The RIBA has this week revealed the shortlist for the 2013 RIBA Awards, with Piercy&Company’s Wakefield St Townhouses selected to the London Regional Awards shortlist.

Winners of both the RIBA London Regional Awards and RIBA National Awards will be announced in London in June. Recipients of the RIBA National Awards are considered for the Stirling Prize.

See more: Wakefield Street Townhouses Project Profile

Piercy&Company are part of a joint submission encompassing East Village (formerly the London 2012 Athletes’ Village) which has been selected to the London RIBA Regional Awards shortlist. The submission, led by Fletcher Priest Architects, includes some of London’s top practices.

Winners of both the RIBA London Regional Awards and RIBA National Awards will be announced in London in June with recipients of the RIBA National Awards considered for the Stirling Prize.

See more: Athlete’s Village Project Profile

Piercy&Company’s MIPIM AR Future Projects award winning project, SymHomes in Restello, Kolkata is on site with work progressing quickly. The super-structure has been installed with the sub-structure and floor plates nearing completion.

The apartment scheme is pioneering for its use of steel in an Indian residential context and features contemporary living spaces enveloped by a permeable and responsive outer skin of opening steel panels. The outer perforated panels will help to cool the building by maximising airflow and shading whilst also providing a screen during torrential rains. This environmental buffer zone aims to condition the climate naturally, minimizing the use of air-conditioning units.

The project is the outcome of a Living Steel competition aimed at promoting sustainable steel housing in Kolkata.

Work is expected to complete on site in the autumn of 2013.

Image courtesy of the photographer, Aloke Mitra, and Living Steel.

See Project Profile.

Stuart Piercy has been selected to the Islington Design Panel, an independent advisory panel comprising academics and practitioners from the field of the built environment and design.

The aim of the panel is to provide expert impartial design advice and guidance to Islington’s Development Management

Services on significant development proposals and other design related matters.

We are pleased to release images this week of our design for the International Presbyterian Church in Ealing, West London. The proposed design seeks to create an extremely flexible layout while retaining a spiritual spatial experience and a civic presence within the community. A folded surface articulates both internal and external forms, becoming spire like  along the street to express the entrance to the church.

While our design is unmistakably contemporary it is rooted in vernacular forms and materials. The rusticated masonry walls form a solid base from which the dynamic brass shingle tile roofscape springs. The rich tone of the brass adds warmth to the church and matches the tone of the local houses. The folded form creates a much finer grain building and refines the overall massing which reflects the local character.

See also: Drayton Green Church Project Profile 

Read the piece by Richard Waite in the Architects Journal here.

Piercy&Company has secured planning permission for four contemporary terrace houses within the North End Conservation Area in Hampstead, London.

The articulation along the footprint ensures that each house is identifiable and the feel of an apartment building is avoided. To harmonize with the neighbouring houses the roof is set back from the north elevation and is pitched along the western and northern elevations of each house.

The location of the site within the North End Conservation Area demanded a contextually responsive design. Accordingly, the materials, detailing and composition of Hampstead’s fine examples of Arts and Crafts houses are re-interpreted by Piercy&Company, creating a contemporary design inspired by Arts and Crafts materials and composition.

Project Profile: North End Terraces

Three models by Piercy&Company have been selected to the RIBA Architecture Open exhibition.

The exhibition is a showcase of the work of RIBA London Members and examines the progression of architectural concepts from sketchbook to site.

Piercy&Company’s models for the International Presbyterian Church and Kew House as well as a studio prototype of the facade tiling designed for the London 2012 Athletes’ Village have been included in the exhibition. These works represent the important role in design development that model making plays in the studio.

The Architecture Open is held in Gallery 1 of the Royal Institute of British Architects at 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD. The exhibition is open to the public from 1st October to 3rd November 2012.

In this month’s RIBA Journal, Stuart Piercy reflects on the challenges and opportunities of working in India.

Stuart Piercy was invited by the RIBA Journal to discuss a Piercy&Company project currently on site in Kolkata, India. Won through a Living Steel Competition, Restello is designed as a permeable, sustainable and predominantly steel apartment block built in a housing market traditionally reliant upon concrete.

Read the article here.

For further information on Restello, please see the project profile.

In 2009 Tim and Jo Lucas commissioned Piercy&Company to design a contemporary family home in Kew. Now, as work speeds up on site, they have launched a website tracing the evolution of the project from finding a site to moving in.

www.kewhouse.info

To keep up with the build progress follow @joinkew and @piercy&co on Twitter.

For more information on the design of the house see Kew House

Piercy&Company’s Wakefield St Townhouses in Bloomsbury, London have been shortlisted for the Brick Development Association’s 2012 Brick Awards.

Wakefield St Townhouses, three bespoke townhouses completed early this summer for clients Great Marlborough Estates, have been shortlisted in the Best Housing Development – 1 to 5 Units category.

The use of brick – a traditional facing material seen in various guises throughout the Bloomsbury Conservation Area– helps achieve a familiar domestic skin, rich in texture and variation; ultimately enabling the contemporary building to integrate with the surrounding established urban grain.

The winners of the 2012 Brick Awards will be announced in London on 13th November 2012.

See also Architects Journal and Dezeen.

For further images and information on the project: Wakefield St Townhouses Project Profile