Us: Ethos-The twentieth century was about getting around.

The twenty-first century will be about staying

in place worth staying in James Kunstler An important principle in sustainable development lies in harnessing best practice from international and national experience and combining it with the understanding of the local. The first is possible through mobility and technology but the latter can only be secured through staying in a place and contributing to making it worth staying in. These are the principles that guide our practice.

Book-How to be a Happy Architect considers the role of the architect within the
profession through a series of illuminating essays, written by one of the practice's directors, and CABE commissioner, Irena Bauman. Subjects explored include: the power struggle between art and architecture; gender bias in the world of architecture; ways of working as a team and in partnership with clients; and the significance of awards and prizes in contemporary architecture. The writing within each chapter constitutes a chain of thought that is sparked off by a provocation from sources as diverse as Ayn Rand, Socrates and press coverage of contemporary buildings like the Scottish Parliament. Stimulating, erudite and highly entertaining, the book incorporates a section illustrating the projects that are outlined in the essays, including Barnsley Media Centre, Bradford Bus Shelters and Bridlington Promenade, giving an overview of the breadth and variety of the work that Bauman Lyons undertakes. Set in stone-The Digital Media Centre, Barnsley appeared in this 2009 book on the use of stone in contemporary buildings throughout Europe.

New Architecture in Britain- Published: November 2003

This book engagingly describes and illustrates over 100 outstanding projects, both large and small, from around Britain none completed earlier than 2001, and some still under construction or planned. Architects increasingly operate on a global scene, and just as numerous British architects have proved highly successful at winning projects abroad, so architects from Europe, the United States and the Far East are making their mark in Britain.

One thinks, for example, of Daniel Libeskinds Imperial War Museum and Tadao Andos new square and pavilion project, both in Manchester, or of Frank Gehrys Cancer Care Centre in Dundee. Well-known British practices such as Future Systems, Alsop Architects and Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners also inevitably feature prominently in the exciting international story of the countrys recent architectural renaissance, but so too do newer, smaller practices, including many based outside the capital, for example Ian Simpson Architects in Manchester, Glenn Howells Architects in Birmingham or Bauman Lyons Architects in Leeds.

The Good Place Guide- Urban Design in Britain and Ireland Published: September 2002
The Good Place Guide describes more than 120 places throughout Great Britain and Ireland that people are likely to enjoy using or visiting. It is not intended to cover traditional and historic places that have remained virtually unchanged but concentrates on those places that have been created or significantly changed over the last 50 years and are good examples of the design of places as distinct from the individual building. Based on work produced by members of the Urban Design Group, the guide only covers part of urban design which can be defined as the 'art of making places for people', but it demonstrates some of the key components of creating successful places through elements such as the mixture of uses, space for pedestrians and designing in context. It is eye-opening both for people professionally concerned with the design of urban spaces and for those who use them.

PROMENADE-A book on the collaborative Bridlington project Published: August 2001

(The following extract is from the publishers website www.cornerhouse.org) Promenade documents the successful architect-artist collaboration of Irena Bauman and Bruce McLean on the RIBA award-winning scheme for the regeneration of Bridlingtons South Seafront. Described as a completely new take on the English Seaside, their work - and the nature of their collaboration at levels of concept, design, and realisation - is truly exemplary of new architectural possibilities. In Promenade Mel Goodings narration of the genesis and realisation of the project

is complemented by essays on the culture of the seaside, seaside architecture and on art at the edge between land and sea. The book is structured as a walk along the promenade, reaching out from the urban order of the town to the wilder shores to the south. It follows the text-based pavement sculpture of The Nautical Mile which interacts with and reflects on the new promenade. Mel Gooding

Celebrating Innovation- A CABE publication

Published: October 2001 Bridlington Promenade is profiled in this publication by CABE on innovation and integration in design and construction.
Young British Architects- Published: May 2000
Bauman Lyons are included in this monograph which features fourteen young architectural practices together with their most admired buildings and projects. Each office is portrayed in detail, documenting several projects and including biographical information, providing the compelling overview of the young architectural scene in Britain which has previously been lacking.

Projects

Edge of Viability
Small projects for clients who want something very special but have a restricted budget to fulfil their aspirations are commercially difficult but creatively very rewarding. These projects are most likely to provide training opportunities in all matters architectural but also the skill of diplomacy for students and young architects. They are also a great experience of what can happen when the right client is matched with the right architect.

