Journal Posts - Page 2 of 22 - Jamie Fobert Architects

Our new house in Trinidad is starting to take shape. This square-set form will be clad in Travertine marble and sit in a jungle-like garden.

Our elegant, contemporary floor designs for the Burlington Arcade have received planning approval from Westminster Council.

Responding to historic precedent and to the rhythm and circular geometry of the arcade, our designs will use four types of British stone to create a unique paved floor.

Our new façades on Rue des Archives in Paris have just been revealed.

This is the first built work in our phased project for BHV, which restores and revives an historic area of Paris.

An adventurous research trip to Morocco allowed the JFA team to explore different uses of pattern in tiles, stonework and mosaics and to experience living in a Riyad, where domestic spaces are configured so differently to traditional English houses.

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.

Works are progressing on site at Tate St Ives. The enabling works contract, excavating for the new galleries, is now nearing completion.

This aerial photograph was taken by a drone sent up by Tate’s film crew in December.

Three MA Architecture students from the Royal College of Art have seen their design for the Healthcare Innovation Exchange (HELIX) Centre realised. Ralf Alwani, Joanna Hyland and Matthew Volsen built the model for their design in Jamie’s studio, ADS7. Their ‘bookcase’ structure was selected as the best design for the project. It has now been constructed within the grounds of St Mary’s Hospital as a hub to engage frontline NHS staff and patients as co-design collaborators.

Jamie has been teaching a studio at the RCA since September 2013, assisted by two members of the JFA team, George Dawes and Oliver Bindloss.

Our designs for a new Education Wing for Kettle’s Yard House and Gallery in Cambridge have been awarded Planning Permission under delegated powers.

On 22 June 2015 the Kettle’s Yard site at Castle Street will close completely to allow work to begin on our major development project. Kettle’s Yard: Looking Ahead will create a new Education Wing, environmentally controlled galleries and better services for visitors including a café.

Our proposals for Kettle’s Yard are due to commence on site later this year. The gallery has just published a presentation given by Jamie Fobert last Autumn, describing the project in detail to the capital donors and Friends of Kettle’s Yard.

Next month in Paris, there will be an exhibition of JFA’s work, coinciding with Artifice Books’ publication of Working in Architecture. Like the book, the exhibition aims to demonstrate the making of things and the materiality that is explored in our practice.

‘Working in Architecture’ will be at La Galerie d’Architecture, 11 rue des blancs manteaux, 75004 Paris, from 18 April to 16 May 2015.

Our exhibition in Paris is now open.

JFA designed and installed six 2.4m-long light boxes and a set of ten bespoke aluminium tables to display photographs, drawings and artefacts relating to a variety of the practice’s past and present projects. The intention is to convey not only the finished product of an architecture practice but also the process of design inherent in the work .

‘Working in Architecture’ will be at Galerie d’architecture, until 16 May.

Today, in ‘Raising the Roof’ at The Charleston Festival, Jamie Fobert joins other panellists David Gentleman, Simon Jenkins and Julia Barfield to discuss the passions inspired by architecture from the last 100 years.

Levring House has won London’s top architecture accolade, as one of sixteen residential projects across the capital to receive an award at the 2015 RIBA London Awards.

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.

Levring House is one of nine houses to have been selected for a RIBA National Award 2015.

The RIBA jury have praised the “heady mix of free-flowing space, light-filled voids, fastidious detailing and a brilliant regard for the surrounding context”.

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.

Today, at the Winchester Discovery Centre, Jamie Fobert launches the 2015 RIBA South East Lecture Series with a talk about JFA’s varied design work – from Cornish roof forms to 300 year old oak cobbles in Paris.

In the final room of Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World – a retrospective of Hepworth’s work at Tate Britain – sits an abstraction of the Rietveld Pavilion.This installation was devised and created by eight RCA MA Architecture students as a ‘Live Project’ under the tutelage of Jamie Fobert and two JFA Associates, Oliver Bindloss and George Dawes.

The students spent six months researching the iconic 1955 pavilion – which is formed of simple horizontal and vertical lines, made from concrete, brick, steel, glass and wood – and negotiating the practical challenges of recreating it within a gallery space.

Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World is at Tate Britain until 25 October 2015.

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.