two new studio spaces are set over three floors along a newly enclosed ‘Gilbert Street’ providing flexible workspace for the site’s newest tenants, creative agencies Uber & Human.

The spaces retain the exposed concrete and incredible city views that we all love, yet provide all the comforts of a modern workplace.

New interventions include folding ply balustrades, frameless glass balconies and a new internal street to creative an invigorating working environment that retains the charm of the original building.

Come and see the Clapham Library at the Design Museum.

Our project for the Clapham Library will be on show at the Design Museum as part of the selected projects for this years “Design of the Year 2013″, (the Oscars of the Design world).

The exhibition is open from 20th March until 7th July 2013.  For more information on the exhibition, see this BBC report. 

Clapham library was singled out last night by Ed Miliband in his speech given at the Labour Party Inaugural Arts Dinner as an exemplar of the contribution that architecture makes to our urban environment and social cohesion.

The event took place in the beautiful Hawksmoor Christ Church in Spitafields. Other guests included Melvin Bragg, Grayson Perry, Anish Kapoor, Ginette Winterson, Michael Craig Martin and David Chipperfield.

The evening’s food was prepared  by Arnold & Henderson.

The Library Building in Clapham was recognised as an award winning civic hub. The building won the Architectural and Built Environment Scheme Award at the the Civic Trust Awards ceremony in Cardiff.

The scheme which houses a new public library and health centre, provides a
new civic focus on Clapham High Street. Providing much needed community
facilities for the area, along with a flexible community space that puts the local residents back at the heart of their own community library.

Is this the future of our transforming high streets? As the retail focus
fades a new civic theme could turn high streets back into the important
social hubs they used to be.

Sixteen years ago, the Local Government Chronicle launched the very first awards scheme to recognise and celebrate the greatest achievements from across local government.

Last night Gateshead City Council, in Partnership with Galliford Try and Home Group were awarded the LGC award for Best Public Private Partnership 2013 for the Evolution Gateshead project which includes the design of 3000 homes in and around Gateshead with a design team led by Studio Egret West.

 
This award is testament to the hard work and dedication from the whole team and recognises perseverance and rigor in delivering a model of sustainable development in todays challenging economic climate.  

Studio Egret West with Cathedral Group, invited the public to a consultation at Canning Town over the weekend.

The new plans for the site were discussed with the locals, encouraging a creative place at the heart of the community.

The interactive event was supported by The House of Fairytales, inviting the local community to tell stories, make their own house out of plasticine and mark it on an oversized map. Artist Damien Hurst also dropped in and left his mark on one of the easels.

The feedback will be used to work up the proposals in our planning application to London Borough of Newham later this Year.