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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. 

16th Jun 2017 — News

Two competition wins for Hackney Council

We have been selected to work on housing schemes for two sites near Shoreditch Park in Hoxton, London. Buckland and Wimbourne Street will be delivered as part of Hackney Council’s ambitious Housing Supply Programme.

Double victory: latest Hackney council housing winner named – AJ Article 

8th Jun 2017 — News

Shortlisted for three NLA Awards

We have three projects up for NLA Awards this year:

Television Centre Townhouses
St Margaret the Queen Church
Croydon Smaller Sites

You can see the full shortlist here, as well as how to the vote for the ‘People’s Choice Award’

23rd May 2017 — News

RIBA Award for Brentford Lock West

Our project at Brentford Lock West received an RIBA London Award last night. The judges said:

“The completed building is economic and functional, but also thoughtful, and indeed, charming.”

Read more from the judges on the RIBA website 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 

 

 

27th Apr 2017 — News

Planning for West Hendon

Permission has been granted for Phase 4 of the West Hendon masterplan, located next to the Welsh Harp Reservoir in Barnet, North London. The client is Barratt London, and Mikhail Riches have designed 15 townhouses located on the eastern edge of the Allies and Morrison masterplan. Our scheme follows the natural topography of the site, falling from north to south towards the Welsh Harp.

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. 

13th Apr 2017 — News

Tiverton Competition Win

We’re delighted to have been selected to work with Mid Devon District Council on 40 new homes next to the River Exe in Tiverton. Our proposals are inspired by the historic pattern of development in Tiverton, and the steep topography of the site. The news was published in the AJ and can be viewed along with more images here.

10th Feb 2017 — News

Berkshire Road Planning Application

Our mixed-use scheme for Coldpark in Hackney Wick has been submitted to the LLDC for planning. The scheme comprises of 39 homes and commercial space at street level. See more on the project here.

6th Feb 2017 — News

We have moved !

Our new address is 15-29 Windsor Street, London, N1 8QG. Click here for directions.

25th Jan 2017 — News

Job Opportunities

We are currently looking for talented Part I & II assistants to join our team in London. The successful candidates should demonstrate:

3D visualisation skills
Good presentational / verbal communication skills
Excellent model making skills
BIM experience an advantage (we are using ArchiCAD on a number of projects)

Please send a CV along with examples of your work to jobs@mikhailriches.com, stating ‘Architectural Assistant’ in the subject line:

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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16th Aug 2016 — News

Job Opportunities

We are currently looking for talented Part I & II assistants to join our team on Clerkenwell Green, London. The successful candidate should demonstrate:

  • Excellent model making skills
  • 3D visualisation skills
  • Good presentational / verbal communication skills
  • BIM experience an advantage (we are using ArchiCAD on a number of projects)

Please send a CV along with examples of your work to jobs@mikhailriches.com, stating ‘Architectural Assistant’ in the subject line:

 

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

9th Jun 2016 — News

Architectural Assistant/Student with excellent model making skills

We’re looking for talented Architectural Assistants/Students to help us with model making and presentation work in preparation for an exhibition at the end of June, and for the design development on a number of residential projects. This would be a paid position, initially for 3 weeks, ideally starting on Monday 13th June. 

Please send your CV and portfolio to jobs@mikhailriches.com with ‘model making’ in the subject line.

18th May 2016 — News

East London House on WAN Interiors

Our project East London House, completed in 2012, is back in the architectural press and featuring on today’s ‘World Interiors News’ website. David Mikhail will also be on the jury for this year’s Residential Interiors awards category.

Click here for article 
And here for David’s profile

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