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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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Valentine's day marked the launch our latest exhibition, Love Our Colleges X Love Your High Street.

Love Is in the Air!

Valentine's day marked the launch our latest exhibition, Love Our Colleges X Love Your High Street.

Love Is in the Air!

Our residential led scheme for Swan NU Living and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is nearing completion.

Completing the Curves at Barking 360

Car parks can be a conversation killer. Let’s make them a conversation starter...

Multi-Stories: Launch Party

Our latest exhibition explores the potential benefits that Colleges and local High Streets might enjoy through enhanced interrelationships.

Coming soon: Love Our Colleges X Love Your High Street

Christophe discusses the topic of Public Space as part of the Reasons to Be Cheerful podcast.

Christophe Egret in Conversation with Ed Miliband

The Horniman has appointed Studio Egret West as its masterplan architects and landscape architects to develop proposals for a series of projects to support the development of the south London attraction’s estate.

Horniman Museum and Gardens Masterplan

As part of our latest exhibition, Multi-Stories: Let’s Talk About Car Parks, we produced a film that captures our research and visions.

Multi-Stories: The Film

We have submitted plans for Northlake, a new neighbourhood in the Lakeside basin, Thurrock.

New Year, Northlake

Our current exhibition, ‘Multi-Stories: Let’s Talk About Car Parks’ features in this month’s edition of Parking Review.

Parking Review

A very Merry Christmas from all of us at Studio Egret West!

Merry Christmas!

Our library and vertical garden is inspired by a house of cards.

Gingerbread City 2018

Our latest exhibition - Multi-Stories: Let's Talk About Car Parks - is now open.

Multi-Stories: Now Open!

Please join us for the launch party on Thursday 29th November.

One Week Until Multi-Stories: Let's Talk About Car Parks

Our town centre regeneration scheme in Maidenhead has been given the go ahead by The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead.

The Landing - Landing Soon

Last night we hosted the launch party for the call for entries to find the best completed project with a contract value of £250,000 and under.

AJ Small Projects 2019 Launch Party

Carpenters Wharf is a new mixed-use scheme alongside the canal in Hackney Wick.

Carpenters Wharf Completes

Last night's 'Concept Drawing with Christophe' marked the first of our latest series of drawing workshops.

SEW Drawing Workshop #1

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

The Quarry Named Regeneration Project of the Year

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

Sturt's Yard: Combining Homes and Workspace

SEW are hosting this year’s launch party for the AJ Small Project Awards, with the event marking the beginning of the AJ’s search for the nation’s best project costing under £250,000.

AJ Small Project Awards Launch Party

Spare Time, an exhibition that celebrates the diverse interests of the individuals who comprise Studio Egret West, is open until the 31st October.

One More Week to See Spare Time

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

Structural Timber Awards 2018

Lucas Lawrence to present ''Introducing Carpenters Wharf'' at the leading construction and design show for London.

London Build 2018

Colleges Week is a campaign organised by the Association of Colleges to raise the profile of further education and persuade the government to redress eight years of underfunding.

Love Our Colleges

Exeter City Council has commissioned SEW to carry out a feasibility study to unlock the potential of a number of City Centre car parks for future development.

Exploring the Evolution of Car Parks in Exeter

Caxton Works has been shortlisted for the Mixed-use Project of the Year.

AJ Architecture Awards 2018

An exhibition that celebrates the diverse interests of the individuals who comprise Studio Egret West.

SPARE TIME is now open!

The accolade is part of the RTPI North West Awards for Planning Excellence.

Mayfield SRF named ‘Best Planning Policy Document’

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

(Re)Working London at Open House 2018

A series of watercolour sketches by Christophe Egret feature in the current exhibition being held at Twenty Twenty Gallery in Ludlow

Room: An exhibition curated by Peter Salter

Last weekend's sunshine made for the perfect time to explore some of the Studio's London projects.

A SEW September Stroll

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.

Starting the Catford Conversation

The Modern House talks to Christophe Egret about what it means to design homes in the 21st century.

SEW x The Modern House

Our residential scheme in Barking is progressing well.

Cambridge Road Construction Continues

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

Archiboo Web Awards 2018

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!

Little Architect

Three of our residential-led schemes are shortlisted for this year’s ‘London Construction Awards’ and ‘Housebuilder Awards’.

Quintuple Nominations

Studio Egret West with Carl Turner Architects, Civic Engineers and Greengage have been commissioned by Lewisham Council to lead a major initiative to re-shape Catford town centre.

Reshaping Catford Town Centre

Christophe Egret to discuss the future of architectural practice as part of Blueprint Magazine’s summer seminars.

