Annual report 2014 2015 by Jefferson Sheard Architects

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Our Mission

“providing a level of service which exceeds expectation and is delivered with professionalism, freshness, principled behaviour, honesty and humour”

BRYAN JEFFERSON 1928 - 2014

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MOORE STREET SUBSTATION, DESIGNED BY BRYAN JEFFERSON IN 1968, grade II listed in 2013

• Directors’ statement • Performance factsheet • Sector trends • Sector highlights • Index of projects • “People I know I can work with” • Community matters • Bryan Jefferson - In Memoriam

department of journalism and economics, university of sheffield www.jeffersonsheard.com

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Directors’ Statement

tom rhys jones Managing Director

MARK FANNON Board Director

JOHN HYAMS Board Director

In October we received a phone call to say that Bryan Jefferson PPRIBA, CB, CBE, our founder, friend, mentor and former RIBA president had died at the age of 86. This year has been, amongst many other things, a year of remembering and celebrating the legacy of a man whose influence upon our practice and the profession continues to prevail, and to him we would like to dedicate this report and the success it describes.

the great illumination, 2010

Our progress this year has been pleasing, both in financial terms and in the quality of the projects we have delivered. The Acre Mills Outpatients project for the Pennine Property Partnership - a partnership between Henry Boot Developments and the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust - was completed and opened to the public in January 2015 after four years of our involvement with it. Within only a few weeks of opening it won the RICS Conservation award and Neil Redfern of English Heritage praised the project as “providing a caring and familiar environment that is supportive to its members of the community when they need it the most”. The Music Building at Hymers College, Hull was opened by the celebrated composer Dr John Rutter CBE last October and continues to be a fantastic resource for the students. This project has been the subject of the first in a series of films we have commissioned - you can watch it over on our website.

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acre mills outpatients, 2015

We continue to work with longstanding clients with whom we have formed a strong collaborative culture and are developing some great projects such as the new Beverley Campus at East Riding College and the ambitious Airport Business Park in Southend with Henry Boot Developments. We are

Directors’ Statement

Directors’ Statement fortunate that we have such a high percentage of repeat commissions, a fact which is testament to the excellent customer focused ethos of the Jefferson Sheard team, who, like Bryan Jefferson, really understand that architecture is about delivering a seamless process for the client and not just a shiny building. But this year has also been a time for forging relationships with new clients. We’re pleased to be working with Mace and Humberside Fire and Rescue on two new fire stations in Hull and are enjoying working with Translink on the early stages of a £8m bus depot in Northern Ireland. Now we’re into the 2015-16 financial year we find ourselves with a growing job book and lots of ambition. We’re excited to be expanding upon our healthcare and bluelight sector projects and continue to build up our Manchester and London offices, headed by Clare Ailward and Joe Dickeson, respectively, both young and exciting architects. We will continue to extend our work in the Higher Education sector too, getting our projects at Leeds Trinity University well under way. In a few weeks’ time we will be launching a new website which puts our staff at the heart of the conversation and we will be launching more films of our completed projects. In October, the anniversary month of Bryan Jefferson’s death and four years after his Substation switch on, we are sponsoring a concert by Music in the Round in memory of the man who helped shaped the Sheffield we know and whose imprint upon architectural practice in the UK continues to be felt. We hope you can join us on this evening of remembrance. We have included at the end of this report, the obituary written for Bryan Jefferson by Tom Rhys Jones for the Architects Journal in 2014. -September 2015

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Performance Factsheet

Performance Factsheet Our target turnover was £2 million, with the intention of achieving a profit (before tax) of £202k.

Our actual turnover was

£2.3million, with a profit of

77.6% of our turnover came from repeat commissions.

We were not reliant on any single project for more than 5.46% of our turnover.

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£271k.

