“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour.” William Cowper
With our politicians seemingly intent on destroying any kind of stability in the UK economy, it has been a year of expanding our horizons, both in the locations that we are working and in the variety of work that we are doing. The downturn in some of our traditional areas of work has forced us to look further and to different fields, creating new dimensions to our work and bringing a renewed energy to the practice.
Some key current projects that reflect this changing emphasis include: Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice in High Barnet which provides an uplifting palliative care space for children with life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses, the Brixton Windmill Community Centre due for completion early in 2020, and the complete re-imagining of 4 miles of the main road leading into the heart of Abu Dhabi as part of the Gadhan 21 incentive to transform Abu Dhabi’s public realm. The practice continues to work on creatively adapting and re-using existing buildings to provide modern work and living space, the latest of which is The Brewery Building in Islington. We are working on large masterplanning projects in the UK and Ireland, and investigating new initiatives around future-gazing cities, with a particular emphasis on the way people will live and work in a world driven by the need to tackle climate change and overpopulation.
We are working in more countries than ever before, with significant projects on site now in Russia, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Oman, Egypt, The Bahamas, Pakistan, Hungary, Cambodia, France and Dubai. Many of these projects are not large volume residential or commercial office buildings but hotels, private villas, civic buildings and other typologies.
Closer to home this year has seen the completion of two hugely significant residential schemes in central London: Phase I of Chelsea Barracks and Twenty Grosvenor Square. Both of these projects represent the very best in British design and showcase why London apartment buildings are still amongst the most desirable in the world. Phase I of Chelsea Barracks is more than a collection of apartment buildings but the first phase of a masterplan conceived with Dixon Jones and Kim Wilkie over 10 years ago. It is fantastic to see the public gardens and spaces that have been on paper for so long finally coming to life. Twenty Grosvenor Square has completely reimagined a tired building on the corner of Grosvenor Square and created a dramatic new elevation and entrance space on North Audley Street, to establish a new contemporary residential address befitting this prestigious location.
We have also started the next phase of our development of The Department Store in Brixton. A new workspace building on the corner of Bellefields Road and Stockwell Avenue will emerge next year, completing the development and bringing the rear of our site back into active use. The ground floor will see a new restaurant and co-working café space, whilst the units above will be divided into small spaces to attract local creative startups with whom we hope to collaborate on future projects. The ultimate aim is to create a new creative hub for South London.
So from the chaos of the current political and economic state of our country, and our usual work streams, has come the opportunity and desire to reach out beyond our comfort zone and explore other areas of design and development, bringing variety and energy that is the lifeblood of any practice.
Michael, Henry, Tim and Murray
Albany Marina ‘The Squire’, Bahamas
Type: Residential
Location: Bahamas
Status: On site
Apartment building which creates 26 sea-view residences on New Providence island in the Bahamas, as part of a prestigious development by a group of international architects.
Local context Inside out living
Organic erosion
Marine craftsmanship Screens & layering
Early concept sketches
Typical floor plan
Barnes Hospital, Barnes
Type: Masterplan
Location: Barnes, London
Status: Planning consent 2019
NHS Trust masterplan providing new community mental health facilities, a Special Educational Needs school and 83 residential apartments set around a landscaped communal courtyard.
The garden suburb Local details Contemporary brickwork College quad
Bellefields Road, Brixton
Type: Creative workspace
Location: Brixton, London
Status: On site
Building on the success of The Department Store, Bellefields Road is a four-storey shared workspace development by Squire & Partners for the creative community in Brixton.
Load-bearing brickwork Expressed structure
Crafted windows Ground floor animation
Bar restaurant concept development
Glazed/patterned Un-glazed
Black metal Fluted glass Terracotta Pewter ‘Roman’ brick
Bellefields
Brent Cross South, Plot 13
Type: Masterplan
Location: Brent Cross, London
Status: Planning consent 2019
As part of the wider regeneration of Brent Cross, Plot 13 provides 350 homes set around a landscaped courtyard, as well as retail, a neighbourhood cinema and a community centre.
