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CULLINAN STUDIO Architects & Masterplanners
Over five decades Cullinan Studio has gained an international reputation for designing successful and sustainable buildings, spaces and places. We work with our clients. We listen to your needs, respond creatively to your aspirations and collaborate with you to arrive at the best possible design. The result is beautiful, intelligent and sustainable homes.
Front Cover: House in Hampstead, completed 2014. Photo Š Paul Raftery. Opposite: Ted Cullinan’s Grade II* listed house in Camden Mews, London, which he built with family and friends in 1964 as a passive solar building.
Photos Š Paul Raftery
HIDE HOUSE, HERTFORD
This distinctive modern building - designed to complement the client’s collection of mid 20th century furniture - sits unobtrusively within a conservation area. Daylight into the house has been maximised while at the same time avoiding adjoining gardens being overlooked.
Opposite: The house is an intriguing - but unobtrusive - addition to the conservation area. Although unashamedly modern, its massing and materials work well with contrasting neighbouring properties. Above: Ground floor interior.
Photos Š Paul Raftery
HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD, LONDON
This beautiful, warm, light-filled new family home has been crafted within a Grade II listed Georgian house. Spaces open into each other - and out into the garden. The clever arrangement of the kitchen, pantry, utility room and cloakroom makes for a smoothly and efficiently run home.
Opposite: A simple palette of waxed birch ply and oak line the stairs, floors, walls and ceiling creating a warm and comfortable interior. Above: Using the pure geometry of a ‘cube’, we created a new large living space, giving the house a new heart
HOUSE IN TWICKENHAM, LONDON
This riverside house, set in a conservation area on the river Thames, is made of a series of subtly divided, connected rooms, which exploit the space and light available. The house is formed of three pavilions united by a curving yellow three-storey wall running through the centre of the plan.
Opposite: The house has a variety of spaces and is full of light. Above: Floor to ceiling glazing makes the most of the building’s riverfront location, providing stunning views of the Thames.
CLACH MHOR, INVERNESSSHIRE
Clach Mhor is a RIBA Award winning house, designed by Cullinan Studio partner Roddy Langmuir for his father, the mountaineer. The house uncoils from the sloping site to create a dramatic double-height living space, expressed as a circular belvedere anchored to the ground by the mass of its chimney.
Opposite: The living space. Above: In essence, the building forms a belvedere looking out across the loch to the Cairngorm Mountains.
Photo Š Daniel Clements
Rose Court, built on London’s South Bank, incorporates the mediaeval remains of Winchester Palace, a designated Scheduled Ancient Monument. 14 apartments with ground floor retail allow the new public piazza to focus on the rose window of Winchester Palace.
Photo Š Ibstock Brick
ROSE COURT, LONDON
Opposite: Rose Court engages directly with the historic fabric of Winchester Palace which, in previous centuries, had been embedded within the walls of the surrounding warehouses. Above: A colonnade maintains the building line and shelters pedestrians.
Photos Š Simon Warren
BALDWIN TERRACE, LONDON
This block of 12 apartments is a recent addition to the rejuvenation of the Regents Canal in Islington. Each unit faces south over the Canal and Wenlock Basin. A layered timber facade of sliding windows and louvres enables the residents to control the internal environment passively and enjoy the view, air, light and sun.
Opposite: The building is one apartment deep with open plan living areas to enable dual aspect accommodation on the first floor and above, and duplex units below. Above: The 1,160m2 residential development is five storeys plus a lower ground floor at canal level.
Photos Š Paul Raftery
MAGGIE’S NEWCASTLE
Maggie’s centres offer free practical, emotional and social support in a welcoming home-like environment for people with cancer and their family and friends. Maggie’s Newcastle has calm, light-filled internal spaces that open out onto a sheltered, landscaped courtyard with trees and plants that change with the seasons.
Opposite: Maggie’s Newcastle is surrounded by earth mounds that form a south-facing courtyard planted with wild flowers and herbs, which visitors can enjoy while feeling protected and enclosed. Above: Like all Maggie’s centres, the kitchen is its heart.
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SOME MORE OF OUR RECENT PROJECTS
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1. A new residential development for the Hyde Group - ‘Spring at Stonebridge Park’ 2. The BREEAM ‘Excellent’ International Institute for Product & Service Innovation, University of Warwick 3. Torriano Junior School Gatehouse, Camden, north London. 4. Hyde Hall Learning Centre in Essex for the Royal Horticultural Society 5. The Stonebridge Hillside Hub combines residential, community, health and commercial facilities in one building 6. Olisa Library at Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge 7. Carbon-neutral Shahat Garden City masterplan for 60,000 people, Libya. 8. BREEAM ‘Excellent’ Master Film Store for the British Film Institute 9. John Hope Gateway visitor building at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh 10. Millennium Promenade and Building 4 at Bristol Harbourside 11. National Automotive Innovation Centre, University of Warwick for Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Motors and Warwick Manufacturing Group 12. New Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives Wing at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Cullinan Studio is committed to collaborative design to make fine architecture that fulfils the needs of the client, the users and those of the wider society. We have been designing carefully composed, lowenergy exemplar buildings for five decades and are currently working on masterplanning, urban regeneration, inner city housing, cultural institutions, schools and universities in the UK and abroad. This booklet includes a selection of our current and completed projects that illustrate our approach to making one-off houses and urban infill apartments. We have consistently won awards including: • AJ Retrofit Awards for our own studios and Rosendale Primary School in London in 2013 • RIBA Award and BCI Commendation for the BFI Master Film Store in 2012 • Special Civic Trust Award 2011 for Community Impact & Engagement; and a Building for Life Gold Standard and Award for the Stonebridge Hillside Hub • Building Magazine’s Architectural Practice of the Year 2010 • Building Design’s Public Building Architect of the Year 2010 • the 2008 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Ted Cullinan • the 2002 Stirling Prize Shortlist for the Downland Gridshell CULLINAN STUDIO 5 Baldwin Terrace London N1 7RU + 44 (0)20 7704 1975 studio@cullinanstudio.com www.cullinanstudio.com We endeavour at all times to conduct our business with integrity, competence and discretion. We are an equal opportunities employer, promoting mutual respect and encouraging life-long development; presently we are 44% women, 56% men. Cullinan Studio is Quality Assured to BS EN ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 environmental accreditation. We are members of the Employee Ownership Association.