BESSACARR PRIMARY SCHOOL, DONCAsTER, 2015

Turnover in 2014/2015 was made up of:

% of turnover

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Housing 27.38% Student Accommodation 15.32% Further Educaton 12.06% Urban Design & Masterplanning 9.52%

Schools & Academies 9.38%

Sector Trends

Consultancy 5.73% Office Workplace & Industrial Workplace 5.66% Higher Education 4.65% Healthcare 4.18% Culture & Civic 1.99% Bluelight & Defence 1.78% Transport & Infrastructure 1.39% Retail 0.9%

Student Accommodation

Further Education

planning

Schools and Academies

Consultation

ustrial Workplace

Higher Education

Healthcare

Bluelight and Defence Here are some trends we’ve noticed in our order book:Transport and Infrastructure • Modular construction techniques to enable efficiency and sustainability • An increase in good quality affordable housing provision, especially in London and the South East • Private sector healthcare research centres in collaboration with HE sector • BIM Level 2 on most of our projects • Community-centred design • Incorporating the digital landscape into the physical landscape • Flexible accommodation which can cater for a variety of uses and adapted for future changes

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Sector Highlights

Sector Highlights Affordable Housing

Housing

Private Homes Care Homes

Affordable Housing, Hounslow

Colin Snape Senior Architectural Technologist

“The site is located immediately under the flightpath to London Heathrow airport and planning conditions indicated that high levels of sound reduction would be required for all flats and houses. Close liaison with an acoustic consultant, window supplier and the timber frame supplier ensured that intrusive sound from planes overhead was kept to acceptable levels.” Value: £5m Client: Paradigm Housing Group

LINGHAM STREET, STOCKWELL

ALEX GEDDES Senior Architectural Assistant

“We provided technical architectural services for eight high-quality Code 3 apartments on a tight central London site.” Value: £1.3m Client: HG Construction

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STUDENT ACCOMMODATION

The CRESCENT, PLYMOuTH STUDENT ACCOMMODATION

Mike Hall Architect and Regional Director @JSA_Mike

“We are very pleased to have designed this exciting mixed use scheme as part of the regeneration of Plymouth. We’ve produced a high quality design solution to a challenging constrained site and I look forward to seeing works commencing on site.”

Sector Highlights

Sectors Highlights

Value: £18m Client: J.R Pickstock

DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM AND ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

HIGHER EDUCATION

GILLIAN BROWN Head of Journalism Studies

“We are delighted with the refurbishment of the 9 Mappin Street building. The new building will dramatically improve the experience of students and University staff that work in it. It’ll give students of the future access to cutting edge facilities in a bright, modern building that has been utterly transformed and refurbished to an astoundingly high standard. ” Value: £1.5m Client: University of Sheffield / Gardiner and Theobald

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Sector Highlights

Sector Highlights ESTATE RATIONALIsation, peterborough regional college

Further education

BRIAN REDSHAW Vice Principal, Peterborough Regional College

“The entire Jefferson Sheard team is excellent to work with and provides first class customer service. Throughout the project Jefferson Sheard has supported and advised us very well and dealt with queries and problems effectively and promptly. Their professionalism and customer care are first rate.” Value: £5m Client: Peterborough Regional College

Peterborough Development & Environment Awards - Winner

MUSIC BUILDING, HYMERS COLLEGE

CLARE AILWARD Architect Regional Director

“The building includes a collection of practice rooms, rehearsal spaces and a recording studio; each technically bespoke to meet demanding acoustic performance requirements. It is fantastic to see the benefits the new facilities are bringing, allowing Hymers students to nurture and follow their interests in a range of musical genres.” Value: £1.6m Client: Hymers College Annual Report 2013 | 2015 2014 2014

SCHOOLS & ACADEMIES “It’s fantastic to see a school invest so much money into creating a wonderful environment where pupils can be inspired and share their music. It was in the music rooms at my school that I discovered what I wanted to do with my life and I have no doubt that there will be students who discover themselves, their heart’s desire, in this new music centre.” Dr John Rutter CBE

TRANSPORT & infrastrucTURE

Bus Interchange Rail Interchange Masterplanning

Durham Interchange

Peter matthews Architect

“The proposals for Durham Bus Station represent a significant step forward for the regeneration of Durham’s North Road and offer the potential to greatly improve the links between the City, Bus Station and Railway Station, whilst also facilitating development of the wider area. Pedestrian and vehicle movements will be greatly simplified and a new pedestrian plaza will provide safe access to the station.”