Adaptive reuse of an existing 1970’s office building, by repurposing the original structure and adding two additional floors to create 11,000sqft of workspace aimed at local independent businesses.
Branding by Mammal
Awards
Agri Tech Centre Cambodia
AJ100 Collaboration of the Year Award
The Ministry
Architizer A+ Award Special Mention
FX Award finalist
BD Office Architect of the Year finalist
BD Refurbishment Architect of the Year finalist
NLA Awards finalist
GCUC Award finalist
WIN Award finalist
Blueprint Award finalist
SBID Award finalist
The Frames Mixology Award
UK Property Award
BCO Award finalist
BD Office Architect of the Year finalist
NLA Award finalist
FX Award finalist
Blueprint Award finalist
Hubble Office of the Future Award finalist
3 Cavendish Square
AJ Retrofit Award finalist
The Department Store
Civic Trust Award
FX Award
WIN Award
Architecture Masterprize Honourable Mention
BD Office Architect of the Year finalist
BD Refurbishment Architect of the Year finalist
Design Week Award finalist
The Pineapples finalist
Hans Place
AJ Specification Award
Clarges Mayfair
Natural Stone Award
WAN Award finalist
x+why
AJ Architecture Award finalist
Blueprint Award finalist
Brighton Marina
Type: Residential-led mixed use
Location: Brighton
Status: Planning
A new masterplan for Brighton Marina, providing private and affordable homes, community workspace, retail and restaurants connected to the city by new landscaped pedestrian routes.
Sense of place
Massing concept development
Erosion
Brighton squares and crescents
Waterside public spaces
Brixton Bugle
Type: Product Design
Location: Brixton
Status: Created 2019
Approached to design an award for Brixton’s first Summer Art Exhibition, organised by local paper the Brixton Bugle, we combined hand formed brass lacquered pipe with 3D printed resin and recycled timber to create a repeating B symbol within the form of a bugle.
Brixton Bugle
Winners: Martin Grover - ‘Waiting for a Train’
Janet Baker - ‘What Lies Beyond’
Brixton Bugle
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Cavendish Square
Type: Workspace
Location: Marylebone, London
Status: Completed 2018
Drawing on British craftsmanship and repetitive elements in design, our refurbishment and extension to this Grade II* listed townhouse transformed a 1740’s building into contemporary office space.
British quality & craftsmanship
Cavendish Square and seasons
Georgian: reinstating & reinterpreting
Community
Ferndale Road Wayfinding
We were invited by The Brixton Project to advise on the colourways for new Ferndale Road wayfinding, by South London artist Lionel Stanhope. Selected colours reference the green copper roofs and red brick of the surrounding streets.
Brixton Bugle Award
Open House
In September 2019 we opened the doors of The Department Store to the community, offering free tours of our award winning offices, Downstairs event space and Upstairs rooftop members club. Tours were conducted by members of staff, with great feedback from visitors.
Squire & Partners designed the award gong for Brixton’s first Summer Art Exhibition at Brixton Tate Library, curated by Brixton Bugle. The award was inspired by the complex form of a bugle, and created by combining hand formed brass lacquered pipe with 3D printed resin.
Winter Windows
Continuing our collaboration with local schools, 2019 will see the third Winter Windows installation where children design a large scale illuminated display for The Department Store, created by our modelshop. In 2018 we collaborated with Hill Mead Primary, and in 2019 we are working with Lansdowne School.
Brixton Boundaries
As part of our ‘Brixton Boundaries’ installation for the London Festival of Architecture, we invited local schools and youth groups to experience the exhibition, as well as make their own contributions to our community map and graffiti wall.
Community Events
Our Downstairs event space offers a discount to local organisations as well as a charity rate for community events. This year we have hosted a multitude of events from organisations including the Brixton Chamber Orchestra, Brixton Local Church, The Advocacy Academy and Disrupt Space, to name but a few.
