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Imagine nature-rich Project: Bristol Harbourside, Bristol
Client: Crest Nicholson Regeneration
pedestrian-friendly
streets linking city Our masterplan for Bristol Harbourside
landmarks has transformed this brownfield site
into elegant and enjoyable places to
live, work and relax. Organised around
three crossing pedestrian routes that
link local landmarks, the scheme
successfully restores connections with
Brunel
Mile the rest of the city through generous
spaces with impressive views, carefully
Cathedral
Walk designed buildings and by opening
up the waterside - now a popular
Riverside
Walk pedestrian commuter and jogging
route. Community was at the heart of
the strategy for the development of the
Harbourside and the masterplan was
designed with extensive public
consultation with local people,
businesses, politicians, the Cathedral
and numerous interested cultural
groups across the city.
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Imagine maximising an Project: Maitland Park Estate, London Imagine giving all the Project: Eastfields Estate, London
Borough of Camden Borough of Merton
urban estate’s potential Client: Camden Council
residents of an existing Client: Clarion Housing Group
for the benefit of its estate access to its
existing residents The London Borough of Camden has restorative green heart Designed with extensive stakeholder
been considering various ways to consultation, our concept for the
meet its commitment to deliver better renewed estate turns it inside-out,
homes and sustainable communities replacing a monolith perimeter building
by raising finances from building new with a series of buildings that frame
homes on small plots of land. Through shared spaces, acknowledge long
thorough consultation and feedback views and vary in scale to create a
sessions with residents, we showed how lively layering in silhouette. The mixed
their concerns were being listened to development doubles density from
and addressed, leading to complete 400 to 800 homes, whilst enhancing
support for a much more extensive townscape qualities with three distinct
redevelopment than had initially been character areas. New lanes lead into the
anticipated. Now under construction site creating smaller scale mews streets
are 115 homes and a new Tenants’ that provide the majority of family
and Residents’ Hall with dedicated homes. A central linear park provides a
communal garden connecting to the major connection through the estate as
mature relandscaped park. well as a place to relax, dwell and play.
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Imagine the people of a Project: Stonebridge Estate, London
Borough of Brent
London estate driving its Client: The Hyde Group
regeneration
A brilliantly led Housing Action Trust
(HAT) put its faith in the people
of Stonebridge Estate to drive its
regeneration. We designed for them
an economically self-sustaining mixed-
use community centre that includes
59 flats, a health centre, a community
hall, a small supermarket and a café,
with rental value recycled back into
the community to support educational
and employment programmes. The
‘Spring’ development followed,
gathering 117 social rent and private
sale homes around a shared garden.
Mixed-use Stonebridge Hillside Hub Upside-down mews houses keep living The circular plan of the nine-storey ‘rotunda’
The buildings are designed to ensure spaces up and away from the noise of the road, softens its impact. Affordable homes are created
sunlight reaches private and public opening onto terraces that catch the sun through a simple cruciform internal plan.
open spaces.
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Imagine creatively Project: Winchester Square, London
Borough of Southwark
rethinking old buildings Client: Private Developer
for new uses
The reconstruction of Winchester
Square has re-defined an historic
London street with high-quality,
contextually-driven, modern
developments supporting well-
planned apartments as well as office
and commercial use. Close to bustling
Borough Market, the masterplan
includes the preservation of Roman
remains and the mediaeval Winchester
Palace, and the radical refurbishment
of a Victorian hop warehouse. Built
as individual and distinct projects, all
phases of the masterplan share design
principles yet don’t suffer from the
overbearing uniformity of some city
centre developments.