North Parade
Leeds The client lives in a five bedroom Edwardian home in the northern suburbs of Leeds. The house lacked a sense of connection to the garden, the sunniest section of which was occupied by an old garage. The brief was to

relocate the garage to the north-facing driveway and create a new space that formed an enclosure but became an extension of the garden. Care was taken in detailing and use of materials to ensure that the transition from the traditional street aspect to the contemporary rear aspect was sensitive and appropriate.

Marshalls Mill Reception

Holbeck, Leeds Marshalls Mill reception forms part of a 6,500 m2 Grade 2* listed mill built in 1815. It was acquired by Igloo Regeneration in 2003 for a mixed-use redevelopment that would positively contribute to Holbeck Urban Village. Bauman Lyons were approached to improve the character and the functionality of the existing ground floor reception area. The scheme is aesthetically and spatially contrasting to the existing while being sympathetic to the original character of the mill.

Arts Council Reception

Dewsbury The existing reception area in this grade II listed building was dark, uninviting and had a poor relationship to the street. By redesigning the fire exit from the building, the old solid lobby that acted as a barrier to the openness of the space could be removed and be replaced by a small glass inner lobby. The ground floor was then seperated into 4 quarters- reception, waiting, meeting and circulation whcih resolved some of the conflicts in movement across the space.

Church Lane
Leeds The clients wanted a new extension that was beautifully designed and crafted. These requirements evolved through discussiona room to eat and entertain in to create an intimate and private space, which mediates between the house and the garden. This was achieved through using a combination of the existing loadbearing structure (from the demolition of a previous extension), building new rendered block work walls, adding the timber monolith warm roof and timber sliding doors.

Spandler House
Leeds Rather than move, the client wanted to extend their 1940s semi-detached to include a family room and graphic design office. The new extension orientates the double-height family room to views to the south and large glazed openings make connections with the garden. Daylight washes down the existing external wall that is now enveloped into the house through a continuous roof light. A balcony overlooks the double-height space from the studio at first floor. The materials are predominantly glass, render and plywood, all simply detailed.

Southern House
Huddersfield We knew that we wanted to create a light, modern and beautiful space for cooking and socialising without disturbing the traditional building that has been in the family since it was built. What we didnt expect was that opening the corner of the house to the sun and the garden would change the way that we live in such a dramatic way. The surroundings make eating healthily and exercising into enjoyable activities. Now were convinced that, like Pal for dogs, itll prolong our active lives. Stuart Nolan and Jen Southern July 2006

Edge of New Economies:

Digital Media Centre
Barnsley This project is one of the first major developments in Barnsleys Regeneration. The building is a symbol of the future heralding a new era in the Citys life. The building form is broken into three elements linked with one atrium. This creates visual permeability through the building, providing clear orientation and connection of the inside and outside and generates excellent communal spaces where the informal meetings which make media centres thrive can take place. BDMC Website

The Terrace Cultural Quarter

Lincoln The Terrace offers a number of managed office, studio and/or workshop units, on reasonable and flexible terms to small businesses and individuals in the creative industries sector. The character of the Flaxengate area and the long alley ways plots running along the contours of the hill generated our proposal to split the large facility into three separate buildings linked at high level. We have aimed in the design to continue the Medieval tradition of high proximity, high density, permeability and the possibility of being surprised. The shallow depth of the buildings allows good daylight penetration and natural ventilation. The Terrace Cultural Quarter Website

The Media Centre

Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a large mill town with a Victorian industrial past. It is conveniently situated between Leeds and Manchester and is surrounded by beautiful countryside. It was recognised that there was a growing demand for workspace from small media and creative companies in the area. The derelict building was repaired and given a new identity through the insertion of a new entrance and stairwell element to form 30 additional workspaces as the second phase of the development.

The Media Centre Website

Host Media Centre

Leeds At Host, Leeds first media centre in the often-maligned area of Chapeltown, a disused 1920s building last used as a club for the trade union movement and originally as a centre for the Jewish community, has been transformed into a facility for local musicians and start up media companies. The project was driven at grass roots level by the communitys desire to help nurture the wealth of local musicians and media companies.

Church View
Doncaster The old technical college, disused since 2006, is to be converted into a new creative industries quarter. The ad hoc modern buildings in the centre of the building are removed to form a new courtyard. Whilst the exterior of the building, being in a conservation area, is restored with new windows that follow the original glazing patterns, the interior of the courtyard is treated in a much more contemporary way in order to increase the sense of light and space and to signal the new function of the building.

