The project involved the careful consideration of details to ensure a minimal backdrop for the works of art that are to be permanently housed within and on the walls of the building. Given the constraints of the existing building, the end result is a minimal aesthetic ensuring the building is a backdrop to the enjoyment [...]
The design maximises a site that consisted of a Listed threshing barn that had fallen into dereliction. As a result of this heritage the design makes use of the structural bays of the timber-frame, together with evoking the scale and mass of the original building. The building, clad in Western Red Cedar, uses natural materials. [...]
The restaurant, wine bar and club needed complete re-modernising to meet with contemporary fashion and to create a new brand identity within a competitive leisure industry. The entire project was completed under a tight time and budget schedule, and the project accommodated design changes right up to the last minute. The end result has proven [...]
The design was about striping back the years of remodeling that did not sit well with the original structure, to reveal the core shell of the building. This was then refurbished with a brand identity redeveloped for Bill’s all the way down to the furniture designed and specified under a full fit-out contract, with suitable [...]
The master-plan provides for a mixed-use development of industrial, commercial and retail usage on the site to provide for a broad range of viable commercial gain and employment; the site includes a mix of commercial office units from 1,000 to 25,000 sq. ft, retail units from 3,000 to 6,000 sq. ft and industrial units from [...]
RRA developed this project to combine all the demands of a contemporary exhibition space, whilst allowing for the fact that, the building was grade 2 listed and flooded at least twice a year. The structure was in a partially derelict state and required extensive timber repair work and rebuild. The design strategy ensured the use [...]
RRA developed the masterplan for Herefordshire and Ludlow College defining a new campus facility to deliver five separate faculties within the further education college organisation.
After winning an ideas competition RRA Architects were appointed to develop the project with Evesham.com. The practice then proceeded to commission an audit of Evesham.com’s existing operation, which allowed it to establish a relationship with the client, rewrite the brief and redesign the building. Building work started in 1997 and was completed in August 1998 [...]
RRA's Buttermarket entry was designed to establish an over-arching brand identity which would work with existing market-traders, and purveyors of local Herefordshire food heritage, to manage, promote and incubate new visitors and foot fall within this historic Victorian food hall. RRA, in collaboration with the UK’s leading independant markets agent Quarterbridge, developed an exciting proposal [...]