The Gatefold Building will comprise 132 apartments, a café and workshop spaces as well as a children’s play area. The Gatefold Building is the first phase of the Old Vinyl Factory masterplan which will provide new jobs, homes and cultural facilities for the people of Hayes. 

The steel structure will continue to be erected over the Christmas break and should be complete by February 2012 when the Leaves will be installed.

Within the same building the PCT also have a smaller facility offering specialist services tailored to local demand. The centre forms part of a larger community offering from the local council with a new Community Hub and Library sharing the same communal entrance, providing a unique pairing of community focused amenity. The design of the Health Centre aims to bring generosity of space and light into the everyday use of the building.

Resolving the need for the entire offering to be planned on a single floor with the specifics of a very deep plan the facility is laid out around a series of elongated courtyards the every consulting room within the practice has an outlook onto a positive green space. The main reception area is located at the centre of the facility making a connection from the main entrance on the high street to the green courtyards, users can see straight through the building into the garden beyond when arriving providing a calm, light and spacious environment.

Studio Egret West, alongside HLM architects, has prepared the planning application for a mixed-use scheme at the foot steps of the Greenwich DLR station, on the site of a derelict industrial estate. Part residential scheme with 200 flats and part student village with 350 rooms, the development is anchored around a new pedestrian friendly street which aims to capture the “movement” of this future community.

Studio Egret West’s main focus aside from developing the look and feel of the development, has been on the smaller mixed-use activities, which include a new boutique hotel, incubator units and an extension to the community centre.

Though each building has it’s own architectural and material identity, they are all united in the aim of making activities within the buildings visible and playful from the street experience, thus emphasising the theme of “movement”. The boutique hotel is attached to the existing North Pole pub helping to create continuity between old and new. The incubator units create a rich visual texture of timber decks and terraces that parallels the various uses within. The community centre extension, with it’s projection from the original facade, offers new facilities such as a gallery space and a street cafe. The roof of the extension becomes a much needed terrace to the existing main hall.

This was the home of the Gramophone Company, later His Majesty’s Voice and latterly EMI. The extraordinary history of music production is barely visible today.

The site has become “London Gate”, a corporate offering in the style of Stockley Park but dominated by surface car parking and without the ecological setting of its more successful neighbour. Not too surprising to discover that it has attracted few tenants. Our challenge is find a way to release its latent potential.

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What it enjoys in great accessibility (with a 15 minute ride to Paddington, 10 minutes to Heathrow) and the promise of Crossrail in 2017; it misses in identity. With a new name “The Old Vinyl Factory”, our ambition is to inject a sustainable mix of new accommodation back into the site in both rejuvenated existing buildings and in new buildings that frame a sequence of public spaces.

Studio Egret West is the lead designer – masterplanner, architect and landscape architect – for 3000 new homes across 19 sites in Gateshead.

We won the commission with a combined client team of Galliford Try and Home Group after 18 months of intensive competitive dialogue. One of the early phases of the project is the Freight Depot which sits close to the Baltic Quarter. It will be a bold new neighbourhood on the edge of a newly imagined and revived Gateshead.

It is a showcase for the future possibilities of sustainable neighbourhood living. The site’s past function as a railway freight depot is brought to life by the arrival of new family housing. Terraced rows are arranged as train carriages embedded within the landscape, creating distinct streets in between. Ecology, sport, food growing and play define the central sequence of the masterplan’s public spaces, and are joined by a Community Hall (powered by the photovoltaic canopy of the adjacent sports court), a neighbourhood food store and flexible commercial space.

Points of intensity define edges of the site where two apartment buildings create a built topography of stepped green roofs; dramatic visual markers from highway and station.

The apartments are interlocking duplexes which allow all homes a south-facing living space overlooking the safe play space of a communal garden, as well as spectacular views north to Newcastle; the best of both worlds.

As the centrepiece of the project the new stadium for Cambridge United will be designed to integrate with its neighbourhood; it will be welcoming, accessible and surrounded by high quality streets and public realm. Its design will have a complete and singular identity, but with the flexibility to accommodate a number of community and sporting requirements.The project will reflect and redefine the ‘Community Stadium’, to encompass more than just football.

The new urban village will contain a new improved stadium and in addition a multitude of diverse new indoor/outdoor sporting facilities, club facilities, a new improved community centre for the Cambridge United Youth and Community Trust (CUY&CT) and training facilities which will create an active heart for the sporting village as a whole. The development will further include education and higher education; health and medical services and an array of commercial aspects such as a hotel and conference facility, restaurant, retail, office and civic facilities; office space, civic buildings and parking facilities. In addition, long term accommodation plans designed with the landscape in mind are included in the development with a provision for a mix of private and affordable housing, student accommodation, and retirement living.

Bournemouth has all the right ingredients. Abundant sky; Beautiful beach; Charming town centre; Delightful gardens.

Our vision for the Bournemouth LABV sought to celebrate the features that make Bournemouth unique and leave such an enduring impression on visitors and residents alike. And to contribute to its ongoing success an amplification of its assets.

Whilst unsuccessful in the final round of the competition, one of our suggested interventions captured the imagination of the authority and may well have a second life. Our idea was to transform Happylands a derelict amusement arcade fronting onto the beach into the West Cliff Hotel. Inspired in part by Gaudi’s Casa Mila, we avoid any contemporary cliches or anonymous polite modernisms to offer a one off sculpted building, inviting within each step the vegetation of the cliff. Along the waterfront promenade, a restaurant and oyster bar offers new activity to this popular destination.

The ground level entrance communicates directly with the rooftop main entrance, through a cascading semi-exterior garden. Above, three levels of hotel rooms with south facing private terraces. Regular sculptural chimneys to the back of the building provide natural cross ventilation to each room. The roof of the building, arranged below the line of sight of the West Cliff promenade forms the main reception entrance to the hotel as well as a private semi-tropical garden. To one side of the reception as pool and hot tub provides a destination for sun worshippers while the other side provides a more manicured gardens suitable for weddings and other social event in a prized location.

In terms of construction, a simple frame structure provides the anchor to the cliff edge and the stepped arrangement. The facade takes advantage of advances in computer generated design to create an organic and varied series of apertures that can be prefabricated off site in pigmented concrete that will weather beautifully over time.