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Hewitt Studios swept the board yesterday at the Green Apple Sustainability Awards in London, picking up no less than 4 awards!
The Green Apple Awards have been running for over 20 years now and were set up to reward and promote environmental best practice in the UK and around the world.
Against stiff national competition, with over 500 entries, we managed to scoop the following accolades:
GOLD Award (Residential) – Limpley Stoke Eco House
SILVER Award (Residential) – Ralph Allen Yard
SILVER Award (Public Building) – Straw Bale Cafe
BRONZE Award (Education Building) – HCA Arts Space
A delighted team pictured above includes collaborators from Ridge LLP and Integral Engineering Design.
Congratulations and thanks to our clients and the wider team who all made this possible.
Our Limpley Stoke Eco House was Highly Commended in the LABC Building Excellence Awards last Friday night.
The awards are judged not only on design, but also on the “excellence” shown from a construction and technical point of view. They recognise design and construction teams that have tussled with technical issues, difficult sites and found innovative and creative solutions.
Well, that certainly sums up our experience on this one – congratulations to all involved!
Our Arts Space for Hereford College of Art made an appearance on BBC2 last night.
In the first episode of “Digby Jones – The New Troubleshooter”, the College is used to help inspire staff of a local furniture design and manufacturing business with some hands-on prototyping.
Catch up with the episode on BBC iplayer (about 48 mins in)
Hewitt Studios will be presenting Ralph Allen Yard at a seminar hosted by MADE in Birmingham on Friday 28th March.
MADE have invited a handful of innovative design professionals to describe their recent experiences delivering sustainable residential projects and discuss their take on housbuilding for the future.
Ralph Allen Yard is a unique mixed-use development, in a sensitive location close to Bath, for the Homes and Communities Agency and Cox Development Partners Ltd. The brief describes two distinct elements – a cluster of ‘Code 5’ sustainable houses and a BREEAM-rated stone mining interpreatation centre.
More details of the other speakers and their presentations are available here
As our Ralph Allen Yard project nears completion, we are delighted to report that is has been Highly Commended in the 2013 HouseBuilder Awards in the category of Best Zero and Low-Carbon Initiative.
Congrats to all involved!
We are fortunate enough to have a practice interview and in-depth feature on our Straw Bale Cafe for Herefordshire and Ludlow College in the latest issue of Legnoarchitettura – the Italian architecture magazine.
Time to fire up Google Translate…
Our Limpley Stoke Eco House project is featured in an article on pages 36/37 of this month’s Essential Install Magazine.
The article features an interview with Option One communications, custom installers of Telecommunication Systems, multiroom audio, TV and cinema rooms, who have been working with us on the project.
The house features a raft of high-tech installations, including four zones of Control4 audio and some gorgeous Anthony Gallo drivers (pictured).
