House for Mr & Mrs Smith featured in March edition of Self Build and Design Magazine.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRENCH + TYE
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Masters in Monochrome - Self Build and Design Magazine
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Elgin Avenue - to be featured in Don't Move Improve 2020
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Don’t Move Improve 2020. Photography by French + Tye.
Real Homes - Greenwich Garden Studio
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Our garden studio for a writer in South London, has been featured in Real Homes magazine. When space is short in your home, creating the extra room you need outside could be the answer.
REAL HOMES. SARAH WARWICK. PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRENCH + TYE
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REAL HOMES. SARAH WARWICK. PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRENCH + TYE
As space is at a premium the partition separating the two spaces contains a Barbican sink within the stud work on the WC side and a series of shelves and compartments for printers and fold down desks on the reading room side.
REAL HOMES. SARAH WARWICK. PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRENCH + TYE
Your Build - New Build House for Mr & Mrs Smith
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Our new build house in Hampstead has been featured as a case study in Your Build. The four storey build includes generous living spaces and a striking sculptural staircase. Outside, a grand terrace includes an external kitchen and at the end of the garden - the Yoga Dojo - a stand alone pavilion nestles under a canopy of lime trees. Full project details can be found here.
Your Build. Winter 2019/20. Photos by FRENCH & TYE.
The Daily Telegraph - Yoga Dojo
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The Daily Telegraph, 2/11/2019. Photos by FRENCH & TYE
The Times - Bricks & Mortar - Statement Staircases
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The staircase of our New Build House for Mr & Mrs Smith has been featured in The Times.
The Times. 1/11/2019. Photographs by FRENCH & TYE
The contrasting shapes of the two flights add drama and a sense of connection across all levels. Each side of the staircase is made from one roll of 6mm steel, hand welded in situ and rubbed with oil for a dark tone that allows the metal to show through. Full project details to here.
The Times - New Build Hampstead House
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Bricks & Mortar, 23/08/2019 - Martina Lees. Photos by French + Tye
Our new build house in Hampstead has been featured in The Times. Full project details will be on our website soon. The project also features a stand alone garden building which is also pictured above. The full details of the Yoga Dojo is featured on our projects page here.
Below is the online version which is also available on The Times Website here.
March 'Shop Window'
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Continuing our theme of buildings in gardens the shop window for March features our recently completed ‘Yoga Dojo’ outbuilding for Mr & Mrs Smith. More details on this project are coming soon…
I CAN BE Workshop
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Our studios were recently by a very special group of school girls as part of the I CAN BE programme. I CAN BE aims to inform and encourage young women to enter into the world of professions that perhaps they thought were not possible and Clare and Mel recently signed up as volunteers to support the programme.
As a profession, Architecture is largely male dominated with the amount of registered female architects hovering around the 20-25% for many years now. There is a high drop out rate through the eduction years as often universities have higher female intakes than male at the offset but this tends to dwindle off, and significantly reduces at Part III qualification level.
The research that ICANBE have conducted struck a chord with us and so we decided to take part.
There is a substantial body of research that shows that young girls can have formed ideas about what they ‘can’t do’ by the age of 8/9 limiting their uptake of potential possibilities in the future. This can be due to economic, cultural or religious or ethnic reasons amongst many more. The aim of the programme is to inspire girls before they are old enough to have pre-formed judgements of the roles in which they could be employed when they are older.
They have the opportunity to meet nurses, lawyers, mechanics, painters, dancers, engineers and architects to name a few.
In our sessions, we tell them about what we do and they firstly get an opportunity to ask questions. They have been given a short ‘7-year old friendly’ bio on us before they come and so they are normally very prepared to ask the most pressing questions.
Following this introduction we explain a little bit about how we do a lot of residential properties or ‘houses’ and what it means to design someone’s home. We talk them through properties through the ages and the fact they may all live in different types of houses. Finally then have activity time during which they create a drawing of the type of house they hope to be able to design for themselves in the future.
These have been very varied and have included everything from disco balls and slides instead of stairs to rocket landing pads and super futuristic ideas. It is wonderful to see them being so creative and thinking about the things we have to think about when having to present a new idea to a client.
We see around 3 groups a year and hope to continue doing so. More information about the I CAN BE programme can be found at their website here:
