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6th Jul 2017 — News

NLA Awards 2017

We’re thrilled to have picked up two awards at this year’s NLA annual lunch.

We were commended in the ‘culture and community’ category for St Margaret the Queen in Streatham Hill for St Margaret the Queen Parochial Church Council & Broadchurch. This project includes the re-ordering of the Grade II Listed Church, a ‘Monastic House’ and new housing in the grounds of the Church.
View project here. 

We were also on the winning team for ‘unbuilt housing’ with the Croydon Smaller Sites Programme for Brick X Brick, along with HTA, Mae, Pitman Tozer, Stitch, Coffey and vPPR.
View project here. 

9th May 2017 — News

Annalie is cycling from Porto to Lisbon

Setting off on 17th May, Annalie Riches will be cycling 500km from Porto to Lisbon in 3 days. PedElle is organised by Club Peloton for women in the property industry, raising money for the children’s adoption charity Coram.

We would be very grateful if you could help Annalie support this fantastic charity by sponsoring her here:
Sponsor Annalie 

 

 

26th Apr 2017 — News

Social Housing: Definitions and Design Exemplars

 

“A new book, ‘Social Housing’ co-authored by Paul Karakusevic and Abigail Bachelor for RIBA Publishing, explores the best new public housing from across Europe at a pivotal time for the sector”

Goldsmith Street, our project for Norwich City Council features in the book and the exhibition which is now open – more information on both can be found here. 

19th Jan 2017 — News

Goldsmith Street starts on site

Our project for 105 new homes in Norwich officially started on site today, with a ground breaking ceremony to mark the occasion. The scheme is for Norwich City Council and is being built to meet Passivhaus standards. Read more on the event here and the project here.

24th Nov 2016 — News

Croydon Housing submitted for planning

Our scheme for seven flats and two houses at Hermitage Road, Croydon has been submitted for planning. The project is for Croydon’s private development company, Brick by Brick. Hermitage Road is within the first batch of projects to be submitted as part of the ‘Smaller Site Programme’, an initiative to deliver 1,000 homes for Croydon. Read more on this in today’s AJ Online news item here.

 

21st Oct 2016 — News

Designing Future Housing at MIPIM UK

Annalie presented at a Pecha Kucha event held at MIPIM UK in London this week, talking on the subject of ‘visions for the future of housing’. Annalie showed a range of projects, focussing on different forms of delivery. 

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2nd Aug 2016 — Events

Mikhail Riches: Stories Newsaper

Download a copy of our newspaper/exhibition catalogue produced for our exhibition ‘Mikhail Riches: Stories, held as part of the London Festival of Architecture, 28th-30th June 2016.

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12th Jul 2016 — News

Housing Design Award for Goldsmith Street

Goldsmith Street, a project for 105 new homes for Norwich City Council, won a Housing Design Award at a ceremony in the West End’s Kelvin Theatre last night. The scheme, which will provide Passivhaus homes predominately for social rent, was executed as Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley and is due to start on site later this year.

4th Jul 2016 — News

Mikhail Riches: Stories

Our 3-day exhibition ‘Mikhail Riches: Stories’, held last week on Clerkenwell Green, was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who came along. We’ll be uploading more images and information to our website in due course.

“Mikhail Riches’ architecture is guided by in-depth investigation of the conditions of a site and the lives of the people that will use it. Understanding ‘the story of the project’ plays an important role in the practice’s design process, and is the foundation for all of our key architectural decisions. This exhibition explores those stories, and reveals how the practice has used them to generate and communicate its ideas.”

26th Jun 2016 — News

On this week – Mikhail Riches: Stories

We’re holding an exhibition on Clerkenwell Green from 28th-30th June, in which we’ll be sharing stories about recently commissioned projects, including: the second phase of the refurbishment of Park Hill in Sheffield and townhouses within the redevelopment of Television Centre at Wood Lane.

Mikhail Riches’ architecture is guided by in-depth investigation of the conditions of a site and the lives of the people that will use it. Understanding ‘the story of the project’ plays an important role in the practice’s design process, and is the foundation for all of our key architectural decisions. This exhibition explores those stories, and reveals how the practice has used them to generate and communicate its ideas.

The exhibition is part of the London Festival of Architecture and will be open from 10:00-18:00 from 28th-30th June.

10-11 Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DP

16th May 2016 — News

Annalie & Sophie are cycling to Venice!

Setting off from Salzburg on 23rd May, Annalie Riches and Sophie King O’Neill will be cycling across the Dolomites over 3 days, finishing in Venice. The ride is organised by pedElle, for women in the property industry, and we are raising money for the children’s adoption charity Coram.

We would be very grateful if you could help us support this fantastic charity by sponsoring us here:
Sponsor Annalie & Sophie

26th Feb 2016 — News

Annalie wins ‘The Architect Pitch’

Annalie Riches presented to a full house and won by a majority vote at Archiboo’s ‘The Architect Pitch’ last night, hosted by Argent. The event offered Mikhail Riches, along with 6 other practices, the chance to present to an expert panel which included; Carolyn Larkin – founder of Caro Communications, Alex Phillips – Project Director at Grosvenor, Nick Searl – Partner of Argent LLP, Colm Lacey – Director of Development at Croydon Council and Del Hossain – MD of the Adrem Group. Read more about the event here. 

21st Jan 2016 — News

Shortlisted for Housing Architect of the Year

We are on the shortlist for BD’s prestigious Housing Architect of the Year Award 2016. The winner will be announced by Stephen Fry on 9th March!

See the shortlist here
Church Walk
Television Centre Townhouses
Brentford Lock West
Goldsmith Street

 

28th Oct 2015 — Events

New Ideas for Housing

Completed earlier this year, our project Brentford Lock West has been selected as part of the Project Showcase at the NLA’s exhibition ‘New Ideas for Housing’. The exhibition represents ‘the best new housing developments currently taking place across the capital’ – see more details here.

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17th Sep 2015 — News

Gimme Shelter

David Mikhail visited Istria last week to present Mikhail Riches’ ideas for a new shelter in the town of Draguc. The panel included the Mayor of Draguc, Emil Daus, and both the event and images of our proposal have been published widely in the Istrian press. See more on the project here and watch a news report of the event here.

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20th Aug 2015 — News

St Margaret the Queen Open Day

A great day sharing our ideas for The Community of St Margaret the Queen yesterday. Our proposals include new structures and spaces for community activities, including a cafe and prep school within the Listed church building itself, as well as private housing and monastic ‘community house’ accommodation in the church grounds.

11th Aug 2015 — News

Pursers Cross on BBC2

The House That £100K Built featured our project in Fulham, South West London, last night. See the programme on BBC iPlayer until 10th September. 

30th Jul 2015 — News

Clay Field on Grand Designs

David Mikhail showed Kevin McCloud around Clay Field on Grand Designs Living in the Country – see it at the end of the programme on 4oD until 28th August.

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