Residential Projects

The project continues our work on the former Smiths Industries housing estate at Bishops Cleeve for Rooftop Housing, which now extends to over a decade, transforming former garage sites into contemporary social housing.

The initial community consultation was carried out by Wayne Hemmingway (of Red or Dead fashion fame) and then we collaborated with Hemmingway Design on the design up to the planning application stage.

This project was the conversion of a Grade II listed office building into four luxury apartments and one 3 storey townhouse in Birmingham city centre for Asquith Homes. The apartments are thoughtfully designed with large open plan kitchen/living room areas, making the most of the living space and natural light. Each apartment also benefits from its own secure parking space and cycling storage facility in the basement, accessible from the side street.
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Interior finishes by Cream & Black.

This brief was the conversion of a Victorian industrial red brick building dating from 1851 into luxury flats with a provision for parking as a residential development in the Birmingham Convention Quarter, city centre. The project has won the title of 'Most Innovative Contemporary Residential Conversion' in the 2019 Design and Build Awards.

This competition winning project in Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire was a scheme of 2 and 3 bed houses, set across 3 separate sites, all brownfield with challenging footprints and restricted access.

Eastside Locks represented our fourth project for student accommodation developer Alumno. The project was for the design of the student common rooms and also some communal areas such as the main reception area and lobby. We worked closely with the architects Glenn Howells Architects and the fit out contractor FF&E.

Asquith House, Edgbaston was a project to convert an existing Grade II listed building into 9 apartments. We gained listed building and change of use consent.

Despite being a small site the design for a new build quality student accommodation had to negotiate a tricky change in level across the site, archaeological findings after the demolition of the house on the site, and fierce opposition from the neighbours opposed to student housing.