The Piggery
Private Client Oxfordshire
2020 - present
• Sustainable.
• Multi generational.
• Zero carbon in operation.
• Very low embodied carbon.
• On course to surpass RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge standards.
The Factory at FarGo Complex Development Projects
Coventry
2020 - 2021
As FarGo continues to grow, the food court and external terrace opened in mid-June. Special kitchen pods allow for short term residency for food traders.
was completed in June.
present
Court Street
Complex Development Projects
Leamington Spa 2021
A new hub in the Creative Quarter providing a mix of uses, including residential and live-work units, and a mix of ofce space, maker spaces, cafes, bars and independent shops.
Net zero carbon is the target for any new build elements of the project.
Bennetts Hill + Colmore Row
Colmore Properties
Birmingham 2020 - 2021
Refurbishment of Grade II and Grade II* Listed buildings to provide managed work spaces for a variety of diferent sized businesses.
Our works were focused on the fabric of the building including inflling the courtyard with a glazed roof. We also handled all of the planning and Listed building applications.
Photographic Works
Hatchbury
Jewellery Quarter
2019 - present
Magnifed abstract image of silver nitrate crystals, which are light sensitive and are crucial in traditional photo processing.
Drawing on the building’s past, this pattern is being incorporated into precast concrete entrance panels.
Wednesbury Clock Tower
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Wednesbury
2021
Following on from the detailed condition survey on Market Place we compiled in 2018, a further survey was carried out on the clock tower.
The grant scheme application was successful and in March 2022 the restoration of the 1911 tower was completed.
Beaconwood
Private Client
Stratford-Upon-Avon
2021 - present
With a burial mound 100 metres away, this concept design for a Para 80 house takes inspiration from iron age settlements.
Words and images by
Rob Colbourne Landscape Architect
Reimagining a lost Warwickshire landscape: The proposal aims to reinvigorate this landscape by reimagining woodland coverts that occupied Bordon Hill.
Warwickshire hedgerows, cleft post and rail fences can augment existing pathways around the site, whilst lost orchards and woodland ponds can fnd also new contemporary uses to improve biodiversity.
St Anne’s Hostel
St Anne’s Birmingham Digbeth 2021
St Anne’s is a direct access hostel, providing accommodation and resettlement support for homeless men from across the city. They have been operating from the same premises, a Grade II Listed former Police Barracks, since 1976.
We submitted a pre-application for the development of a vacant piece of land
within the existing hostel site, in front of Park View, a 2008 development providing self contained accommodation.
Fronting Moseley Street the addition to the hostel would provide a new reception area, interview rooms, training spaces and more accommodation.
Home Farm 10M Hampton in Arden 2018 - 2021
11 new homes in the green belt completed in July.
Dudley Zoo Entrance
Dudley Zoological Gardens
Dudley 2020 - 2021
New entrance lighting was unveiled in September. Using a colorkinetics graze light spanning the width of the roof, the underside of the S-shaped roof is highlighted, emphasising the rhythm of the roof shape. The lighting also highlighted the original colour scheme of the Tecton structure which was restored in 2014.
Dudley Zoo Tectons
Dudley Zoological Gardens
Dudley 2020 - present
Our work continued on the regeneration of a further four Tecton structures.
192 - 197 Great Hampton Row
Jewellery Quarter
2020 - present
Responding to its diverse context of buildings, varying in scale, age and style, this scheme aims to provide 14 1 and 2 bed residential apartments with private amenity space and a ground foor commercial unit.
Icknield Feasibility Places for People Birmingham 2021
Exploring options for a housing development on the Icknield Square site for Places for People, with house types that facilitate working and studying from home post Covid, and balance generous outdoor space with an appropriate density.
2019 - present
Glover Street
Detail
Digbeth 2021
We worked on reactivation proposals to get Digbeth Dining Club back to where it all began.
The Maltings HBD Birmingham 2021
Massing and feasibility study.
Chance Glassworks
Chance Heritage Trust Smethwick 2021 - present
Collages by
Rob Colbourne Landscape Architect
Chance Heritage Trust commissioned us and our consultants to prepare a Phase 1 Concept Design and Feasibility Report for an area of land previously home to Chance Brothers Glassworks.
This vision for the wider site is a mixeduse urban village, with this frst phase comprising of managed workspace, heritage centre and landscaped recreation space.
A new canal arm and basin will make better connections with the James Brindley canal to the north of the site.
