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Practice
Michael Hadi Associates is a practice of structural engineers that takes pride in the
design of elegant yet economic and robust structures that are appropriate to the project
brief.
Finding for each scheme the correct balance between quality, cost, sustainability,
innovation and programme is an activity that genuinely informs every aspect of our
working methods.
Our holistic approach is based on close liaison with the design team to ensure a
complete understanding of the needs of each project and to see that the structure is fully
integrated within the scheme.
The practice’s standard service extends beyond principle structural elements to include
those tertiary structures that are often neglected by others but which have a strong
influence on the appearance, functionality, buildability and cost of a scheme.
The practice employs state-of-the-art software for structural analysis. We are careful,
however, not to allow complex analyses obscure our subjective understanding of
structural behaviour and all analyses are checked with simple, often ‘rule of thumb’,
hand analyses.
Successful communication of ideas and principles is fundamental to the success of
every project. During the early stages of projects we illustrate the structural options with
lucid sketches; this allows for the rapid review of a wide range of options. Thereafter,
working drawings are produced using our CAD systems.
The success of our approach is reflected in the many prizes and awards received for
our work.
The practice works with all construction materials and in all building sectors. Project
values range from £25K to £60M.

sliding house,
suffolk
This self-build project presents a modern
reinterpretation of the vernacular longbarns of Suffolk.
This extraordinary piece of experimental
architecture features a wheeled outer
carapace that rolls on tracks over an inner
structure to provide infinitely variable
insulation, shading, light and mood for the
house.
The 16 tonne outer carapace comprises
a steel portal frame with larch cladding
and insulation and is driven by car battery
powered electric motors hidden within the
carapace. The inner enclosure is formed
with timber stud and joist cassette and
industrial-scale greenhouse construction.
A piled foundation was specified to provide
sufficient stiffness to ensure the correct
functioning of the sliding carapace. A
ground source loop provides heating and
cooling via heat exchangers.
Client: Private
Architect: dRMM
Project Value: Undisclosed
Winner: RIBA Regional Award 2009
Winner: Grand Designs Awards 2009;
Best New-build Home and Best Home of
the Year

st catharine’s college,
cambridge
This new building provides post-graduate
and fellows housing and communal
facilities on a backlands site behind
existing college buildings.
The structure comprises a reinforced
concrete plateau, part at grade and part
at first floor level, supporting a cross–
laminated timber structure.
Cross-laminated timber was selected
because of rapid erection periods,
sustainability, omission of wet trades,
inherent fire rating and factory quality selffinishes.
The
scheme
featured
structural
modifications and refurbishment of the
existing building at the abutment with the
new structure.
The project features rainwater harvesting
and solar thermal collectors.
Client: St Catharine’s College
Architect: 5th Studio
Project Value: £2.95M
Winner: RIBA Spirit of Ingenuity
Residential and Sustainability Awards
2010

wedding chapel and restaurant,
blackpool
This new pavilion on the Blackpool
seafront houses a wedding venue, bistro,
outdoor dining terraces overlooking the
sea, a tourist information centre and
auxiliary office spaces.
Complex groundworks featuring a raft
foundation and sheet piles were required
to mediate between historical and new sea
and retaining walls and to avoid surcharge
to a 3m diameter sewer beneath the
building.
A cross-laminated timber superstructure
was selected for rapid erection periods,
sustainability, absence of wet trades,
inherent fire resistance and factory
quality finish. The structure features posttensioned timber walls to deal with creep
and to permit construction of the large
cantilevered ceremony hall.
The proposals achieved a BREEAM
‘Excellent’ rating during the design stage,
with post-construction evaluation yet to be
carried out.
Client: Blackpool Council
Architect: dRMM

