Mason Taylor Shortlisted in New Pub Category
10.03.2010
Fleet Architects have been shortlisted for the
Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2011 in the Pub category for the
Mason & Taylor Refurbishment. The UK based Restaurant & Bar Design Awards rewards both designers and operators for design excellence. Now in its third year it is the only international concept of its kind dedicated exclusively to design. The winners of the various categories, will be announced at an Awards ceremony & party at the East Wintergarden, Canary Wharf, London on the 7th July 2011.
Fleet are delighted to be shortlisted given the comparitively small budget and the design development running alongside construction in an condensed 8 week programme.
Shoreditch's latest new bar Mason Taylor opens
10.12.2010
The
Mason and Taylor bar in London's Uber-cool Shoreditch opened its doors in December 2010. The Fleet design creates a Rachel Whiteread inspired negative victorian bar to link the contemporary fit-out to the traditional and craft Ales and fare available.
Mason Taylor sits on the corner of Bethanl Green Road and Redchurch Street near to the northen end of Brick Lane.
The New T2 Opens its doors and runway in Dublin
19.11.2010
The new terminal 2 at Dublin airport opened its doors and runway for the first time on the 19th November 2010. The new terminal features a Blow Dry Bar designed by Fleet Architects with Sanderson Studios for Dublin’s most famous hair dresser,
Dylan Bradshaw.
The salon offers clients the opportunity to have their hair washed and styled prior to boarding their flight. The Blow Dry Bar features Kérastase brand products which can be prescribed to travellers by Bradshaw’s highly accomplished stylists.
The Blow Dry Bar features a four permanent hair and nail stations and two backwash units. The snug screen inspired rotating mirrors allow the salon to expand to offer up to eight individual styling points and further plays on the bar concept.
Jaime Bishop Speaks On Healthcare Design and architectureal Education at RIBA Conference
04.11.2010
Jaime Bishop, Director Fleet, has been invited to speak at a RIBA conference entitled Healthcare Design, Innovation & the Future. The conference is to be held on the 18th of November 2010 in the Civic Centre in Newcastle.
Other speakers included Sir Leonard Fenwick KBE the Chief Executive of Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals, John Cooper of JCA, Mungo Smith and Chris Shaw, both of Medical Architecture.
2010 AfH Student Awards: Winners Announced
27.08.2010
On August the 26th, the fourth annual
AfH Student Health Design Award, organised by Fleet’s Jaime Bishop, was held at RIBA. The awards were conceived in 2007 with the aim of bridging a perceived schism between the practicing architectural healthcare design community and academic teaching and the investigation of health architecture as a programme and function driven design and not simply an extruded plan and envelope. As the Chair of the judges, John Allen, acknowledged, it is a difficult climate for healthcare architecture at the moment with ‘cuts all around us’, and outside heavy rain was lashing London. Inside though, this was a welcome chance to celebrate healthcare design and a new generation of architects engaging with its challenges. The ten short-listed candidates each talked for 4-minutes about their work, then answered questions. As the chair noted, the ‘modesty, elegance and assurance of the presentations was exemplary.’ Following this, the judges retired to an anteroom to debate and pick the winner, a process that sponsors Brookfield representative Paul Serkis, says was ‘extremely difficult’. Finally, the results were announced.
First Prize went to Frank Trautman for his Hospice for Progressivley Ill Children, second to Hayley Moreton for a sensitive investigation into community hospices and the decline of the local pub and third to Ewan Cooper for his Fleet Burial Garden.
For more information please visit
www.afhawards.org or read the Health Estates Journal on the night
here.
Brierley Hill Wins LIFT Design Prize
08.07.2010
Jaime Bishop collected the prize for best design for his work on the
Brierley Hill Health and Social Care Centre at the 2010 LIFT Awards. The 10,000sqm centre featuring an undercroft car park and sitting on an escarpment outside of Dudley was commended for its simple and confident pallette of materials and delightful garden. Jaime collected the prize jointly with Tim Woolcott of Steffian Bradley Architects who became the project architect overseeing the completion of the project on site. Fleet would like to congratulate the excellent client and exceptional contractor,
Dudley Infracare LIFT and
Carillion repsectively and the many the people that contributed to the project through the design and construction.
Fleet Architects Elected as RIBA Chartered Practice
11.05.2010
To become a Chartered Practice, architect practices need to comply with strict criteria in an accreditation scheme that gives you, the client, a mark of quality. So by choosing a RIBA Chartered Practice you can expect a certain level of excellence in design and service.
Braintree Community Hospital Ready for First Patients
01.05.2010
The
Braintree Community Hospital opened it's doors to local visitors in April with plans to admit the first patients on the 19th of April. The new centre, which replaces the St Michael's Hospital, combines two operating theatres, inpatient bedrooms, therapies, imaging and outpatient services.
Fleet and CCA Short-listed at AJ Small Projects
25.02.2010
The
Village Green Soapbox was short-listed for the 2010 Architects Journal Small Project Award hosted by Interflor. The client, Colette Bailey, Managing Director of
Metal Culture, was delighted that the stage was designed, built and demounted for a comparatively tiny budget, whilst also pioneering an innovative structural system.