Chelsea Barracks Phase I
Type: Residential
Location: Belgravia, London
Status: Completed 2019
As the first completed phase of Chelsea Barracks masterplan, residential buildings are positioned around a series of landscaped public routes and spaces, drawing in the local community and ensuring that Chelsea Barracks evolves as a natural addition to Belgravia.
Images courtesy of Wonderhatch for Chelsea Barracks
Precision high-pressure water cutting used to create the final designs
Balustrade pattern development based on the works of William Morris
Alistair
Veryard
Photography
The Chocolate Factory
Type: Mixed use
Location: Southwark, London
Status: Pre-planning
Redevelopment of the former Menier Chocolate Factory, with a crafted brick façade characterised by deep window punctures and a series of distinctive copper domes. Cultural and retail uses animate the street and encourage community interaction.
Existing Elevation Studies
Existing Southwark Street Facade
Existing Southwark Street façade
Greenwich Magistrates Court
Type: Hotel
Location: Greenwich, London
Status: Planning
Restoration of the Grade II listed former Greenwich Magistrates Court, celebrated with new public spaces and a series of contemporary buildings which draw on historic elements of the original structure.
Uniformity
Glazed links
Contemporary courtyards
Pattern and details
5 Greycoat Place
Type: Mixed use
Location: Victoria, London
Status: On site
Drawing on the prevalent mansion block architecture of Victoria, this development creates a curved corner building with scalloped sandstone pilasters framing a series of projecting bay windows.
Bay study explorations
Twenty Grosvenor Square
Type: Residential
Location: Mayfair, London
Status: Completed 2019
A prestigious collection of apartments and penthouses in Mayfair, which establish a new identity for the former US Navy headquarters building by creating a contemporary entrance on North Audley Street, set within a retained façade.
Order & proportion
The London Square
Prominent entrance
Education
OpenCity Accelerate
Squire and Partners continue to mentor students on the OpenCity Accelerate! programme, which offers students in from diverse backgrounds a unique opportunity to develop the skills required for entry to higher education architecture-related courses.
We Rise Squire and Partners hosted a group of young people from the We Rise programme at The Department Store. The visit was designed to highlight career options in the architecture and built environment industries, by introducing students to the various creative teams who contribute to the design process.
Built by Us Squire and Partners are mentoring two students through the Built by Us FLUID mentoring programme in 2020, designed to increase diversity in management and leadership roles within the construction industry. The FLUID programme was developed with a focus on women, people from BAME backgrounds, people with disabilities, the LGBTQ+ community and those from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.
Yale School of Architecture
Henry Squire is the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale School of Architecture in Connecticut during autumn 2019. The Studio challenges students to consider sustainable tourism, and explore a new type of beach resort in Gili Meno, Indonesia, conceived around this principle.
Cass Art Mega Crit
Two of our Associates were invited as guest critics at the CASS Megacrit, a day long interschool event which explores how students and practitioners are approaching the future of housing in the UK.
Attendance at Brixton Careers Fairs
A team from Squire and Partners, including the Architecture, Illustration and CGI departments, attended careers fairs at Evelyn Grace Academy and Elm Green School to share information about career paths into architecture and design.
Haggerston Baths, Hackney
Type: Mixed use
Location: Hackney, London
Status: Planning
Redevelopment of Haggerston Baths which will transform the Grade II listed bathhouse – derelict for almost 20 years - into a hub for the local community and creative businesses in Hackney.
Heritage Workspace Art Community
Haggerston Baths
Original spaces and features
Exploration for re-use of original Lancashire boilers
Re-use of Victorian slipper baths
Karachi
Type: Residential-led mixed use
Location: Karachi, Pakistan
Status: Planning
High quality development responding to increased international demand in Pakistan. Taking inspiration from Mughal and Sindh patterns, a residential tower with intricate patterned screens rises from the retained façade of an existing heritage building. Retail at ground level activates the street frontage, and vertical planting softens the transition between the podium and tower.
