CULLINAN STUDIO. Architects & Masterplanners

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2 CULLINAN STUDIO Architects & Masterplanners Over five decades Cullinan Studio has gained an international reputation for designing successful and sustainable buildings, spaces and places. We work with our clients. We listen to your needs, respond creatively to your aspirations and collaborate with you to arrive at the best possible design. The result is beautiful, useful and sustainable buildings. In every project, we are committed to creating the best possible environment for the client, user and the wider community. Front Cover: Bespoke staircase at House in Hampstead. Photo Paul Raftery. Opposite: Maggie s Cancer Caring Centre in Newcastle. Photo Paul Raftery.

3 CULTURE We have developed particular expertise in the design of visitor centres, tourism strategies, libraries and archives; creating solutions which respond to both the technical and cultural challenges these projects demand. Many of these projects respond to their sensitive historic context. We have designed five projects located in World Heritage Sites. Photo Keegan Duigenan Photo James Newton Above: The Downland Gridshell is both a workshop for timber frame restoration and an archive store for artefacts spanning six centuries of rural life. Opposite: The John Hope Gateway at Edinburgh s Royal Botanic Garden has adaptable spaces that can change and respond to topical events.

4 HIGHER EDUCATION One of the greatest opportunities for universities lies in encouraging the crossing of boundaries between disciplines and working with the local (business) community. This has creative spatial consequences at a masterplanning level and in the design of both social circulation and specialist areas. To be future-proof, the buildings should be designed with change in mind. Photo SMU Above: The masterplan for Singapore Management University integrates the new campus and the city. Opposite: The National Automotive Innovation Centre, currently on site at the University of Warwick, will bring together academics, engineers and designers to develop new processes and products.

5 INTERIORS We design interiors for offices and homes and enjoy fitting-out the buildings we have designed; working with furniture makers and suppliers. Having acquired detailed knowledge of the role of spaces throughout a building during the briefing process, we are in the ideal position to select and plan the layout of furnishings that will truly function to the users desires. Photo Hundven-Clements Photography Above: For the interior fit-out of the National Automotive Innovation Centre at the University of Warwick we are defining spatial organisation, furniture, finishes, lighting, services and AV strategies. Opposite: Residents of Pontifex Wharf near Borough Market in London enjoy generous, bright homes with high quality finishes.

6 RESEARCH Research is a vital part of our everyday practice. It enables us to push boundaries in design and technology to create more effective and efficient buildings. BIM offers huge opportunities for closer collaboration. We have developed BIMSpace - through an Innovate UK supported research project - to enable better design coordination and client engagement. Above: Prototype of BIMSpace on the site of the National Automotive Innovation Centre at the University of Warwick. Opposite: We have been trialling the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset with the BIM model. The headset gives clients a compelling immersive experience of design proposals.

7 RESIDENTIAL We design great homes ranging from individual houses to whole neighbourhoods: homes that are for living. The demand for efficient internal planning and generous spaces for living is important, and finding the balance between the two leads to a successful design. At high densities, good quality public realm must be combined with some private outdoor space. Photo Paul Raftery Photo Paul Raftery Above: In Hampstead, London, we crafted a beautiful, light-filled new family home within a Grade 2 listed Georgian House. Opposite: Invicta provides 181 residential apartments and completes one of the key elements - the Brunel Mile - of our Bristol Harbourside masterplan.

8 RETROFIT As we wrestle with the impacts of climate change, the big challenge is adaptation. We have a wide range of experience working with existing buildings and landscapes: from major restructuring to fine detail of historic buildings. Photo Paul Raftery Above: The phased refurbishment of Denys Lasdun s iconic Central Building at Fitzwilliam College is rationalising the use of spaces and improving the building fabric. Opposite: The gradual refurbishment of Rosendale Primary School in London has created a great place for children to learn - and made massive energy savings.

9 SCHOOLS Having worked across both the state and independent sectors, we understand that the financial challenge to create exceptional places to learn is ever more pertinent for Headteachers and Local Authorities. Our designs can reduce your school s energy consumption and create healthy environments for learning and teaching. Simon Warren Photo Paul Raftery Above: Shenley Academy and Sixth Form in Birmingham is a large new-build school for 1,150 eleven to eighteen year olds. Opposite: On Holy Cross Primary School in Swindon we used cutting edge off-site prefabricated methods to deliver an energy efficient and speedily constructed new building.

10 WORKPLACE We have designed many types of workplace; for research, for making things, for studying, international headquarters, art studios, offices, and more; and we have first hand knowledge of the benefits of good workplace design having completed the retrofit of a Victorian warehouse into our own low-energy studios in Photo Tim Soar Photo: Edmund Tim Simon Soar Sumner Feneley BFI Above: The Reading Room of the new Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives Wing at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew has bespoke joinery of dark stained oak with bronze ironmongery and fittings. Opposite: Our own BREEAM Excellent retrofit studios on Regents Canal, north London.

11 The National Automotive Innovation Centre, currently under construction at the University of Warwick, will provide over 1,000 workstations for researchers working in 33,000sqm of floorspace. The building is arranged to be open, to engage the public and encourage collaboration.

12 A FEW MORE OF OUR RECENT PROJECTS Visitor Centre designed for the World Heritage site of Petra, Jordan. 2. The Queen Mary University of London School of Mathematical Sciences is one of the largest retrofit projects in Europe to target the Passivhaus EnerPHit standard. 3. Sustainable masterplan for the increase of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 19,000 to 27,000 students. 4. The Bunhill 2 Energy Centre will use waste heat from the London Underground to help provide cheaper, greener heat to local residents. 5. The BREEAM Excellent International Institute for Product & Service Innovation, University of Warwick. 6. Hide House, a distinctive modern home, is designed to complement the client s collection of mid 20th century furniture. 7. Torriano Junior School Gatehouse, London. 8. Spring at Stonebridge Park residential development, London, under construction. 9. New Learning Centre at RHS Hyde Hall. 10. Carbon neutral Shahat Garden City masterplan for 60,000 people, Libya. 11. Extensive remodelling of Forest Gate Community School in east London. 12. The BFI Master Film Store preserves Britain s history of film for future generations to enjoy.

13 Cullinan Studio is committed to collaborative design to make fine architecture that fulfils the needs of the client, the users and those of the wider society. We have been designing carefully composed, exemplar low-energy buildings for five decades and are currently working on masterplanning, urban regeneration, inner city housing, cultural institutions, schools and universities in the UK and abroad. Recent awards include: RICS Design Through Innovation Awards for our own studios and Maggie s Newcastle AJ Retrofit Awards for our own studios and Rosendale Primary School in London RIBA Award and BCI Commendation for the BFI Master Film Store Special Civic Trust Award for Community Impact & Engagement; and a Building for Life Gold Standard and Award for the Stonebridge Hillside Hub Building Magazine s Architectural Practice of the Year Building Design s Public Building Architect of the Year the 2008 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Ted Cullinan the Stirling Prize Shortlist for the Downland Gridshell CULLINAN STUDIO 5 Baldwin Terrace London N1 7RU + 44 (0) studio@cullinanstudio.com We endeavour at all times to conduct our business with integrity, competence and discretion. We are an equal opportunities employer, promoting mutual respect and encouraging life-long development; presently we are 44% women, 56% men. Cullinan Studio is Quality Assured to BS EN ISO 9001 and ISO environmental accreditation. We are members of the Employee Ownership Association.