The Fleet Team, led by Val Tse working with Daniel Collinson, worked with the Machine-A and Tomorrow Ltd teams to design and delivered an extension and complete refit of the iconic Soho, Brewer Street store.
The new store extends brand identity developed in the Shanghai Store which opened in 2022, re-thought for a constrained historic unit in London’s fashion Mecca.
More information and project page to follow.
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NHS Chief Nursing Officer, Dame Ruth May, visited the James Paget University Hospital to open the new 28 Bed Concept ward designed by Fleet Architects in collaboration with Health Spaces.
The project was designed and delivered using volumetric off-site construction within 15 months.
Jaime Bishop was interviewed for the BBC LookEast news and the event was covered by all local news Networks.
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Fleet have been working with the Health Spaces team (https://health-spaces.com/) to develop the design for a Hybrid Vascular theatre which received confirmation of funding this week.
Two weeks previously Jaime Bishop presented the scheme to the Trust board alongside the Surgery Team, including surgeons Prof Sadasivam-Selvakumar and Mr Matthew Metcalfe and Theatre Sister Kay Wandless.
The new building extends the surgery floor on a raised platform oversailing the service yard and integrates equipment from Philips (C-Arm), Medical Air Technology (UCV) and pendants and theatre controls by Bender.
The scheme integrates the Philips ceiling mounted C-Arm with 3 UCV plenums slotted between the rails.
The Lister Hybrid Theatre is one of several projects on which Fleet Architects are collaborating with Health Spaces – more can be found about these projects here https://health-spaces.com/
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Dan Collinson and Jaime Bishop joined the Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust team at Cannock Chase Hospital to review the proposed internal finishes using virtual reality. The Meta Quest googles used in conjunction with Sketchup and Enscape allow the unfettered exploration of the model including all the equipment as agreed in the 1:50 process.
The Cannock CDC project features double MR and CDC procedure rooms and is due for completion in Autumn 2023.
The Cannock CDC is one of several projects Fleet Architects are collaborating on with Health Spaces – more can be found about these projects here https://health-spaces.com/.
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The annual Ann Noble Research Award was awarded to Michael Harper of UCL’s Bartlett Real Estate Institute to support his research thesis “An investigation into inequities internal stakeholders face throughout a healthcare construction project”.
Jaime Bishop, the current co chair of Architects for Health, sat on the judging panel and introduced the award and the role it plays in the annual AfH calendar; like the Student Design Awards, offering space and time to time more deeply on the intersection between buildings and healthcare, ill-afforded in professional practice.
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Jaime Bishop of Fleet Architects was invited to take part in the IOPM Webinar – ‘Demolish, re-purpose, re-let?’
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Fleet Associate Kai Xin Tan prepared an article discussing our proposals for the refurbishment of the facility for respite care for children with mental and physical and mental impairment.
https://dimhn.org/the-network/
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Jaime Bishop took part in an NLA live Webinar – Health on the High Street alongside colleagues from TP Bennet and Heatherwicks.
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After a delay arising from Covid Complications, work will finally start on site at the Peterson’s fish smoke house in Grimsby.
Contractor, Rudkins, will commence on the 20th of March with Completion in December 2023.
The project is being undertaken for the Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust and sponsored by the National Lottery Heritage Fund with assistance from the Architectural Heritage Fund.
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Fleet Director Jaime Bishop will be joining the panel for the upcoming NLA event discussing the opportunity for greater Health on the High Street for patients, staff and the host city.
https://nla.london/events/health-on-the-high-street
He will be briefly introducing some of the ideas which led to our Wolfson Essay : The Well Placed Hospital and the Fleet Architects Ltd and Health Spaces work, interesting challenges and idea evolution which have arisen since publishing.
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