Location Karachi Harbour Sindh patterns Existing building
Design evolution
Sketch A Sketch B
Sketch C
Sketch D
Retained façade
Amenity space
Retail space
Residential tower
Car parking
Triplex penthouse
Tatta : Elevation of part of entrance of Mirza Jani Beg’s Tomb Pattern analysis
Facsimile Edition of the Portfolio of Illustrations of Sind Tiles, Henry Cousens, Mohatta Palace Museum. 2007
London Festival of Architecture 2019, Brixton Boundaries
Type: Installation
Location: The Department Store, Brixton
Status: Completed 2019
An immersive installation for London Festival of Architecture, questioning how and why we perceive boundaries, which collated content from the community via workshops and visits hosted by Squire & Partners with local design collective AWMA.
Squire & Partners x AWMA Community workshop Workshop film
A large scale word map on the window of the Department Store acted as a graphic representation of issues raised in the workshop, and posed questions to passers-by on boundaries unique to Brixton.
An interactive map of Brixton was created to document physical and geographical boundaries, and visitors were encouraged to add their thoughts to our graffiti wall, sharing ideas and quotes on the theme of boundaries and what community means to them.
A selection of participants’ responses were used to create ‘16 Voices’, an immersive illuminated installation within an enclosed dark space.
Exhibitions
10x10 Drawing the City
For Article25’s annual 10x10 Drawing in the City charity art auction, Partner Tim Gledstone created ‘Dock in Transition’. In line with this year’s Isle of Dogs theme, the sculpture details the evolution of South Dock and West India Dock over more than two centuries.
Brixton Boundaries
In response to the London Festival of Architecture 2019’s theme of ‘Boundaries’, Squire & Partners collaborated with fellow Brixton-based design studio AWMA to create a free interactive installation which explored the South London neighbourhood’s unique experience of boundaries.
The Collection
As part of London Craft Week, Squire and Partners collaborated with innovative foundry London Bronze Casting to host ‘The Collection’, showcasing artworks by contemporary artists and designers working in bronze.
BAME Showcase for Black History Month
The Paradigm Network featured our installation for designjunction 2018 in partnership with RIBA London and the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, ‘The Designers’ Dreamscape’, as a showcase BAME project during their series of events as part of Black History Month.
Clay College Graduate Show
We were proud to present Clay College’s graduate exhibition, showcasing diverse and vibrant ceramics from their first graduating class. Clay College was started by ceramist Lisa Hammond MBE to teach pottery techniques to an international standard.
Queer Portraits
Held in our Downstairs exhibition space in November 2019, Queer Portraits was a groundbreaking exhibition of artist Sarah Jane Moon’s large scale portraits of people who identify as LGBTQI+ or queer. The show represents the main drive of Moon’s artistic practice since 2014 and was the first time the paintings were shown en masse.
Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice, Barnet
Type: Children’s hospice
Location: Barnet, London
Status: Completed 2019
As part of a collaborative team supporting Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice in their Build the Ark appeal, we designed and delivered an uplifting space for palliative care, therapy and adventure where young people can be children, not just patients.
Barn vernacular Tranquility Colour Home Play Nature
Notting Hill Gate Estate, South
Type: Workspace and retail
Location: Notting Hill, London
Status: Completed 2019
As the first phase of a comprehensive review of three adjacent sites in Notting Hill Gate, an existing 1950s building is revived by amplifying its strong horizontal emphasis while adding detail colour and texture to the façades.
Façade colour investigations
135 Park Street
Type: Mixed use
Location: Bankside, London
Status: Planning
New mixed use development extending the regeneration of Bankside eastwards. Primary façades reference an industrial warehouse vernacular, with sculptural sandstone columns and a curved roofline referencing the erosive flow of the river.
