The award-winning architectural practice Hawkins\Brown, founded in
1988, is well-known for its thoughtful, innovative and sustainable
new buildings and refurbishments of all types. The practice prides
itself on bringing a fresh and collaborative approach, creating
places that are well-made, well-used and well-loved. This new book
examines 14 of its projects in detail, interspersed with essays on
various themes by members of the practice. The book begins with an
examination by the eminent architecture journalist Hugh Pearman of
the founding, history and approach of Hawkins\Brown, based on
personal interviews with the practice's two founding principals,
Roger Hawkins and Russell Brown. A full discussion of the projects
follows, each comprehensively illustrated with photographs, plans
and renderings. The Bartlett School of Architecture in London had
been outgrown by the School; it has been stripped back and
reconfigured to create a building that staff and students alike are
delighted to use. The Corby Cube is a well-equipped, multi-purpose
civic and cultural centre that is beloved of this East Midlands
town's inhabitants. Here East, the repurposing of the Olympic press
and broadcast centres in east London into space for creative and
digital industries, is an excellent example of collaboration
between client, architect and stakeholders. At Hilden Grange
Preparatory School in Kent, Hawkins\Brown slotted exemplary new
teaching spaces into natural woodland in a sustainable and
sympathetic way. The University of East Anglia's Bob Champion
Building is part of the Norwich Medical School's vision to become a
world leader in clinical research and teaching, and was completed
in less than a year. Park Hill housing estate in Sheffield has been
updated with a charismatic new facade treatment and revitalized
flats, taking it from eyesore to icon. Another housing estate,
Peabody Burridge Gardens in southwest London, has been rebuilt
completely, and is now more pleasant and better integrated.
Tottenham Court Road station in central London - part of the
enormous Crossrail project - has been sympathetically but radically
redesigned to provide for the extra people who will use it, and
includes artworks by Daniel Buren, Richard Wright and Douglas
Gordon. At Hackney Town Hall in east London, the refurbishment of
an important art deco building required all numerous skills, from
reuse and repair to conversion and conservation. A combined
refurbishment and new building on Great Suffolk Street just south
of the river in central London, meanwhile, has created an expanded
commercial building that sits comfortably in its semi-industrial
setting. For the City of London Freemen's School in Surrey,
Hawkins\Brown created a new swimming pool that is simultaneously
functional, beautiful and sympathetic to its rural location. With
the University of Oxford Beecroft Building - where environment is
also deeply important - the practice produced a new Physics
research facility that both satisfies the city's stringent
historical and conservation controls and is a genuinely
groundbreaking scientific building. East Village Plot No. 6 is a
`build-to-rent' development in Stratford, east London, where
architecture has been used to create community. Finally, the Thames
Tideway Tunnel is a crucial yet little-known infrastructure project
that will extend and modernize London's sewerage system to cope
with future demand. The visible architecture here involves various
surface points along the river, including at Chelsea Embankment and
at Blackfriars. The essays demonstrate Hawkins\Brown's pride in the
input of its staff. Seth Rutt explains the architect's desire for
creative autonomy and wish to follow the process of creating a new
building all the way from designing it to supervising the
construction. Darryl Chen explains the importance of taking time
away from day-to-day work to focus on broader themes, and
introduces the practice's own think tank. Nicola Rutt discusses the
importance of refurbishment in the output of the practice,
emphasizing its importance to the urban fabric and to the people
who inhabit our towns and cities. Morag Morrison writes about the
integration of art with architecture, and Katie Tonkinson examines
mixed-use architecture in the context of the architect's approach
rather than the client's brief. Harbinder Birdi explains the
importance of urban planning and considering the human context for
all projects, and, finally, Oliver Milton and Jack Stewart
celebrate the opportunities afforded by new technology.
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