31.08.10
Masterplanning Architect
of
the Year
We have been shortlisted for Building Design’s Masterplanning Architect of the Year 2010. The projects that formed the submission were Barking Central, Notting Dale Village, Villaggio (Ghana), Maywood Park (Oklahoma City) and King William Street Quarter, Barking. The winners will be announced on Thursday 4th November at the InterContinental Hotel, Park Lane. Visit www.bdonline.co.uk/awards for more information.
16.08.10
Wandsworth BSF receives planning permission
We have achieved planning permission for Burntwood School as part of the Wandsworth’s BSF project. The project incorporates communications, maths & science building (right) and a separate Performing Arts building (left) with internal and external dining at ground level linking to flower meadow, amphitheatre and pedestrian spine.
08.08.10
Designs for Guy’s and St Thomas' Hospital’s East Wing cladding
We have submitted competition designs for the recladding of the East Wing of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, a 13 storey 1960’s tower with over 200 beds. The project aims to modernise and improve the energy efficiency of the current structure. The six shortlisted designs are on exhibition for patients and local residents to comment on at Atrium 1 at Guy's Hospital (9th and 10th August), Central Hall at St Thomas' Hospital (11th to 13th August) and Durning Library in Kennington (17th and 18th August). Final judging will be on 10th September.
07.08.10
Open House 2010
We are opening the doors of several of our projects again this year as part of Open House (18th & 19th September), including Stirling Prize shortlisted Kentish Town Health Centre, Barking Central and Barbican Centre.
For more information visit: http://www.londonopenhouse.org/index.html
08.08.10
The Lemonade Building shortlisted for Brick Awards 2010
The Lemonade Building in Barking Central has been shortlisted for the Best Housing Development of 26 units or more. The Brick Awards will be announced at the Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel, London on Wednesday 3rd November.
For more information see: http://www.brick.org.uk/
05.08.10
Barking Central shortlisted for WAF
Barking Central has also been shortlisted for a World Architecture Festival Completed Buildings Award in the housing & mixed use category. The winners will be announced at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, 3-5th November 2010. www.worldarchitecturefestival.com
04.08.10
Wirral Waters wins planning permission
Wirral Waters has won planning permission after four years of master planning and public consultation. The project won the unanimous backing of Wirral Council's planning committee, with all four local Members of Parliament (MPs) and Liverpool Council giving their support to the project being built in Liverpool’s derelict Birkenhead docks. AHMM will design a quarter of the city-sized project alongside Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), Glenn Howells, and HKR. Over a 30 year period the project will contain 400000 m2 of offices, 60000 m2 of retail space, 38000 m2 of hotel and conference facilities and 100000 m2 of culture, education, community and leisure space.
23/6/10
Barking Central wins its second Housing Design Award
Barking Central is one of only six projects to be awarded a coveted Housing Design Award 2010.
For more details and the judges citation visit the Housing Design website
http://www.hdawards.org/archive/2010/winning_schemes
19/7/10
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris are pleased to announce the appointment of two new Associate Directors, Ben Gibson and Hazel Joseph, and seven new Associates, Cormac Farrelly (Bristol office), Tom Gardner, Yuk Ming Lam, Ceri Shackleton (Bristol office), Steve Smith, Laura Stephenson and Matt Thornley.
Director, Peter Morris, explains; “The practice’s reputation for producing award-winning work across a broad range of sectors is founded on the hard work of our talented and committed team. These appointments, which are made in response to recent growth, are designed to reinforce the practice’s work with ambitious clients to deliver architecture which is intelligent, well made and delightful.”
The practice is working in the UK on a diverse range of schemes including large scale commercial developments, BSF and Academy schools as well as healthcare and arts projects. The practice is also busy working on projects in Europe and beyond, including in Ghana, Saudi Arabia and the USA.
10/6/10
21st Birthday
Over 1,000 of our clients, consultants, fellow architects and friends joined us to celebrate our 21st Birthday at the Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea. Click here to view some of the pictures from the night.
To see a round-up of key projects from our 21 years in practice please click here.
18/06/10
On-site in Ghana
Work is progressing on our Villaggio project in Ghana, West Africa. The project consists of approx. 38,500sqm of residential accommodation, a small office and retail/restaurant and gym. The project first phase is due for completion in 2011.
