A five storey private residential development providing 4 flats and penthouse apartment in Sandbanks, Poole.
The apartments all finished to a high level of specification, benefit from terraces with sea views, large slimline sliding doors, basement car parking and a passenger lift.
Status: Due for completion spring 2020
Client: Avante Developments
This new build four storey plus basement building occupies a corner site with a presence on two streets and views across Hackney Downs, providing 9 flats and a split level B1 Unit.
The development potential was maximised for this complex site, which had a long history of unsuccessful applications for smaller less efficient schemes. The floor plates are staggered, so that each elevation accords with its respective street scene, and are accessed off both landings of a carefully placed staircase, providing an extremely efficient plan. A central courtyard affords plenty of light and dual aspect to all of the flats.
A mixed grey stock brick with some colour variance is paired with dark railings and windows to enliven the elevations, while complimenting the Victorian stocks of the neighbouring buildings.
Status: Completed 2016
Client: Northill Properties
Cost: £1.8M
Planning permission was granted for 9 flats and a small flexible commercial unit on this sensitive corner site in the Clapton Pond conservation area in Hackney.
The scheme responds to the challenging geometry of the restricted corner site, while respecting the neighbouring listed buildings through its materiality and composition.
Status: Completed 2017
Client: Northill Properties
Cost: £1.6M
A glazed roof extension for FourMarketing, a fashion agency in Clerkenwell, creates additional space for displaying collections and holding events. Steel portal frames support a green roof on glu-lam joists with frameless glazing providing a crisp, clean enclosure to the top floor. An external terrace of galvanised elefant grate surrounds the enclosure, with two silver birch trees in sunken planters giving shading to one end.
Status: Completed 2014
Client: FourMarketing
Cost: £350K
Through careful planning around two sunken courtyards, this new 2 storey private house with full basement provides 4 bedrooms and a generous split level open plan living space across the ground floor.
The top glazed entrance space doubles up as a study with a cantilevered bay window seat overlooking the rear garden and courtyard.
Status: Due for completion spring 2020
This refurbishment and extension of a veterinary surgery in Lewisham provides an additional 200sqm of surgery space over two additional floors and means that the practice will now qualify for RCVS hospital status. The new extension was constructed from cross laminated timber, allowing the surgery to remain operational during construction.
The new CLT addition sits on top of the existing 1960's brick structure and is clad in anthracite zinc. A glazed conservatory and garage, benefiting from the shared boundary wall, were completed for the neighbour at the same time.
Status: Completed 2016
Client: John Hankinson Veterinary Surgery
Cost: £750K
A five bedroom beach front private house situated on Sandbanks overlooking Poole harbour.
The house will be finished to a high level of specification, enjoy large open plan living spaces over two floors, a cinema room, a double garage, a lift, an infinity pool and its own boat house.
Status: Due for complete spring 2018
Client: Avante Developments
Salt White Architects developed David James Architects consented design of these two high quality five bedroom private houses in Sandbanks, Poole; and are providing technical design and support through the construction phase.
The houses will enjoy spectacular views across Parkstone Bay towards Brownsea Island, with generous open plan living spaces opening onto terraces front and rear. They will be finished to a high specification.
Status: Due for completion summer 2020
Client: Avante Developments
Located within the Holly Lodge conservation area in Hampstead, this white rendered 1920’s semi has been completely striped back and renovated, with additional accommodation provided through the conservation of the roof space and the addition of a ground floor rear extension.
On the ground floor, the rear of the house has been opened up to it’s full width and extended towards a fully glazed elevation that folds up into the roof of the extension, allowing light to penetrate deep into the plan, enhancing the connection and views into the garden.
A striking bespoke kitchen with coloured doors and a folded polished concrete worktop provides a visual and social centre to the open plan ground floor space. Two new dormer windows and a timber stair provide space for a new bedroom and en-suite within the roof space.
Status: Completed 2011
Client: Private
Cost: £250K
Planning permission has been granted for a part four, part two storey building with basement providing 9 flats on this prominent corner site on Lower Clapton Road, Hackney.
The proposals step down and are set back to address the quieter and smaller scale of the terraces along Goulton Road.
Elevations are punctuated by distinctive cut outs for the main entrance and inset balconies, and are further enlivened by the variance in tone and colour of the red stock brick. A full basement with courtyards front and back allow light and aspect to the flats.
Status: Planning Permission Granted 2016
Client: Northill Properties
A simple fit out to a shell and core unit for an artist's studio.
The space is divided into three distinct areas by a thick wall housing a small kitchenette, shower room and storage. The floor is a polished screed with underfloor heating.
Status: Completed 2016
Client: Private
Cost: Not a lot
A new three storey building plus basement, providing three new flats and a small shop, completes a Victorian terrace in Hackney – infilling a site that has remained empty since it was bombed during the war.