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Bunhill 2 Energy Centre
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Cullinan Studio services Imagine wasted heat Project: Bunhill 2 Energy Centre
Client: Islington Council
on energy projects from London’s Tube
heating local homes Bunhill 2 celebrates the necessary,
• Coordinating equipment with • Preparing statutory applications for expressing a language of civic
buildings and landscape planning and heritage consent industrial architecture that could
begin to define this new typology of
• Planning and carrying out • Providing full service architectural heat networks. It is the first scheme
stakeholder engagement service for implemented projects in the world to take wasted heat
from an Underground train network
• Interpreting complex and • We have in-house Certified to provide lower cost, greener heat
new technology through easy to Passive House Designers to local homes, schools and leisure
understand diagrams, visualisations, centres. Visual impact was minimised
animations and fly-throughs or films • In addition we have the capability by composing the architecture to echo
to design building fabric existing building lines, strengthen
• Supporting social value objectives improvements to reduce street edges and redefine the street
energy demand as part of a corner. Bunhill 2 provides a blueprint
decarbonisation strategy. for decarbonising heat in potential
future schemes around the world,
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National Automotive Innovation Centre
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Imagine how nature Project: National Automotive
Innovation Centre (NAIC)
could inspire the next Client: Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Motors,
generation of innovators WMG at the University of Warwick
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Imagine how you Project: Foundry (Cullinan Studio HQ), Imagine designing an Project: Global Witness Workplace
London Borough of Islington Client: Global Witness
might design your Client: Cullinan Studio
HQ for a global charity
own workplace before they know where Global Witness is an NGO which
This Victorian canal-side warehouse they’re going aims to uncover corruption through
was in poor condition and required investigative journalism. Shared values
radical change to become our low- of sustainability, ethical sourcing and
energy, low-carbon collaborative employee well-being led them to
workspace. We took a fabric-first choose us to carry out a consultation
approach, retaining 80% of the and define a strategic brief for their
existing building fabric whilst creating future workplace. We worked with
a naturally ventilated office. A new Global Witness to interrogate potential
steel frame structure interacts with the properties to help them negotiate
existing Victorian frame and masonry, viability and lease terms. This included
stabilising the building fabric, including investigating four existing properties
the listed south wall and timber roof in the city of London by testing spatial
trusses. A void between canal-level and layouts and scoping opportunity for
Wide ranging consultation aimed to cut across
street-level floors unifies the studio the organisation by using bespoke methods of transforming space to meet healthy
and reveals the scale of the canal engagement. Campaigners were set a creative building targets.
task using their skillset – utilising a polaroid
elevation’s double-height windows, camera to investigate their workplace and report
maximising views and daylight. headline issues.
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Imagine an office Project: Office Fit-Out, London
Borough of Hackney
that celebrates Client: Jerram Falkus Construction
family values
Our design for Jerram Falkus’
remodelled office in Shoreditch brings
natural light and ventilation into the
deep plan building, whilst providing
a variety of work settings. Internal
windows create connecting views
through the offices, meeting rooms and
reception area. This sense of openness
reinforces their family culture and
their commitment to wellbeing in the
workplace. Reclaimed objects were
lovingly restored and re-purposed,
local companies were found to design
and make the lights and furniture, and
street artists decorated large wall in
the joinery workshop.
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Maggie’s Newcastle
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Imagine how nature Project: Maggie’s Newcastle
Client: Maggie’s
could offer a real sense
of calm to people in In challenging times, the charity
their time of need Maggie’s is there to offer social,
emotional and practical support
to people affected by cancer. We
believe that giving patients a way to
connect with nature is fundamental
to wellbeing: the garden at Maggie’s
Newcastle embraces the building so
that it can be seen from every corner
inside, whilst enclosing a sheltered
south-facing planted courtyard.
Maggie’s Newcastle is designed to
allow visitors a choice of environments;
a mix of private and more social
spaces. The use of natural materials
creates a warm and tactile effect,
going against the grain of institutional
convention.
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Imagine how nature Project: Alder Hey Community Cluster,
Liverpool
could benefit young Client: Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
people’s mental health
Contact with nature has proven
outcomes for the recovery of those
with mental health or behavioural
issues. The new Community Cluster
stands as an innovative, joined-up
approach to the treatment of physical
and mental health for children and
young adults. Cloistered routes
surround two courtyard buildings,
where clusters of consulting rooms,
bedrooms and day spaces are gathered
around an outdoor room - a garden
offering activities, daylight and fresh
air. Internally, timber is expressed
throughout, chosen for its warmth,
smell and feel, and its environmental
and wellbeing benefits.
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Imagine a community Project: Homes for Later Living
Client: Central Bedfordshire Council
for later years living
that engages the whole By ensuring homes for older people
neighbourhood and those needing care are set in the
heart of the community, people can
make a positive decision on how they
want to live. An active landscape with
community spaces at its heart creates a
vibrant place that encourages social
interaction and intergenerational
connections. Our feasibility study
reinvents the traditional care home
providing a social community
environment around a central plaza.
With excellent daylight levels, plentiful
views to natural surroundings, and
outdoor spaces at every level, residents
of the care home and independent
living facility are fully connected with
nature.