Top photograph by Alex de Rijke

yew tree lodge,
london
Yew Tree Lodge in Hillingdon is a sheltered housing scheme for 12 special
needs tenants in the grounds of a Grade
II listed Arts and Crafts building design by
Edward Prior.
The structure utilises a very conventional, even prosaic, palette of materials
(trussed rafter roof with terracotta tiles,
load-bearing masonry walls, pre-cast
concrete floors and reinforced concrete
ground beams supported on CFA piles)
carefully detailed to produce a building
of quality, robustness and flexibility for
future use.
Due to high levels of CO2 found during
the soil investigation, a gas membrane
was provided under the ground floor
finishes along with a suspended floor and
appropriate venting.
Client: Look Ahead Housing
Architect: Duggan Morris
Winner: Building Better Healthcare
Awards, 2009
Winner: Building for Life Standard 2009,
CABE Silver Standard
Winner: British Home Awards, 2009
Shortlisted: Housing Design Awards,
2009

kingsdale school,
dulwich
The
refurbishment
of
this
large
comprehensive school in Dulwich was
completed over a period of five years and
30 phases of work. We participated with
the design team, pupils and staff at the
school together with the local community
to develop the brief.
A key element of the project was the
colonisation of the existing courtyard to
provide circulation, an assembly area,
dining hall and auditorium beneath a
variable opacity inflated ETFE (ethyl tetra
fluoro ethylene) roof.
The 300-seat auditorium superstructure
comprises a geodesic shell of 150mm
diameter larch poles with bespoke
aluminium and steel nodes. The shell is
supported on a steel chassis with precast
concrete seating. The main school library
occupies the space beneath the seating.
Client: London Borough of Southwark
Architect: dRMM
Project Value: £24M
Winner: 2004 Wood Awards
Winner: M41 Demonstration Award
Winner: Royal Fine Art Commission
Building of the Year Awards 2006

classroom of the future,
london
This is a prototype demountable “clip-on”
technology classroom for use throughout
the London Borough of Camden.
The classroom is delivered to a school on
the back of a lorry; raises itself off the lorry;
lowers itself once the lorry has departed;
and then expands to it’s operating width.
A side door lowers to provide a stage.
It is designed to adapt and change to suit
future requirements and is robust in both
technology and form.
“A literal and metaphorical vehicle for
learning, disseminating new technology
and stimulating learning across the
borough - container for ideas- wirefree,
web and satellite connected, linking
easily to the resources of local, UK and
worldwide institutions”.
The structure comprises a hybrid steel
chassis and space frame. Hydraulic
actuators operate the moving parts.
Client: London Borough of Camden
Architect: Gollifer Langston
Winner: Camden Design Award 2002

clapham manor school,
london
This extension to a Victorian Board
school adds functionality to a successful
primary school, rated as outstanding in
the most recent Ofsted review.
The main block of the extension, wrapped
in a vibrant and continuously varying
polychromatic skin, provides additional
learning spaces and offices. The liminal
space between the main block and
original board school creates a formal
entrance and vertical circulation that
provides full DDA access to the original
and new building.
In response to the sensitivity of the site,
in a conservation area and adjacent to a
listed building, the 4-storey extension is
contained within the height of the original
3-storey Victorian building.
The structure comprises attenuated
reinforced concrete flat slabs supported
on concrete-filled circular hollow steel
columns with a reinforced concrete stair
core.
Client: London Borough of Lambeth
Architect: dRMM
Project Value: £3.0M.
Winner: Civic Trust Award 2010
Highly Commended: World Architecture
Festival Awards 2009. ‘Learning’ category
Shortlisted: Architectural Review Awards
for Emerging Architecture 2009
Shortlisted: RIBA Stirling Prize 2010

kingsdale school phase II
dulwich
The Music and Sports complex completes
the redevelopment of Kingsdale School
and is the largest example of a crosslaminated solid timber prefabricated
building for schools realised in the UK.
Cross-laminated timber was selected for
the superstructure in preference to a steel
frame based on improved on-site erection
periods, sustainability, omission of wet
trades, factory quality finishes and the
good health connotations of using timber.
The solid timber system offered structure
and internal finish in one sustainable,
economic package.
The sports hall provides the large
functional volume as required by Sports
England and the DfES with maximum
flexibility for different user-groups.
In order to provide the necessary acoustic
separation, the music building comprises
several free-standing structures; this
proved to be a more economic solution
than providing a single structure with
acoustic linings.
Music and Sport may be seen as a
demonstration project for the future
delivery of fast and ecologically sound
education buildings.
Client: London Borough of Southwark
Architect: de Rijke Marsh Morgan

