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Robin Nicholas

RIBA Publication: Transform Your Home   The Royal Institute of British Architects book ‘House goals: Work with Architects; transform your home’ has been published and is now on sale.  Shape Architecture’s work at Rugby Road in Brighton is one of the featured projects. https://www.shapearchitecture.co.uk/riba-publication/        

House Extension in Hove Shape Architecture continues to design a wide range of house extensions in Hove.  This project has recently been granted planning permission for a large loft conversion including a hip to gable and at ground floor a side infill extension.  Alongside internal refurbishment a large light filled contemporary home has been created.[...]

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Access to a Roof Terrace Shape Architecture continues to design a wide range of roof terraces in London and Brighton.  Here in Battersea, we are designing a roof terrace that looks at ways of maximising light and views into all adjacent parts of the house.  Rooms below and giving onto the roof terrace are treated[...]

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Garden Studio and Glazed Link to House Granted Planning Permission Shape Architecture continues to design a wide range of garden studios in London and Brighton.  Here in Hammersmith, we have recently been granted planning permission for a striking studio that also has a glazed link back to the garden flat.  The studio is a creative[...]

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Home Office Design   Shape Architecture has always designed bespoke furniture and very often as a part of a home office design.  Here we have explored a variety of designs for a one and a half storey space.  Storage, shelves and platforms make for an interesting and very useful space in which to work.  A[…]

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Courtyard Office – Clapham   Shape Architecture has been asked to look at this back land site in Clapham to create a small office filled with light.  The site is challenging due to its size and being bounded on all sides by garden walls.     Nonetheless we have designed a building which when accessed[…]

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Access to a Roof Terrace   Access can be gained to roof terraces in a number of ways.  Sometimes a door gives onto the roof terrace, and this might be from internal circulation.  If this is not possible and you are accessing the roof terrace from below then a series of design options present themselves,[…]

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Clapham Roof Terrace   As we continue to gain planning permissions for roof terraces throughout London and Brighton we review here our very first roof terrace project from some 12 years ago.  It remains very relevant as it shows what can be achieved on the context of a standard terraced house.  Here the project relates[…]

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Wimbledon Townhouse Extension and Refurbishment   Shape architecture has obtained planning permission for the extension and reworking of a townhouse in Newstead Road in Wimbledon.  The property is a 3-storey townhouse.  The project involves the conversion of the garage into habitable space and the addition of a rear extension with green sedum roof.  The house[...]

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London Basement Extensions   Shape Architecture has been designing basement extensions in London since 2008 and we have built up a considerable expertise in this type of project.  We have caried out over 30 such projects and these range from basements below houses, flats, gardens and mews properties and to listed building such as at[…]

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Sandgate Road, Brighton   Small Residential Extensions Shape Architecture continues to undertake a range of smaller residential extensions and we always have several of these projects in the office.  Here we illustrate how we design and communicate with our clients using 3D models.  This ensures a clear communication and an efficient collaboration and leads to[…]

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An image showing a 3D model of a studio project in Hove

Small House, Hove   Shape Architecture has been asked by our client to look at the design for a small one bed house at a back lands site in Hove, currently occupied by a series of garages.  Our proposal is for a simple elegant single storey building.  The roof will be a green sedum roof,[…]

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Community Project in Colchester As our community project in Colchester progresses through the demolition and structural phase, it does so with a watching brief from the Archaeologists in Colchester.  At this week’s site visit a piece of Roman pottery was found.  Photograph below.        

An image showing a 3D model of a project in Hove

Planning permission for Garden Studio in Hove   Shape Architecture has been granted planning permission for this garden studio at the top of a steep garden in Hove.  Our client is a carpenter and wanted something a bit different to the normal garden room and added to this was his interest in the work of[…]

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An image showing a 3D model of a kitchen design for a residential project in Hove

Grade 2 Listed Apartment in the Drive, Hove   This project is similar to other recent consents in Brunswick Terrace, Hove, where we have reworked Listed apartments to create large contemporary kitchen living and dining spaces.  Here we were also able to re-order the rooms to create a further bedroom and address several retrospective consents[…]

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an image showing a 3D model of a roof terrace project in Brighton

Roof Terraces Animation     Having gained planning permission for roof terraces at Norfolk Road and Cavendish House in Brighton and both within a short distance of each other, we have made an animation linking the two roof terraces.  

London Roof Terraces   Yesterday we published a blog on several of our roof terraces in Brighton.  Today we have done the same with several roof terrace projects in London.  We have selected a range from the prominent Grade 2 listed Florin Court to a Mews House and finally to a terraced house in Fulham[…]

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Brighton Roof Terraces   Shape Architecture continues to gain planning permissions for roof terraces in Brighton.  Below are two roof terrace projects close by to each other.  One in Norfolk Road and the other at Cavendish House opposite the I 360.  Both are large roof terraces and posed considerable planning challenges in addressing the requirements[…]

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