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Rosendale Primary School
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Imagine if we could bring Project: Holy Cross Primary School
Client: Diocese of Clifton
the power of nature into
every classroom We used cutting-edge off-site
prefabrication methods to deliver
this energy-efficient and speedily
constructed new school. Working
with a timber-frame manufacturer
we developed a kit of structural
timber cassettes and laminated
timber columns and beams that
can be adapted to suit both the
particular requirements of a site and
the educational aspirations of the
building’s users. Two profiled wings
of classrooms are connected by a
lower central spine containing group
rooms and specialist learning areas.
All classrooms to have direct access to
covered external learning spaces with
views over the playing fields.
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Imagine how the climate Project: Rosendale Primary School, Imagine how breaking Project: Shenley Academy and Sixth
London Borough of Lambeth Form Centre, Birmingham
strike generation could Client: Rosendale Primary School
with tradition could Client: Shenley Academy
help to green schools inspirit the next
Our initial commission for Rosendale generation This new-build Academy for 1,150
was to refurbish classrooms on a eleven to eighteen year olds is
shoe-string over the summer holidays. organised around six learning centres
Through our consultation process we which are designed to be as flexible
asked more probing questions about and adaptable as possible. At the heart
the pressures this oversubscribed of each cluster is a social learning zone,
south London school was facing in a which is open to general circulation.
challenging funding environment. So, Here the classrooms have glazed
in parallel to the initial refurbishment, walls that give a sense of openness
we helped the school to devise a and enrich the experience of walking
future plan to improve the school through the building. Theatre and
organisation, building fabric, outdoor dance spaces are conveniently located
space and energy systems; the plan in the central wing, adjacent the main
continues to enable smart decision- entrance, to ease access for members
making and support funding of the local community. On the south
applications. facade the hill is dug away to form a
theatre court with terraced seating.
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Imagine how next Project: Black Country & Marches
Institute of Technology (IoT), Dudley
generation learning will Client: Dudley College of Technology
transform our economy
The IoT aims to transform the economy
of the Black Country through an
industry-led collaboration between
employers and further education. The
project was unique for its innovative
design and construction process,
with Dudley College pioneering the
Integrated Project Insurance (IPI)
alliance model. IPI supports innovation
by promoting a culture of mutual trust,
no blame/no claim and the freedom
for decisions to be made on a best for
project basis. Our first sketches were
guided by the intelligence of the whole
team, avoiding waste and dead ends in
the design process. The IoT welcomed
its first cohort of students in 2021.
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Imagine a building Project: Olisa Library Imagine if buildings Project: Fitzwilliam College Masterplan
Client: Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge & Modernisation
that inspires students’ could remain fit-for- Client: Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
studies The new library and IT centre at purpose indefinitely
Fitzwilliam College creates a place Designed and built in 1963 the Central
for study that enjoys the peaceful Building’s functions had become
landscape and respects the adjacent outdated and needed a holistic
listed architecture. solution to make them effective and
comfortable spaces, extending their
A spiralling stairtower, with desks at usefulness into the future. Following
landing levels, takes readers between the relocation of some of the building’s
library floors and culminates in the original functions to newly constructed
‘nest’ level where readers enjoy even parts of the College, including our
wider views across the Campus. Olisa Library, we reviewed the spatial
opportunities and functionality of the
“Users of the building are delighted building. Our phased refurbishment
with it, students having their favourite is improving the building fabric and
places and finding their studies Phase 2a refurbished the large concrete and environmental performance, and is
glass lantern - the iconic centre-piece ‘floating’
inspired by them.” above the Great Hall - and improved the external rationalising the use of spaces to
fabric to the hall’s large single glazed space, increase opportunities for dining,
introducing a new ventilation system to greatly
enhance internal comfort. conference and social areas.
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Imagine a place for Project: Academic Square Imagine a new Project: City Campus, Singapore
Client: WMG, University of Warwick Client: Singapore Management
developing ideas that university campus University (SMU)
will shape our future WMG is an international role model seemlessly integrated
for successful collaboration between into a mature park This new campus for 6,000 students
academia and the public and private is located in the heart of the historic
sectors. Over two decades we have and cultural centre of Singapore and
worked with them on a series of designed to keep a sense of open
buildings that create a new sector space and visual connection between
of the campus; the International the historic buildings that surround it.