Tidal Thames erosion Industry versus nature Art & movement Bankside heritage
Portland Stone
Sandstone
Bronze anodised aluminium
People’s Mission Hall, x + why
Type: Workspace
Location: Whitechapel, London
Status: Completed 2019
Squire & Partners and sister branding agency Mammal developed a concept and design aesthetic for x+why’s first purpose driven workspace, providing flexible creative offices with provision for wellness, events and social gatherings.
Whitechapel
Whitechapel: then and now
Branding by Mammal
1 St John’s Wood
Type: Residential
Location: St John’s Wood, London
Status: Planning consent 2019
Overlooking Lord’s cricket ground, 1 St John’s Wood draws on Victorian mansion block architecture to create a contemporary building providing apartments with high end residents’ amenities.
Modern mansion block
Lord’s Cricket Ground St John’s Wood
Site history
Chevron pattern development taken from the historic Henderson’s Nursery, formerly located opposite the site.
BCO Tour of The Frames
Squire and Partners hosted a BCO Talk + Tour event with Workspace at The Frames in Shoreditch, which was shortlisted for a BCO Award in the Commercial Workplace category in 2019.
Lionheart Poet in Residence
We had a great time during a week-long residency with Lionheart, an award-winning poet who researches architecture’s role in emotional inhabitance and mental health through poetry.
ICON / Quadrifoglio Making Spaces
Director Maria Cheung discussed the blurred boundaries of interior design and how narrative drives creativity at ICON magazine’s ‘Icon Minds: Making Spaces’ talk hosted by Quadrifoglio.
AJ Summit
Partner Tim Gledstone and director Maria Cheung spoke alongside friend and collaborator Mark Eley of Eley Kishimoto at the inaugural AJ Summit ‘Collaborate to Create’ conference, discussing The Department Store as a case study for successful collaboration.
London Craft Week
As part of London Craft Week 2019, Partner Tim Gledstone, in collaboration with London Bronze Casting and Voxeljet, designed this 3D print PMMA bronze cast table, inspired by the organic structures that can be found in nature. The piece formed part of a collection of complex, innovative castings that push the boundaries of standard artwork that can be produced at a foundry.
Pascal Anson Workshop
We had a brilliant time with designer and artist Pascal Anson, creating ‘The Giant’ during a high speed making workshop, which involved using balloons to create the largest possible structure, before popping it as quickly as we could!
Peter Street Hotel
Type: Hotel
Location: Manchester
Status: Planning
New hotel development in Manchester with an eroding form to create a family of buildings on Peter Street. A series of brick arches establish a colonnaded street frontage, with embellishment added on the upper levels.
Existing building
Embellishment studies
Space House, Holborn
Type: Office
Location: Holborn, London
Status: Planning consent 2019
A sensitive renovation of a brutalist Holborn landmark that animates the ground level and revitalises the office floors above to realise its potential as an iconic building in a vibrant part of the city.
Sculpted brutalism City + nature
Futurism + sci-fi
Tribeca Belfast
Type: Masterplan
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Status: Planning
Urban regeneration scheme over 12 hectares in central Belfast, which repairs historical buildings and interweaves them with contemporary developments and public realm to establish a new piece of the city.
Arts & culture Public squares
Courtyards & intimate spaces Variety of height & materials
Regeneration of North Street Arcade
Social
S&P Football Team
Architecture League winners two years running, the team plays every Monday.
Office Trip 2019 Dublin
Team Day Out
Design your own crazy golf in Dulwich Park
Yoga Tuesdays & Thursdays at The Department Store.
Team Day Out
Punting in Cambridge.
Team Day Out
A day at the races at Ascot.
S&P Burns Night
Downstairs at the Department Store
Every Wednesday in Regents Park playing against London practices
S&P Softball Team
Urban Golf
Type: Interior Design
Location: Smithfield, London
Status: Completed 2019
Returning to our 2006 Urban Golf project in Smithfield, we updated the golf simulator destination with fabrics such as tartan and velvet alongside neon lighting and murals to create an opulent clubhouse feel with a rebellious twist.
Legacy Rebellious Clubhouse
Style
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