Essendonbury Farm shortlisted for the RICS and RIBA East Awards 2019
Essendonbury Farm has been shortlisted for the East of England RICS Awards 2019 and the RIBA East Awards 2019.
Essendonbury Farm is on the eastern edge of the Hatfield Park Core Estate and is owned by Gascoyne Cecil Estates, who take an active role in local and transport planning whilst maintaining a long-standing commitment to preserve and enhance the property or land they themselves own, much of which is listed.
This unique heritage asset hosts Nicholas Mee & Co classic car showroom, workshops and offices.
The Grade II listed seventeenth and eighteenth century farm buildings were sensitively restored and brought back into use, and a new barn was built to reinstate the historic 1896 dual courtyard arrangement.
As part of the work, the external finishes were removed, timber repairs carried out and the building fabric reinstated to meet 21stC standards.
To know more about the project click here.
Related article:
https://www.archdaily.com/913202/24-projects-shortlisted-in-2019-riba-east-awards/
The Hut and Liddell Park shortlisted for the RICS Awards 2019
The Hut and Liddell Park are a shortlisted project for the Scotland RICS Awards 2019.
The Hut is a community building in the heart of Liddell Park in the nascent Aberdeenshire town of Chapelton. The growing community needed a flexible space for day-to-day meetings, and focal point for larger events. Combined with Liddell Park the community facilities meet the existing and growing needs of the residents of Chapelton. An external, covered exhibition window affords an opportunity to explain the process and proposals – past, present and future – for Chapelton, showing a model, presentation boards and video. This enables the developers or the CCIC to keep residents and visitors informed on latest news.
To know more about the project click here.
Related article:
https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/article/rics-commends-top-building-projects-across-scotland-as-shortlist-for-awards-is-announced
Brooks Murray win the 2018 Rifat Chadirji Prize
We are really excited to announce that we have won the 2018 Rifat Chadirji Prize – a competition inviting designs to transform the currently unused site of the Old Governorate Building, Baghdad, into the Baghdad Design Centre.
“This project offers an example of how urban ruins can be regenerated into new complexes. Its response to the urban and design brief highlights the importance of the original wall, and incorporates it as the main feature of the project. Its transformation into a living function will help create life in the project’s internal space and public plaza, which responds to the traditional local fabric and enriches the urban surroundings. Covering the façade with trees will also allow the viewer to remember it as an urban ruin. The central courtyard is flexible and adaptable and can be used for many things including events, functions, performances and festivals, while the surrounding indoor activities can also be extended to the courtyard.”
Find out more about the Rifat Chadirji Prize, and the Tamayouz Excellence Award, here.
Chapelton wins in Aberdeenshire Architectural and Landscape Design Awards
Chapelton has won the Building Communities for the Future prize at the 2018 Aberdeenshire Architectural and Landscape Design Awards.
Chapelton is an emerging, sustainable mixed-use new town, embedding diverse housing choice, generous green infrastructure, and employment throughout.
The Building Communities for the Future categoy focuses on larger-scale developments. The work at Chapelton delivers well-designed, attractive housing, demonstrating how a considered layout, with landscaping and green open spaces, can create communities as well as deliver on housing need.
Read more about the Awards, here.
Find out more about Chapelton, here.
BMA shortlisted for the Rifat Chadirji Prize 2018
We are excited to have been shortlisted for the 2018 Rifat Chadirji Prize.
The Rifat Chadirji Prize this year asked participants to transform the currently unused site of the Old Governorate Building, Baghdad, into the Baghdad Design Centre whilst integrating the damaged original facades into their ideas for the new building. The facades will be a memorial for an era in Baghdad’s history. The competition welcomed the participation of 310 firms and individuals from across 54 countries.
The competition is organised by Tamayouz, an excellence awards programme dedicated to supporting aspirational and transformative projects tackling local and global challenges. The Rifat Chadirji Prize is an annual international award that calls for design proposals responding to local challenges in Iraq. Through its various themes, this prize aims to introduce Iraq and its challenges to the world, inviting architects to submit ideas that might address some of the country’s urban problems, whilst establishing an open source of ideas tackling social issues in Iraq through design.
See the shortlist, here.
Planning Approved at Grove Farm, Robertsbridge
Working with Turnberry Planning, Brooks Murray recently received planning and listed building approval for a mixed use development in Robertsbridge, East Sussex.
The sensitive location of the site within the town, and the complex listed building detailing, meant approval had previously been refused. Brooks Murray were engaged to bring exceptional standards to both the masterplanning and detailed design, and to achieve a successful planning and listed building approval.
The proposal is a mixed use residential and commercial project which will help sensitively to grow the community and create job opportunities for local residents and businesses in Roberstbridge.
Essendonbury Barns Near Completion in Hertfordshire
Aston Martin specialists, Nicholas Mee & Co, have moved into their new home at Essendonbury Barns, Hertfordshire.
The listed seventeenth and eighteenth century farm buildings have been delicately restored and brought back into use, alongside sympathetic new bespoke workshop and office space.
Our first step reinstated the historic 1896 dual courtyard arrangement by inserting a new-build barn between the two existing barns to match the vernacular.
The existing grade II listed timber barns were then sensitively restored preserving the historic material and guaranteeing their survival for the next hundred years.
This unique heritage asset now hosts a classic car showroom, customer reception, an upholstery workshop, office space, four mechanic bays with hydraulic lifts and two separate oblique bays, and hosts thirty specialist jobs.
Brooks Murray have moved!
After more than 20 years based in Shoreditch, Brooks Murray have moved to Finsbury Park!
Over the years, we have grown and we have now burst our seams at New North Place. Our new physical address is The Arts Building, Morris Place, N4 3JG, the home of John Jones, and other creative industries. This new space will allow us to grow even more.
The phone number and e-mail addresses will stay the same. Parking will be similar to the situation in Shoreditch – nearby metered spaces.
Sadigura Synagogue Approved! August 2017
Sadigura Synagogue received Planning Permission in August. Brooks Murray Architects have been asked to design a new building for the Sadigura Synagogue at 269 Golders Green Road and to coordinate both extensions for the houses on both sides, designed by Studio 25 Architects. The purpose of the redevelopment is to increase the capacity and improve the quality of the shul and its ancillary services. The proposal is to replace the existing synagogue with a larger synagogue to include a multi-purpose space for the community on the top floor. The new building has been designed to work in a harmonious way with the extensions of the adjoining houses and vice versa.
Queens Parade Approved! March 2017
The Queens Parade received planning permission. This scheme was a refurbishment of a 1970’s block. Brooks Murray revitalised the facade by creating a similar but modern extension of the existing building. Intricate brick and Moroccan fish tile paneling breaks up the long Elevation and adds colour to the street. The Culver Road elevation will be treated in the same way as the first floor, with the addition of profiled brick string coursing as a subtle detail that extends to the rear elevation for visual interest.