Narrow House Battersea Private Residential A tight urban site between two buildings, each differing greatly in scale, has provided the opportunity for designing a slender house with a colourful and contemporary glazed facade. Behind the glazed facade, the building is realised as a series of simple floor plates linked by a top-lit stair. The key[...]

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Pavilion Road Worthing Private Residential | Refurbishment Worthing Architects Located on Pavilion Road in Worthing Shape Architecture has worked on a small internal refurbishment project.  The brief was to transform the existing bathrooms . Our client's desire for an elegant design solution guided our approach throughout. Working with the clients inspiration boards helped the selection[...]

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Ship Street Gardens Brighton Private Residential | Basement & Ground Floor Extension | Refurbishment Brighton Extension and Refurbishment Located in the heart of Brighton, just beside the historic Hippodrome, this distinctive property at Ship Street Gardens presented a unique opportunity for transformation. With a vaulted basement and strong architectural character, the house offered untapped potential[...]

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Wilbury Road Hove Private Residential | Extension Brighton Extension We were appointed by our clients given our reputation for transforming properties and our use of glass and transparency in our designs. Always giving a creative response to the site and brief. The brief called for a two storey extension. The design explores a considered composition[...]

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Argyle Road Ealing Private Residential | Extension Shape Architecture undertakes a wide range of extensions in Ealing.  This project in Argyle Road is a particularly large rear extension, extending some 6 metres into the garden. It creates a larger contemporary and light filled kitchen, living and dining space, and also re-works an existing bedroom to[...]

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Dawes Road Fulham Private Residential | Extension and Refurbishment Fulham Duplex Flat   This project in Dawes Road in Fulham sees the redesign of a contemporary, light filled duplex flat.  Unaltered for decades, the property is completely re-designed and a rear extension added.  A key feature is the open plan first floor and also the[...]

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Pembroke Crescent Hove Private Residential | Extension Shape Architecture gained planning approval for a number of changes to a property in Pembroke Crescent Hove, located in the Pembroke and Princes Conservation Area.  The brief called for the addition of a rear dormer and front Velux type windows to improve the quality of the upper-level rooms. [...]

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Battersea Church Road Battersea Private Residential | Extension Battersea Architects This project is a rear extension to a modern townhouse in Battersea. Coupled with the reworking of floor layouts at the upper levels this project seeks to provide a layout and contemporary feel more suited to our clients needs.  As with all our projects the[...]

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Elms Road Clapham Private Residential | Extension and Refurbishment Elms Road, ClaphamClapham Architects Shape Architecture is currently undertaking the full refurbishment of a substantial family home on Elms Road, just moments from Clapham Common. Following a competitive process involving several local practices, we were selected for our proven ability to transform existing homes into bright,[...]

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Hopefield Lodge 02 Ealing Private Residential | Extension Ealing Architects Planning permission for a rear extension in Ealing. Following the success of our refurbishment of a house in Ealing our clients there recommended Shape Architecture to a newly arrived neighbour also looking to create a contemporary light filled space with the addition of a rear[...]

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Anthony Roper Eynsford, Kent School Project | Sustainable Project The new early years building at the Anthony Roper Primary School is located on the site of a series of dilapidated outbuildings.Situated at the foot of the school grounds and adjacent to the river Darent, the site offered much promise, whilst also being challenging as it[...]

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Lawrence Road Hove Private Residential Roof and Ground Floor Extension in HoveThis project is interesting as it takes a fairly large house in Hove and illustrates how extensions and refurbishment can create a more considered, contemporary and light filled home, more suited to modern family life. The design sees the addition of a side infill[...]

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Hopefield Lodge 01 Ealing Private Residential | Extension Working as architects in Ealing we carry out many projects where relatively simple, measures serve to transform a house or flat.  It is perfectly possible to create such a transformation without the addition of any form of extension.  Here we illustrate a project in Hopefield Road in[...]

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Colchester Community Centre Colchester Community Project | Sustainable Project Triple height art studio In competition with local practices Shape Architecture won the commission to design a new home for the Dacon Trust’s charitable activities. The activities of the charity are diverse and interesting.They include the running of a kitchen serving food to the local community,[...]

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Huntsworth Mews Westminster Private Residential | Refurbishment & Extension At our project in Huntsworth Mews in Westminster, we have continued to expand our portfolio of developing Mews properties.Here we have been successful in adding both a new storey and converting the garage into habitable accommodation. Creation of an extra storey and several rooms This has[...]

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Grosvenor Square Westminster Private Residential | Listed Building Refurbishment Westminster Architects Our re-working of a listed apartment in Grosvenor Square serves to transform the layout of the interior.  Additional planning permissions also saw the upgrading of the windows to the property in respect of thermal and acoustic performance.  As with all such projects we produce[...]

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Lower Richmond Road Putney Private Residential | Mixed Use Development Architects in Putney This project takes a quite dilapidated office and creates a new office and apartment mixed use scheme.  Located on Lower Richmond Road the project comprises an office at  ground and basement levels giving onto lower Richmond road and a small house to[...]

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Home Office Hove Private Residential | Home Office Design Home Office Design Shape Architecture has always designed bespoke furniture and very often as a part of a home office design.  Here we have explored a variety of designs for a one and a half storey space.  Storage, shelves and platforms make for an interesting and[...]

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