17/06/10
BCI Awards 2010
Kentish Town Health Centre is one of 46 UK and international projects shortlisted for the 2010 British Construction Industry Awards and one of only 22 publicly funded projects shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award. The winners will be announced on 13th October.
1/6/10
White Collar Factory
We are working with Derwent London on two projects which develop the ‘White Collar Factory’ concept. City Road is a large office and mixed-use project with new build residential and rejuvenated studio offices built around a new city courtyard. Hampstead Road is an office and residential project which expands and reinvents an existing warehouse.
7/6/10
Chobham Academy
Chobham Academy’s build continues with the second floor of the four-storey building now finished. The Academy is an all-age academy school that provides an education and community facilities for the 3,500 new homes in Stratford, East London and is due for completion in 2011.
Angel Building Atrium Revealed
Work is nearing completion on the Angel Building with the dramatic atrium recently unveiled. Angel Building is the re-invention of an early 1980’s commercial building on a prominent but under-used site on the corner of St John Street and Pentonville Road, Islington. The project is due for completion in autumn 2010.
1/6/10
Other International News
We have been shortlisted for two projects in Montenegro, a mixed-use project in the Middle East and a low energy demonstration office building in Italy.
23/5/10
Halcyon Gallery
The Halcyon Gallery has obtained planning permission and listed building consent for the £1.5m designed refurbishment of 144 New Bond Street. The project will update the original 1913 Neo Baroque gallery and feature a number of elegant and subtle alterations - creating a sequence of interlinked yet varied gallery spaces suited to the display of Halcyon’s exceptional collection of Modern and Contemporary artworks.
5/4/10
North London Hospice gets planning
We have achieved planning permission and part DoH funding for a new day care for the North London Hospice. The Hospice is a registered charity that cares free of charge for those living with a terminal illness in the Borough of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey in a multi-faith environment. The project is due to go on-site later this year and a new site has been acquired with a view to providing additional palliative care Enfield. There will be a degree of clinical, therapy and office space but the focus of this new building will be the day care centre. It is intended to raise the profile of the charity in the Borough whilst also acting as a potential base for the development and delivery of new services in Haringey.
7/6/10
Passive House
Our Head of Sustainability, Nic Crawley, has become one of a small number of Certified European Passive House Designers in the UK after passing an exam set by Wolfgang Feist’s Passive House Institute. Passive House techniques can be applied to most building types, whether new build or refurbished, in full or in part and this well established approach to intelligent design and construction results in ultra-low energy-in-use buildings with excellent internal environments.
20/5/10
AHMM has been ranked in 39th place in the annual AJ100 Awards. The practice was also shortlisted for the Sustainability Award and was ranked in 7th place in the table of practices that have won the most design awards in 2009.
Kentish Town Health Centre scooped 4th place in the table of favourite building by another architecture practice. The project was also shortlisted for Building of the Year and was highly commended by the judges who praised the project for ‘exceeding expectations in design, layout and result’.
13/05/10
Barking Central officially opened
Over 60 guests have celebrated the official opening of Barking Central. The Mayor of Barking, Councillor Charles Fairbrass MBE, opened the ceremony by expressing his thanks to all those involved in the project which he said has transformed Barking Central, socially and economically, “This scheme has benefitted all the local people with a library, new restaurants and large open communal spaces to facilitate events”. The development was later described by Peter Bishop, Deputy Chief Executive of the London Development Agency as a place that allows “Citizens’ to become Citizens’ ”.
The regeneration of Barking Central began over 20 years ago and the Barking Central project forms part of the ambitious regeneration of Barking as a key town in the Thames Gateway. Barking Central is a bold new residential and cultural complex providing both homes and educational services to the local community.
08/05/10
Designing Out Waste
AHMM are working with the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to design out waste in construction. More efficient use of resources means less waste sent to landfill; reducing carbon footprints as well as build costs. Through a series of workshops we’ve considered a variety of waste saving methods for schools and offices, including a novel idea for reuse of old school furniture in school aid programmes in the developing world.
26/04/10
Projects Stateside
We are working on a number of projects in the United States. Projects include the conversion of a 1903 warehouse into a boutique hotel, a new urban high density housing scheme, and a number of private residential projects.
01/03/10
AHMM have joined the 10:10 environmental campaign and support the drive to help reduce Britain’s carbon emissions in 2010. We aim to reduce the emissions from our own operations as well as those from the operation of the buildings we design. For further details on the 10:10 campaign please visit the website http://www.1010uk.org/