sake no hana restaurant,
london
The sensitive fit-out for Sake no Hana in
the Smithson’s Grade I listed Economist
Building in St James’ provides a modern
take on Japanese kaiseki style dining in
the original banking hall and a sushi bar
at ground floor.
We have acted as structural engineers for
several projects on behalf of the Hakkasan
Group. Our involvement has ranged
from furniture items, minor structural
inerventions including builders work to
major refurbishments.
Client: Hakkasan Group Ltd
Architect: Kengo Kuma Architects with
Denton Corker Marshall
Project Value: £3M

moss bros window installation,
regent street, london

MHA worked with Delvendahl Martin
Architects to create an architectural
window installation for menswear brand
Moss Bros, as part of the RIBA Regent
Street Windows Project.

Practices were tasked with creating a
spatial installation to reflect the retailer’s
brand whilst also responding to the theme
of ‘play’.
The design distorts the perception of depth
and perspective as viewed from the street
using hundreds of cotton strings stitched
the edges of the window space to form a
series of seemingly floating voids in which
Moss Bros products are be displayed.
The material expression of the cotton
strings recalls the raw materials of
garments, the loom-based manufacturing
process of cloth, and the craftsmanship of
the Moss Bespoke service.
Client: Moss Bros
Architect: Delvendahl Martin Architects

camden workshop conversion,
london

MHA worked with Henning Stummel
Architects on the complex conversion of a
joinery workshop in Camden.
Careful sequencing of the ground works,
temporary works and steel frame was
required to maintain restraint to the historic
party walls throughout construction.
The recently-completed project
featured on Grand Designs.

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Client: Private
Designert: Henning Stummel Architects

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eaton place,
london
This scheme involved the partial
refurbishment of a large terrace house
on a garden square and the demolition
and reconstruction of the mews house to
the rear with a new basement behind a
retained façade.
The courtyard between the main and
mews houses was infilled to create a large
terrace and a 4 storey hall containing
astone and steel stair.
The rebuilt mews house features exposed
fair-faced concrete slabs and walls. The
concrete uses a recycled material to
form the aggregate, ground granulated
blast furnace slag, so as to minimise the
embodied energy of the construction and
also to provide a visually paler concrete
than a standard mix.
The building has an open loop ground
source heat pump & exposed concrete
surfaces
to
control
the
internal
environment.
Client: Private
Architect: Eric Parry Architects

smythson, bond street,
london

Smythson’s flagship, grade II listed,
Edwardian retail premises in Mayfair
featured featured unique Italianate
interiors by noted designer Raymond Erith
dating from from the early 1960s.
MHA worked with the architects to deliver a
sensitive yet contemporary refurbishment
aimed at revitalising the numerous spaces
within the existing store.
Our input included advice on stability
and reconfiguration of decorative vaulted
ceilings and partitions, load testing of
supports to a feature light installation,
potential removal of an original lift shaft,
formation of openings within the historic
floors to allow service distribution and
construction of new marble floors over the
existing structure.
MHA also designed a new curved feature
stair. However this was eventually omitted
during project streamlining.
Client: Smythson
Designert: Waldo Works

kingston university,
knights park campus
The project involves structural engineering
design for relocation of the Library and
Learning Resource Centre (LRC) to
ground floor level of a 1930s building.
Key features of the project include:
colonistation of an existing external court
beneath a glazed roof supported on the
external walls of the original building;
modifications to the internal layout of the
original building achieved by reframing
works; assessment and strengthening
of existing structures to correct inherent
defects and to allow for new air
conditioning equipment.
The building has been extended into
the external courtyard beneath a glazed
roof. The interface between the courtyard
extension and existing building has been
made “more permeable” with major and
minor openings in the original external
wall.
The roof utilises lightweight tied steel
arches with cable bottom chords bearing
onto the existing masonry piers at the
perimeter of the courtyard.
Client: Kingston University
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Architect: Pascall + Watson
Project Value: £4,400

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Highly Commended: SCONUL Library
Design Awards 2013

private house
petersham
This extension to a previously remodelled
house provides office, archive, master
bedroom,
bathroom
and
laundry
accomodation.
The two-storey extension features internal
and external fair-faced concrete finishes
and a large gable window that retracts
Tugendhat-like into a slot in the floor.
The main portion of the extension has, at
the insistence of the planners, a pitched
roof; a flat-roofed link block, clad with
translucent fiberglass panels, mediates
between the new extension and the
original house.