Patrick Studios
Burmatofts, Leeds Patrick Studios is the outcome of two artists inspirationally toiling for years in a city that had little interest in the visual arts to finally secure studio space and support facilities for the citys artists. Without any previous experience of capital fundraising, capital projects or project management, they succeeded in overcoming every possible hurdle to deliver the studios over a three-year period. East Street Arts Website

People at the Edge:

Sure Start Nursery
Little London, Leeds

A modest project in the heart of Little London, one of the most deprived neighbourhoods in the centre of Leeds. The building, designed to reflect the traditional way children draw houses, provides a pre-school nursery for up to 60 children with crche facilities and community support services.

Hebden Bridge Town Hall

Hebden Bridge The Hebden Bridge Community Association have embarked on a project to develop the town hall, handed from council to community ownership in spring 2010. The aim of the development is to retain and enhance the Town Halls role within the town, providing a hub for local community services and information, a centre for democracy and local decision making, a facility that can host community and private functions and a creative centre that supports local enterprise.

Arclight
York Arc Light is a charity that provides accommodation and support to homeless men and women in York. This new facility has 35 bedrooms, meeting and counselling spaces as well as education, health, fitness and community facilities. This welcoming and inspirational space offers clients not only a place to stay but also the chance to make positive changes in their lives. Arc Light Website

Emmaus
Burmatofts, Leeds Emmaus Communities offer homeless people a home, work and the chance to rebuild their lives in a supportive environment. There are currently 14 Communities around the UK and several more in development. They rely on donations of furniture and household goods from the public. The companions, who reside on the top floor, repair the goods on the lower floor workshops and sell them in the Emmaus shop on the ground floor.

Swain School
Bradford This project comprises two new timber clad, SIP framed, contemporary extensions to the existing school buildings, along with various internal modifications to upgrade and improve the school. The general layout is

designed to make the building legible, simple to use and navigate, and defines clear zones of staff, pupil teaching areas, and shared/common areas. This is important for achieving easily managed and appropriate environments for all building users. The project takes the opportunity to create inspirational and educational design, and the use of natural, sustainable materials, has been embraced. The building makes a valuable contribution to the built environment through its distinctiveness, its contemporary detailing, sensitive use of materials, and sustainable design features, enhancing the educational potential of the built environment.

Connecting the Edges:

Manchester Road Bus Stops
Bradford The project was won in a design competition. BLA worked in collaboration with Sound Artists Greyworld and Performance Artists Forced Entertainment to provide 6 landmark bus shelters on a new guided bus route on Manchester Road, Bradford. The design of the shelters aims to address issues of comfort, stimulation and meaning. Shelters are designed to stand out in the landscape. Windchargers provide energy to heat seats. Acoustic panels contain an artist's colour recognition installation.

Holbeck Viaduct
Holbeck, Leeds The disused viaduct runs across a number of neighbourhoods to the south of the city centre, crosses the Leeds to Liverpool canal and connects to the train station at its northern end. The Viaduct is currently a barrier between these neighbourhoods. The masterplan to regenerate an old industrial area into Holbeck Urban Village identified its potential to create a connector. In collaboration with Estell Warren Landscape Architects we proposed an elevated linear park. (IMAGES BY ESTELL WARREN)

Crowle Market Place

Crowle The Market Place conforms to all definitions of a perfect public space in terms of its location in the town, size, proportion and enclosure. However the space was dominated by traffic and cluttered with uncoordinated fixtures. We approached the project in two main ways. While considering how it should be re-imagined both materially and aesthetically we also considered how adjustments to the square could allow for different uses and events, how these could be programmed and the priorities with the square amended temporarily to affect

these opportunities. Mnay of the significant changes involved works to the highway and traffic flow and decluttering the space of the plethora of signage, lighting and street furniture which had built up over the years.

Leeds Station South Link

Leeds Bauman Lyons Architects and AECOM were commissioned by Network Rail to develop proposals for a new south access to Leeds Station. The only viable location was to site the access point over the River Aire and there were a number of severe constraints. The form that developed is a respond to the need to minimise the enclosure and affect on the light levels and amenity of the residential properties on either bank of the river and produce an elegant, eye-catching entrance point respecting and celebrating its unique location.

