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Project Category Client Status Location Cost In 2001, Matthew Lloyd Architects was appointed by the PCC of St Paul with St Mark Old Ford to be architects for its ‘New Heart for Bow’ community project, revitilising a derelict Victorian church, enabling it to contribute to and thrive within the diverse community it serves. The finished design is a model of multi-tasking, delivering a mixed-use building which includes an art gallery and project room, gym, physical therapy and counselling rooms, a small community hall, a crèche, a café, an office, and even a sauna. The central feature is the art gallery, in the shape of a boat, or ark, built of tulipwood supported on curving steel columns. It is... “the star turn, an architectural intervention that is satisfying in terms of its form and in its occasionally delightful details. It has real presence, yet somehow doesn’t shatter the dynamics of the remaining portion of nave; the curving, six-bayed wall behind the altar still retains its own atmosphere. The architects take every opportunity to deliver the kind of details that make the difference between interesting architecture and the kind that engrosses.” ‘Stylish, thrilling …” "une mise en oeuvre de grande qualite qui leur semblait prioritaire pour le projet, symbole d’un nouveau depart pour le quartier". Fundraising for the project was provided by the New Opportunities Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Community Fund, and local diocesan resources. Winner Highly Commended Shortlisted
Project Category Client Status Location Cost In 1995 Providence Row Housing Association, a long-established charity working with London’s homeless, invited Matthew Lloyd Architects to identify possible sites for a new building to be constructed under the then government’s Rough Sleepers initiative. The practice found an L-shaped bombsite located on Brick Lane with an existing disused pub on its corner, which was subsequently purchased by PRHA. The design for the building is particularly clear in its intentions: to create the maximum number of flats for ex-rough sleepers, around a secure and robust courtyard block, out of a minimal and fixed budget. A singular pallet of materials was used to reinforce these aims: one type of brickwork, galvanised steelwork access balconies and coloured timber windows. Contemporary elevations to the perimeter of the building respond to the vertical rhythm of the streetscape, whilst the inner courtyard space acts as a quiet sanctuary. At the top of the building, an aluminium clad mansard roof provides a new interpretation of the ‘weavers attics’ integral to the urban fabric of Spitalfields. Ten years on, the building is very much part of the Brick Lane street scene, with a thriving and popular corner coffee shop occupying the ground floor of the converted pub.
Project Category Client Status Location Cost The Earl’s Court Youth Club provides after-school and holiday care and activities for children aged 8-16, as well as night classes for local adults and is a valuable resource for disadvantaged residents in a largely affluent borough. Matthew Lloyd Architects were appointed to refurbish this late 1970s purpose-built youth club to increase disabled access, to improve and rationalise internal spaces, and to make the entrance more visible and welcoming. The new design relocates the administrative spaces, previously hidden in the back basement, to the ground floor, placing them centrally within the façade. Visibility and light have been maximised throughout, improving supervision as well as making the whole building much brighter. A light, open façade complements the newly achieved sense of spaciousness within. The doorway was extended to form a new double-height opening with a bright yellow threshold for which we used actual luminous roadworks paint. To add to the Club’s street presence, a new canopy is painted grey with a bright pink and apple green underside. The colours lend movement to the design, changing according to the position of the person approaching, and were inspired by Bridget Riley and Op Art.
Project Category Client Status Location Cost The Harrow Club is located within a Grade II listed building designed by Norman Shaw in the late 19th century. Matthew Lloyd Architects was appointed to undertake a major refurbishment of the existing youth and community centre. The practice worked together with the client to develop the brief and successfully secured funding from the Sports Lottery, Harrow Mission, charitable funds and RBK&C. The users and managers of the club have had significant input into the layout, finishes and colours used. New facilities include a multi-purpose sports hall, a dance studio, an internet café, teaching spaces and offices. The architecture redefines the circulation of the building to make open, simple, calm interiors whilst revealing and celebrating Norman Shaw’s original work. The building project was completed in summer 1999. The Club is now one of west London’s most successful youth centres, offering a wide range of activities including sport, community skills, dance, art, and digital music training.
Project Category Client Status Location Haselrigge is one of a number of redundant Edwardian school premises in the London Borough of Lambeth, and in 2001 its education department put the site on the open market for conversion to residential use. London & Quadrant Housing Trust commissioned Matthew Lloyd Architects to design the social housing element of the development as part of a Section 106 requirement for the site. The resultant project is a 22 unit new-build general needs scheme providing a mixture of 2-bedroom flats and large family houses. The design focuses on space planning, natural light, and the provision of good views to the outside, whilst valuing protected private space for the residents. The elevations are clear in organisation; colour and texture are provided through the use of a combination of brickwork, timber cladding and seamed metal roof coverings. Funding was provided through the Housing Corporation and construction was completed in August 2004 under a PPC 2000 form of contract.