Manufacturing Centre, the International Three tiers of landscape - concourse
Digital Laboratory, the International garden courts, open ground floors
Institute for Product and Service and fifth floor roof gardens - act as
Innovation and the International both a lung to individual buildings
Institute for Nanocomposite and collectively as a signature of a
Manufacturing. The highly adaptable ‘Campus in the park’. Four schools and
and flexible facilities are designed a library are linked by an underground
with good acoustic separation, concourse, which has views into open
visual connections, spaces for social courtyards that connect the concourse
interaction, maximised natural light and to the street, park and campus
layout flexibility. facilities.
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Kew Herbarium, Library, Art & Archives Wing
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Imagine a workplace for Project: New Herbarium, Library, Art
and Archives Wing
scientists surrounding a Client: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
botanical archive
The new Herbarium wing provides
excellent conditions for Kew’s priceless
collection of dried plant specimens and
rare botanical books and illustrations,
whilst securing the Royal Botanic
Gardens’ status as the world leader
for the study of plant diversity and
conservation. A condition for funding
for the new Herbarium – as part of a
World Heritage Site – was to open the
collections up to a wider audience.
There are now large rooms for research
and collaboration, a reading room
open to the public by appointment,
and a new entrance with a generous
reception area and facilities for school
groups and visiting researchers.
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Imagine giving future Project: BFI Master Film Store, Imagine the impact of Project: Conkers Aerial Walkway,
Warwickshire Leicestershire
generations a window Client: British Film Institute (BFI)
planting 30 million trees Client: National Forest Charitable Trust
into their cultural history in your neighbourhood
The BFI National Archives is the most The National Forest is an inspiring
significant collection of the moving story of how nature can return to a
image in the world. We designed a post-industrial landscape. We worked
highly efficient, sub-zero temperature with the Trust on a masterplan and
archive to provide ideal conditions for visitor strategy to connect people with
preserving master copies of extremely the evolving forest. The masterplan
fragile and unstable nitrate and contains many features including a
acetate film. The building performs 400m aerial walkway through the
its function in an elegantly composed trees; the longest treetop walkway in
structure, with pre-cast concrete fire the UK. Accessible to all, an important
shrouds articulating its long elevations. aspiration for the walkway is to
The building was realised through support school children visiting the
intense research, consultation and forest. At several points along the
collaboration with the BFI archive route, treehouses or ‘eyries’ have
team, international film experts and been designed to function as covered
engineers; setting a new international viewing platforms as well as event and
standard for the storage of film. educational spaces.
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Imagine a gateway Project: John Hope Gateway, Edinburgh
Client: Royal Botanic Garden
building that creates Edinburgh (RBGE)
outsides inside
This low-energy, low-carbon visitor
centre is a threshold into the hidden
world of the RBGE, with exhibitions,
a media studio, shops, a restaurant
and a new bio-diversity garden. Most
visitors arrive through the glass-house
porch, their first view focused on the
Garden beyond before they turn and
rise gently in to the main hall. A porous
ground floor allows visitors to enter
and leave the building from many
other points and flow freely between
different areas. Sailing above all is
the timber roof, extending to create
sheltered indoor and outdoor spaces
and framing views of the arboretum.
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Imagine a place that Project: RHS Garden Hyde Hall Hilltop,
Essex
could inspire a nation Client: Royal Horticultural Society
to garden
The new Hilltop buildings comprise the
Clore Learning Centre, funded by Clore
Duffield Foundation, and the Hilltop
Lodge, home to a new award-winning
field to fork restaurant and activity
barn. The Learning Centre completes
the RHS’s nationwide purpose-built
education spaces, equipping Hyde Hall
with the facilities to drive forward the
RHS Campaign for School Gardening;
inspiring schools to provide children
with gardening opportunities to
improve physical and mental well-
being. We worked with award-winning
landscape designer, Adam Frost, on the
wider masterplan and the new gardens
surrounding the Hilltop Buildings.
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Push-Pull House
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Imagine how nature at Project: Push-Pull House, Middlesex
Client: Private
home could inspire and
transform our lives Our client’s existing house was dark
and gloomy, blocking views and access
to a wonderful garden. The new house
is pushed and pulled into three parts.
Overlapping voids and double-height
walls form playful volumes so the living
spaces flow together, making for a
fun and sociable home. Free corners
frame views out to the garden and
daylight from high clerestories in the
split gable design cuts deep into the
central hallway - glimpses of changing
weather and sky follow the family as
they go about their day. Everywhere
are the warm textures of the exposed
timber structure that is inherently low-
carbon and low-toxic; healthy for the
occupants and for the planet.
