Track Record/Recent Wins

Overseas/ Cliff House in Ibiza

HEAT were invited by a UK based client to redesign a hillside house in Ibiza. Outside of the clubs of Ibiza town the countryside remains peaceful and unspoilt and this villa had been built over four floors by a retired German architect. In our redesign we added a lift and rearranged the interior spaces creating open plan family spaces with dramatic views.

Project 081

Won/01.06.05

Westminster/ 1930’s Apartment

Between the wars a number of streamlined apartment buildings appeared in London. The larger ones are known as “Mansion Flats” and even have a small apartment-within-an-apartment for a maid or housekeeper. This flat had been in the same family for fifty years and the brief was to modernise the interior.

Situated on a busy road near Lords’Cricket ground, one of the first things we did was to re-glaze the windows in sound-reducing glass. The interior was elegant and contemporary but with rich natural finishes: travertine in the bathrooms and stone on the floors. The flat was let for rental immediately on completion to an embassy on a five year let, so was judged to be a highly successful project.

Project 074

Won/01.05.05

Overseas/ Portugal Beach House

Located in the Quinta do Lago estate in the Algarve, this was a project to restore a neglected retro 1970’s beach villa into sophisticated contemporary living space.  HEAT rebuilt the wings of the house and glazed over the double-height central courtyard creating a house that works well for two people or can be opened up for twenty.

The shape of the pool was determined by visiting the house at different times and placing bamboo sticks in the ground as the sun tracked round the site.

Project 047

Won/10.04.05

Developer/Hammersmith & Fulham/ Kings Road Mixed-Use Success

Planning consent has been granted by Hammersmith and Fulham Council for a four-storey new build 32,000 sq. ft. mixed-use development on the New Kings Road in West London for developer Starcrest Investments.

Designed by HEAT Architecture, the consent comes as result of over two years of detailed negotiations with the planning authority and local residents. The development, which is set within a highly sensitive conservation area, will be clearly visible when viewed across Eel Brook Common. It is surrounded on three sides by numerous private residences, some of which are listed.

The £6m proposal will provide nearly 8000sq.ft. of retail space along the 38 metre frontage, along with 13,600 sq. ft of offices and three penthouse apartments on the top floor. The loft style apartments make maximum use of north light with a full height glazed façade overlooking the Common. They will incorporate large domed rooflights set within the lightweight over-sailing roof canopy.

Project 043

Won/06.03.05

Richmond/ House in Barnes

Barnes, London: During his brief tenure, the previous owner of this elegant early Victorian stucco fronted house in Barnes had virtually demolished the interior, including the stairs. We obtained planning consent from the London Borough of Richmond for a new cantilevered wooden staircase in a glass tower at the rear creating larger spaces at each floor level. Interior mouldings and panelling were restored and the new elements designed to blend with the original. Winner of Wood Awards small project award, Published House and Garden Feb 2014.

Project 048

Won/09.09.04

City/Retail/ Fashion Retail

HEAT specialise in Residential projects, but we were invited by one of our clients, Madeleine Hamilton, to design her retail fashion store on Chancery Lane.  A former solicitor herself, some of the top female lawyers in London beat a path  to Madeleine’s shop.

Considering the  huge range of stock the interior space was very limited and the interior fittings and displays were custom-designed to fit as perfectly as Madeleine’s beautiful clothes.

Project 065

Won/27.08.04

Barnet/ Gallery Courtyard

The clients for a new-build house  that we completed previously in Hampstead asked us to look at creating an art gallery extension on the neighbouring site. The design would have to integrate with the existing house and be of superlative quality. It would incorporate an extension to the underground garage, guest accommodation and an event/gallery space looking into a courtyard with a mirror plane of water.

Our response was to sink the gallery one level down and create a large internal courtyard space with internal and external sculpture galleries.

Project 075

Won/18.06.04

Kensington & Chelsea/ House with Wine Cellar

Our brief for this project in Holland Park included the requirement to store an impressive wine collection. In the interests of research we embarked on a tour of the secretive world of London’s private wine cellars. Our solution was to create a dining room lined with glass-fronted walk-in cellars, dimly lit with Italian marmorino walls, a basalt floor running through and woven stainless steel screen to protect the wine from direct light. Concealed lighting and a glass link to the floor above complete the drama and sense of ritual.

The same stone floor and detailing was carried through to the Boffi kitchen; the basalt and wine-red glass splashback forming a theme for the bathrooms and walk-in wet rooms.

Planning Consent was gained from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for a conservatory extension at the rear and changes to the windows on the rear elevation

Published: RIBA Journal

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Won/08.04.04

Listed Building/Westminster/ Westminster Restoration

Ebury Street in Pimlico has had a chequered history. A stone’s throw from the Houses of Parliament it was quite grand when built in the 1830’s and then gently declined to one of the toughest slums in Westminster before beginning a re-gentrification in the last thirty years. For HEAT the project was the conversion and upgrading of a maisonette incorporating a lower ground floor looking out into a light well. We roofed over the light well with very lightweight glazed roofs and created a studio/library in the basement; inspired by the tiered galleries at the rear of the Soane Museum.

A large London Plane tree overshadowed the courtyard garden, so for evenings and night we hung a projector lamp in the tree which cast a leaf pattern onto the stone floor. The tree also filtered the daylight into the rooms in an interesting way that changed and so after weeks of trial and error we created a new paint colour for the interior which appeared to change with the seasons and, rather egotistically, christened it “Humphries White”.

Custom-made lighting, a stainless steel kitchen and a structural glass oriel window were some of the contemporary choices that work with the historic listed building.

Project 056

Won/05.02.04

Kensington & Chelsea/ Notting Hill Lateral Thinking

A trip to Venice was the inspiration for the layout of this stucco fronted house in Notting Hill. It is possible to circulate around the “Piano Nobile” of a Venetian House without entering the principal salon. In this case we  connected one room to another to create a horseshoe shaped series of rooms leading from the family room to the kitchen to the dining room to the sitting room and finally to the study; all accessible from a hallway containing the entrance, staircase and loo.

A planning consent from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for an annexe at the rear allows the re-planning of the basement.

Published: Sunday Telegraph, April 18 2004

Project 051

Won/27.01.04