Status: Completed 2014
Client: Northill Properties
Cost: £375K
The extensive remodelling of this 60’s bungalow, a few doors down from Melstock (finished 2007), adds large vaulted living areas using Glu-Lam beams and creates a fully accessible internal and external environment. The south facing roof pitches accommodate solar panels.
Status: Completed 2013
Client: Private
Cost: £380K
This locally listed Victorian terrace, situated in a conservation area in Hackney, was converted from a collection of run down bedsits into two generous, well organised maisonettes. The resulting accommodation is light and spacious, with internal rooms that respect the proportions and arrangement of the original property.
The principle 4 bedroom maisonette that occupies the two lower floors was excavated to provide additional head height to the previously restricted lower ground floor and extended over two storeys to the rear.
The two storey extension is clad in London Stock bricks to match the existing building and punctuated with full height and width openings on both floors, which break down the mass, flood the spaces behind with light and make an immediate connection to the garden and adjacent sunken courtyard.
Status: Completed 2013
Client: Private
Cost: £250K
Submission for the Arts Fund Pavilion competition to provide a flexible and temporary external exhibition space for the Lightbox Gallery in Woking.
Conceived as a large canvas stretcher lifted from the ground on 8 display ‘legs’, the pavilion stands in front of the gallery offering a loose space for display, presentation and gathering that has an immediate connection with both the surrounding landscape and the gallery itself. The stretcher is constructed as a ‘reciprocal’ frame from prefabricated plywood beams.
The comprehensive overhaul of this Edwardian end of terrace family home includes an extensive new basement complete with cinema, play room and gym, and a master suite in the adapted roof space.
Status: Completed 2012
Client: Private
Cost: £400K
The temporary office space for Bankside Open Spaces Trust was opened by MP Simon Hughes in 2011. The timber structure was assembled by Solid Art on a vacant parking lot in Bankside. The BOST office space includes work space for six, a little green house and a store. The space is insulated with sheep’s wool and heated by a wood burning stove.
Status: Completed 2011
Client: Bankside Open Spaces Trust
Rivergardens is a 4.5 hectare commercial and residential development situated on the northern fringes of Arusha in Tanzinia. It sits by the main road to Kilimanjaro airport and is lined with trees and vegetation, which have been preserved in the proposals as a wildlife corridor.
White Adamski, in collaboration with local architects Dust, have developed a masterplan for the whole site comprising 2,500m2 of commercial space and 27 residential plots, and provided the detailed design of the 1 hectare commercial site immediately adjacent to the road. The office and retail buildings on the commercial site are arranged around 2 courtyards, retail to the west and a less formal food quarter to the east. Tenants will include, amongst others: a supermarket, a bank, a health centre, local restaurants and a cafe.
The landscaping steps down and buildings reduce in scale across the site, allowing the smaller, more traditional typology of the food quarter to sit comfortably beside the wildlife corridor. The pitched roofs of the northern block provide a visual draw from the road and allow views out to the mountains beyond.
The addition of a generous wrap around extension and some key internal alterations have transformed what was once a dark Victorian semi in Hampshire into a bright, well connected, spacious family home.
By flipping the staircase and moving the entrance hall to the centre of the plan a greater connectivity between the original house and the new extension is established, with the new open plan spaces creating a light and sociable focus to the home.
The new extension comprises a pitched side element on the site of an old garage, its hipped front echoing the roof of the main house; and a lower flat roofed rear element, which unites the extension with the floor heights of the house. A through coloured render and pre-finished weather board have been chosen to reduce future maintenance.
The back of this 1970’s 3 storey terrace in Bow overlooks the Hertford Union Canal and Victoria Park beyond.
This modest scheme opens up and reorganises the ground floor, adding a new oak and glass conservatory to create a living space that embraces the views of the canal. A compact kitchen and dining space occupy the conservatory with a large sliding door, and fixed panes either side, framing views out. The opaque roof glazing and oak rafters diffuse sunlight from above , providing a gentle, even top light to the space. The conservatory can be shut off, with oak panels that fold out from a purpose built cupboard to one side of the opening, providing privacy and a sense of enclosure to the living space behind.
Staus: Completed 2009
Client: Private
Cost: £55K
White Adamski were commissioned as a collaboration with Hawkins Brown to develop the Master Plan for this 5- hectare riverside site in East London. We explored the site’s potential for mixed use development, providing proposals and scheduled information for presentation to the GLA.
Central to the development of the plan is a sense of permeability, which is achieved through active civic spaces that set up positive connections with the riverside. All the dwellings are given easy access to public and private amenity, and the shopping streets are animated and wide.
The Plan provides approximately 600 dwellings over 40,000m2 at a density of 350 habitable rooms per hectare, 7,500m2 of retail space and 12,000m2 of office space. 45% of the site is given over to Public Space.