School-a-saurus Metaphor ‘Undeliverable’
25.02.2010
Unfortunately, the Abbotsfield School for Boys and Fleet Architects 'T-Rex School' collaboration lost out in the Design Live event at
BSEC 2010, placing third. The view of judges’,
EC Harris, was that the School-a-saurus was not deliverable, despite it being a metaphor.
Fleet's aim was to encourage the students to develop a brief for a new or redeveloped school and invited them to draw comparisons between the organs of the body and the existing and possible departments of the school. The model had an inflating, beating heart representing a new shared social space where students and teachers come together, whereas the eyes represented the all seeing offices of the Head and the Deputy.
Stanley Primary Care Centre Opens to Warm Welcome
26.02.2010
On 26th February 2010, Stanley Primary Care Centre was officially opened by North Durham MP Kevan Jones and Chair of the PCT Lady Ann Calman, 4 years after Jaime Bishop and Richard Henson conceived the initial design. David Gallagher the PCT's Director of Partnerships and Services, thanked the design team ‘...who made the scheme such a great project to work on...and the end product is fantastic’.
One of the most pleasing aspects of the finished project is how closely it reflects the sketches and renders of design stage; this is not always the case in PFI procurement and owes a lot to the aspirations and management of the consortium by Grosvenor House Group, and to the contractor, BAM.
The Building features a stunning atrium, which acts as the circulation spine of the building but also provides flexible space for public events. Most significantly the building has minimised the use of 'institutional' suspended ceilings in the consulting and non-clinical spaces,creating a sense of generous airiness which permeates the building. Additionally, the exposed soffits contribute to the mass of the concrete structure to mediate peak summer temperatures without resorting to mechanical cooling or air conditioning.
Grade II Listed Fish & Bread Gets Green light in Canterbury
19.02.2010
Fleet Architects, working with South coast 'gastro-entrepreneur' Andy Barrett, have been granted listed building and planning permission for the conversion of a gentleman’s outfitters into a café featuring a wet fish shop, bakery and private dining rooms. The design team has been working closely with the planning, conservation and archaeology teams at Canterbury Council in order to reach a proposal that meets the clients needs while preserving the quality of the building which sits in the shadow of the cathedral.
Students invited to Design for Death
04.02.2010
Architects for Health Executive and Fleet Director, Jaime Bishop, has launched the 2010 Student design award. As in previous years any project relating to the design of a healthcare building can be submitted, however the 2010 competition introduces a greater emphasis on the sample brief - Designing for Death: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise and a specific prize will be awarded for the most successful response to the sample brief. For more information please visit
www.afhawards.org
Fleet Working with Primary Care Developer Ashley House
03.01.2010
Fleet Architects have been appointed to work with Burnham based primary care developer, Ashley House PLC. Fleet will draw upon our considerable Primary Healthcare experience, developed on projects such as
Stanley PCC, the
St Michaels Re-provision in Braintree and the
Brierley Hill Health and Social Care Centre, to assist Ashley House in the development of projects across the South-East, including the London Boroughs of Hackney and Greenwich.
Fleet Re-engineer the Health and Social Infrastructure of Leeds
13.12.2010
Fleet working with Ruairi Reeves submitted an entry to the 36 the Calls competition organised by developer
CITU.
Fleet and Henry Compton Win BSF Prize
25.02.2010
Fleet and Henry Compton School were selected overall winners of the Hammersmith and Fulham Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Design Conference 2009. The conference, organised by
Surface to Air took the form of a day long design charrette, in which 12 architectural practices were partnered with local primary/secondary schools, each of which had a need or desire to improve their current building stock. The notable judging panel announced Fleet overall winners of the event, with such comments as ‘Great’, ‘Enthusiastic and energetic’ and ‘Spot on brief’.
Fleet Win 2 x 20 Event at the RIBA
26.11.2009
Richard Henson and Jaime Bishop presented 38 slides in just two minutes demonstrating how the same program and an identical strategy but on different sites can result vividly contrasting solutions. The event was organised by Architects for Health to follow the Annual General Meeting which also saw Jaime Bishop’s re-election to the board and was hosted at the RIBA Headquarters on Portland Place.
20 architects were invited to present subject matter of their choosing in a strictly limited 2 minute slot. The Fleet Architects’ team were selected by a ballot of the attendees and beat stiff competition from Mungo Smith of MAAP, Mike Nightingale of Nightingale Associates, Claudia Bloom of Avanti and a team from Shepherd Robson to take first prize.
Should ministers criticise individual buildings?
06.11.2009
Yes, criticism can lead to a dialogue that will ultimately improve public buildings, says Jaime Bishop; while RIBA Chair Ruth Reed argues that architects shouldn’t take the flack for flawed procurement processes.
Fleet Come Second in CICS Morelands Competition
16.10.2009
Fleet finish joint second in the
Camden and Islington Community Solutions Morelands design competition beating a number of established practices including Steffian Bradley. The competition winners were incumbent architects Alford Hall Monahan and Morris.
The Soapbox at the Village Green Festival
24.09.2009
The glowing stage structure designed and built by Fleet Architects and Cassion Castle Architects made its debut at the Village Green Festival in Southend-on-Sea. The bill for the day included Billy Bragg, The Blockheads, Phil Jupitus and Camera Obscura.