Client: Private
Architects: David Chipperfield Architects
Project Value: £1m

private house,
marlow
This large new build house on the
bank of the Thames is formed of two
two-story wings containing the main
accommodation, and a single story wing
containing an indoor pool and gym with a
large basement plant room.
It achieves high levels of insulation and air
tightness through the use of prefabricated
load bearing timber cassettes. These
arrived on site with the air barrier and
insulation in place simplifying erection and
ensuring high quality with few leaks. This
highly efficient system was combined with
a ground source heat pump to provide
heating and cooling as required, further
reducing energy demand of the house.
The site is within the functional flood plain
of the Thames so a micro piled, flat slab
foundation was chosen to resist uplift
due to regular flooding of the site while
minimising disturbance during construction
on the quiet rural site.
The project also involved the refit of an
existing boathouse, including enlarging
window openings and adding insulation to
the walls to create an apartment for guests
on the upper floor.
Client: Private
Architect: ORMS

grace health club, belgravia,
london
Conversion of an upper floor of a Grade
II listed 1830s shopping arcade in the
Belgravia Conservation Area. The space
accommodates an exclusive health club,
spa, gym and restaurant.
MHA designed two new mezzanine floors,
which due to headroom constraints were
detailed to very slender structural depths.
New works had to be integrated with the
historic cast iron, timber and masonry
structure as well as extensive alterations
and strengthening carried out in the early
2000s. Due to the long spans, lightweight
construction and sensitive use of the
floors, assessing and controlling footfall
induced vibration was a key consideration.
Other structural modifications included
strengthening of existing floors to enable
installation of numerous heavyweight
items of spa and gym equipment.
Due to the presence of a supermarket
below and offices above, access for the
works was only available from within
the clients immediate demise. Low level
strengthening works had to be located
within false floors. When these were
removed as part of the soft-strip, vigilant
oversight of health and safety practice
was necessary to minimise the risk of
steelwork, plant or debris falling through
plaster ceilings and injuring building users
below. The building was situated within
the Grosvenor Estate, with whom MHA
liaised to agree consent for the structural
works.
Client: Naturally Healthy Women Ltd.
Architect: Studio RHE
Project Value: £2.9 5M
Images courtesy of Tom Sullam.

highbury crescent,
london
This development on a site fronting onto
Highbury Fields in Islington consists of
a four-storey block of thirteen flats, two
three-storey blocks of six flats and ten
detached three-storey houses.
The site had remained undeveloped since
WW2, primarily due to the presence of five
railway tunnels under the site. In particular
the crown of the large brick Canonbury
Tunnel is only 7m below ground level
and is therefore highly sensitive to both
additional load and the removal of exting
loads; the tunnel is also too close to the site
boundary to allow space for conventional
piling.
The foundation system adopted for part of
the four-storey block and which unlocked
the value of the site for development
comprises hand-dug large diameter
sleeved and under-reamed piles on both
sides of the Canonbury Tunnel along with
burried steel bridging transfer trusses:
Network Rail permitted hand-dug piles
within a piling exclusion zone on the basis
that the hand digging and sleeving would
not damage the tunnel.
Other foundations comprise balanced raft
foundations that maintain the load on the
tunnels at historic levels. Deflections of the
tunnel walls were monitored throughout
construction.
The superstructures comprise load bearing
masonry walls, in-situ reinforced concrete
floors and carpentered timber roofs. The
detached houses feature a hot-rolled steel
frame with cold-formed steel joist floors
and a timber trussed rafter roof.
Client: Murphy Group
Architect: Brady Mallalieu
Project Value: £12M

