100 Brewery Road
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
The City of London Corporation
Location
Islington, London
Description
42,000 sq ft mixed-use office and industrial development
BoonBrown was commissioned by The City of London to transform this historic 3-storey building formerly used for clothing manufacture to provide a mixture of office, light industrial and distribution space.
The redevelopment includes an impressive new entrance, atrium and reception, and an additional top floor with terraces; providing Cat A offices, with trendy exposed on-floor services.
The redevelopment also incorporates PVs, cycle storage facilities and brown roof for sustainable credentials.
Façade refresh, external works, new windows, contrast cladding and brise soleil completes the look.
Basildon Market Square
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
Orwell Estates
Location
Basildon, London
Description
Landscape design for mixed use scheme including 492 build-to-rent homes
Basildon Market Square is an urban regeneration scheme, consisting of 492 built-to-rent homes above retail space for local independents, a community health facility and incubator spaces for SMEs.
BoonBrown were appointed as project landscape architects to complete the coordinated concept and spatial design of the external hard and soft landscape elements.
Cattlemarket
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
Benson Elliot
Location
Yeovil, Somerset
Description
Feasibility study for mixed use redevelopment of Vincants Yard and Cattlemarket site
This mixed-use redevelopment of Yeovil town centre is located on the former 1.34Ha Cattle Market site and Vincent’s Yard site. Part of the redevelopment includes a large public square for flexible use creating a central focus for the town centre. A key aim for the masterplan was to explore linking the Quedam Shopping Centre and wider townscape to the suburban settlements north of the town centre, currently cut off by a busy two-lane by pass.
Our feasibility study explored a variety of potential building uses including a hotel, flexible work/office space, healthcare, cinema, cycling hub and residential. The public realm spaces considered use for market stalls and gatherings for sporting events as well as incorporating SUDs, soft native landscaping and appropriate lighting to encourage a night-time economy.
Chelsea Embankment Gardens
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Location
Chelsea, London
Description
Landscape design for Chelsea Embankment Gardens
This scheme is for the restoration of the Chelsea Embankment Gardens and seeks to visually reunite and connect the spaces, so that they feel like an extension of one another. The existing site is tired and lacks visual interest.
BoonBrown Landscape Architects have worked closely alongside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the Chelsea Steering Group and Chelsea Physic Garden to come up with a drought-tolerant design that focuses on repetition of planting species and design features between the two sites, to create visual unity. Key entrance spaces will be enhanced through mounded planting beds, incorporating naturalistic planting. Swathes of bulbs and multi-stemmed ornamental trees will also serve to provide visual screening to the busy road, whilst retaining passive surveillance. Yew hedging serves to frame key entrance spaces and the setting of the many statues within the park. There are aspirations to restore the existing Victorian drinking fountain in a bid to reduce singleuse plastics.
Cherry Tree Pub
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
Allerton Developments
Location
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Description
Residential development for 67 new dwellings
BoonBrown were commissioned as Project Architect, Town Planning Consultant and Landscape Architect to prepare a full planning application for the redevelopment of former Cherry Tree Pub off Oundle road in Peterborough.
The project includes the conversion of the locally listed pub, with extensions to the rear and side, a new build block of flats facing the street-side, built to appear as townhouses, and a large block to the rear stepping up to five storeys, with basement parking below.
Dorset Museum
Client
Dorset County Museum
Location
Dorchester, Dorset
Description
Extensive renovation and extensions to the Dorset County Museum
Awards
Shortlisted for two Michelmore Awards | ‘Heritage Project of the Year’ and ‘Leisure and Tourism Project of the Year’
BoonBrown was appointed by Acheson Construction to carry out RIBA stage 4 – 6 Architectural services on this Design and Build contract for the extensive renovation and extensions to the Dorset County Museum.
The works for this £16.4m project involved the demolition of the adjoining building, extensive alterations and construction of a new extension to the existing Grade II Listed building to create a new museum, exhibition space and learning centre along with new galleries, collections store, library, café and shop.
Mendip View
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
Stonewater
Location
Axbridge, Somerset
Description
Affordable housing development for 20 dwellings
The development at Mendip View provides twenty new affordable homes on the edge of the historic town of Axbridge in Somerset.
These homes were the first to include the ‘Wondrwall’ system, which is an intelligent living system that automatically controls heating, lighting and security. The homes are fitted with photovoltaic panels and smart technology to maximise energy efficiency alongside the use of electric charging points.
Awards
2022 Insider South West Property Awards | Winner – Sustainable Project of the Year
2022 Inside Housing Development Awards | Shortlisted – Best Shared Ownership Development
Numatic
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
Numatic International
Location
Chard, Somerset
Description
New manufacturing facilities for iconic Henry Vacuum Cleaner
This project includes the redevelopment of former Oscar Meyer site and provides a total of 23,828sqm (GIA) of commercial floor space.
The new building includes manufacturing space and ancillary office and meeting space (use classes B2 and B8) with associated access and loading facilities.
BoonBrown are appointed for the role of Project Architect, Town Planning Consultant and Landscape Architect through RIBA work stages 0-7.
Queens Arms
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
James Laurence Group
Location
Battersea, London
Description
Redevelopment of former pub to provide a new 3590 sq ft pub/ restaurant and 5 residential units
Queen Arms Battersea is a challenging development which includes conversion of a local former Victorian public house back into a 3590 sq. ft. pub/restaurant, providing 5 dwellings in the upper floor conversion and a 3-storey house in the rear courtyard.
The former public house is a locally Listed Building in the Wandsworth register of protected assets, situated in the Park Town Conservation Area. The design to re-introduce the pub/restaurant trade and extend/convert upper floors formed around retention of the two-tone pub façade and thereafter became a balance of sensitive extension and maximising floor space.
The significant challenge came in delivering the planning permission for the new house, set in a constrained site, overlooked by all surrounding properties and positioned in a area of flood risk from tidal breach up to 1.8m above site level.
The resulting design demonstrates our unyielding approach against design out positive high quality solutions against significant technical constraints.
Ravensbury Terrace
Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape
Client
James Laurence Group
Location
Earlsfield, London
Description
24 apartments and office space
This project is situated adjacent to the River Wandle and comprises of a five storey block of 24 flats including one, two and three bedroom apartments.
The concept for the design of this building was to create a contemporary twist on traditional industrial architecture; to respond to the past history of the site, the buildings that form part of the character of the Wandle Trail, and those that are integrated within the history of London’s industrial past.
The arrangement of ‘random’ roof pitches and dominant brick facades is reminiscent of industrial riverside buildings. It has been executed in a way however that is slightly uncharacteristic of the traditional repetition of industrial architecture. The facades are irregularly playful and respond to the massing.
The form and arrangement of the building plan was worked hard to deliver the quantum of development and replacement commercial floor space.