August 2017
Confucius Institute construction work progressing on site. Stone and facade works are currently completing.
The Confucius Institute is a 2,000m2 new build educational and cultural facility jointly funded by the Chinese and Irish governments and is a joint venture between the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban), Renmin University of China (Beijing) and UCD (Dublin).
The external form consists of a series of square floor-plates stacked one on top of the other, establishing a legible ziggurat form. This arrangement creates an open, generous base level crowned with smaller built forms stacked on top Formally separate articulation is given to each of the floor levels while a generous base course encourages engagement and access into the building, creating a humanely scaled building within the landscaped setting of an adjacent lake.
July 2017
St James Street Conservation Area building restoration works nearing completion on site in Walthamstow.
The regeneration scheme is jointly funded by London Borough of Waltham Forest and the Heritage Lottery Fund and includes a comprehensive scheme of repairs and restoration works with timber shopfronts reinstated to enhance the historic buildings and strengthen the character of the place. 40 individual buildings are included in the project with completion due in autumn 2017.
June 2017
Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) have approved a grant of almost £2m towards the Biggin Hill Memorial Museum project.
The news follows the granting of planning permission in April 2017, meaning that the £5.325m project can go-ahead.
The unanimous award decision was made by the HLF’s London committee who described the project work as ‘exemplary’. Work will commence on site this autumn bringing about the delivery of a much wanted museum.
Councillor Stephen Carr, Leader of Bromley Council said, “We must help future generations remember and understand, not just the part Biggin Hill played in the Battle of Britain but also something of the wider context. The Biggin Hill Memorial Museum will be a place that can help to achieve this. It has been enormously important that not only is a museum finally built but also that the chapel remains as a place of worship alongside a confidence of the Museum’s future because of the endowment fund and business plan in place.”
Councillor Carr added, “I would like to thank the Biggin Hill Memorial Museum Trust for their diligence in bringing forward plans that have already been described as exemplary. Work with the wider community will continue – the recent exhibition day which gave an opportunity for comment about which building materials to use is an example of this. I look forward to seeing the museum opened next year and am optimistic about phase 2 being achieved shortly after this.”
May 2017
Robin Lee Architecture has been appointed by London Borough of Bexley for the development of the Carnegie Building in Erith.
The Grade 11 Listed Building was designed as a public library in 1906 with monies from the Andrew Carnegie Fund. Robin Lee Architecture will work closely with The Exchange to adapt the building to create a place for artists to make and exhibit work.
April 2017
Robin Lee Architecture has gained Full Planning and Listed Building consent for the Biggin Hill Memorial Museum.
The new museum is arranged as a simple sculptural form around the Grade 11 Listed St Georges Chapel and Memorial Garden.
March 2017
Robin Lee Architecture has completed the fit out of 13 apartments within a former industrial building at the Piper Building estate in Fulham for Baylight.
The Piper Building was built in 1950s as a laboratory complex for The North Thames Gas Board. Located on a site set back from the River Thames in London’s borough of Fulham, the building formed a divide between the established residential areas which spread south from New Kings Road and the warehousing and light industry which had historically grown up along the river wharfs.
February 2017
Robin Lee Architecture has completed a new entrance for a former warehouse in Covent Garden for Baylight.
January 2017
Robin Lee Architecture has completed the fit out of 15,000ft2 Cat A office space within a former warehouse in Euston. The design includes a new entrance hall finished in Italian marble, pigmented concrete and Ebony Macassar bespoke joinery work.
December 2016
Robin Lee Architecture are working with London Distillery Company to design a gin distillery, shop and bar complex at Battersea Power Station.
November 2016
Visit to Munich to select Jura Limestone blocks for the Confucius Institute in Dublin.
October 2016
Robin Lee Architecture has completed the first phase of historic building restorations and shopfront renewals in St James Street Conservation Area in Walthamstow for London Borough of Waltham Forest. The project is jointly funded by Heritage Lottery Fund and London Borough of Waltham Forest.
September 2016
Robin Lee Architecture has gained Full Planning consent for the conversion and extension of a Georgian townhouse in Fulham for a private developer. The development will create 4 bespoke apartments across five floors.
August 2016
Robin Lee Architecture has completed the second phase of the conversion to apartments of a former paint factory in Wandsworth for Baylight.
July 2016
Robin Lee Architecture has gained Full Planning consent for a brick double villa in Herne Hill for a private developer.
June 2016
Robin Lee Architecture has been appointed to convert a former warehouse in Euston to commercial use for a private developer.
May 2016
Robin Lee Architecture has been appointed by Transport for London for the refurbishment of Northfields Depot in South London, one of two principle depots on the Piccadilly Line.
April 2016
Robin Lee Architecture has completed the first phase of the conversion to apartments of a former paint factory in Wandsworth for Baylight.
March 2016
Robin Lee Architecture has been appointed by Transport for London for the refurbishment of Cockfosters Depot in North London, one of two principle depots on the Piccadilly Line.
February 2016
Robin Lee Architecture has been appointed by London Borough of Bromley for the Biggin Hill Memorial Museum.
The project will safeguard the future of St George’s RAF Chapel of Remembrance, and through the building of the new museum will preserve and reveal Biggin Hill’s important place in the history of the Second World War.
The commission was procured via the GLA ADUP Framework with Robin Lee Architecture selected via a competitive process.
January 2016
Robin Lee Architecture has been appointed by Baylight to convert to apartments a former industrial building at the Piper Building estate in Fulham.
The Piper Building was built in 1950s as a laboratory complex for The North Thames Gas Board. Located on a site set back from the River Thames in London’s borough of Fulham, the building formed a divide between the established residential areas which spread south from New Kings Road and the warehousing and light industry which had historically grown up along the river wharfs.
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The Confucius Institute for Ireland is a new build facility located on the Belfield campus at University College Dublin. The 2,000m2 building will be a cultural forum providing spaces for teaching, exhibitions and lectures.
The building will sit in harmony with the overall character of the campus and yet allow for an interpretation of Chinese culture through the subtle inclusion of carefully controlled forms and treatments associated with Chinese architecture. The physical setting at the heart of the campus and adjacent to the new lake at University College Dublin has allowed the idea of a pavilion in the landscape to inform the architectural expression. This leads to an open building identity, engaged with its surrounding landscape. This idea of openness underpins the design approach giving physical expression to the ideals of cultural sharing and exchange central to the Confucius Institute.
The project is jointly funded by the Irish and Chinese governments. Renmin University in Beijing, one of the top universities in China, are University College Dublin's academic partner for the Confucius Institute. The project will be delivered in conjunction with Arthur Gibney and Partners and will complete in 2016.