Neville Street
Leeds Some of the most important connections are created as an apology to the construction of a new disconnection: railway underpasses and highway pedestrian bridges are common examples.The Neville Street underpass located under the main Leeds train station platforms also happens to be the main gateway into the city centre from the south. 21,000 pedestrians cross this space every day, crushed alongside four lanes of traffic and bus stops. On the west side we have worked with graphic designer Andy Edwards and APW Perforators on a moir effect installation and on the east side with artist Hans Peter Kuhn and LED supplier Solar on a light installation.

Edge of Nature:
Bridlington Promenade
Bridlington As a team high in ideas but close to commercial demise was the state in which we received a career changing phone call from a client wishing to commission a feasibility study of the refurbishment of Bridlington South Foreshore. The invitation came on the back of the collaborative work we have done with artists on two small

projects on which we paid for the artist fees ourselves because we felt that this would benefit the project and the client.

Bridlington Spa Environs

Bridlington Bauman Lyons Architects and Estell Warren Landscape Architecture designed a public realm scheme as part of a long term strategy to improve and reinvent the seaside experience for the residents of, and visitors to Bridlington. The proposals complement and provide a suitable setting for new and expanded cultural activities programmed for the Spa, a major events venue. The scheme also introduces fully inclusive access to the Bridlington Promenade.

Bridlington Harbour
Bridlington Bridlington had refurbished the North and South Promenades. The harbour, which is situated between the two promenades and is one of the most visited sections of the sea front, was the missing link. Refurbishment works consisted of new viewing terraces connected by a sequence of steps and ramps, new lighting and street furniture, retaining walls and paving.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Bretton, Wakefield Yorkshire Sculpture Park was established in 1977 at Bretton, near Wakefield. Longside, on the edge of the park, are three renovated agricultural barns forming a gallery and units for creative industry. The only retained element of the barns was the portal frames. On a summers day during construction these resembled whale skeletons. The new designs considered the huge scale of the barns and the landscape. Each new element of the building was scaled up in response. Enormous windows, large doors and elongated ironmongery.

The New Edges:

Tower Works
Holbeck, Leeds The site is steeped in industrial history and distinguished by three chimneys, built as Italianesque towers by ambitious nineteenth century industrialists. The towers are visible by train-passengers approaching Leeds from the south. The competition ran by the Regional Development Agency Yorkshire Forward, called for a

commercially viable exemplar of sustainable mixed-use urban development that tackles the issues of Climate Change and provides a learning log for others.

Carlsberg/ Tetley Development Framework and Masterplan

Leeds In 2007, following competitive interview, we were asked to develop a development framework and masterplan for a 250,000sqm exemplar sustainable mixed use development on a 9 hectare industrial site within an historic context close to a city centre. We worked on this scheme with ARUP and Latz + Partner. The process involved a number of facilitated workshops held with the client and design team and with the city planners to produce a Development Brief : a clear and agreed vision for the development which fulfilled the citys aspirations as well as the clients desire that the company leave a lasting legacy to the city. We produced a substantial and detailed development brief which is to be the core document in wider stakeholder consultation.

Carlsberg Masterplan
Copenhagen, Denmark Carlsberg pre-invited Bauman Lyons to take part in an international open ideas competition for the development of the Carlsberg site in Copenhagen. The entrants had to present the most convincing vision for a totally new neighbourhood of 2500 dwellings ,employment for 16,000 people and illustrate how it can be delivered and how life could be lived there in the future. Bauman Lyons lead an international team of consultants including Witraz Architects, Copenhagen, and Peter Latz+Partner, Munich.
Latz + Partner Website

Edge of What we Know:

Marsden & Slaithwaite DIY manual

Our role is to facilitate the delivery of the village centre improvements through undertaking a study of the two village centres to examine ways to enhance the public realm through addressing a range of transport, movement, townscape and landscape issues. The team prepared a DIY manual for each town identifying a shopping list of projects and empowering the local community to deliver grass roots improvements rather than the more usual imposed regeneration.

The Rim Study

Leeds Rapidly developing technologies and increasingly privatized systems of infrastructure provision: telecommunications, highways, urban streets, energy and water are jointly creating physical and social disconnections within all major cities. This study offers an opportunity to think through major issues facing Leeds in the immediate future, and to contribute to international debate on the role of infrastructure in the social, physical and economic growth of a modern city.