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Imagine a city centre Project: Baldwin Terrace Apartments, Imagine all the family Project: Live/Work House, London
London Borough of Islington Borough of Islington
apartment offering Client: Jerram Developments
working from home, Client: Private
healthy green views harmoniously
This five-storey apartment building Our client challenged us to remodel
optimises its narrow south-facing site their Victorian house, located in
to provide dual aspect accommodation an Islington Conservation Area, to
with clear views of the adjacent accommodate new home-working
canal basin. Four duplex units each spaces for the whole family, enlarged
have their own front door with living bedrooms, and a dramatic timber
spaces at street level and bedrooms staircase tying all the spaces together.
at canal level below. Above the duplex Wood has been used extensively in the
apartments, eight units are paired on construction and finishes of the house
each floor, with the two penthouse to reduce the embodied carbon of the
apartments enjoying south-facing project. Access to the garden has been
corner terraces. A layered south facade improved to allow a fluid relationship
of sliding windows and louvres allows between inside and out. An open
residents to passively control the plan kitchen and dining space opens
internal environment whilst enjoying to an external terrace overlooking
natural light and ventilation. the garden, further establishing a
connection with nature.
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Imagine a home Project: House in Hampstead, London
Client: Private
that fosters family
togetherness Our client came to us for our design
flair to remodel their Georgian
home. The poor spatial layout was
undermining how the family wanted
to be together. How could we make
places for working parents and busy
teenagers to do their own thing
without being shut off in upstairs
rooms? Using the pure geometry of a
cube, we created a new large central
living space, off which open smaller
rooms to match the rhythms of family
life: there’s a warm and welcoming
place to come together in but also
spaces to quietly retreat to. The design
maximises natural daylight, ventilation,
materials and a connection to nature.
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Imagine a Victorian house Project: Artist’s House, Brixton, London
Client: Private
transformed into a 21st
century home This Victorian terraced house has been
reconfigured to meet the needs of
an artist and her growing family.
Subdivided, small, dark rooms lacked
gathering space for family and friends,
and the house was cold and damp in
winter. The family now has a bright
and spacious living room that flows
through to the kitchen, offering dual
aspect views to the outside. Upstairs, a
study nook enables home working for
the first time and a new loft bedroom
has bespoke oak storage and a built-in
bed making creative use of a change
in floor level. Walls have been lined
with calcium silicate natural insulation,
resulting in a healthier, better quality
space for family togetherness.
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Workplace Sector Lead: Frameworks we are on: Clients we collaborate with: Selected Recent Awards:
Carol Costello LHC ADS Framework InnovateUK BD Sustainability Architect of the Year
carol.costello@cullinanstudio.com National Framework Partnership Maggie’s BD Public Building Architect of the Year
020 3307 4016 Homes England Framework Alder Hey Children’s Hospital RIBA National Awards
University of Nottingham British Film Institute RIBA Regional Building of the Year
Kingston University Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew RIBAJ MacEwen Award Commendation
EN Procure Green Retrofit DPS Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh BCO National Award
Higher Education Sector Lead: London Construction Programme DPS Royal Horticultural Society Building Awards Project of the Year
Lara Michael Waltham Forest DPS Bankside Open Spaces Trust AIA UK Excellence in Design Awards
lara.michael@cullinanstudio.com Swan Housing DPS National Forest Charitable Trust New London Awards Environmental Prize
020 3307 4024 Clarion Housing Group DPS University of Nottingham Civic Trust Awards
Kingston University London Healthy Workplace Award
University of Warwick RICS Awards
University of East London National Housing Award
Education Sector Lead: University of Cambridge Sunday Times British Homes Awards
Fitzwilliam College Cambridge Building Awards Architectural Practice
Alex Abbey Queen Mary University of the Year
alex.abbey@cullinanstudio.com City University Building Awards BIM Initiative of the Year
020 3307 4011 Dudley College Building Better Healthcare Awards
Hyde Housing Association AJ Retrofit Award
L&Q Housing Association AJ Specification Award
Clarion Housing Group BCI Award - Highly Commended
Health & Wellbeing Sector Lead:
Camden Council Building for Life Awards
Lucy Brittain Islington Council Wood Awards
lucy.brittain@cullinanstudio.com Lambeth Council Brick Awards
020 3307 4027 Southwark Council RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Edward Cullinan
Waltham Forest Council
Merton Council
Global Witness
Homes and Communities Sector Lead: Jaguar Land Rover
Kevin Goh TATA Motors
kevin.goh@cullinanstudio.com Woburn Estates
020 3307 4022 Getty Conservation Institute
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