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Category Archives: _news

October 2019 – Planning for Guildford Development lodged

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October 24, 2019

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We have just lodged an application for a new build development near Guildford town centre . Located on a prominent ridge, the roof geometries follows the gradient of the site, with a syncopated rhythm bringing variety to the street facing facade. The development comprises 20 units, organised around an intensively planted courtyard.

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August 2019 – Ticking Truss Barn in Premier Construction magazine

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August 6, 2019

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Always nice when the postman drops in a magazine with one of our projects in print! Full article on page 50 here :

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July 2019 – Tower Bridge steel frame

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July 13, 2019

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The steel frame is in place on our Tower bridge House, a complex geometry which benefited from a BIM model to make sure everything fitted. The building is starting to take shape at last….

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July 2019 _ Practical Completion on Dog Tooth House

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All done! We are really pleased that this project is complete – time to take some proper photos… Good work by March Construction.

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June 2019 – Completion on larch extension

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June 22, 2019

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We recently completed a small extension in North London clad in larch with the SiOO:X treatment all supplied by @russwooduk. Good work by Blero Construction. Photos by @adamscottimages


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June 2019_Topping out on Thames House

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June 11, 2019

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We have topped out on our Thames House, with the elevator shaft reaching the final pour. Steelwork is arriving this month, after which we hope to be able to see the Thames….

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June 2019_Concrete pour on Quarry House

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June 5, 2019

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Concrete pour galore in our Quarry House this morning. All concrete is 50% Ground granulated blast furnace slag – less embodied carbon than the alternative. #

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April 2019_Glazed Fissure House – Don’t Move Improve Exhibition

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April 24, 2019

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Our Glazed fissure House was long-listed and exhibited in this years Don’t Move Improve 2019 exhibition. The exhibition showcases some of the best home improvements London has to offer and runs until April 26th, in the New London Architecture galleries at The Building Centre

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March 2019 – Planning granted for Rotherhithe Development

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March 13, 2019

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Two in one week! Our six unit scheme in Rotherhithe was granted planning approval by Southwark Council this week. We are hoping to construct this one in CLT – watch this space….

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March 2019 – Planning granted for 9 units in Ealing

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March 13, 2019

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After a lengthy planning consideration period, our Ealing development has been granted permission. The scheme provides nine units as a part of a full refurbishment and extension of an existing town house. As a first for this area, we argues the case for a full basement dig, through provision a series of double and triple height living spaces which bring light and air down to the living spaces.

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March 2019 – Planning granted for two exceedingly thin houses

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March 4, 2019

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Planning has just been granted for the construction of two houses on a very thin site in Southwark. As with many of our sites, this one is unbelievably constrained, and the building geometry is a way to achieve good levels of light, air and outlook within these constraints.

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February 2019 – First glimpse of Dog-tooth Brickwork

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The wrapping came off the scaffolding this week on our Camberwell new build house. We really like the way the light catches the dog-tooth brickwork.

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February 2019 – Earthworks in Quarry House Project

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February 20, 2019

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Some major machinery on our Quarry House project which is a month on site. The existing quarry is being excavated in advance of the concrete sub-structure construction.

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January 2019 – Tower Bridge House Progress

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January 22, 2019

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Progress on our Tower Bridge House with the insitu concrete work coming out of the ground quickly. We had a group of Architectural Association Students to site, researching the materials that are being used on site, specifically, their embodied energy. Contractor Joe is quite the teacher….

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December 2018 – A-Zero Christmas Building tour

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December 21, 2018

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As is tradition in the studio, we went on a tour of London taking in some of our projects which are under construction, or completed in the last year. Here, Giles, Ross and Sho seen posing outside a small cedar clad pop out extension in Harlesden.

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November 2018 – Don’t Move Improve! 2019

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November 27, 2018

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Our project, Glazed Fissure House has been chosen to feature in this years Don’t Move, Improve! Awards 2019 – Find out more in the magazine and free exhibition, opening to the public on Wednesday 23 Jan 2019, at New London Architecture

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November 2018_dog tooth brickwork

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November 11, 2018

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We have started on dog-tooth brickwork on our Camberwell house. Looking forward to seeing the scaffolding come down so we can see the effect from a distance….

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October 2018_ground works on Tower Bridge House

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October 14, 2018

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Things starting to get exciting on our Tower Bridge House. The existing building has been demolished (all bricks salvaged for reuse in the new build), and the ground works have commenced. We didn’t know that piling rigs were available in such loveably small proportions!

