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26th Nov 2018 — Instagram

One of the doors of our award winning Goldsmith Street project. The accompanying image (swipe) is one of the Victorian front doors situated close to the site. Our design is sensitive to nearby Victorian housing, and has introduced streets and housing to an area that has until recently been dominated more by flats. This last week has been a significant milestone for the project – with the first eight units now officially handed over to our client @norwichcitycouncil . In the same week, we were also delighted to see our client pick up a Green Build Award for the project from CPRE Norfolk. .
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#socialhousing #passivhaus #norwich #housing #newhousing #housingdesignawards #passivhausdesign #passivhausbuild #instaarch #instaarchitecture #architectureuk #archigram #architecturephotography #artandarchitecture #frontdoor #victorianfrontdoor #archdaily #lowcarbon #newhousing #architecturelovers #architecturedesign #archidesign #architecturedaily

14th Nov 2018 — Instagram

Yesterday we delivered a session at the UK Passivhaus Conference in Leeds – sharing our story on the 100% #socialhousing and 100% #passivhaus project at Goldsmith Street, #norwich – alongside our client @norwichcitycouncil .
Great to be part of it and to share and hear about projects with good design, people and place at their core – as well as energy efficiency.
Image: @arqui9 .
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#housing #housingdesign #instaarch #architecturelovers #archidaily #lowcarbon #passivhaus #passivhaus #passivhausdesign #design #architectureuk #architecturevisualization #fuelpoverty #leeds #placemaking #ukphc18

9th Nov 2018 — Instagram

A view along Buckland Street from our model for the project of the same name for @hackneycouncil . Currently in development stages – this, along with our Wimbourne Street project will be a future part of the local authority’s housing supply scheme. Hackney has been singled out for delivering some of the best new #socialhousing – and for simultaneously providing part and private ownership options. Good design, investment in quality, sustainable materials and consultation with residents from project to project continue to underpin their approach. .
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#socialhousing #socialhousingproject #privatehousing #hackney #bucklandstreet #wimbourne #londonhousing #architecturemodel #architecturephotography #architectureuk #instaarch #instaarchitecture #placemaking #homes #archigram #archidaily

1st Nov 2018 — Instagram

Enjoying a look through our copy of the new edition Housing Design Handbook – by David Levitt and Jo McCafferty, with contributions from leading practitioners, including our own David Mikhail. As well as David’s chapter on privacy, our projects at Church Walk and Goldsmith Street are amongst the case studies included from all over the UK and Europe. Thrilled to be part of what is an important contribution to the conversation on housing. .
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#housing #housingdesignhandbook #housingdesign #churchwalk #hackney #goldsmithstreet #norwich #passivhaus #passivhausdesign #socialhousing #architecture #architectureuk #architecturebook #ukarchitecture #instaarch #instaarchitecture #instabook #housingexperts #developers #mikhailrichesstories #designguide #ig_architecture #archilovers #architecturecasestudy #hdh #privacy #placemaking

27th Oct 2018 — Instagram

A follow up to our previous post – this time showing the interior of our East London House project. The building had been divided into three separate flats, and so had become a warren of dark disconnected rooms and staircases. Reinstating the original plan form where possible, we re-established the heritage and elegance of this building, which dates from 1834
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#oldandnewbuildings #gradeiilisted #architecturephotography #architecturalheritage #housing #redesign #granddesigns #21stcenturyhomes #naturallight #architecturelovers #instaarch #instaarchitecture #archigram #spacialstrategy #familyhome #livingspaces #landscapedesign #construction #ribashortlisted #nlaawards #woodaward

21st Oct 2018 — Instagram

Sunday #throwback to a previous project – East London House. A Grade II listed home. The building had, through time, become three separate flats – we reconnected these into a single dwelling and 21stC family home, whilst respecting the building’s significant architectural heritage. .
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#housingdesign #housing #gradeiilisted #familyhome #redesign #refurbishment #twentyfirstcenturyhomes #granddesigns #spacialstrategy #naturallight #originaldesign #architecturalheritage #georgianhome #ribashortlisted #woodaward #nlaawards #architecture #architectureuk #architecturelovers #architecturephotography #instaarch #instaarchitecture #archigram

20th Oct 2018 — Instagram

This week saw the launch of the #housingdesignhandbook (second edition) by David Levitt and Jo McCafferty. The book includes contributions from more than twenty industry experts, including our very own David Mikhail. We have a strong focus on housing and we’re thrilled to be part of the conversation about how to provide quality housing.
Image: Church Walk, Hackney by Mikhail Riches. .
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#housing #housingdesign #architecture #ukarchitecture #instaarchitecture #instaarchitect #instabook #instabooks #instabookclub #booklaunch #architecturebook #housingexperts #churchwalk #hackney #mikhailriches #mikhailrichesstories #developers

