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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

Saturday, 24 October 2020 / regeneration

Music for lockdown

Penguin Cafe

I used to play in the Penguin Cafe with Simon Jeffes in the 1980s. We toured in Japan, USA and Europe. At this time such ego-less music was difficult to define. Simon turned me on to musical proportion in architecture and the books of Frances Yates.

Here is a lovely recording from the new Pengiuin Cafe Orchestra, led by his son Arthur Jeffes in 2019 Wheels within wheels. I love the synchronicity.

Music for lockdown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILrIEKaC450&feature=emb_title

https://www.penguincafe.com

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Friday, 21 August 2020 / regeneration

Upper Green East planning approved

MBA’s scheme for an anchor shop and 20 new flats in Mitcham was approved on 20 August 2020.

Planning permission was granted on 20 August for MBA’s sophisticated, understated, highly sculptural mixed use scheme at Upper Green East in Mitcham.

The development will provide a shop unit of about 5,000 sq. ft. with twenty > all-dual-aspect< flats above. Councillors voted 9-1 in favour.

“… Fantastic design, a fantastic addition to this part of Mitcham Town Centre “
“I’ve lived in Mitcham for 30 years. This is the best, best thing I’ve seen happening to Mitcham right now”
“… Great development. Mitcham needs new development. Mitcham does need new housing, we need to build this”
” No design work in this at all, it’s just squares, it’s not complicated.”

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Saturday, 15 August 2020 / Architecture

UCS pavilion – aerial shot

Aerial shot of UCS pavilion

Aerial shot of University College School pavilion – north is top – you can see from left to right: the circular water tank, the grounds building with solar panels and its yard, the oval coach drop off with jagged pavement, cricket nets to the south and then the east and west pavilions straddling the public footpath which runs from the bottom of the picture. Architecture and landscape embracing at an appropriate scale…

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Friday, 14 August 2020 / Conservation

Rhodes House Oxford

Rhodes house gains planning and listed building consent

Planning permission and Listed Building Consent were granted on 11 August. This is our first collaboration with Stanton Williams Architects who are designing a £37 million scheme which will radically transform this Grade II* listed building. Our role was to research the cultural significance of the building, landscape and setting, advise Stanton Williams on conservation and design aspects of the proposals and help them overcome the many conservation challenges during prolonged discussions with Oxford City Council and Historic England. It was fascinating to go through the Rhodes Trust archives to track Herbert Baker’s design development and the late evolution of the plan to incorporate what is now the Rotunda, the original correspondence sprinkled with sketches and diagrams, some on folded scraps of tracing paper. I seem to be following Cecil Rhodes around, after spending 5 years on the Rhodes building at Oriel college, where a major refurbishment by MBA added an extra floor. By adding another layer of history architects can add nuance and cultural context to our built heritage.

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Thursday, 2 July 2020 / housing

Beulah Hill Care Home

An exceptional new care home under constrution at Beulah Hill South London

Amidst the pandemic, construction continues efficiently on the new 59 bed residential care home at Beulah Hill in South London.

This will provide a home for you as you get older and require more help whilst preserving your dignity and enjoyment of every moment of life.

Perched on top of a hill, the site has fantastic views north east towards the City and south west over the rolling hills of Surrey.

A simple question

This is a place designed around a simple question: if you sold a house to come and live here, and, knowing you would come out horizontally, is this a place you would wish to live? The rooms are arranged around a generous three sided courtyard open side to the south. The courtyard encloses a sensory garden, a garden of delights, designed by Jonathan Cook Landscape Architects, whom we met whilst working at St Hilda’s College, Oxford.

The first images show the outside of the courtyard, north and east elevations. The third the courtyard itself.

More news soon…

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Thursday, 25 June 2020 / housing

Archery Road – first phase houses occupied

Archery Road, first phase is now occupied

The first phase houses at Archery Road at St Leonard’s upon Sea are now occupied.

Site photos from 24 June 2020 show the outside spaces beginning to take shape, and the first houses at the corner of Quarry Hill being lived-in an enjoyed.

Largest development since the Burtons

This is the largest development in Burton St Leonard’s since the time of the Burtons. It incorporates a terrace of houses by Decimus Burton, and is surrounded by conservation areas with a Norman Shaw house adjacent.

A sense of place and a view of the sea…

More here

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Monday, 1 June 2020 / regeneration

Improving city life during a pandemic with Citizen & the Royal Academy

Talks on how a new generation of practitioners and ethical investors are responding to the pandemic

Citizen is joining forces with the Royal Academy for ‘Today/Tomorrow’ — a series of talks on how a new generation of practitioners and ethical investors are responding to the pandemic and continuing to improve city life.

Tune in every Tuesday and Thursday in June to @Architecture_RA on Instagram Live at 11 am to hear from society’s game-changers — previously profiled in Citizen — and their response to coronavirus.

Programme:

— Tuesday 2 June: LionHeart – in conversation with Kate Goodwin
— Thursday 4 June: Amelia Viney – in conversation with Isabel Allen
— Tuesday 9 June: Finn Harries – in conversation with Kate Goodwin
— Thursday 11 June: Pascal Gerrard – in conversation with Isabel Allen
— Tuesday 16 June: Antonio Pisano – in conversation with Kate Goodwin
— Thursday 18 June: Peter Bishop – in conversation with Isabel Allen
— Tuesday 23 June: Cathy Runciman – in conversation with Kate Goodwin
— Thursday 25 June: Andrew Gregson – in conversation with Isabel Allen
— Tuesday 30 June: Alex Depledge – in conversation with Kate Goodwin

Today/Tomorrow is part of the London Festival of Architecture #LFAdigital2020. Don’t miss it!

www.citizen-mag.org

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Saturday, 23 May 2020 / Community

Robert Graves Poetry Prize

The Robert Graves Poetry Prize, honouring the Wimbledon-born war poet, is open for entries. The competition, run in partnership with University of Roehampton and sponsored by Marcus Beale Architects is now in its fourth year. First prize is £1,000 and entry is open to all. It is judged by literary... Read more.

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Saturday, 21 March 2020 / Marcus Beale Architects

New Normal

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From 16 March 2020 MBA transitioned to the new normal.

The office is minimally staffed. Strictly necessary site inspections can and do take... Read more.

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From 16 March 2020 MBA transitioned to the new normal.

The office is minimally staffed. Strictly necessary site inspections can and do take place with appropriate distance and personal safety measures. We are increasingly competent at video conferencing.

With the New Normal we can hear micro-sounds again, and in this enhanced stillness is a prayer for doctors and nurses.

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“Cheer-up” they said, “things could be worse”.

So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse…

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All very best wishes,

Marcus and team.

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Wednesday, 1 January 2020 / Community

2020 vision – New Year Wishes from MBA

New Year Message from MBA

New Year wishes

Respect for nature and the planet

A gentle revolution through art: music, painting dance, architecture

To promote a whole-humanity and whole-ecosystem sense of belongings

To bring a better world closer to hand, now, little by little, in every thing we do.

All good wishes for a creative year of 2020 vision.

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