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October 2018_Quarry House out for tender

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October 10, 2018

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Phase 01 of our Quarry House is our for tender this month. We hope to break ground before November…

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September 2018 _ design development of Quarry House

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September 2, 2018

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Phase 01 tender for our Quarry House is out and we continue to work on the phase 02 detailed design including the internal glulam timber frame, and purbeck internal stone walling. Here is a new rendering of the project by studio FIP

 

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August 2018 _ Thames House construction start

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August 22, 2018

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Super excited that our Thames House is due to start construction next week. The project will provide views to the river (including Tower Bridge) whilst working within the difficult constraints of the site in terms of privacy and overlooking. The form of the house mediates between the adjacent buildings, and also provides a south facing inclined roof on to which solar renewable technologies will be integrated as part of the fibre cement cladding.

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August 2018_Practical Completion for Scissor Truss Barn

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August 20, 2018

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Our Scissor Truss Barn has reached practical completion. The asymmetrical scissor trusses were fabricated on site by a very dedicated team of carpenters, who did a great job in recreating out 1:20 model which has been on site from day 01. More photos for follow soon…

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August 2018_WeWork Summer Camp

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August 10, 2018

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Next week,Giles will be speaking at the WeWork summer camp, discussing key aspects of sustainability in our lives, our workplace and our home. Giles will be part of a Colloquium with Federico Montella, WeWork’s UK Director of Sustainability, and Morgaine Gaye, journalist, author and futurologist.

https://summercamp.wework.com/speakers/

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July 2018_Acton House

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July 4, 2018

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Photos from a project we completed earlier this year near Acton, London. The idea was to allow a visual connection from the first floor upstairs rooms through a linear slot roof light in the new ground floor extension. This lets lots of sunlight in to the space, which transforms the centre of the plan.

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June 2018 – Practical Completion on Streatham development

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June 20, 2018

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Practical completion reach on this development in Streatham, London comprising seven apartments. Very well run project with BBC Construction https://www.bbcconstruction.co.uk/ as the Main Contractors.

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May 2018_Rotherhithe Development

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May 28, 2018

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Renders of our Rotherhithe proposal which is in for planning this week. The site has a prominent location in front of a park, in a part of London where the heritage of the near-by docks still resonates. The design intention is to refer to both these contexts, in terms of a checker board planted façade to the adjacent building which brings the park to the other side of the development, and a palette of materials of brick and steel which refers to the industrial heritage.

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May 2018_CEU RIBA Award for International Excellence 2018

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May 10, 2018

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Phase 01 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, has received a RIBA Awards for International Excellence 2018. The project, on which A-Zero worked with lead architect O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects on the environmental design was described as ‘an exceptionally fine urban campus with few compromises providing a wonderful stage for the university and the city’

https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-international-prize/2018/central-european-university-phase-1

Image  : © Tamás Bujnovszky

 

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May 2018_Start on site on Camberwell House

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May 10, 2018

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Construction starts this week on this new build end of terrace house in Camberwell. The design reference from the adjacent buildings in terms of materiality, reusing the dog tooth brick detail in a new way to create a new elevation to the adjacent park.

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April 2018 _ by the docks in Rotherhithe

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April 19, 2018

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Some early renders of a new development in Rotherhithe we have been working on this week. The area is adjacent to London’s Docks, where London’s timber trade was based. Not much of that legacy remains, so our scheme draws reference to industrial materials of that time on this prominent park facing site.

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March 2018_Don’t Move, Improve

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Our Middle Room Project is listed within this year’s ‘Don’t Move Improve’ publication…

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February 2017_Progress on Streatham apartment development

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Phillip with the team at BBC Construction on our Streatham development of five residential units. The existing building has been fully reconfigured and extended to provide a range of unit types, using the many level changes of the original building to achieve spatial interest within the units. More photos to follow when we get there…

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February 2018_Quarry House model

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March 4, 2018

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Lots of model making in the studio this week on our Quarry House. Built within an old quarry, the design will achieve Passive House standards, and incorporate a palette of materials ranging from  glulam timber, zinc cladding and cotswald stone walls.

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January 2018_Steel roof on in Surrey Barn

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January 13, 2018

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The Tata steel roof is on for our scissor truss barn in Surrey. Very impressed with this product – only two days to install the whole thing, and looking very crisp.

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January 2018_photos from Elephant & Castle

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January 13, 2018

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Recent photos of our Elephant & Castle development – its always interesting to compare the before rendering and the building after – the thing that has changed the most is the surrounding area, which is almost unrecognisable compared to when we started this project…

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December 2017_Christmas Card

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December 2017_Don’t Move Improve

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December 1, 2017

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We’re proud to feature in the Don’t Move, Improve! 2018 selection of London’s best home improvements, with our Middle Room Project, by New London Architecture.

Keep an eye out for the exhibition and magazine, launching 25th Jan 2018!

Our Middle Room Project has been chosen to feature in Don’t Move, Improve! 2018. Find out more in the magazine and free exhibition, opening 25th Jan 2018 at New London Architecture

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November 2016 _ Scissor Truss barn progess

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All the trusses are in, and walls are going up on our Surrey Scissor Truss farm…starting to look like a building….