14th Oct 2018 — Instagram

Sketches and a 1:200 model of our Wimbourne Street project for @hackneycouncil . The project, currently in development, will be a future part of the local authority’s housing supply scheme. Ours is the latest in a series of projects that aim to build much needed homes in the borough. Hackney Council has been highlighted for its work in delivering some of the best new #socialhousing and for simultaneously providing part and private ownership options. Good design, investment in sustainable, quality materials, alongside continuous consultation with residents so that learnings and needs can be applied and met from project to project have, and will continue to underpin the approach. (More in stories).
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#housingdesign #housing #hackney #hoxton #london #londonarchitecture #privatehousing #partownership #residentialarchitecture #residential #design #architecturaldrawing #architecturephotography #architecturalmodel #wimbourne #instaarch #instaarchitecture #architectureuk #archigram #archanddesign

6th Oct 2018 — Instagram

Great news to end the week on. @bxbdevelopment ‘s #croydon smaller sites programme has been #shortlisted in the #Masterplan category for the @architectsjournal awards. Well done to Brick by Brick, @yourcroydon and our colleagues on the collaboration: @commongroundarc @pitmantozerarchitects @htadesignllp @coffeyarchitects @maearchitects @vppr_architects 📷: Our Heathfield Gardens project, #croydonsmallersitesprogramme .
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#ajarchawards #visualusation #architecture #architectureuk #newhousing #housing #residentialarchitecture #infillsites #socialhousing #privatehousing #instaarch #instaarchitecture #architectureuk #archigram #artandarchitecture #artandarchitecture #housingdesign #housingdesignawards #awardwinninghousing #awardwinningarchitects #awardwinningarchitecture #mikhailrichesstories #lahousing #mikhailriches

29th Sep 2018 — Instagram

Our model of Drummond Road, Croydon. More sunlight but a different perspective. It’s one of several new housing projects in progress across the London Borough for @bxbdevelopment by Mikhail Riches and 7 other architectural practices. (See grid). The projects involve a number of disparate sites in council ownership, individually complex each requiring bespoke TLC. .
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#timbermodel #architecturalmodels #croydon #socialhousing #privatehousing #infillsites #instaarch #instaarchitecture #architecturephotography #architectureuk #archigram #artandarchitecture #artandarch #housingdesign #housingdesignawards #awardwinningarchitecture #awardwinningarchitect #mikhailriches

23rd Sep 2018 — Instagram

A plaster model of our West Hendon project. A mix of 15 new, affordable and private dual aspect townhouses, accessed from the north with large south facing private gardens. The design negotiates steep topography on the edge of the Welsh Harp reservoir. The London Borough of Barnet, in partnership with Barratt Metropolitan LLP, are delivering the regeneration of the West Hendon Estate. @alliesandmorrison are leading the master plan, with Mikhail Riches and @makowerarchitects taken on to work on areas of phase 4. .
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#urbandesign #artandarq #residentialarchitecture #residential #townhouses #westhendon #welshharpreservoir #welshharp #plastermodel #plastermodeling #architecture #architecturelovers #architecturephotography #instaarchitecture #instaarch #archigram #archidaily #regeneration #barnet #londonboroughofbarnet #boroughofbarnet #steeptopography #mikhailriches #mikhailrichesstories

21st Sep 2018 — Instagram

Our 1:250 timber model for Drummond Road, #Croydon bathing in the sunlight. The project includes two x four storey buildings comprising, 28 residential units and a ground floor commercial space in central Croydon. It’s part of the Croydon Smaller Sites Programme for @bxbdevelopment .
The overall collaboration with Brick by Brick, ourselves at Mikhail Riches and @htadesignllp @commongroundarc @maearchitects @stitch_architects , @pitmantozerarchitects , @coffeyarchitects & @vppr_architects won a housing design award earlier this year. (Swipe for group awards pic courtesy of @htadesignllp ). .
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16th Sep 2018 — Instagram

An imagined Mikhail Riches town – a drawing that brings together all our projects from last year. .
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#architectureuk #architecture #cities #mikhailriches #mikhailrichesstories #development #citymaking #archdaily #instaarchitecture #instaarch #instaarchitect #housing #placemaking #passivhaus #residential #residentialarchitecture #artandarq #urbandesign #archigram #architecturaldrawing #archilovers #illustration #design #spacereinvented

14th Sep 2018 — Instagram

Our model for part of the Television Centre (TVC) scheme in White City, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. TVC at Wood Lane is a much loved group of buildings, and at its centre is the Grade II listed Helios building, which housed the studios where much of the BBC TV output was once made. The rest of the site contained a mix of semi industrial buildings, offices, studios and satellite dishes. The developments here are a new chapter for this iconic site. Our design includes 22 new homes – including family townhouses forming two terraces, and a mews house – around a shared central landscaped village green and children’s play space. .
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#architecture #architecturemodel #timberfacade #archigram #architectureuk #bbctelevisioncentre #whitecity #gradeiilisted

