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The proposal delivers approximately 400sqm of exhibition / affordable workspace, approximately 380sqm of café space and 49 new high quality homes, many of which look over the River Lee Navigation and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

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The scheme in Erith has been recognised at this year's London Construction Awards 2018.

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SEW have submitted plans for a mixed-use scheme alongside Regent’s Canal in Hackney.

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The Boiler House – our recently completed scheme for HUB Residential - was highly commended in the Private Housing Project of the Year category.

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We’ve been working with the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation to bring our exhibition to Acton Business Centre this weekend.

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SEW and Carl Turner Architects have begun dialogue with the Catford community as part of our ongoing framework to guide the future of the town centre.

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Our residential scheme in Barking is progressing well.

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Studio Egret West has been shortlisted for Best Offline Experience in the Archiboo Web Awards 2018.

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Earlier in the year, the SEW team worked with Little Architect to design and make their own colourful and imaginative buildings- and what amazing creations they were!

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We spent yesterday afternoon basking in the sunshine and marvelling the ''London Mastaba’’, the latest installation by the enigmatic, Bulgarian-American artist Christo.

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Our ongoing refurbishment of Balfron Tower – and the design team behind it - has been featured in the July issue of Wallpaper*.

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Last night we hosted ‘(Re)Working London: An evening about living with industry’, where ourselves, alongside We Made That, the GLA and U+I, explored the imperative challenge facing our city – how do we integrate industry with housing?

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We’re thrilled that our strategic regeneration framework for Mayfield has been fully endorsed by Manchester City Council’s Executive Committee.

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There is a hive of activity on site, as the Music Box nears Practical Completion. The perforated steel cladding has taken shape, revealing the screaming girls synonymous with Beatlemania; a band with deep roots to HMV and The Old Vinyl Factory.

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Four giant trumpets have arrived in Gramophone Grove as part of the Old Vinyl Factory masterplan.

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Studio Egret West submit a planning application for the tranformation of a Georgian army barracks into new homes and a rejuvenated university campus.

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Approved by the LLDC, the 300-home scheme marks the first phase of wider proposals to create two neighbourhoods.

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LB Camden have appointed Studio Egret West as design adviser to support the production of a Planning Brief for the Euston Station.

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A new year site visit to Bath Western Riverside and the true extents of the scheme can now be seen.

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On 16th January 2017, otherwise known as the Bluest Monday in recent UK history, we had a piece of good news.

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To celebrate the New Year, Studio Egret West is offering 50% off the books in Shelf Life.

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We hired Pop Brixton for our Xmas party and what a night we had.

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No. 1 Victoria Bridge Square and No. 1 Riverside Square sit at the frontispiece of Bath Western Riverside development in Bath by Crest Nicholson.

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Studio Egret West opens a look before you buy design book shop.

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David West has cycled 700km and climbed over 6000m from Girona to Cannes, for Coram the amazing children’s charity.

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The development will provide 302 high quality new homes, new employment space and open spaces that deliver the highest standards in sustainable design.

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Our proposal for the National Science and Innovation Centre of Lithuania is about journeys and processes.

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Studio Egret West are delighted to lead design of Manchester Mayfield for U+I.

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Studio Egret West have submitted an outline planning application for a comprehensive redevelopment of the Vicarage Field Shopping Centre in Barking Town Centre.

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Our distinctive design for HUB Group nears completion.

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Our site visit to Roach Road unveils the start of something special.

Roach Road

First glance of the Caxton Works facade as scaffolding is slowly peeled away to reveal our Caxton Blend brickwork.

Revealing the 'Caxton Blend'

Our design for Cambridge Road in Barking has been shortlisted for Best Scheme in Planning in the National Housing Awards.

Cambridge Road Shortlisted

This years studio trip took us to Milan where our first stop off was the reimagined Lake Iseo.

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We still love EU.

We are SEW IN!

The new pedestrian street at The Movement project in Greenwich is now open!

Walk this way

The Nursery at Park Hill is complete.

Grace Owen Nursery

A lot has happened in Hayes, slab has been poured, with a nice smooth finish, and most of the steel structure is in place.

Another sunny visit to Hayes

Something very special has happened in the Studio. Stop by during Clerkenwell Design Week to see our purple patch.

Purple Patch

The concrete slabs are complete, revealing the seductive curves of this new Premier Inn Hotel.

Bromley, Blooms into Flower

Studio Egret West submit proposal for 30 new homes in Peckham.

Rye Lane

Newly graduated Part 1 and 2 Architects.

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Studio Egret West have been shortlisted for the 2016 Housing Design Awards.