private house, suffolk
A new home and summerhouse replace
the original farmhouse on the site.
The structure of the single-storey house
is of prefabricated Structural Insulated
Panels (SIPS) and engineered roof joists.
The SIP Panels and roof ply diaphragm
provide stability.
Flush ceilings, large unhindered glazed
elevations and cantilevered canopies
are created working with the inherent
properties of these products, assisted by
two steel portal frames and an upstand
glulam beam. The substucture consists
trench fill footings with a beam and block
floor.
A loft has been created above a
summerhouse to provide alternative
accommodation for the existing bat
colony. A deep storey-high plywood beam
was used in the loft to transfer the roof
load back to a triangulated truss.
The house employs ground source
heating, photovoltaics and is oriented
to take advantage of passive heating
in autumn, winter and spring. Post
occupation
monitoring
of
energy
consumption is ongoing.
Client: Private
Architect: Charles Barclay Architects

Photographs courtesy of Charles Barclay Architects

private house,
london
This extension to a Georgian house allows
the original layouts to be restored by
decanting bath, shower and utility rooms
into a separate structure to the rear of the
house, accessed via enlarged openings
through the chimney breast.
The simple carpentered timber structure
is clad in ship-lap boards. Translucent
perspex strips were incorporated into the
cladding to let in natural light during the
day and to act as a multi-storey garden
lantern at night.
Client: Private
Architect: Henning Stummel Architects
Winner: RIBA Building of the Year, London
Region, 2005

holiday extras headquarters,
folkestone
This new building provides accommodation
for Holiday Extras’ call centre on ground
and mezzanine floors beneath an arched
roof.
The roof structure comprises paired
glulaminated timber beams supporting
steel and timber secondary and tertiary
beams. The roof features 6m diameter
ETFE pillow rooflights which employ ETFE
netting to suppress noise from rain – the
first UK application of this technology.
The location and orientation of the
building were set to take advantage of
passive solar heating and the undulating
site topography.
Other key elements of the structure include
fair-faced concrete pilotis to support the
glulaminated timber beams and multistorey basements to accommodate plant.
Client: Holiday Extras
Architects: Walker and Martin
Winner: Kent Building Design Award 2003

aaya restaurant, W1,
london
This Japanese restaurant colonised the
ground and basement floor of a recently
completed mixed use development behind
a retained façade.
The structural works included modifications
to the reinforced concrete structure to
allow for a new customer stair, dumb
waiters and extensive builder’s work to
facilitate the highly serviced environment
of the restaurant, cocktail bar and sushi
bar. Our work also extended to providing
support for the rich but heavy finishes and
large built-in furniture elements.
Client: Aaya Group
Architect: David Archer and Spaced Out

channel five footbridge,
london
A footbridge and stair to link two of Channel
5’s offices in Covent Garden. A sculptural
bridge mediates between different levels
and door locations in the two buildings.
The materials used were polished
stainless steel, acid washed steel and
fritted glass for the floor and stair treads.
The polished stainless steel was selected
in order that the bridge might reflect its
surroundings, making it almost disappear.
Client: Channel Five
Architect: Buckley Gray Yeoman
Project Value: £500,000

private house, kensington
This complex refurbishment of a fivestorey Georgian house on the Phillimore
Kensington conservation estate involved
removal of large sections of external and
internal structural masonry walls.
The rear elevation was almost entirely
reconfigured and includes a new modern
glazed extension on the lower ground
floor, and brick-arched windows in keeping
with the conservation requirements on the
upper floors.
Client: Private
Architect: MUMA

south camden community school
london nw1
Several new buildings and extensions infill
gaps and mediate between the existing
buildings on the congested inner city
site of this large secondary school in the
London Borough of Camden.
The new works, the main elements of
which were built in three phases over
a period of five years, provide science,
technology and language classrooms;
a sixth form centre; a dining hall; a new
entrance and reception; and a ‘City
Learning Centre’ for use by both the
school and local community.
The new classroom structures are
generally of reinforced concrete flat slab
construction in order to “line through”
with the attenuated structural depths of
the floors of the existing buildings and
also to provide thermal mass to moderate
temperatures as part of the environmental
strategy.
The school has remained in occupation
for the duration of the works.
Client: Camden Local Education Authority
Architect: Gollifer Langston Architects