9th Sep 2018 — Instagram

Brickwork from Park Hill flats. As we said in our earlier post, we loved working with what we found at Park Hill during the successful design competition. During phase 2, we’ll play to the building’s history and fabric, celebrating the existing concrete frame and brickwork. As Grenville Squires, the legendary caretaker of the flats once said: “She’s an elderly lady, who wants to wash her face and put on a new frock.”
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#architecture #architectureuk #architexture #parkhill #parkhillflats #sheffield #parkhillflatssheffield #architektur #brutalism #housingdesign #housingregeneration #regeneration #jacklynn #ivorsmith #buildings #architecturephotography #designboom #archidaily #artanddesign #architecturestudio #archilovers

7th Sep 2018 — Instagram

Phase 2 of the Park Hill regeneration will begin later this year. Our selection for the project followed a novel, unique and challenging competition by @weareurbansplash . We were loaned a flat to transform and present our proposals on why they should work with us. We spent much of our time not doing anything to the flat. Instead, we got under the skin of Park Hill – meeting the agents selling phase 1, studying plans, reading architecture critiques form the ’60s, completing drawings and making our large 1:20 scale model (see our grid). At the end of the two weeks, and inspired by the graffiti of the local ‘I Love You Bridge’ we spray painted our designs onto the flat walls, even integrating the Winnie the Pooh stickers we found on the walls of the child’s bedroom into our sketches – giving them a new lease of life. In Park Hill we loved working with what we found. .
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#urbanarchitecture #streetsinthesky #urbandesign #parkhillsheffield #parkhillflats #sheffield #architecture #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #archigram #instaarchitecture #instaarch #artandarchitecture #designboom #designcompetition #architecturedrawing #architecturedraw #iloveyoubridge

6th Sep 2018 — Instagram

This shot is of our recent trip to #parkhill flats – a #sheffield icon. Widely known to be a success initially, the flats fell into decline as steel and coal industries simultaneously closed in the area. Later saved by English Heritage – it’s now the largest listed building in Europe. We’ll begin work here later this year – continuing the regeneration which began after @weareurbansplash teamed up with @sheffieldcitycouncil to bring the flats back into use. It follows on from the highly successful, and Stirling Prize nominated, phase 1, completed by @hawkins_brown and @egretwest (Swipe 👉🏻)
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#architectureloverspics #housingdesign #architecture #architecturephotography #parkhillsheffield #listedbuilding #listedbuildings #stirlingprize #stirlingprizenominee #residential #residentialarchitecture #mikhailriches #housingdesign #brutalistarchitecture #brutalist_architecture #brutalist #artandarq #archigram #instaarch #instaarchitecture #instaarchitects #architecturegram #archigram #urbanarchitecture #urbandesign #streetsinthesky #riba

1st Sep 2018 — Instagram

Earlier this week, work began on our project in #tiverton #devon for #3riversdevelopments . We were the winners of a competition to design housing on a unique and extraordinary site next to the River Exe, which is also overlooked by a series of listed buildings. The project, which went on to win a housing design award earlier this year, is an opportunity to ‘complete’ an important piece of the town with a design that compliments the historic surroundings. (Visualisation: @forbesmassiestudio ) .
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#standrews #middevon #enelco #newhomes #housing #design #housingdesignawards #housingdesignawards2018 #designcompetition #riverexe #riversidebuilding #architecture #architectureuk #architectsuk #architecturevisualisation #homesindevon #artandarchitecture #artandarch #housingdesign #designboom #architectureloverspics #instaarchitecture #instaarchitects #architecturegram #architectureview #archigram #mikhailriches

28th Aug 2018 — Instagram

Development models of our Hermitage Road project – part of the Croydon Smaller Sites programme for @bxbdevelopment – now progressing to detail design stage. .
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#architecture #developmentmodel #architecturemodel #architectureuk #croydon #croydonsmallersitesprogramme #homesforlondon #homesforcroydon #artandarchitecture #artandarq #housingdesign #newhomes #archimodel #modelmaking #designboom #architectureloverspics #instaarchitecture #instaarchitect #instaarchitects #architekturfotografie #architecturegram #architectureview #archigram #infillsite #mikhailriches

27th Aug 2018 — Instagram

Pic of our addition to Brentford Lock West – (with Karakusevic Carsen & Duggan Morris Architects). A winner of a #riba #london award in 2017. It has been so good to see further sensitive & elegant development of the waterside come to fruition – with coverage this last week of @maearchitects ‘ completed block – as featured in @architectsjournal .
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#brentford #brentfordlockwest #loggia #residential #residentialarchitecture #ribalondon #architecture #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #mikhailriches #watersideliving #housingdesign #archstudy #londonhousing #artandarq #artandarchitecture #archigram #architecturephotos

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