Fraher Architects | London | UK

100% Planning success!

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:18:14 +0000

We work collaboratively with local planning authorities to achieve the best solution for our clients. To date we have be fortunate enough to maintain a 100% success record across all project sectors. This has included a number of projects that are within a sensitive planning environment: some National Parks, Conservation Areas and many Listed Buildings.

We have just received full planning approval for the following schemes:

North Downs Studio: Set within a National Park and an area of outstanding natural beauty. Click through here to find out more about this project.

Wandsworth House: Click through here to find out more about this project.

The Look Out: Set within the Barnes Common Conservation area and is a Locally Listed Building. Click through here to find out more about this project.

Fingers crossed we can keep up the statistic!

AJ Exhibition

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:14:07 +0000

We have been re-assembling an early development model of The Jewel Box for the AJ Small Project’s Exhibition which is opening at the NLA next Thursday. The model is certainly sketchy but is a representation of all our ideas for the project.

Don’t Move Improve

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:38:03 +0000

We were really thrilled to be awarded runner up in this year’s NLA, Dont Move Improve Awards for The Jewel Box last night. The awards evening was packed and gave us an opportunity to see all the competition. A massive thank you to all involved in judging and the Client is pleased with their BoConcept vouchers.

Details about the exhibition and awards can be seen below and the Building Centre is well worth a visit.

“An exhibition of the 72 shortlisted schemes from this year’s ‘Don’t Move, Improve!’ competition, which invited architects and homeowners from across Greater London to submit their most innovative and well-designed home extension, interior design and small office conversion projects completed within the last three years.

Projects on display range from roof, basement and side extensions to complete home refurbishments and garden workspaces.

The schemes were judged by an eminent jury including Peter Murray, Chairman of NLA; Elle Decoration’s Editor-in-Chief Michelle Ogundehin; Tamsie Thomson, Director at RIBA London; David Mikhail of David Mikhail Architects and the British Institute of Interior Design’s President Diana Yakeley.

The winners of the 2011/12 awards are:

Home Extension or Refurbishment
Joint Winner: Dove House, Gundry & Ducker
Joint Winner: Suburbanstudio, Ashton Porter Architects
Runner-up: The Jewel Box, Fraher Architects
Commendation: Cornerstone, Threefold Architects

Office Extension or Refurbishment
Winner: Magnificent Container, Carl Turner Architects
Commendation: Belsize Garage Studio, Sanya Polescuk Architects

Home Interior Design
Commendation: The Brunswick Centre Apartment, Space Group Architects”

To visit the exhibition and find out more about the awards please click through here:

New member of the team

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:32:20 +0000

We have a new member joining us at Fraher Architects. Marie studied at The Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Bretagne graduating in 2009. In France, Marie is a qualified Architect, having worked at practices in Rennes and Nantes before coming to England this year. Marie will be working on a number of the London based residential projects and has a keen interest in timber architecture.

Marie is with us as part of the Leonardo Da Vinci Internship programme.

Cladding Options for Honor Oak House

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:01:33 +0000

We are currently experimenting with the cladding finish for the Honor Oak House. We are considering a number of options, that vary in both timber finish and panel format.

We will be using cutting down scrap scaffolding boards into tessellated shapes, creating the most material and cost efficient cladding format. We are swaying towards a dark oiled finish board, that when cut reveals the true timber colour on the edge. We will be working on sample panels on Friday so we will keep you posted with the chosen format. Tweet @fraherchat with any ideas.

AJ Small Project’s Awards Shortlist

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:12:17 +0000

We are excited to announce that we have been shortlisted for this year’s Architects Journal Small Project’s Awards 2012. The Jewel box has made a shortlist of 24, from 156 entries! We are delighted with the nomination as the field was particularly strong this year. Check out the AJ Building Library for full details.

We now have a ’supercrit,’ to attend where the winner will be determined. As we teach at Nottingham University, it’s a while since we were in the ’student’s chair!’

We are especially pleased as we are one of the cover images chosen for this week’s special issue! It feels rather nice to get to work and find a copy of a great architectural magazine on your desk with your building on the front. For those that received the alternative covers, please see our scan of the magazine.

Fingers crossed for the crit and we will let you all know how we get on!

Published:

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:18:13 +0000

NXNW North By Northwest: Feburary 2012 – Fraher Architects

City & Angel: Feburary 2012 – Fraher Architects

The Architect’s Journal: 19.01.2012: AJ Small Projects Cover Image – The Jewel Box

Interior Design: Taiwanese Publication: 2011 Nov Dec Issue No. 60 – The Jewel Box

London Evening Standard: 26.10.2011 – The Jewel Box

The Sunday Times: 11th Sept 2011: Home Cover Page – The Jewel Box

The Independent: 01.11.2011 – The Jewel Box

Grand Designs Magazine: Nov 2011: – The Jewel Box

Building Magazine: 26.08.2011: The Young and the Self Made – Practice Overview

Dezeen: www.dezeen.com: August 2011 – The Jewel Box

Architect’s Journal Footprint: March 2011 – Fraher Eco Build Blog

Architect’s Journal: February 2011 – Wildflower Barn

Design. The Key to a Better Place: RIBA Bookshops: Custom Publishing Ltd – The Memory House

The Telegraph: Property Section: 24th July 2010 – The Memory House

Grand Designs Magazine: June 2010 – The Yorkshire Barn

Wandsworth House

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:26:16 +0000

Nestled in the borough of Wandsworth, this post war building is one of a series of infill buildings, sitting within a pre-dominately Victorian residential terraced street. The three bed roomed house was in desperate need of renovation, and comprised of a series of dark disjointed spaces and embodied a poor carbon footprint.

The Client wanted us to fully refurbish the property, extending to the side and the rear, to accommodate a family dining room, kitchen, store and utility room. The extension would need to sweep across the rear of the property and encourage as much natural daylight into the existing rooms as possible. A timber cladding relates strongly to the garden, with two 3m wide sliding doors gently opening up the boundary between inside and outside.

Due for completion August 2012

Honor Oak House Structural Design

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:50:19 +0000

We are really excited about progress on the Honor Oak House. We have worked with our engineer on a scheme that uses a series of exposed roof timbers that inter-link side by side, to create a self supporting inverted cranked roof. The timber will be revealed from the inside and will compose of an insulated single ply membrane roofing solution which will be later planted. This will minimise steelwork and also conceal fixings, creating a beautiful finish to the kitchen and dining room soffit.

The kitchen within the sunken extension will be cradled in brickwork arms, with a warm mass of timber floating above. We will be constructing the roof in February and so will report back with photographs of the installation to document the build.

To read more about this project please click through to the project page here.

Images 2 & 3 supplied by George Georgiou

Awards 2011/2012

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:22:53 +0000

New London Architecture: Dont Move Improve 2011/2012: The Jewel Box: Runner Up

Arcchitect’s Journal: Small Project’s Award 2011/2012: The Jewel Box: Shortlisted