The Boiler House

Sign O' The Times

BBC Bristol visited our studio this morning to film a piece about our proposal to temporarily move the Houses of Parliament to a site adjacent to Bristol Temple Meads station.

HoP Bristol on the BBC...

A new exhibition proposing that the Houses of Parliament temporarily relocate to Bristol while the Palace of Westminster undergoes refurbishment.

HoP Bristol

We have been shortlisted for a secret project in Iceland. Cecilia, Julija and Duncan travelled to visit the site and workshop with our local collaborators.

Ice Ice Baby...

The redevelopment of the Rich Estate in Bermondsey was granted planning approval last night.

Rich Mix

Our proposed redevelopment of a 1980s shopping centre next to Barking station has been revealed.

Vicarage Field

Benson Elliot asked SEW to prepare a vision for Wolverhampton Westside.

Project WOW

SEW was invited by the Mayor of Brno to explore how to best grow the city as a 21st and 22nd century European city.

Gro' Brno

Studio Egret West have been shortlisted for the Building Design

Infrastructure AYA 2016

Before taking off for South Africa to speak at the Design Indaba Festival, Safia Qureshi of Studio D Tale gave us a run through of her speech on Cup Club.

Breaking the Echo Chamber

Why do brutalist buildings cause such strong divide in public opinion?

The Brutalist Divide

We are in a new phase of our studio’s evolution in our amazing new showroom and need to find talented and enthusiastic people to join us.

SEW is looking for new talent

Studio Egret West celebrated an amazing year together in a winter wonderland, surrounded by snow kissed trees and the scent of pine.

Merry Christmas

The East Wick zonal masterplan was granted full planning permission at committee yesterday evening.

East Wick Granted Outline Consent

Our scheme adjacent to Barking Station in London received overwhelming support from the planning committee this week as they resolved to grant planning permission.

SEW Successful in Barking

The Flour building at the heart of Ancoats in Manchester has been granted planning permission.

Manchester Life

This week, our vision for the future of London Underground stations was launched at The Platform Building in Southwark.

From Pavement to Platform

We are currently consulting on our Chiswick Roundabout project, a 32 storey mixed use building set to deliver 320 homes and 450 jobs.

Chiswick Tower

Our approach to Balfron Tower has been one of constructive conservation; respecting the external fabric of the building and restoring the internal communal spaces.

Constructive Conservation

Wandsworth Council have backed new planning guidance for the Alton area in Roehampton at a full council meeting.

Regenerating Roehampton

Last night LB Tower Hamlets granted planning permission for our Millharbour Village project.

Millharbour Village granted planning

This years studio trip took us to Hamburg where we spend a day wondering the city and consuming its architecture and public spaces.

Trip to Hamburg

Studio Egret West and Create Culture have joined forces to bring a piece of India to London during the London Design Festival.

INfluence

Great progress at Park Hill, as the Nursery is starting to take shape.

Grace Owen Nursery

The St Marks Square project in Bromley is well under way. Studio Egret West is responsible for the design of the stepping public realm and the hotel.

Making a Mark

Phase One of the Old Vinyl Factory is on site.

The Gatefold Building

The Powerhouse has been granted Reserved Matters consent and starts on site in August.

The Powerhouse

A sunny day heralded a sunny photo of the Studio Egret West team. Smiles all round!

Class of 2015

Showcasing London Underground’s new design vision.

From Pavement to Platform

Studio Egret West open their Clerkenwell Studio and showroom to showcase an array of mixed use, place making projects.

Clerkenwell Design Week

Studio Egret West hosted an Archiboo talk with Will Hunter, who presented his vision for a new London School of Architecture.

London School of Architecture

We are delighted to announce that London Borough of Bexley have granted planning permission for our transformation of Erith.

Ecological Erith

We are very happy to report that our proposals for 4 Roach Road in Hackney Wick have been granted planning permission.

Wonder Wick

V Bridge was one of 86 entries to the Nine Elms to Pimlico pedestrian and cycle bridge competition. We were runners up.. But we are still cycling…

V Bridge

This is our entry for a competition which aimed to shape the regeneration of the Flaminio area of Rome.

City of Science, Rome

Studio Egret West have helped Berkeley Homes secure planning for a 21 storey tower as part of the wider Kidbrooke Village Masterplan

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The Mayor of London and the London Legacy Development Corporation announced today that Places for People and Balfour Beatty have been appointed to bring forward plans.

Eastwick and Sweetwater

We were recently invited to undertake a ‘parallel assignment’ to consider the future transformation of the area around Paradis station in Stavanger on Norway’s west coast

Beyond Paradis