Abbey Wood is a landmark new development of apartments, commercial space and public realm in the London Borough of Greenwich.

Redevelopment of an exceptional riverside site for high-quality, sustainable housing.

A modern Almshouse for a more connected community.

Older persons’ social housing initiative comprising of 57 extra-care homes with shared facilities like a cookery school kitchen, communal dining spaces, meeting rooms, craft areas, and communal gardens with raised beds for allotment style food production.

Founded and overseen by the United St Saviour's charity, Appleby Blue in Southwark stands out as a modern Almshouse, a testament to community-focused architecture.

In the pursuit of an environmentally sensitive and responsive building, Appleby Blue set a target of a 35% improvement in carbon emissions compared to the 2013 Building Regulations. 

Passive measures include optimisation of the building’s fabric to ensure excellent thermal performance; project layout and orientation for acoustics and daylighting; and thermal mass for cooling.

In response to the site being immediately adjacent to the busy A2206, the building is arranged around a central communal courtyard garden. A main 5-storey block located to the North creates a visual and acoustic shield to the garden, while a lower 2-storey building located to the south ensures the garden and the main block received adequate sunlight all year around. Daylight intake from south-facing façades was enhanced whilst implementing solar shading to protect against overheating. 

The building is designed to be naturally ventilated with the glazed facade throughout the corridors acting as tempered winter gardens that open to become external in the summer, and where people can sit and chat in comfort.  The building’s concrete frame provides passive cooling in warmer weather and at night to regulate temperatures. In public areas, automatically controlled ventilation is employed.

Complementary to these strategies, efficient building and renewable technologies were incorporated. This involved user-friendly local controls to prevent energy waste, and a smart lighting system linked to occupancy and daylight levels in relevant communal areas. 

Initially specified with a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system, the project demonstrated adaptability over its 10-year duration by transitioning to more efficient technologies, such as photovoltaic panels. 

Appleby Blue signifies a decade-long dedication to sustainable living and community engagement, with a nurturing environment where residents can age gracefully and remain integral to their community.

We have been working over a number years on a rolling programme to upgrade the services, enhance the technical infrastructure and improve the thermal performance of the Grade II*-listed 6000m² Battersea Arts Centre, formerly Battersea Town Hall. 

Bishop’s Palace House was formerly a drab 1970s brown brick car park and shopping centre in Kingston upon Thames’ Old Town Conservation Area on the bank of the river, next to the town’s Grade II-listed bridge.

The Bridge Theatre is London's first new commercial theatre of scale for four decades. The 900-seat auditorium is the flagship home of the London Theatre Company, with Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, who led 12 years of artistic and commercial success at the National Theatre, at its helm.

This long-running project with the Bush Theatre has achieved gradual improvements to the building over 6 years, and Phase 2 continues the integration of new with existing services.

The iconic, Grade II* Listed Chichester Festival Theatre was designed by Powell and Moya and opened in 1962. Based on Tyronne Guthrie’s Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, it boasted the first modern ‘thrust’ stage auditorium in the country. Over the past fifty years it has been a hugely successful and influential centre for the performing arts and has been extended on a number of occasions to address changing demands, leading to a dilution of the original design.

Command of the Oceans, a major, multi-award-winning project for Historic Dockyard Chatham, has secured the repair and preservation of a range of The Historic Dockyard’s Scheduled Ancient Monuments and of the 18^TH century HMS Namur archaeological find, The Ship’s Timbers.

The project involved the sensitive upgrade of an existing restaurant facility on Covent Garden’s famed Opera Terrace within the historic Grade II*-listed Market Building.