Distinctive Futures
As new challenges face market towns, we need to understand more about how distinctiveness of these places can be developed to benefit their economies and communities. This study has been commissioned by Yorkshire Forward to help inform what makes a place distinctive and how this can be supported.

Market Towns of the Future

The study, led by Bauman Lyons Architects, was commissioned by Yorkshire Forwards Renaissance Market Towns programme. It sought to identify the opportunities and threats facing market towns as a result of global, national and regional challenges over the next 25 years. This ground-breaking research study aims to help provide an understanding of the drivers of change and how these might influence our rural capitals in the future. Link to Full Report on Yorkshire Forwards' Website

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Bauman Lyons Architects: Tower Works, Leeds

26/04/13

ph: Jonathan Taylor

The redevelopment of a historically significant former industrial site shows rare sensitivity to scale, material and urban form, says Peter Blundell Jones. Arriving in Leeds by train, you see red brick towers oddly reminiscent of campanili in Florence and Verona, but which served as exhaust flues for the steam-driven works of the Harding family, producers in the late- nineteenth century of steel pins for the textile industry. The first Thomas Harding, who transferred the business from Lille, started the trend with the Verona Tower of 1864, but it was his son Colonel Thomas Walter Harding, mayor of Leeds in 1899 and a major benefactor to the City Art Gallery, who ordered the erection of the Giotto Tower as a heatassisted ventilation shaft. Adding in this way to the city skyline helped excuse the pollution, but it also reflected the Hardings wealth and culture: their familiarity with the Grand Tour. The son even went to the

trouble of commissioning memorial medallions within the main steam engine house which depicted ten industrial heroes. They included Arkwright, Cartwright, Hargreaves, Lister, and of course the two Hardings themselves. This might seem immodest, but the gesture paid off, for since Tower Works closed in 1954 only the towers, the Engine House plus medallions, and an entrance range from the 1890s have survived to tell the tale.

Conservation of industrial buildings has always been difficult, not only due to art historys disdain for mere buildings (Tower Works having gone unnoticed on Pevsners Leeds visit). They were economically built and hard-worked, and because of fast changing technology were always being extended and converted. By the end of the production period, money tended to be short and the fabric already falling apart, with a new broom waiting to sweep away and replace. won by Bauman Lyons Architects and ISIS and co-funded the first phase when economic undertainty forced the developer to withdraw. Tower Works had a unique and interesting site, close to the city centre but initially part of the flood plain of the river Aire, and was therefore undeveloped until the mid-nineteenth century. The north-eastern boundary was the old parish division between central Leeds and Holbeck, its diagonal line reflecting the medieval field system. To the south is the Holbeck, the stream after which the area is named, to north the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, completed in 1816. This opened the city to heavy transport, and also

gave access to fuel and water, so the Globe iron foundry was set up on its south bank, along with the curving Globe Road laid out to serve it in the 1840s. To west the site was isolated by the ever growing railway, branching away from the main station. Tower Works was built just east of the Globe Foundry in the 1860s, taking over the Globe in an expansion of the 1890s. Further expansion in the 1920s filled out the triangle to east, leaving the whole island-like site covered by north-lit factory sheds, with the towers protruding. The surrounding area had become heavily industrial with many large works, both engineering and textiles, so Pevsner could rather grudgingly admit in 1959 a typical commercial riverside landscape, with tall and small dingy brick warehouses, impressive in the aggregate. In subsequent decades the area fell into decline along with much of British manufacturing industry, but the city has gradually woken up to the potential of its historic character, and Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency set up in 1999, prioritised Holbeck Village as a development opportunity. It bought the remains of Tower Works, held a developer-led competition for a mixed-use masterplan

ph: Jonathan Taylor Because of its central location within five minutes walk of the main station, the site was relatively expensive and needed to produce a good return on investment. But rather than forcing mere profit, Yorkshire Forward was prepared to accept limited heights of five to seven storeys, and in most of the development relatively shallow plans. This avoided air-conditioning, better both for comfort and for energy-saving. To maintain the integrity of the site, Bauman Lyons sought to preserve the identity of the perimeter and to differentiate between the edge conditions, but with free public access via chosen entry points to produce coherent spatial sequences. At the heart of the development a public square is planned with paving and water, enlivened by the surviving Engine House which will become a pub or cafe. Assuming a new landmark role closer to that of a campanile, the Giotto Tower commands this square from the south end, while the Verona Tower stands between new buildings on the east, marking the main route towards the eastern boundary. Landmarks recognised from afar will therefore be met again close to, just as they were in historic townscapes. On the canal side and around the west end will be the highest part of the scheme, seven storeys of offices. The buildings to the east are only of five storeys, descending to two-and-a-half along the south edge where the original Victorian front has been preserved. This height variation has allowed a lively and responsive composition, respecting the massing of the old buildings. Being lower to the south, it also allows more sunlight to penetrate. The orientation of the new blocks follows that of the Giotto Tower, Engine House and new main