Project Category Client Status Location Cost The James Taylor Building is an existing warehouse located within the Morningside Estate in Hackney. Matthew Lloyd Architects was appointed by Constable House Ltd in partnership with Sanctuary Housing Association, landowners of the Morningside Estate, to develop the warehouse site as a mixed use building providing a regeneration focus for the area. The proposed development comprises 70 residential units, ranging from 1 bed to 4 bed flats, and ground floor B1 space, together with ancillary spaces and basement car parking. The scheme includes a communal green space, private patios and balconies, and a south-facing play space at ground level. A combination of green roofs and planted balconies provide visual amenity to neighbouring properties. The patterning of the elevations draws inspiration from the vibrancy, colours and diversity of adjacent Well Street Market. Using a pattern that slowly dissolves from dark at the bottom to light at the top recreates this lightness and vibrancy. Visually, this tile pattern animates the facades and reduces the size of the building by merging it with the sky.
Project Category Client Status Location The layout of the St John’s Estate is typical of much of the modernist housing of its time: slab-like blocks arranged around the site to form large courts, and peppered with three tower blocks which dominate the local urban scene. The buildings are set back from the natural pavement line, bereft of street edges. This open land and the often windswept courtyards give the estate an isolated feeling, with almost no personally cared-for open space. Our design seeks primarily to make sense of these open spaces, ‘knitting’ them together to define proper ownership, both public and private, and to create a high quality and secure place to live. For three sites, we have designed appropriately scaled housing blocks to suit this very urban part of central London, never smaller than three storeys high, and never taller than seven storeys. We have chosen this scale in order to ‘urbanise’ the estate, to increase its density, and to put in place a traditional street pattern to define boundaries between the public realm and the private domestic spaces contained behind the facades of buildings. Our building proposals have strong vertical facades, sitting on the back line of normal pavement widths, presenting a firm face on the street side. Facades are entered through smart, secure communal lobbies leading to flats. Rear and side elevations are less defensive, opening up with balconies and glazed facades; at the rear ground floor there are private gardens for family apartments.
Project Category Client Status Location Cost Matthew Lloyd Architects is working within a consortium to develop this major project on the Mildmay/Shoreditch Tabernacle site in Shoreditch, to create a range of residential, social and community facilities. Development began in 2005 and will be completed by 2012. One of the practice’s components is a new church with a block of flats above, connected to the practice’s already complete Tab community centre. This proposed building will become an important part of the local street scene, drawing on monastic precedents, without loudly exclaiming ‘church’. The worship space within is protected from the busy context by heavy masonry walls, expressed through the deep reveals to set back windows. The church inside is an unexpected polygonal space, periodically lit by shafts of light from the south. The consortium comprises Genesis Housing Group, Mildmay Mission Hospital, and Shoreditch Tabernacle Baptist Church. Other buildings on the site are designed by FCBStudios.
Project Category Client Status Location Cost In 2004, Matthew Lloyd Architects won an invited competition to design a residential development on a brownfield site in south Sheffield, for The Environment Trust in partnership with Sheffield City Council. The scheme comprises 47 residential units in a tenure mix determined in consultation with the Local Residents Association and comprising 14 one-bedroom flats, 18 two-bedroom flats, and 15 three-bedroom houses. Excellent use of the sloping site maximizes the residents’ views westwards over the city centre of Sheffield. The design focuses on layout, house plan flexibility, low-energy systems, site access, sun-path orientation and landscape design to offer genuinely sustainable, affordable homes to local people. Timber-clad houses with a strong colour scheme give the neighbourhood a distinctive character. The project seeks to create a community where people can enjoy easy interaction with their neighbours, whilst having a sense of personal security within clearly defined private spaces. A thoughtfully landscaped public green space forms a centrepiece for the development and includes dewponds and indigenous planting, benches, footpaths, and swales with reeds and water plants. A Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SUDS) is included in the scheme: rainwater pipes feed the ponds which feed underground water storage, finally running down the site in a series of swales that encourage the evaporation and soaking away of water. The Norfolk Park Green Homes scheme has featured in two exhibitions: . Sustainable Living’ at the RIBA in July 2006
Project Category Client Status Location Cost Matthew Lloyd Architects was appointed by the Prince of Wales Foundation in 1998 to design its new headquarters; previously the practice had worked with the client to advise on a suitable building and to define a brief. The completed project was handed over in February 2000. The practice ensured that the design reflected the aspirations of the Foundation: its derelict Victorian warehouse has been stripped back to its original spaces, timber floors have been recycled and windows were replaced in the pattern of the old. Contemporary elements include a six storey steel staircase, a brick entrance ramp and rotating steel ventilation cowls mounted on the roof. The building is entirely passively cooled through vertical air shafts located on either side of the plan. The finished ground floor provides a café and gallery space, open to the public. The fourth floor has been designed as a lecture room and drawing studio. The remaining floors incorporate a library, architecture studios and meeting rooms. “The transformation by Matthew Lloyd Architects remains as a model of the old and the modern and a seminal demonstration of how architectural excellence can be achieved through a sophisticated exploitation of absence and ordinariness.”