White Adamski were commissioned to design a new shop-front and the interior fit-out for this established Korean restaurant in the heart of London's Soho. The shop-front is framed by black anodised aluminium panelling without signage, which sits comfortably beneath the shadow line of existing stonework and references the dark mullions of the windows above. Simple internal modifications, such as enclosing the existing staircase with steel rods and panelling the one divergent wall with timber, were employed as a response to the budgetary and on-site time constraints of the project, while the material palette of stone, steel and wood reference the natural elements key to eastern philosophy and define the muted tones and calm atmosphere of the restaurant.
Status: Completed 2008
Client: Ran Restaurant
Cost: £250K
This quick fit out of an extremely narrow shop unit on the corner of Mare Street in Hackney was designed and built over a period of 10 weeks. The simple concept was to maximize the marketing potential of the long glazed shop front by hiding prosaic necessities, such as the wc, kitchenette, storage and servers behind a continuous red panelled display wall.
Stirling Ackroyd red with oak desks, floors and cills were selected as a clean, clear palette. A mural is to be commissioned from a local artist to fill the long back wall behind the desks.
Status: Completed 2009
Client: Stirling Ackroyd
Fowl Green Farm is situated in Commondale on the North Yorkshire Moors. This diversification project replaces an existing Hay Shed with a new vernacular farm building that provides modern flexible training spaces for disabled user groups and an opportunity to learn about organic farming and traditional rural skills, such as dry stonewalling.
The new building sits alongside, and is connected to a larger Cow Shed allowing access to viewing pens for demonstrations and workshops. The form and appearance of the new building has been kept simple in response to the agricultural buildings of its immediate context. Openings are large and purposeful with entrances recessed into the gable ends in reference to the functional gables of the existing Cow Shed.
Internally, the building is planned around structural bays. The entrance bay is kept double height so that the building becomes immediately legible on arrival, with a heightened sense of space and daylight. Above, the larger of two additional training rooms can be seen occupying an open gallery that spans the depth of the second bay.
Our client purchased a 1960’s bungalow as a means of acquiring a property in the perfect location close to family and friends. Although the location was right, the bungalow was dark, too small and made no connection with its generous rear garden. Thorough investigations led us to manipulate the roof form, extend to the rear and completely reconfigure the interior to produce a spacious, well-lit home that now has an integral relationship with the garden.
The larch clad angular forms of the lifted roof are revealed as you turn the corner into the close, giving the house an assured presence and identity. Once inside, the roof form is immediately evident in the first of a succession of surprising interconnected interior volumes. Upstairs, the lifted roof provides bedrooms and bathrooms, and throughout, large windows, skylights and a continuous clerestory flood the interior with light.
Status: Completed 2007
Client: Private
Cost: £300K
This new studio extension and garage has been added to a 1960’s house in Kent, which had been designed built by our client’s husband. The house is located in an area of outstanding natural beauty and overlooks a picturesque tree lined pond, so it was essential that the new buildings sat comfortably within their landscape.
The studio is an elegant timber framed structure, clad in stained boards that is strategically glazed to provide separation from the main house. Inside, views of the pond fill the full height glazing that wraps around the rear elevation enlivening the interior space, and a large sliding door provides access onto an extended terrace contained by a wall of reclaimed Kent ragstone.
Both the Studio and the Garage were completed by a local contractor for £80K.
The owners of this Grade II listed Victorian Terrace asked us to extend and alter their family home with a view to making new connections between, and better organisation of, the existing living spaces, whilst preserving the building’s inherent character.
Central to the alterations is the insertion of a new glazed extension. Conceived as both a transitional and pausing space, it links the sociable ground floor rooms and establishes a new physical and visual connection with the park to the rear. Light is brought deep into the house, and the adjacent London Plane is framed through its timber structure. A large timber louver, mounted flush with the wall, can be locked in place when the door is open providing secure ventilation through the summer months.
Status: Completed 2007
Client: Private
Cost: £200K
This mixed use proposal for a Hackney based development team fronted by the Urban Edge Group retains the concrete frame of the existing library on Dalston Lane and introduces a new building behind with stepped courtyards over 2 levels sandwiched between.
The courtyards allow light into the heart of the development and ensure a secure environment for the occupants. The development proposes restaurant and retail on the ground, with creative industries on the first, and residential units on the second and third floors. The scheme takes advantage of the heavy concrete construction of the existing library by building lightweight floors above using a sustainable cross laminated timber panel system and avoiding new foundations.
The proposals preserve the existing trees and current set back from Dalston Lane with the public space in front of the building redefined through the provision of street furniture and resurfacing. This ‘pocket’ in the building line will articulate the street scene and provide an active inhabitable area in front of the ground floor units. The new floors above will be punctuated with large apertures spanning 2 floors referencing the existing structure below.