square, swinging just east of north. This fits in well with a policy of saw-tooth northlight roofs across all new buildings, thereby unifying the site and recalling the northlights of the vanished works. These roofs provide skylight for the top-floor rooms and an interesting internal profile, while also leaving ideal rooftop surfaces for solar collectors as part of the architects serious sustainability agenda.

ph: Jonathan Taylor Although the surface of the site has beds of gravel and grass that indicate in a hopeful way the areas of the masterplan awaiting construction, only a small part of the new accommodation has so far been built. This comprises the restored south range on Globe Road and a kind of knuckle building that takes up the angle change between it and the proposed new square, and which also exemplifies the general vocabulary for the new work. The south range was partly derelict, with collapsing roofs and spreading walls, and it has been an expensive piece of restoration, but it contains the important main entrance with its classical portico and to the rear the projecting

managers office with the bay window through which he observed the arrival and departure of the workforce. The round-headed windows to the street were accurately replaced and new shorter ones added to the floor above to light the corridor. The roof trusses were replaced in timber with steel flitch plates for reinforcement, and internal finishes and mouldings were restored where possible. On the north side cast-iron columns and riveted iron beams of an earlier gallery were restored, the timber and glass facades of the new commercial units being slightly set back with built-in seats. The raised floor level prompted an external access gallery linked with the new building at the corner. All is stitched together carefully, contrasting new materials with old, so irregular pitted brickwork faces smooth new machine-made bricks and neat flush flooring contrasts with surprisingly rough, discoloured old floorboards, but the two vocabularies set each other off and make the transition between new and old palpable. The framed nature of the new work is readable, particularly where the building jetties out over the old site wall, but the brickwork appears solid and is well-matched for colour, and new windows are frankly modern. Responding to the context and solving the problems of access and circulation has produced link spaces of identifiable variety, and workplaces which vary in size and treatment following the same logic. The top-floor offices in the new block will be much sought after for their quality of light and space.

ph: PBJ Unfortunately Yorkshire Forward was dissolved last year, along with all Regional Development Agencies. The Homes & Communities Agency became stewards of the first phase of the project, which has been completed and successfully occupied. But the national economy remains in the doldrums and there is no guarantee that the masterplan will be taken through or that its architectural sensitivity, careful scale, and sense of balance will be respected. It may succumb to commercial forces determined more ruthlessly to exploit every square metre of the site with scant attention to the public realm. Or less drastically, but because of the delay and political changes, it may end up in the hands of architects less concerned with place and history, and more interested in perpetuating their own style. Poor Leeds has suffered enough from selfish objects: we can only hope that Bauman Lyons gets the chance to continue with its well-reasoned and sensitive approach and to complete Tower Works as the social and architectural unity it deserves to be.

Project team Architect: Bauman Lyons Architects; design team: Irena Bauman, Guy Smith (right, directors in charge), Sam Wilson (project architect), Maurice Lyons, Tom Vigar, Matt Murphy, Jem Taylor, Beth Riley, Przemek Sliwinski, James Norton, Joanna Beal; structural, civil, services engineer: Halcrow Yolles; heritage consultant: Dean Knight Partnership; specialist timber analysis: Hutton & Rostron; contractor: Quarmby Construction Company; client: Homes & Communities Agency. Selected suppliers and subcontractors Windows: Velfac, Wessex Restoration, Schco, Mag Hansen; rooflights: The Rooflight Company; bespoke joinery (doors, windows, stairs, furniture, cladding): GK Raw; paving: Marshalls (Kilkenny Limestone); lighting: Siteco; heritage plasterwork: Ronnie Clifford; facing brick: Regent Stock by Rijswaard Baksteen; SIPs: SIPFit; bronze cladding/roof: TECU by KME; precast brick lintels: Phoenix. First published in AT236, March 2013