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RRA Architects

St James Road, Hampton Hill

May 24, 2018 / By admin

The ground floor extension houses a spacious kitchen and breakfast room with a large glazed area leading onto the garden and allowing natural light to flood the room. Upstairs the space has been reconfigured to add a large bathroom, shower room and double aspect upper sitting area. Silicon bonded, fully glazed corner windows overlook the […]

Garrick’s Villa – Grade I Listed Refurbishment

May 24, 2018 / By admin

No doubt its prominence is in connection with David Garrick, the famous Shakespearian actor after whom it was named, and Robert Adam - the highly regarded Scottish architect whom Garrick appointed to carry out various improvements to the property, which included the main façade and the creation of a portico. The construction is originally an [...]

Brook Green

May 24, 2018 / By admin

The terrace accommodates structural glazing to illuminate new spaces below. Gardens to the property were stepped and sculpted to allow daylight into the lower ground area, excavation was necessary to accommodate the sunken stepped terrace, which required structural investigation and party wall agreements. The end result is considerable added property value, justifying the build cost [...]

Kingsdowne

May 24, 2018 / By admin

We embraced these design constraints to an innovate a luxury subterranean home for our client. The design is a two-storey L-shaped courtyard house, over two levels – the lower level being a subterranean excavation to maximise the value of the site; the upper level is a courtyard and living space behind the garden and mural [...]

Ivy Walls

May 24, 2018 / By admin

Alterations involved major structural re-working to include a two storey front extension to both wings, a complete rationalisation of the rear with a fully glazed garden room complete with automatic opening doors, and a 3-metre high basement games room and gym extending under a large portion of the property – spacious.

Castelnau – Glass Innovations

May 24, 2018 / By admin

The interior remodelling introduces a simple new broken-plan arrangement and restores the coachhouse while the simple form of the glazed structure to the rear delivers a striking example of contemporary, transparent architecture and introduces new flexible living spaces while allowing daylight to flood into this substantial London house. The landscaped gardens, which are partially sunken, [...]

Private Swimming Pool

May 24, 2018 / By admin

The new building attaches to the house via a lightweight glazed link. The finished tones are hot and warm, so that even on a dull winters day the pool is warm and inviting. The building, clad in local stone, is of the local landscape, which is drawn inside via large picture windows to maximise views [...]

Bill’s Cafe, Hereford

May 24, 2018 / By admin

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 [...]

Saxtys Night Club and Wine Bar

May 24, 2018 / By admin

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 [...]

Bishops Cleeve – Community Project

May 24, 2018 / By admin

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. [...]