Cleveland Road
Jessup Brothers Wolverhampton
2018 - 2021
The 63 bed YMCA, 74 apartments and 18 houses completed in September.
2-4 Great Hampton Street
Cordia Blackswan Jewellery Quarter 2018 - present
Progression on 2-4 Great Hampton Street, next door to The Gothic.
Sytner Site
HBD
Jewellery Quarter 2020 - present
Exploring massing options.
Windmill Lane
Private Client
Dorridge
2020 - present
Paragraph 80 interior.
BPN turns 25
BPN Architects
Jewellery Quarter 1996 - 2021
The practice turned 25 in October and we didn’t realise.
We’ll have to celebrate our 26th.
Railway Road
Private Client
Sutton Coldfield 2021
Following the demolition of a truck serving garage this site had been used as a privately owned car park for a number of years
The brief from the landowners was to look at developing the site for residential use. Given the proximity to Sutton Coldfeld town centre and railway station, the site was assessed as being in a highly sustainable location for residential use.
Poplar Farm
Boo Homes
Cheltenham
2020 - present
We prepared designs for the refurbishment and enhancement of existing buildings at Poplar Farm, as well as a development of 8 houses to the wider site with landscaping.
R&C Williams
R&C Williams
Birmingham
2021 - present
New ofce building in Spaghetti Junction. Proposals include work space and facilities for 15-18 employees with the fexibility for future growth.
Strip out commenced - with roof and internal partitions removed.
Lansdowne House
Private Client Jewellery Quarter 2021
Change of use from ofces and education to residential, including partial demolition and the erection of newly formed dwellings to the top foors which will provide 11 2 bed apartments.
This development has incorporated landscape at the heart of the proposals with a variety of external spaces ranging from private balconies with inbuilt planting areas, green alleyways, terraces and communal gardens.
Farm
Halesowen
Private Client
2021 - present
Conversion of an agricultural barn to residential use with internal courtyards and terrace spaces, keeping the barn like aesthetics.
Our approach was to create a fairly open plan living space on the ground foor towards the south south-east side to take advantage of the sunlight and views, and construct a frst foor which would house the majority of bedrooms.
Harford Street
Cordia Blackswan
Jewellery Quarter
2020 - present
Bringing an underused ‘gap site’ back to life and forming an extension to the adjoining Lamp Works development.
Setl HBD
Jewellery Quarter
2020 - present
Demolition of the 70s built ofce block Cornwall House was completed, making way for Setl, a new mixed-use development.
The photo shows starter bars being cast into the main blocks’ reinforced concrete suspended slab, ready for four metre high precast walls to be lifted and put into place.
Beckford Glasshouse
Private Client Beckford 2021
Concept sketch for re-using a Glasshouse as a residential house.
Banbury, Oxfordshire
2019 - present
65 Albion Street
Private Client
Jewellery Quarter
2020 - present
We have been working on proposals for the residential conversion of a Grade II Listed rear workshop.
Collaborating with Landscape Architect Rob Colbourne we plan to open up and landscape the rear courtyard.
Vittoria & Unity Works
NVSM
Jewellery Quarter
2021 - present
Built in 1866 and 1867, Grade II Listed Unity and Vittoria Works have been vacant for over 20 years.
Now, almost derelict we’ve been working with NVSM on a scheme to convert these buildings into 34 residential units and commercial space.
Heathfield Knoll School Wolverley, Worcestershire 2019 - present
The Sebright Building, named after the school’s founder William Sebright of Wolverley.
The new building provides modern spaces for music recording and performances, computing and food technology for all pupils, from pre-school to secondary age.
Taylor & Challen
Private Client
Jewellery Quarter 2020 - present
Henrietta Street workshop elevation including our proposed new build element.
The new build draws on the historical precedent which at the time was a counter balance to the height of the main building on the corner of Constitution Hill, known as Shop N.
Larger brick pier bays with 2 windows separated by a thinner brick pier and decorative tile spandrels, mirror the architecture.
A rooftop extension to the main building is a nod to the buildings past, incorporating the letter ‘N’.
Cedar House
Steve Smith & Balaclava Projects
Warwickshire
2020 - present
countryside.
The Bond Oval Digbeth 2020 - present
Work started on site at The Bond.
Sitting on a single site, the fve buildings that make up The Bond all have quite diferent architectural characters. This individuality is being respected with the proposed alterations appropriate to each building.
Paint colours and signage will maintain the relationship between the buildings.
