Fitzroy Square
We completed a careful restoration and refurbishment of this Grade I-listed town house by Robert Adam. This has involved unpicking the ‘restoration’ carried out when it became James Stirling’s office…
Landart House
Hemingford Abbots, Cambridgeshire At their planning meeting on March 19th Huntingdon District Council gave approval (subject to section 106 legal agreements) to the scheme for ‘Landart House’ – a fusion…
Lancaster Grove
A new-build end of terrace. A modern take on the late Victorian bay-fronted house. The site was a car park at the end of a row of undistinguished 1980s terrace…
Doughty Street
Conversion of a Grade II-listed Georgian building from three flats into a single family house. A large part of the work was the repair of the structure and the restoration…
Russell Road
We have recently completed the refurbishment and loft extension of a four bedroom terraced house in Crouch End. The design included a glazed dormer with panoramic view to Alexandra Palace.…
Genoa Avenue
We aimed to bring the space and width of the garden into the interior of the house in this renovation and extension of a semi-detached villa in West Putney. A…
Amor Road
We converted this Victorian terrace house into a media consultant’s office with adjoining maisonette above. There are conference rooms and a screening room in the basement, while the residential areas…
Manor House near Huntingdon
Masterplan, refurbishment and extension of a large Decimus Burton manor house near Huntingdon. We designed the masterplan with Jon Lowe of Heritage Collective, which included the restoration of a huge…
Petersham Road
This courtyard building in Petersham was modified and refurbished throughout. What had been a rather dark and incoherent house was transformed by the introduction of extra windows, a clean and…
Kings Mews
We designed a new block of six flats in Kings Mews in Bloomsbury. We plan to break the mould of slick modern glass facades and design a building which is…
New End Square
A re-ordering of the rooms in this Victorian townhouse gave a cascade of increasingly light spaces down to a small courtyard garden. The building is in a conservation area and…
Albany Street
We converted this Regency terrace house, with interior designer Cheryl Knorr, to serve as the offices and visiting curator’s flat for an important modern art collection. Original features were retained…
Clifton Hill
Extension and internal reimagining of a large Grade II-listed semi-detached private home in north London.
Yorkshire Grey Place
“The atmosphere of the Stanley House is relaxed and accommodating: it is both a cabinet of architectural curiosities and a brilliant meditation on the nature of occupancy and use.” Charles…
Stable Cottage
This four bedroom house is in the grounds of a former vicarage, in an area designated by local planners as of ‘minimal change’. We used the existing enclosing walls of…
St Edmunds Terrace
We have designed a scheme for six houses in the grounds of a large block in St.Johns Wood. The demands of a tight site and need for private external spaces…
Platts Lane
We built a small extension as a working and designing space for a textile weaver. The high ceiling makes it a very light interior. Location: Status:
Cedar House
We picked up on existing style of cedar cladding to provide a large extension and pool house for our client’s holiday home. The relaxed plan and big spaces are in…
Denning Road
Reconfiguration of an existing house to create a better relationship with the garden, as well as a better flow of movement internally. This tall Victorian terracotta- and brick-fronted house had…
Tiger House
An extremely intricate bespoke library and pied-a-terre for an academic couple in Bloomsbury.
Jewellery Display
Designed as part of a re-branding exercise for major international jewellers, Graff Diamonds, these showcases are made from ebony veneer with bronze detailing. We undertook the entire design, from the…
Church Chair
The most important aspect of a chair to be designed for church use is that it should be perceived as ‘fitting’ by those using it. Thus it should look in some…
Garden bench
This bench, made from heavy steel and untreated oak, has a simple design. The grooves drain the seat and suggest some kind of game played between the steel ‘X’ and…
St Peter’s Petersham
The bucolic setting of the Georgian Church, in meadows by the Thames, hasn’t changed significantly since it was shown in Turner’s view from Richmond Hill of 1820. However, the church…
Reliance Arcade
Reliance Arcade is a Grade II Listed covered market in Brixton, London. The market occupies a narrow site running between Brixton Road and Electric Lane. The Arcade is listed as…
St Michael Cloister Garden
“in the practice’s work there is recurring evidence that they know about how their buildings will be used, how they will be lived in and how they will change” Charles…
British High Commission, Nairobi
We won a limited competition to design this complex project, which houses three administrative departments, each with its own overlapping requirements for access and security. The building, ranged along the…
St Michael’s and All Angels Community Centre
In relation to the theme of place-making, it would be hard to find a better example of intervening in an already crowded corner of a city and weaving everything together…
St Michael and All Angels Barnes
In addition to designing the new cloister and parish hall, HCA has done extensive work to the main church, designed by Charles Innes and built in 1892. The nave and…
St Peter’s Petersham Chancel
Further to the new parish room, HCA has been leading the restoration of St Peter’s Church. The process has started in 2014 with the removal of the cement render on…
Fitzroy Square
We completed a careful restoration and refurbishment of this Grade I-listed town house by Robert Adam. This has involved unpicking the ‘restoration’ carried out when it became James Stirling’s office…
Reliance Arcade
Reliance Arcade is a Grade II Listed covered market in Brixton, London. The market occupies a narrow site running between Brixton Road and Electric Lane. The Arcade is listed as…
Queens House
We have just completed a detailed survey of the carved and painted beams in the central hall of Inigo Jones’ Queens House. Location: Grenwich, London Status:
St Michael and St Peter
Hugh Cullum is quinquennial inspecting architect to the listed churches of St. Michael and All Angels, Barnes, and St. Peter’s, Petersham. We report on the condition of the buildings and…
C18th Cottage
This Grade II listed cottage had suffered from major water damage, resulting in extensive rot to the roof and other timber elements. We have taken down the entire roof structure…
Manor House near Huntingdon
Masterplan, refurbishment and extension of a large Decimus Burton manor house near Huntingdon. We designed the masterplan with Jon Lowe of Heritage Collective, which included the restoration of a huge…
Jewellery Shop Bond Street
This magnificent jewellers shop was a phased development over three years. Two adjoining retained facades hide a sumptuous double height timber panelled salon for which a new carved Portland stone…
Charlotte Street
As specialist design consultants we have recently designed three shopfronts for a restaurant, delicatessen and flats project in Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia. The lead consultant for the project was ARA design…
Jewellery Shop Tokyo
A flagship Asian shop of the international jeweller. With Gilardino Design we were asked to propose a new image that would be launched in the Japan shop. The salon is…
Well Mount Studios
Well Mount studios are late 19th century purpose-built painters’ studios. In order to finance the continued running of the studios our client had to create a basement flat beneath the…
Amor Road Media Studio
We converted this Victorian terrace house into a media consultant’s office with adjoining maisonette above. There are conference rooms and a screening room in the basement, while the residential areas…
Albemarle Street
Two distinguished grade two listed Georgian buildings at 28 and 29 Albemarle Street were bought by Graff Diamonds in 2000 and 2003 to be refurbished and converted into headquarters offices…
Abinger Road Garden Studio
This timber and glass building is light on its feet, sitting on a paving slab at each corner. The design minimised disturbance to the garden and made it possible for…
British High Commission, Nairobi
We won a limited competition to design this complex project, which houses three administrative departments, each with its own overlapping requirements for access and security. The building, ranged along the…