Birds Portchmouth Russum Win Architecture Prize at RA Summer Exhibition 2011

The  Bovis Lend Lease & Architects’ Journal Prize for Architecture at this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has been awarded to Birds Portchmouth Russum for two housing projects, Highlands Housing, Jersey and Wood Lane, Private House in London. The Highlands scheme is a collaboration with Richard Le Sueur, a leading architect based in Jersey who recently completed the celebrated El Tico beach restaurant.

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We visited the show on the weekend and it feels like one of the strongest in years.  Many thanks to Piers Gough and Alan Stanton for putting it together.

The show is on until the 15th of August - go and see it if you can!

Downley House cladding nears completion.

Work on the timber cladding of Downley House is complete, and soon the render will be going up.  In the photo you can see the northern elevation of the house, with the wall of the old house on the left.

Birds Portchmouth Russum in "Architects' Sketchbooks"

Birds Portchmouth Russum's sketches for our Rochester Creek Crossing bridge design were included in Thames and Hudson's recently published Architects' Sketchbooks. Available from RIBA Bookshops.

Second presentation to Jersey Architecture Commission

Birds Portchmouth Russum and Richard le Sueur architects presented their revised housing scheme to the Jersey Architecture Commission this month.

Downley House construction update

Work on site is progressing well, including this beautiful copper work by Peters Roofing.

House at Wood Lane under construction

Birds Portchmouth Russum's design for the house at 6 Wood Lane is under construction.  The masonry lower half of the house is almost complete, and the pre-fabricated timber upper sections were recently craned into place, creating the fabulous space visible in the photo above.

Executive architects on board for Ythan Lodge

The award winning Glasgow practice Cameron Webster have been brought on board as executive architects for Ythan Lodge.   Cameron Webster are locally based, and the ideal practice to take the project through to completion.  

Image Copyright Cameron Webster Architects

Downley House CLT erected

The cross laminated timber (CLT) structure of Downley House, fabricated by Eurban in Switzerland,  commences on site this week. The CLT was CNC machine cut complete with door and window openings and penetrations for services, and brought over to the UK in lorries.  This modern method of construction is growing more popular over here in the UK, and its easy to see why.  Its sustainable, strong, flexible and the entire structure for a house like Downley can go up in a few weeks.

Downley House: cross laminated timber structure signed off

The cross laminated timber (CLT) structure of Downley House, supplied by Eurban,  is now fully designed and ready to be manufactured. Cross laminated timber is like oversized plywood - very strong and dimensionally stable, and yet flexible enough to be drilled on site.

Southwark Park Primary School Phase 1 Complete

Phase 1 of Southwark Park Primary School including underpinning and repair work to the existing Victorian buildings, with a contract value of £1.47m, is now complete.  Phase 2 is under review in consideration of the current financial and political climate.