The owners of this beautiful 1930s building in the South Downs wanted to refurbish its interiors in order to modernise the atmosphere and occasionally rent it as a holiday let.

Client: private

Category:

- Residential

- Holiday lets

Services:

- Architecture

- Interior design

Photographs: Peter Ghobrial @peterghob_archphoto

Integral refurbishment of a one bedroom flat in the Spanish capital

Client: private

Location: Madrid, Spain

Category: Residential

Services:

- Architecture

- Interior design

A house in West Sussex had an unused large basement which we repurposed into a cheeky bar and cinema club. We’ve heard rumours that they are now hosting a party or two.

Client: private

Category: Residential

Services:

- Architecture

- Interior design

- Lighting design

This collection of bespoke furniture was developed as an integral component of the interior design strategy. Pieces were designed to respond to the spatial constraints and architectural character of the property, providing refined joinery solutions that optimise storage, enhance functionality, work as acoustic elements and elevate the overall aesthetic. A restrained material palette, tailored detailing and careful consideration of proportions create a cohesive language throughout, ensuring the furniture complements and defines the spaces it inhabits.

Client: private

Category:

- Residential

Services:

- Furniture design

Set within a generous 1930s building and configured as a five-bedroom holiday let, this project involved a full interior review to bring cohesion, daylight and calm sophistication to a home of many faces. We retained original character while introducing a refined palette, tailored joinery and flexible living arrangements. Our aim was to give each bedroom its own personality while preserving a unified design language across shared spaces, resulting in a building that works both as a private home and a high-end short-stay rental.

Client: private

Category:

- Residential

- Holiday lets

Services:

- Interior design

We are helping the owners of a house in Highgate deal with Planning in order to get approval for sorting out some access and design issues around their building in this Conservation Area.

Location: Highgate, London

Category:

- Residential

- Minimal interventions

Services:

- Architecture

Status: Planning.

The owners of this largely unused garden wanted to improve the usability of their space and they were in need of ideas about how to bring an existing underground concrete structure back to life. Together we came up with an ingenious way of minimally breaking through this concrete box in order to create an outdoor dining area with a built in kitchen, a swimming pool, and an underground gym and spa.

Client: private

Location: Pulborough

Category:

- Residential

- Outdoor spaces

Services:

- Architecture

- Garden design

Status: Planning.

A young London family moved into a newly built flat and they wanted a functional layout in their terrace that would link with the internal cooking, dining and entertaining spaces and that would also allow them to grow herbs and vegetables from their loved Mediterranean coast. A careful planting scheme also provided some green screens for added privacy. We designed an organic spacial layout to function with the rest of the spaces of the flat, designed and built planters to articulate the different spaces and found outdoor furniture in line with the owners’ modern aesthetics.

Client: private

Location: Southwark, London

Category:

- Residential

- Outdoor spaces

- Minimal interventions

Services:

- Layout design

- Garden/planting/furniture design

- Furniture procurement

Cabin design for owners to install in their family’s countryside garden, to be used for visits and as a short term let. We are designing all the components to be manufactured off site so that on-site assembly takes place in a minimum time frame.

Client: private

Category: Residential

Services:

- Architecture

Status: Design stage.

I was honoured to work with London AJ100 practice Aukett Swanke on this luxury megaproject consisting on transforming Grade II* listed building into an award-winning Four Seasons hotel and apartments.

The original building hosted the reception of the first meeting of the United Nations in 1946.

This prestigious restoration project was winner of the 2019 annual City Heritage Award. The award, jointly nominated by the City Heritage Society and The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers is given to the best Conservation or Refurbishment project in the City of London.

Category:

-          Hospitality

Services:

-          Architecture

Awards:

-          2019 City Heritage Award

-          2018 Lighting Design Awards, Highly Commended (dpa Lighting Consultants)

-          2019 AA Hotel Of The Year London

-          2018 Restaurant and Bar Design Awards, Best Overall UK Restaurant

Urbana helped friends’ practice Spacio Architects to detail and build this Michelin star Chef’s pan-Indian restaurant in Boxpark Wembley.

Client: Koolcha

Location: London

Category: Hospitality

Services:

- Architecture

- Interior design

- Lighting design

Together with friend’s architectural practice Spacio Architects, we built some of the new food stalls when restauration giant Boxpark arrived to Wembley. Longboys was one of them and we massively enjoyed working with their colour and fun loving owners, and also having some of their rather amazing doughnuts.

Client: Longboys

Location: London

Category: Hospitality

Services:

- Architecture

- Interior design

Client: private

Category: Residential

Services:

• Architecture

Concept design.

The dated interiors and heavily compartmented layout of this house was making their owners’ use of it difficult and they reached out to get help combining the social spaces of the house for ad-hoc visits, maximising storage space, extending through a new terrace and modernising finishes and fittings.

Client: private

Location: Rural Spain

Category: Residential

Services:

- Architecture

- Interior design

Status: Design stage.

Working with AJ100 executive architects’ practice Veretec, we detailed and built this highly intricate flagship studio and private art complex for British artist Damien Hirst in the heart of Soho.

Category:

-          Commercial

-          Art gallery

Services:

-          Executive architecture

Awards:

-          2021 Surface Design Awards, Workplace Exterior.

-          2019 RIBA London Awards, Shortlisted.

-          2018 Brick Awards, Shortlisted.

As part of AJ 100 executive architects’ practice Veretec team, we executed this transformation of a dilapidated light industrial building into light-filled contemporary workspace in Bethnal Green, sustainability being at the heart of it, with a cross laminated timber structure.

Category:

-          Commercial

Services:

-          Executive architecture

Awards:

-          2019 Architects’ Journal, Retrofit Award for Offices 5.000m2 and over.

-          2019 AJ100 Executive Architect of the Year, shortlisted.