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New
private house, Sussex
‘Philip Lancashire has designed and built several lovely houses - including mine!
My house in Tillington was finished just in time for the birth of my grand children two years ago. Philip had designed the first stage of it in the late 1980’s, when he helped me convert an old farmyard and stabling into a small weekend cottage. The house was built using as many salvaged materials as possible. When I wanted to build the final stage of the house to make it a permanent home, I asked Philip to help me again. It is a measure of its original sympathetic architecture that when the Building Conservation people came to inspect the site, before I could enlarge it, they thought my cottage was 18th century and I had to show them photographs of the house in the process of being built, with my children standing on the footings!
I am delighted with the finished house as it fits in beautifully into the Sussex countryside and the people in the village love it.’ |
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Urban
regeneration - Mortlake, London
The
judges of The Times /RICS Conservation Award reported the following:
‘This
is an exceptionally fine scheme, restoring buildings in the heart of
a Conservation Area and bringing back into use an area of derelict
river frontage. Great care has been taken to use existing building
materials, to match new materials to old in a sensitive way and to
overcome the problems caused by the shallow depth of the riverside
buildings with ingenuity and charm, by providing a decorative
walkway. The small scale urban fabric has been respected and the
result is a valuable local asset, with studios and workshops
employing 200 people, a popular riverside wine bar and sports and
social clubs. The project is a model of how relatively unpromising
buildings can, with imagination, be turned into a rewarding public
amenity’. |