Blueprint for the Future

The Canning Town based-scheme is a New London Award Winner 2018

Caxton Works is London's Mixed Use Building of the Year

Initially on display for the duration of the London Festival of Architecture in June, we’ve decided to extend the exhibition for two more weeks - come and say hi!

(Re)Working London: An extended exhibition

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

SEW On Tour: The London Mastaba

Construction is soon to commence on the Central Research Laboratory, a project aimed at supporting start-ups and SME businesses.

A New Commercial Hub for Brighton

Our distinctive scheme is the first residential phase of the Old Vinyl Factory in Hayes, West London.

The Boiler House Completes

SEW takes part in the annual sugar-fueled festivity, as part of the London Festival of Architecture.

The Great Architectural Bake-Off 2018

The SEW Founding Director will be presenting the studio's work as part of Vision 2018, a two-day conference and exhibition which examines the key issues facing architecture and development today.

David West bringing the Va Va Voom to Vision 2018

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

Wallpaper* Magazine - The New Brutalism

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?

(Re)Working London: An evening about living with industry

We are working with Lendlease to deliver High Road West, a transformative regeneration project in Tottenham.

Tottenham to be Transformed

Caxton Works has been shortlisted for this year’s New London Awards, and will now appear in the NLA exhibition and publication showcasing the capital’s very best new architecture, planning and development as selected by an international jury.

New London Awards 2018

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

MCC Endorses Mayfield

Working alongside developers HUB and Smedvig, our designs for the mixed use scheme will help transform the future of Maidenhead, establishing a positive street experience and revealing at its heart a new Garden Square.

The Landing Submitted for Planning

Today we celebrated Norwegian Constitution Day, with our graphic designer Malene treating us to a smörgåsbord of traditional Norwegian fare.

Norwegian Constitution Day

SEW Hot has kicked off the softball season, with our first game against architects KSS. Here’s to a winning (and hopefully sunny) streak of games!

SEW Hot

The first of the two buildings is emerging out of the ground.

Bath Western Riverside

We’re excited to announce that SEW are taking part in this year’s London Festival of Architecture! We have teamed up with fellow architects and urbanists We Made That to host an exhibition about the future of London living with industry.

London Festival of Architecture 2018

Well, make that 18 actually. After a rather extended journey the studio enjoyed a study tour of Antwerp.

24 hours in Antwerp

We're delighted that our work at Preston Barracks in Brighton has been shortlisted in 3 categories at this years Planning Awards.

Planning Awards

Studio Egret West’s design for the regeneration of Mayfield – which includes Manchester's first public park in more than 90 years - has been approved for consultation by the city's executive committee.

Manchester Mayfield

Our proposals for a new mixed use development in Rye Lane, in Southwark, have been approved unanimously at planning committee.

Peckham

The Gingerbread City exhibition is on until the 22nd December. Check out our work in The Old Town and the other amazing baked buildings at The Museum of Architecture in South Kensington.

Gingerbread City

We're cycling from London to Manchester on the 9th of October to raise money for Manchester Action on Street Health.

Mash Up

Studio Egret West has been granted planning approval for Preston Barracks in Brighton.

Preston Barracks planning

Our first piece of built public space at The Old Vinyl Factory 'Gramophone Grove' is taking shape. Landscape architecture by Studio Egret West.

Gramophone Grove

We are delighted that our first publication

British Book Design and Production Awards 2017

Sadiq Khan has announced his new programme of

Mayor's Design Advocates

Vicarage Fields has been shortlisted in the Commercial Mixed-Use - Future Projects category of the WAF 2017 Awards. It's the 10th anniversary of WAF and the presentations will be in Berlin in November.

World Architecture Festival 2017

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.

Facelift for Hayes

David spoke at the Royal Academy of Arts where he presented the Old Vinyl Factory in Hayes.

Designing Urban Identities

Marking 12 years of practice, Studio Egret West’s first book Framing Serendipity is an idiosyncratic response to the challenge of mixed-use, higher-density neighbourhoods.

Framing Serendipity

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

Sound Of The Trumpet

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

Preston Barracks

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

Green light for Eastwick

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

Euston we have an Opportunity

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

A Visit to Bath

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

Barking consent lifts Blue Monday

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

Turn over a New Leaf

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from SEW.

Christmas 2016

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

Party at Pop

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

Bath Western Riverside

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

Shelf Life

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

Our man in Mapic

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

Eastwick and Sweetwater

Introducing Casper the Life Buoy, who will be mascot of

Casper the Life Buoy

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

Science Island

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

Mayfield

Charity project at designjunction.

Who’s Casper?

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

Vicarage Field

Our distinctive design for HUB Group nears completion.

The Boiler House Update

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.

SEW Milano...

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.

SEW is looking for new talent

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

A landmark for Kidbrooke

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