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We are delighted to have been granted planning permission for our sympathetic refurbishment of Morgan’s London Showroom, located in the historic Astwood Mews in Kensington.
The showroom will be carefully upgraded over the coming months to offer a customer experience consistent with the recently completed Morgan Works Showroom and Visitor Centre in Malvern.
We are delighted to learn that our new Visitor Experience Centre for Morgan Motors has been recognised as one of Archello’s ‘Best Projects of 2020’!
It has been selected from over 3,000 submissions – you can read the full details of this dramatic transformation in Archello’s feature.
Our £7 million Brunel Centre at Stoke Gifford for SGS College is now weather tight.
To celebrate the milestone, West of England Regional Mayor Tim Bowles toured the site earlier in the month with SGS Group Chief Executive, Kevin Hamblin, SGS College Principal, Sara-Jane Watkins and Richard David, Director for Willmott Dixon.
The building has been funded by the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership through the Local Growth Fund, administered by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA).
The project is scheduled for completion in early 2021.
We are pleased to report that our new Visitor Experience Centre for Morgan Motors has been shortlisted for a Structural Timber Award.
The three new built interventions utilise prefabricated, modular timber structures which relate to the historic ash construction of the Morgan body frame.
They all use the same sustainable timber product (Metsawood Kerto LVL) manipulated in a number of different ways to achieve a variety of outcomes – a rectilinear ‘Jewel Box’, an gently undulating car canopy and a dynamic, twisted reception area.
The winners of the Structural Timber Awards will be announced in March 2021.
Our new Experience Centre for the Morgan Motor Company opened to the public earlier this week.
We have comprehensively refurbished their existing Visitor Centre and Showroom with a strong focus on sustainability.
Our series of low-carbon timber interventions have been designed to improve building thermal performance, increase natural daylight, reduce energy consumption, reduce surface water run-off and provide for end-of-life recycling of materials.
You can experience this alongside Morgan’s unique hand-crafted build process as bookings are now being taken for factory tours.
We are absolutely thrilled to have have won the Architect + Build category in the 2020 Creative Bath Awards.
The judges had these kind words to say about the practice:
‘These ambitious innovators have designed vital local projects and the collaboration to build K:Port places Bath at the forefront of sustainable EV charging.’
The full online ceremony can be viewed on youtube and you can witness our ‘satellite delayed’ response at around 1h33m…
Congrats to all involved and big thanks to Creative Bath for organising such an enjoyable and memorable event in these difficult times!
Hewitt Studios have recently completed a suite of improvements to the Grade II listed Beckett House in Shrivenham.
The C19 Hall and Grounds have now entered a new chapter in their history, becoming the base of the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre (AFCC) which provides training in pastoral skills, spiritual resilience and awareness of World Religions. Envisioned as an all ranks environment that promotes open conversations among those attending courses, conferences and seminars. Beckett House will provide a tranquil setting in which all can reflect and experience a degree of respite.
In order to enable this change of emphasis to take place, we adapted the existing building to provide improved amenity, with a new Chapel, World Faith Room, Ablutions Facilities, etc. as well as undertaking a raft of pragmatic upgrades inc. new lighting strategy, fire safety measures, structural enhancements and fabric repairs.