Source: Henley Halebrown Photography: Henley Halebrown Akerman is as much about the street and the city as it is about a building. ‘Those who fear for the future of the NHS will be proud that the Akerman gave its architects a chance to prove that one of the great institutions of the post-Victorian age could create a civic monument at least as imposing as any of its predecessors’ Timothy Brittain-Catlin, 2013 The gabl
Source: Henley Halebrown Photography: David Grandorge The scheme, like Russian dolls, incorporates an examination hall within an assembly hall, along with a new Chapel, a Music School, Modern Languages department, visitor and pupil entrances. ‘It is a very clear demonstration of how design is, most of all, a matter of thinking. That concentration on the plan gave the architect a focus for ingenious conceptual organis
Source: Henley Halebrown Photography: Nick Kane, Jim Stephenson & Peter Landers Kings Crescent Estate represents an alternative model to large-scale estate regeneration, demolition and rebuild. It responds to an ambitious brief from Hackney Council; to create a high-quality, tenure blind housing scheme, integrating rejuvenated existing social housing and new buildings within a transformative public realm, informe
Source: architects Henley/ archdaily Photography: architects Henley/ archdaily London’s first co-housing scheme consists of six homes. The architecture supports an “intentional” community and, with it’s shared facilities, heralds radical changes in the urban home. It shows how architecture can respond to a new social need that has arisen through changes in both lifestyles and economics, making home ownership
Source: Henley Halebrown The brief from the university sought 210 ensuite student bedrooms. These are accommodated in three separate buildings, the work informed by both the Georgian and Modernist traditions. Each residence employs a distinct plan type; two are domestic villas, the third takes the form of a pinwheel plan. Two are paired around an existing sunken garden. The West Residence (pinwheel plan) is set at th