The following are a range of articles on conservation, heritage, education, public, commercial, religious, residential and urban design by architects firm in London, Wimbledon, Marcus Beale Architects
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Read less.Conservation
On 15 January 2025 Marcus will be lecturing at University of Nottingham on Conservation.
We use Stanton Williams’ project at Rhodes House as an example. Lecture slides can be found here.
An updated version of MBA’s 2023-01 paper [following NPPF 2024] Managing Change in Built Heritage is available here.
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Sculpture… has no life in itself. Our interaction gives meaning [Gormley]
Often we can identify a ‘focal point’, maybe the end of an axis, where a sculpture of artwork is necessary, an extended arm, outgoing.
Sometimes it is in an ‘elbow’, incoming, the place from which it can be viewed form multiple angles, and can be kissed by the sun over the course of the day
Sometimes it will take no space.
A couple of shots of some ’special projects’ of 2024, works in progress, one an ‘elbow’ sculpture inserted into o a Foggo house, the other a ‘blank canvas’ at the end of an axis waiting for a rich, golden threaded fabric. The golden thread is the story, the route through the landscape.
Read less.Bedford School Chapel – GF Bodley
Listed Building Consent for a new organ at Bedford School Chapel
Read more.Listed Building Consent has been granted for the installation of new organ and lighting to the west end of Bedford School chapel. The chapel is grade II* listed and an important late work of George Frederick Bodley, assisted by Cecil Hare who completed and furnished it after Bodley’s death. It is a building of great refinement.
MBA are architects, project managers and heritage consultants for the project. We enjoyed studying Bodley, his works and writings, and applying his twelve principles of architecture to the building as a way of understanding it.
The work involves removing the original organ, recycling its designed panelling to line the interior of the adjacent tower, and installing a new organ with vastly improved musical qualities. The organ will have a set of ‘choir’ pipes cantilevering over the nave supported by a new steel frame threaded through the existing gallery.
The organ is designed and built by William Drake Limited and will be installed in 2027. Dr William McVicker is organ consultant and Price & Myers are structural engineers.
Read less.Colliers Wood Tower Planning Approval
Planning permission granted for a landmark building in Colliers Wood
Read more.Planning permission has been granted for a nine storey residential building in Colliers Wood, S London.
More about the project here.
Read less.Mansfield College, Oxford
MBA are working with Fielden Fowles at Mansfield College Oxford
Read more.We’re really pleased to be working with Feilden Fowles, Stories, Skelly&Couch, Cast Consultancy, Structure Workshop and others on a transformation and decarbonisation of this wonderful college originally designed by Basil Champneys. AJ has published a notice here https://lnkd.in/eYF2b8ig
Read less.Education
Education portfolio of MBA with an introduction by Marcus Beale
Read more.Lectures
- Cambridge University - Architects Scope of service and fees - 5 October 2023
- Nottingham University - Architects Scope of service and fees - 15 November 2023
- Nottingham University - Conservation Legislation and Heritage Assessment - 6 December 2023
- Stanton... Read more.
Upcoming lectures by Marcus Beale
- Cambridge University – Architects Scope of service and fees – 5 October 2023
- Nottingham University – Architects Scope of service and fees – 15 November 2023
- Nottingham University – Conservation Legislation and Heritage Assessment – 6 December 2023
- Stanton Williams – Sound, Music, Architecture – CPD – 18 January 2024
Humane Architecture
Nicholas Ray on Ralph Erskine
Read more.How can we recreate the textures of OLD cities in a way that does not imitate the past? An essay from Nicholas Ray who was my director of studies from 1978-1985 about his relationship with Ralph Esrkine, a champion of Humane Architecture
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Wimbledon BookFest 2023
Wimbledon BookFest 2023
Read more.Wimbledon BookFest catalogue now out. More details at www.wimbledonbookfest.org
MBA have supported BookFest since its foundation.
It’s a fab festival, held on the Common, in tents, attracts top international authors, and is always pushing the edge…
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