a taste of spain 2011,
various uk locations

This project comprises a series of modular
‘Pack and Go’ structures grouped together
to form colourful outdoor displays as
part of a country-wide event advertising
Spanish culture. Locations included
London, Liverpool, Leeds and Edinburgh.
The pavilions were required to be light
enough to be erected quickly by hand
while still being robust enough to resist
seasonal wind loads without fixings down
to the pavement.
Loose fit connections were made between
prefabricated cassettes to speed up
erection while avoiding the need for
intrusive bracing.
Client: Spanish Tourist Office (via Binom
Architects)
Architect: Binom Architects

kielder observatory,
northumberland
This building was the winner of an RIBA
competition held in 2005 that attracted
over 230 entries.
The site, on Black Fell in the Kielder
Forest, was chosen for its remoteness and
consequent lack of light pollution.
The building is a physical manifestation
of an absolute commitment to sustainable
construction and technologies.
Accommodation includes two rotating
telescope enclosures with manual rack
and pinion drive mechanisms, a warm
room and an observation deck.
Site conditions were challenging; delivery
of materials to the site was via a crude
un-made track; the slope of the site was
too steep for a piling rig, which ruled out
the preferred foundation solution of driven
timber piles; and there were no existing
services to the site.
The all timber structure comprises a
braced frame beneath floor level. The
super-structure incorporates stressed-skin
panels to achieve large roof overhangs
and cantilever portions of the rotating
turrets.
The building is autonomous for all
servicing needs: power is generated by a
wind turbine and photo-voltaics; there is a
wood-burning stove to provide heat; and
the toilet is composting.
Client: Kielder Partnerships /
The Forestry Commission
Architect: Charles Barclay Architects
Winner: Civic Trust Award 2009

lansdowne court,
london w11
A new penthouse has been perched atop
twinned art-deco flat blocks in the heart of
Notting Hill.
The glass mansard of the penthouse
features singly and doubly curved
double glazed units supported on laser
cut fabricated steel hockey stick profile
mullions and hydraulically operated gullwing opening windows.
Lightweight roof structures cantilever
from the centre of the plan to support the
mansard.
The halves of the penthouse are linked by
a two-storey structural glass bridge.
Client: Private
Architect: Richard Hywel Evans

old wardour house,
wiltshire
The original Old Wardour House, in the
precincts of Wardour Castle, was build
in the 14th century and has been much
altered or extended in the following
centuries.
This two-storey extension with basement
is designed to bring light into the house
and features crisp steel and glass detailing
juxtaposed against rough hewn and finely
honed stonework.
The basement was waterproofed using
Everdure Caltite concrete admixtures.
Client: Private
Architects: Eric Parry Architects
Project Value: £200k
Winner: Natural Stone Awards 2006

vitra uk,
london

This project involved the design of scissor
staircase and strengthening works to
the structural frame to incorporate large
‘Vitra’ letters, cantilever balustrades and
oversized doors.

The stair comprises a slender steel truss
concealed within the breadth of the
balustrades.
Client: Vitra UK
Architect: David Chipperfield Architects

st michael’s street,
london
This project involved the rehabilitation
and conversion of a Georgian terrace
and warehouse into a three-bedroom
apartment with a separate studio.
The existing fabric was in poor condition
as a result of years of neglect. Painstaking
repairs and augmentations allowed the
historic fabric to be retained and featured
in the complete work.
New load-bearing partitions were formed
using mechanically laminated oak and
polycarbonate staves, a legible modern
intervention.
Winner: Grand Designs Best Conversion
2009

