Two projects win awards from The Leamington Society

Thank you to The Leamington Society for awarding two of our projects in recognition of the significant contribution made to the architectural quality of Royal Leamington Spa.

The Old Stables has been acknowledged for enhancing the conservation area and bringing a historically important building back to life through sensitive alterations and extensions.

10 Almond Avenue is a particularly unique dwelling that has been extended with a matching gambrel roof mirrored about the central Dutch-style gable.

The Old Stables received an award for being an outstanding architectural contribution to the conservation area

10 Almond Avenue received an award for it’s distinctive and harmonious extension to a particularly unique house

Best Residential Extension Award, West Midlands

Very pleased to share that a project in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, has recently been awarded ‘Best Residential Extension’ in the region by the LABC. This award is recognition of the high quality of the project in terms of design and the build process on site whilst working alongside Warwick District Council Building Control.

I firmly believe that one of the best ways to see more good work is to praise building excellence and publicly acknowledge companies, designers, site managers and trades people who go the extra mile because of the pride they have in their work.

Lorna Stimpson, LABC

The elegant extension provides the client with a new family space which connects to the garden whilst being flooded with natural daylight.

Traditionally, the functional spaces of kitchen, utility and cloakroom are arranged at the rear of Victorian terraced properties.  This effectively isolates living spaces from the garden which is a considerable asset to be considered and realised as part of the transformation.

For this project, these functional spaces were carefully re-planned to the center of dwelling, positioning them in the darker core of the house, whilst being more accessible to the front entrance.  

The result was an elegant extension providing the client with a new family space seamlessly connecting to the garden whilst being flooded with natural daylight.

As part of the initial design process and to help bring the preliminary concept design to life, a simple visualisation described the proposal more clearly than the two dimensional drawings.

From here we were able to refine the design into the final proposal. 

Working carefully with the structural engineer we coordinated the design drawings so that once work started, the build progressed as seamlessly as possible producing what we think is a fantastic final result.

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Ideal Home March 2018

I was asked to contribute some thoughts regarding redesigning and working with bungalows for the Ideal Home magazine March 2018 issue.  Bungalows offer some unique opportunities and hopefully I picked up some of the key points to think about when working with this type of home.