Press - Jamie Fobert Architects

bd has reported good news about our extension to Kettle’s Yard Gallery in Cambridge. The piece focuses on the grants recently awarded by a joint funding initiative between the Culture Department and the charitable Wolfson Foundation.

‘Jamie Fobert gallery to start (11 years after he won it)’

JFA is working on a book to be published by Artifice Books.

The book is intended to convey not only the finished product of an architecture practice but also the process of design inherent in the work.

Luker House has been selected as one of six projects shortlisted to receive the RIBA Manser Medal for best house of 2014. The shortlist has been published by the Architect’s Journal this month which can also be read online here.

The Architect’s Journal, 4 September 2014

The Architectural Review has published a feature about Levring House, written by Daniel Rosbottom, with photographs by Dennis Gilbert.

“Reconsidering the archetype of the mews dwelling, this new house explores the tension between the rigour of its street presence and a fluid inner realm … From the tightly coiled arrangement of cellular rooms below, up through the more spatially plastic volumes of the living spaces, it finally presents a vista across a vast city room.”

The Architectural Review. January 2015, 1415. Volume CCIIIVII.

A book about JFA’s work has now been published by Artifice Books.

Working in Architecture sets out to convey not only the finished product of an architecture practice but also to make plain the process of design inherent in the work. With introductory texts by Joseph Rykwert and George Baird, the book is divided into four parts, each of which documents a set of projects by JFA, following the sequence of the design process from sketches to development to completed work.

Working in Architecture, Jamie Fobert Architects, 2015, Artifice books on architecture, ISBN 978-1908967305

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On 28 May, we celebrated the publication by Artifice Books of Working in Architecture with a book launch party at the Tate Modern Restaurant. We were delighted that so many of our past and present clients, colleagues, friends and supporters were able to celebrate with us.

Our new floor for the 220m-long Burlington Arcade, adjacent to the Royal Academy on Piccadilly, London, is now complete. Comprising four British stones – Moorcroft, Ashburton, Mendip Marble and Burlington Slate – cut into thousands of intricate pieces, the new floor takes its design cues from the geometry of the arcade itself as well as several neoclassical British floor patterns. It is a practical, accessible and beautiful addition to this historic shopping arcade.

Read Wallpaper*s impressions of the new floor.

Visit The Burlington Arcade.

With construction work currently progressing well in St Ives, our designs for this major gallery extension are featured in the current issue of Domus:

“His long-term frequentation and collaboration with artists constitutes the solid basis upon which Jamie Fobert founded his project for a prestigious British institution, a building that shows his compositional skill and sensitivity to the character of the site’s surroundings.”

Domus. July/August 2015. #993.

In an enlightening piece published in Domus, the design, fabrication and installation of our travertine stair is examined alongside a museum intervention in Milan by Massimo Curzi.

The scale and elegance of our carefully crafted stair “takes the London house towards the status of a house-museum”, writes Manolo Giorgi. He describes how, “as though it were a single, living organism, this mass of travertine shows its sculpted underbelly in a perfect continuation of the floor.”

Domus. June 2016. #1003.

Recently opened Fondaco dei Tedeschi, in Venice, is featured in the October edition of Wallpaper magazine. Ellie Stathaki writes that ‘the Fondaco baton’ was passed over to Jamie Fobert Architects to create the internal retail vision.

“The architect [Jamie] drew inspiration from all things Venetian to create a contemporary space full of bespoke elements, from shelving to display cases.”

Daven Wu’s online version is still available to read on Wallpaper’s website.

Yesterday, Tate hosted a press launch to announce that the new Tate St Ives will be opening to the public on 14 October 2017, with double the existing exhibition space. With great excitement, curators revealed that the first exhibition in JFA’s new gallery will be a solo show by artist Rebecca Warren.

Jamie and project architect Matthew Whittaker shared our design with the gathered press. Dezeen gives a descriptive account of how we are channelling St Ives’ beautiful light into our submerged gallery.

BD has published a technical study of the Tate St Ives extension. The piece discusses the importance of light, construction challenges and how landscaping and locally sourced granite have been used to integrate the extension into the Cornish coastline.

“Jamie Fobert’s discreet subterranean gallery extension has calmed locals’ concerns about the impact on the town’s skyline and reflects in its design all the elements that make St Ives special”.

Written by Thomas Lane, BD Online. 26 May 2017.

Jamie and partner Dominique have opened up their getaway home in Galicia, Northern Spain, to Caroline Roux for a feature in Wallpaper’s July 2017 design special.

Entitled ‘Stone Love’, the article takes the reader through the twelve year development story of what was once a long-abandoned house now stunningly transformed. Roux writes ‘It’s so beautifully embedded in the landscape, you’d hardly know it’s there’.

To read the full article visit Wallpaper or read more on Camino de Playa here on our website.

Jamie was invited by Wallpaper* to design a one-off ‘offertory bag’ with leather specialists Studioart for the annual Wallpaper* Handmade exhibition, launched at Salone del Mobile 2017.

“While researching offertory bags I came across many historic examples that were both deep and lined in richly tactile material, like luxuriant velvet. I interpreted this as an attempt by the church to endow the act of almsgiving with a brief moment of pleasure. I began to imagine a bag where the act of reaching inside became a sensory journey. Three iterations of the offertory bag were created: one with a tough, black outside and a soft, warm interior; one with a mild, malleabale outside and a prickly interior; and one with a natural, hairy outside and a slick, cool interior”.

Jamie’s ‘Dig Deep’ bags and concept sketches are featured in this month’s Wallpaper* Magazine.

There has been a flurry of press today announcing the new Tate St Ives!

Ellis Woodman in The Telegraph described it as ‘ranked among the most beautiful galleries in the country’.

In The Times, Jonathan Morrison writes: ‘St Ives has always been famous for its magical light, and Fobert and his chambers have captured it and refined it, producing a limpid, cool radiance, as calming as an Arctic summer. It spreads evenly and softly across all the walls, and may just turn this new exhibition space into a world-beater.’

In The AJ, Rob Wilson presents a selection of our drawings and design material to describe the building.

Oliver Wainwright in The Guardian describes our new gallery as a ‘stunning space’ and examines some of the wider issues in the story of the building.

Photography by Dennis Gilbert.

Filmaker, Tapio Snellman, has elegantly captured in video our recently completed house Camino de Playa which has been featured online by Wallpaper*.

Visit Wallpaper* to watch Tapio’s video or read more on Camino De Playa here on our website.

En Liang Khong describes the changing light in our recently completed Tate St Ives gallery. He writes that even on a cloudy day, sunnier intervals “transform the space, with light pooling and gently hanging in the centre”.

Read En Liang Khong’s full article ‘When The Light Shifts’ on Frieze.com

Oliver Wainwright describes our new gallery as a ‘stunning space’ and examines some of the wider issues in the story of the building.

Read Oliver Wainwright’s review in The Guardian.

Architecture critic Ellis Woodman writes that our new Tate St Ives gallery “ranks among the most beautiful galleries in the country”.

Read Ellis Woodman’s review in The Telegraph.

Rowan Moore describes our new gallery for Tate St Ives as “not any old exhibition space but one that contains about as much intelligence, strength of mind and sensitivity as it is possible to put into a single plain rectangle. It is only a room, as Cézanne didn’t exactly say of Monet, but what a room”.

Read The New Tate St Ives review by Rowan Moore in The Observer.