Project Category Client Status Location Cost A project to expand and improve the premises of Randal Cremer School in East London was won in competition in July 2003. The brief was to increase the capacity of the school by 120 pupils, enabling its expansion from a 1.5 form to 2 form entry, and to improve security and disabled access throughout the school.The scheme was developed following consultation with The Learning Trust and the school, with presentations to staff, parents and pupils over a 6 month period. The brief is met by adding three new classrooms: two within the existing building (reconfiguring odd-sized classrooms and utilising unused space) and one in an extension which also houses a secure entrance foyer, an administrative office, and the Head Teacher’s office. Exhibition:
Project Category Client Status Location In Homerton, a rather neglected part of the London Borough of Hackney, the listed St Barnabas Church and its charmingly rural grounds are important elements of both the local streetscape and the local greenspace provision. Alongside DDA-required internal alterations to the church, Matthew Lloyd Architects have been commissioned to design a new church centre with community facilities. The principle aims of the project are to produce a welcoming and flexible centre; one which can cater for a number of different public and private groups while enhancing and allowing greater enjoyment of the churchyard. Retaining the nature of the site has become central to the scheme. The new public rooms open onto a landscaped courtyard which links the Centre to the church and stimulates connections between the new building and its environs. Planted roofs provide a garden setting for all views from the upper floor of the Church and adjacent buildings. Completion is due in 2009.
Project Category Client Status Location Cost Following an invited competition in 2003, Hammerson Plc appointed Matthew Lloyd Architects to resolve a long-standing design problem in Spital Square: how to accommodate both the aesthetic demands of the Grade II listed St Botolph’s Hall and the commercial objectives of the site’s owners. The resulting design proposes a simple, handsome apartment building facing onto Bishop’s Square, leaving a clear gap between itself and the Hall. Within the gap a transparent single storey glass structure is created, sitting in place of the site’s original Curate’s House. The design protects the status of the Hall within its new commercial setting, and increases its importance within Spital Square, while the new building responds to the corporate steel and glass buildings rising high above the site. On the south side of the Hall, there is a new courtyard providing an outdoor eating space and an entrance to the flats in the new building. A second small mixed-use building designed by MLA will be built on the west side of the courtyard, along Stothard Place. The project started on site in Summer 2006. Completion is due in Autumn 2008.
Project Category Client Status Location Cost St Mary of Eton is a Grade II* listed church built for the Eton College Mission in the late 19th century. The church and its ancillary buildings are a rare example of historic fabric in the area and are much loved by the community, but have fallen increasingly into disrepair. Matthew Lloyd Architects was appointed in 2007 to develop a design that will enable the buildings to respond to existing and emerging community need. The proposed development involves the creation of 3 new buildings, including 31 residential units ranging from 1bed to 4bed flats, as well as a new church centre, community facilities and extensive re-landscaping. The new buildings are designed to embrace and enclose the church site, rather like a monastic settlement, with a wrapping skin of cladding created to surround the scheme and unite the new ensemble. The church, at the heart of the development, will be restored and rejuvenated, set within a welcoming courtyard with a café and sensitively designed gardens. Developed in close consultation with the community, the design has authority and integrity as well as architectural beauty. The vibrant mix of landscaping, residential units, and modern community resources will act as a catalyst for the regeneration of the whole area.
Project Category Client Status Location Cost Shoreditch Tabernacle Baptist Church Hall is a Grade II listed Victorian building, which suffered bomb damage in 1944 and was neglected thereafter, falling into an ever-worsening state of disrepair. Matthew Lloyd Architects was selected by invited interview to restore the Hall as a church asset whilst creating a valuable resource within the local community. The completed project includes rehearsal, performance, arts and meeting spaces and office spaces rented to charitable organisations. The original caretaker’s flat was also redeveloped to provide further rental income. The practice has taken considerable care to create a scheme that will meet modern requirements while sensitively restoring a rare and valuable Victorian building type. Following a 10 month construction project, the refurbishment was completed and re-opened in July 2005 as The Tab Centre. “This is an approach to old buildings that is both modest and assertive. The architects have not simply used the building as a provocation for a contemporary intervention, but have worked to highlight its best qualities, and explored the latent potential of its spaces.” (Chris Foges in Architecture Today, October 2005) Winner:
Project Category Client Status Location A landowner in County Durham approached Matthew Lloyd Architects in 2007 having learned about our Sheffield Green Homes project. We have been asked to draw up a design and site analysis for a holistic, genuinely sustainable development project comprising housing, education, health and employment facilities on the outskirts of a very deprived former mining community. Our client’s ambition is to create one of Europe’s first truly sustainable developments in order to regenerate the struggling remnants of what was once a thriving community. Our resulting plans create a mix of uses designed from a low energy standpoint, using the natural characteristics of the site to reduce the scheme’s carbon footprint. This includes the creation of a continuous linear woodland windbreak, complete Sustainable Urban Drainage System and reed bed sewage treatment and comprehensive district heating powered by woodchip boilers through coppice planting. The plan also feeds directly into existing and established allotment gardens to benefit from locally sourced food supplied through a farm shop. In urban design terms, new roads feed into established street patterns, whilst encouraging cycle routes and homes zones throughout.
