The blog of Simon Kennedy, Architectural Photographer based in London. An expansion to a school, adding maximum possible internal area while compromising external play area as much as possible. The design was developed through a series of consultations with staff and parents, establishing a clear brief. The brief was fulfilled by adding a three storey […]
Monthly Archives: March 2019
The blog of Simon Kennedy, Architectural Photographer based in London. A new store in Ramsgate, located in a two-story harbourside arch. The new architecture is deliberately contemporary, contrasting to its historic setting, with beautifully controlled geometry, materials and textures. The architecture features pitched roof interior volumes that reference Scandi style and the seaside location, and […]
The blog of Simon Kennedy, Architectural Photographer based in London. A new car manufacturing facility for Jaguar Land Rover, featuring saw tooth sections that allow large quantities of north lighting into the fabrication floors, situated on a brownfield site near Wolverhampton. The facility gives 185,000 sqm of space, including office accommodation, production floors and a […]
The blog of Simon Kennedy, Architectural Photographer based in London. Interior fit-out of a school near Regent’s Canal in Hackney. The design references the Edwardian construction of the existing building and the waterside location. The building was stripped back to its original features and construction, revealing features such as a parquet floor and intricate pipework […]
The blog of Simon Kennedy, Architectural Photographer based in London. A refurbishment of a number of key spaces within the Westminster Song School, including a large, new, performance chamber. The practice uses colour, material, composition and light in a highly sympathetic way, skilfully negotiating the problems associated with refurbishing a listed structure. The design features […]
The blog of Simon Kennedy, Architectural Photographer based in London. A new church in Emsworth was created in direct response to site and briefing constraints, with the church community being heavily involved throughout the design process. The design reinstates a positive street frontage, creates a flexible, central community kitchen, uses daylight in highly innovative ways, […]
The blog of Simon Kennedy, Architectural Photographer based in London. KAP diagnostics HQ was installed as a refurbishment of a cluster of disused buildings. As the existing buildings, including a car showroom, were found to be sound structurally, it was determined that they should remain, and be refurbished rather than be demolished for new buildings. […]
The blog of Simon Kennedy, Architectural Photographer based in London. An elegant and traditional refurbishment of a historic property in Hyde Park Gate, created as a collaboration between 23 Architects and Woolf Interiors. The design features custom, elaborate fabrics that resonate with the large scale of the interior spaces, blending an English sense of tradition […]
The blog of Simon Kennedy, Architectural Photographer based in London. The architects won a competition and developed an entire urban strategy for economic and environmental regeneration in Balham’s town centre, made up of four projects: the enhancement via public art of the environment underneath and around the railway bridge, enhancements to Hildreth St to make […]
The blog of Simon Kennedy, Architectural Photographer based in London. This new-build family home in Newbury combines vernacular features such as local flemish bond brick-work with some striking modernist architectural forms. The structure features privacy-enhancing slit windows to the front, and opens up with substantial glazing to the rear, that maximises views of the beautiful […]