Pictured here on an external wall of Retort House is The Fox, a piece of work by Birmingham artist Annatomix.
No. 7 Bedford St is a single storey building within the Conservation Area of Leamington Spa.
The purpose of the re-development was to increase the amount of retail space, providing a viable and long term sustainable future for the existing local business.
Our proposals included maintaining and extending the ground foor as retail space. 4 new apartments would sit above the unit and a further 5 storey building would ‘infll’ a gap at the rear of the site.
The Royal Hospital Jessup Brothers Wolverhampton
2020 - present
Work started on site in September.
Much of the building (top left of left hand image) dates back to 1848 and will be preserved as a nod to its history.
Abbotts Park Complex Development Projects Coventry
2021 - present
We have been working alongside Glenn Howells Architects on Abbotts Park.
The wider masterplan consists of 4 plots in total and we have been developing plans for the Abbotts and Naul’s Buildings, plot 4.
Yard
Jewellery Quarter 2015 - present
Yard nearing completion, expected early Q3 2022.
Illingworth Building Complex Development Projects
Coventry 2021
The repair and conversion of the Illingworth building into a bar/cafe.
Plans are to regenerate the building along with the surrounding area, including uncovering the river, stepped seating and soft landscape pockets.
Oxford Row
Private Client
Leamington Spa
2020 - present
After a number of pre-app submissions, our proposals for a two storey, two bedroom house were submitted for planning.
United Reform Church at Spencer Yard
Leamington Creative Quarter
Complex Development Projects
Leamington Spa
2020 - present
Proposals for the reuse of this Grade II Listed building are a high priority due to its vacant and Listed status.
As the future fagship space for the Creative Quarter, part of the basement will be opened up by a staircase well, which will connect to the upper foors.
Crypts will be turned into individual pods and studios with social meeting spaces, and the mezzanine level will be extended with access via a grand central atrium, showcasing the original painted glass windows and decorative ceiling.
6 Legge Lane
NVSM
Jewellery Quarter 2019 - 2021
The restoration and conversion of this Grade II Listed terrace of four houses and attached workshops completed in May.
The Drawn Chorus BPN Architects
Jewellery Quarter 2020 - present
After a really enjoyable session with Aly in 2020, we decided to continue with our drawing journey with further workshops.
Our next two sessions focused on arrangement in the style of the Dutch Renaissance period and Chiaroscuro, investigating light and dark.
BPN Team 2021
David Baugh
Alex Billingham
Carrie Brown
Aurelija Celutke
Rob Colbourne
Abi Copeland
Ellis Cresswell
Irena Dumitrascu
Sarah Edwards
Kimran Farooq
Alex Fedyk
Jenny Harrison
Georgina Holden
Russell Ingram
Emil Karadzhov
Katie Miller
Phill Millward
Russell Morriss
Richard Newman
Razvan Pop
Ryan Price
Larry Priest
Dean Shaw
Phill Shepherd
Rob Smith
Sunena Sohal
Ben Tipson
Josh Veale
Tom Willington
We started 2021 in lockdown and remote working again.
With our need to expand the team, the frst wave of new starters had to navigate the tricky waters of starting at a new practice whilst remote working, getting to know the team and importantly gaining an understanding of how we work.
Architect David Baugh joined us in March, followed by Part II Assistant Alex Fedyk in April.
Tom passed his Part II in June and then went on to win the BCU nomination for the RIBA Silver Medal.
Part I Josh Veale joined the team in the summer as restrictions were easing, along with Part II Emil Karadzhov and Architect Kimran Farooq.
In August we received the news that Ben Tipson, who had spent his Part I year out with us, was back from Glasgow and we welcomed him back with open arms as a Part II Assistant.
Photo Credits Factory at FarGo
Image on left: courtesy of Factory at FarGo
Bennetts Hill & Colmore Row
Images: courtesy of Dave Parker
Photography www.daveparker.org
Beaconwood Sketches: Rob Colbourne
St Anne’s Hostel Image: courtesy of West Midlands Police
Home Farm Images: courtesy of 10M
192 - 197 Great Hampton Row Visual: Visual8
Chance Glassworks Collages: Rob Colbourne
Lansdowne House
Map: courtesy of Digimap
Harford Street
Visual: Visual8
Royal Hospital Drone image: Mcdermotts
6 Legge Lane Image: Vas Ibrahim
3 Mary Street Image: Tom Bird www.bytombird.com