Client: Private
Architect: Henning Stummel Architects

art gallery, prince of wales road,
london
This Grade II former Methodist Chapel
from 1867 had fallen into disrepair and
was on English Heritage’s Register of
Buildings at Risk.
The recent refurbishment to create a
gallery for modern art involved extensive
repairs to the fabric to assure the longterm future of the building together with
works to improve safety and accessibility.
MHA worked with English Heritage
to devise appropriate solutions to the
problems which were sympathetic to the
original fabric. Cintec ties were cored
into the original fabric and grouted into
position to stitch across the masonry
cracks. The gable wall was humoured
back into line with the wall rebuilt where
necessary reusing the existing bricks set
in lime mortar. The most difficult problem
to resolve was the balustrade; rather than
rebuilding the balustrade to comply with
modern day codes, a solution was devised
that worked with the existing fabric whilst
quite evidently being legible asaa modern
day intervention. Although the final solution
did not comply with modern strength
requirements, it provided significantly
greater restraint than the original.
Client: The Zabludowicz Arts Trust
Architect: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Photos. Tim Soar and James Santer/
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.

dolce & gabbana,
london

These projects involved the refurbishment
of Dolce & Gabbana’s principle London
stores on Old Bond Street and Sloane
Street.
The formation of new openings for basalt
clad ‘feature’ stairs was a key element of
the works for both stores.
The scheme at Old Bond Street also
involved the relocation of facade columns
at ground floor level; this required complex
jacking and monitoring operations.
Client: Dolce & Gabbana
Architects: David Chipperfield Architects

chrysan & hkk restaurants,
london
Hakkasan have introduced two new
restaurants under their brand: Chrysan
(Japanese) and HKK (Chinese). The
restaurants are located on the ground
floor of a building on the fridges of the City
that had originally been designed for office
use.
Challenges presented by these highly
serviced restaurants included the support
of significant amounts of air-handling
plant, their structured access, and its
acoustic treatment. In one instance the
acoustic treatment had to battle noise
equivalent to that produced by a jet
engine. Some 100 service holes, up to
600 x 300mm, also had to be diamond
cored through the existing 400mm thick
ground floor structure.
The serenity of the simple interiors
is testimony to the success of the
intervention. The interior of Chrysan is
elegant and simple and displays the
craftsmanship of Yoshiaki Nakamura,
whereas the interior of HKK has been
completely designed by Hakkasan’s
talented in-house design team.
Client: Hakkasan Group

awards / prizes
Architects Registration Board Offices, London W1
FX International Interior Design Award: Best small office

National Glass Centre, Sunderland
Millennium Product 2000

Blackpool Wedding Chapel & Restaurant
RIBA Regional Award 2013

Glass and Glazing Federation (Glassex) Building in Glass Project of
the Year 1998

Broadwater Farm Nursery

New Islington Bridge
Competition Win 2007

Cha Cha Moon, London W1
Runner Up: Best Design, Time Out Eating & Drinking Awards 2008

Princi, London W1
National Association of Shopfitters Design Partnership Award 2009

Clapham Manor School
Civic Trust Award 2010

Sake No Hana, London SW1
Time Out Eating and Drinking Awards 2008: Best Design

Classroom of the Future
Hilltop Nursery
RIBA Regional & National Awards 2007
Holiday Extras Headquarters
Kent Building Design Award 2003
Kielder Observatory
Competition Win 2005
RIBA Award 2009
Civic Trust Award 2009
Kingsdale School, London SE16
The 2004 Wood Awards: Structural Category.
Royal Fine Art Commission Building of the Year Awards 2006:
Inspiration through Architecture
M4I Demonstration Award
Short Listed: Mies van der Rohe Awards 2005
Highly Commended: World Architecture Festival 2008
Moshi Moshi Sushi, Brighton
Commended: Civic Trust Award

Shouldham Street, London W1
RIBA Regional Award 2005. RIBA London Region Building of the Year
Award 2005
Sliding House, Suffolk
Grand Designs Award 2009; Best New-build Home and Best Home of
the Year
South Camden Community School, London N1
Camden Design Award 2002.
Camden Design Award 2004
Visitors Centre, Sellafield
D & AD Annual and Silver Award 2003.
Art Directors Club of Europe Gold Award for Exhibition Design
Walkbarn Farm
Yew Tree Lodge
Young House, London W11

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