Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life
Always engaged and always engaging - Olafur Eliasson’s major retrospective at Tate Modern is an immersive and provoking experience.
Always engaged and always engaging - Olafur Eliasson’s major retrospective at Tate Modern is an immersive and provoking experience.
Architectural details: the ancient oak roof structure in a Norfolk Threshing barn
A variation on the traditional Queen Post design: no struts but an additional collar at high-level and elegant tie beam braces.
This beautiful, historic oak roof structure is fully exposed and celebrated in Back to the Garden - a farm shop, deli & café, in a converted Threshing Barn in North Norfolk.
The trusses are unusual in that they have no diagonal struts, which would otherwise make this what is known as a ‘Queen Post’ arrangement. Mortice & tenon joints form the connections. Brick and lime in-fills between a brick framework of piers and ring beam at high level, and lower down the vast walls, are in-fills of brick and flint.
It’s a sumptuous fabric of historic local materials - oak, brick, lime and flint.
Cley Contemporary Art Exhibition
While at the annual Contemporary Art Exhibition at St Margaret’s Church - Cley, we were able to marvel at the vaulted stone ceiling to the late 14th Century porch.
Hosting art exhibitions in churches is a great way of exposing a larger demographic to these beautiful structures, and of providing local artists with spectacular venues for displaying their work.
The Cley Contemporary is a stimulating annual exhibition held both within the church and the grounds of St Margaret’s at Cley next the Sea, that we love to return to each summer.
Fine stone rib vaulting and window tracery within the late 14th Century South Porch
Planning and Listed Building Consent granted for an old Caretaker’s House
SJW Architects has obtained Planning and Listed Building Consent for the Change of use, redevelopment and extension of an old Caretaker’s House.
SJW Architects has obtained Planning and Listed Building Consent for the Change of use, redevelopment and extension of an old Caretaker’s House in Sheffield.
Shooting The London Family House
Last week Camilla returned to a completed London for on-site styling and shooting. This project was a full-house renovation across four floors and a new extension, and will be featured in full soon.
Last week we returned to a completed home in Hammersmith, London, for on-site styling and shooting. This project was a full-house renovation across four floors and a new extension, and will be featured in full soon.
Site Visit to The Fifties House
Practice director Susi Wellings has been on site at a central London project, where we are undertaking the refurbishment and extension of 1950s sought-after council house.
Susi has been on site at a central London project, where we are undertaking the refurbishment and extension of 1950s sought-after council house. There are more images from the project, plans and the proposed kitchen design here - http://www.sjw-architects.com/the-fifties-house
Bespoke Stained Glass Panels
SJW Architects commissioned stained glass artist Flora Jamieson to create bespoke stained glass panels for the Mathematician’s House in Hammersmith.
For the Mathematician’s House in Hammersmith, we commissioned stained glass artist Flora Jamieson to create bespoke stained glass for the front door side panel, top panel and an internal transom window. Flora’s brief was to create a contemporary geometric panel that echoed the mosaic floor tiles in the hallway. As the original tiles were in a poor condition and quite drab, soaking up light in the narrow corridor, we chose to replace them with modern reproduction mosaics but worked with the client to create a new pattern that took elements from the original tiles, making the most of her background as a mathematician.
Flora drew up with several glass designs based around the star motif from the original tiles, which we repeated in the new floor pattern. Elements in the transom panels were then simplified following feedback from the client, and the three stained glass panels were handmade and installed by Flora towards the end of the project.
These bespoke stained glass panels help to create a flow through the house, while referencing the history of this small terrace and unifying the design of the ground floor.
Flora Jamieson Stained Glass
http://www.florajamieson.co.uk/
Shortlisting for Sheffield Design Awards
Susi Wellings helped to draw up a shortlist of entries for the Sheffield Design Awards 2016. Good entries and a lively debate in the Foodhall on Eyre Street (cool place and concept).
Susi Wellings Portrait Photograph
We've added a new portrait photograph of Susi Wellings to our Bio page. This was from a recent corporate portrait photograph session with Lisa Daniels Photography. Susi returned from the session excited to have established an immediate creative rapport with Lisa and is looking forward to doing further work with her.
Permission for Extension to an Old Farm House in the Peak District
We have successfully obtained planning permission for an extension to an old farm house in Aston in the Peak District National Park.
Project updates, news and details from SJW Architects.
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