Project Category Client Status Location Cost The Tamarisk Trust in partnership with Sanctuary Housing Association appointed Matthew Lloyd Architects in 2006 to develop a site in Barnet as residential accommodation for adults with learning difficulties. The proposed scheme involves the demolition of an existing property and the building of 2 new facilities: a registered care facility for 10 people with Down Syndrome and dementia, and a supported housing unit of self contained bed-sits for 20 people with learning disabilities. The registered housing requires facilities which respond to the high dependency of the occupants, while the supported housing service requires facilities which enable the residents’ independence, with an emphasis on self-contained accommodation. A significant aspect of the design is that the buildings provide a safe and welcoming environment, familiar and homely. The circulation for each building is clear and easily understood, with corridors following the axis of the garden wall, and stairs and lifts located opposite each other at the centre of the building. An enclosed garden acts as a hub and shared amenity space for all the residents. The character of the building towards the street is formal in scale and language, drawing on traditional suburban aesthetics for its architectural expression. However, the copper cladding shows it to be a modern interpretation suggestive of materiality, modern technology and sustainability. Beyond the garden wall, the emphasis is on openness and landscape: all shared lounges and dining areas have views over the garden; the mass of the building breaks down into a series of roof gardens to provide outside amenity at several floor levels. Green walls and green roofs are a key part of the design. This technology provides a means to harvest rainwater and natural habitats for local wildlife, blurring the edge between the building and its surrounding landscape. The scheme is intended to achieve a very high Code for Sustainable Homes rating.
Project Category Client Status Cost This project was an invited competition between 6 prominent practices to design the marketing suite for a large luxury development in London. The brief was to provide an outstanding, signature building to display finished apartments, as well as provide a sales and marketing suite with boardroom facilities. The brief was for a very high quality and demountable building set within a parkland landscape. The practice was invited, as a second-interview finalist, to present refined designs to an interview panel; the presentation included this Computer Generated Design of the proposals. Although Matthew Lloyd Architects were runners up in this case, the panel recognised that the proposals demonstrated very high quality design and innovation, produced in an extremely short period of time.
Project Category Client Status Location Cost This project for the modernisation of this well known primary school in the London Borough of Hackney, part of the ‘Fresh Start’ programme, was won under competitive interview. Prior to the works, the school was run-down, requiring modernisation and improvements to accessibility throughout. As well as upgrading the school’s original Edwardian fabric, the brief included the demolition of two existing 1960s classroom wings which, although of aesthetic merit, substantially failed DfES space standards and offered a poor teaching environment. Our architectural solution was to emulate the shape and personality of the original wings, interpreted as a child friendly, bright, optimistic and accessible aesthetic. The new accommodation is spacious and modern, clad in untreated green oak and proprietary render, with aluminium powder-coated windows. Upon completion, the 1st east wing was occupied immediately and has been embraced by children and staff alike. Phase II, a second similar west wing, and the refurbishment of the retained buildings follow straight onwards.
Project Category Client Status Location Cost St Mary’s Old Church is a Grade II* listed church on the South East edge of Clissold Park in Stoke Newington. The Church has a rich architectural history with Medieval origins, although it has been altered several times over the centuries. Since the building of a much larger church of St Mary across the road in 1858, the Old Church has essentially become a Chapel of Ease, used for occasional worship and concerts. It is the intention of St Mary’s PCC to revive the Old Church to be an active and sustainable part of the Stoke Newington community. In so doing, the church will attract and be appreciated by a wider audience, creating the means to generate resources to maintain the condition of the ageing church fabric. Matthew Lloyd Architects won a competitive interview in 2006 to work on new plans to create a Community Arts Centre within a restored and rejuvenated site. The proposals provide a contemporary response that is sensitive to the Old Church, while responding to, and enhancing, the listed fabric. A new oak-clad extension will create a flexible multi-use space available for use for alternative forms of worship, concerts and performances, rehearsal and function space, and for use by existing and future community groups. The original historic fabric will be repaired and restored and all of the building’s services will be carefully replaced.
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