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October 2017 – National Energy Programme-II SYMPOSIUM

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October 25, 2017

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Giles spoke this week as a part of the National Energy Programme-II SYMPOSIUM 25-26 October 2017 in the University of Westminster – ‘Innovative Sustainable Building Design & Energy Efficient Technologies – https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2017/westminster-architecture-department-hosts-national-sustainable-building-design-symposium

 

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October 2017_Lecture in Bath University

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October 16, 2017

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Giles will be lecturing in University of Bath next week on the subject of ‘Invisible Performance’ : “Environmental Performance should not dictate architectural aesthetic. Sustainability should not impede creative thinking’

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August 2017_scissor truss barn progress

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August 28, 2017

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The first of the eleven scissor trusses are up, and so far so good. Each time a new truss goes up, and old one comes down – nine more to go.

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August 2017_CEU featured in dezeen

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August 16, 2017

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dezeen has featured the Central European University campus redevelopment in Budapest, Hungary, in which we were environmental consultants to O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects. The article talks about how the project links old and new by making connections between existing courtyards, removing existing inefficient buildings and designing new buildings around a series of courts.

https://www.dezeen.com/2017/08/11/odonnell-tuomey-central-european-university-budapest-renovation-surgical-strategy-architecture/

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August 2017_Planning granted for new build house in Camberwell

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August 5, 2017

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We have been granted planning permission for a new build house in the middle of the Grosvenor Terrace conservation area, on a site adjacent to a public park, created as a result of a World War II bomb. The end of terrace site has a prominent position relative to the historic terrace. We have developed the facades in close reference to the existing listed buildings, configuring existing elements in a new way. The aim is that the finished house should look strangely familiar – as though it is new but was somehow always there….

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August 2017_Scaffolding off on Elephant & Castle…

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August 5, 2017

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Very excited to see several years of hard work finally unveiled with the removal of the scaffolding at our project of three houses and a nursery at Elephant & Castle. The internal fit out is on-going, but we are almost there with the externals…

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July 2017_CEU wins RIAI Best International Project

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July 10, 2017

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Great to hear that the Central European University campus redevelopment in Budapest, Hungary, in which we were involved with O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects was selected for this year’s Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland Best International Project.

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June 2017_The sun has got his hat on

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July 1, 2017

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Our competition submission for the AJ ‘House of Colour’ competition for an innovative, colourful playhouse for children.

“THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON
HIP HIP HIP HURRAY
THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON
AND WE’RE GOING OUT TO PLAY…”

Colour in the morning is not the same as colour in the evening. The sun moves, light shifts, colours change. Our proposal responds to this change with a play structure that orients itself to two directions.

Two interconnected play spaces face east and west. A diagonal wall between each is perforated with differently sized openings, some big, some small – lots of opportunities to run between, play hide-and-go-seek, hangout. Morning sunlight reflects from a series of multi-coloured panels onto the diagonal wall clad with Hardie Panel, and again in the evening, creating a play of reflections and shadows through the day.

We have worked with Ceramic Artist Ingrid Saag, to create a series of art pieces within this central wall, providing coloured openings from one side to the other. Colours range from vivid to earthy, energising to relaxing, and provide an idiosyncratic, inspiring palette for two different worlds – one morning, one evening.

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June 2017 _ almost finished in Wandsworth

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June 9, 2017

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Almost finished on our project in Wandsworth – two houses, one old, one new. The new house fits on a rather awkward site, and inherits this site geometry into the plan. Built of recycled bricks with angular reveals to the front window, the project seeks to reinterpret the language and proportion of the original house in a contemporary way.

 

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May 2017 – High Kitchen in Archdaily

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May 24, 2017

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Our High Kitchen project is published in Archdaily this morning – http://www.archdaily.com/869295/high-kitchen-a-zero-architects 

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May 2017 – Pop out house practical completion

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May 13, 2017

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Photos from a house we have just finished in South London. The iroko cladding is on the three pop-out windows around which the rear elevation is organised. Photos of the interior to follow shortly…

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April 2017 – Photos from Phase 01 CEU

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April 16, 2017

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Some magnificent images of the first phase of the Central European University redevelopment in which we were involved in the capcity of environmental consultants to O’Donnell Tuomey from the initial competition win to Detailed Design. More details here : http://a-zero.co.uk/portfolio/central-european-university/

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April 2017 – Fatherhood / Architect duties in Wandsworth

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April 16, 2017

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Fatherhood / Architect duties combine in Wandsworth : new infant addition to the practice, Emile Bruce, got to visit site this week to see progress on our new build house which is progressing well and due for May completion.

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