Sector Highlights

Value: £6.2m Client: Durham County Council

BEESTON TOWN CENTRE REDEVELOPMENT

OFFICE WORKPLACE & Industrial Workplace

Value: £2.7m Client: Henry Boot Developments

18 back swinegate, york Refurbishment Value: £1m Client: Royal London Assett Management www.jeffersonsheard.com

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Sector Highlights

HEALTHCARE

Primary Care Dementia Care Mental Health Care

ACRE MILLS OUTPATIENTS

Chris race Architect @JSA_ChrisRace

“Acre Mills is a fantastic new asset for both the NHS Trust and the local community. Since opening in February 2015 the feedback from patients and clinicians has been extremely positive, with some commenting that the former wire mill feels like their ‘own private hospital’. Our aim for Acre Mills was to not only provide a centre for the NHS Trust to deliver excellent healthcare but to reflect the needs of the individual, focusing on the ‘patient’s journey’ creating a calming environment which may be needed at a particular time of difficulty.” RICS Award winner

Value: £14m

Green Apple award winner

Client: Pennine Property Partnership

Constructing Excellence Award shortlisted

“Acre Mills was our stand out choice as it uniquely integrated a state-of-the-art outpatient facility into a former mill building. There is a clear and tangible sense that the building provides a caring and familiar environment that is supportive to members of the community when they need it most. The real testament to the success of this project is its members of the community likening Acre Mills to their own private hospital.” -Neil Redfern of English Heritage and Richard Schofield of Rider Hunt Management, judges of the RICS Awards Conservation category dementia care village, birmingham Value: £11m Client: Building Better Lives Ltd. Annual Report 2013 | 2015 2014 2014

URBAN DESIGN & MASTERPLANNING

AIRPORT BUSINESS PARK, SOUTHEND

JOE DICKESON Associate Director

“We’re very excited to be contributing our expertise to the project. The Council can expect a great result with Henry Boot – we look forward to another successful collaboration with our long standing client.”

Sector Highlights

Client: Henry Boot Developments

HULL FIRE STATIONS

BLUE LIGHT & DEFENCE

Daniel morgan Architectural Assistant

“Humberside Fire & Rescue Service appointed us to deliver two designs for two differently functioning fire stations that will provide emergency service and community support in both the Brough area and the City Centre area of Hull. The aim was to produce two schemes that respond to their immediate context whilst ensuring a sense of unique identity within the form and material of the buildings.” Value: £4.5m Client: Mace / Humberside Fire and Rescue

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Index of projects Index of projects

completed & ongoing in 2014-2015 Housing • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Hounslow flats and houses for Paradigm Housing Tagus Apartments, Stockwell for HG Construction Becket House, Sevenoaks, for Henry Boot Developments London Road, North Cheam, Surrey for Newmark Properties Dementia Care Village, Birmingham for Building Better Lives Birmingham Mount Pleasant Road, Tunbridge Wells for Henry Boot Developments Woodhall Spa, affordable housing for Longhurst Bretton Green for Conquest Homes Drill Hall for Conquest Homes The Tanneries, Newham for HG Construction / Red Door Ventures Blyth Road, Hayes for Paradigm Housing Old Boston Road, Coningsby for GEDA Construction The Cresset Rightwell Bretton, Peterborough for The Cresset Limited Shernhall Street for Metropolitan Housing Trust Solar House, Chesham for HG Construction Catherine Street, Salisbury for Michael Jenkins Darkes Lane, Potters Bar for Aldenham Residential Canon House, St. Albans for Aldenham Residential Wanstead Park Road, Ilford for Metropolitan Housing Trust Branston Road, Uppingham for Spire Homes Verulum House, Harpenden for Aldenham Residential

visual of Shernhall street, london Student Accommodation • • • • • •

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Student Residences for Leeds Trinity University The Crescent, Plymouth for J.R Pickstock Huntingdon Road Student Housing, Cambridge for J.R Pickstock King Edward Quays Colchester phases 1 and 2 for J.R Pickstock Egham Hill phases 1 and 2 for HG Construction Wembley Central Student Accommodation for Ideal Developments / HG Construction Kernal Court, Guilford for HG Construction

Further Education • • • • • •

Beverley Campus for East Riding College Priory Road for East Riding College York College, Construction Skills Centre for Wildgoose Construction Estate Rationalisation for Peterborough Regional College Food Processing Manufacturing Centre for Peterborough Regional College Refurbishment of the Percival Whitley Centre for Calderdale College

visual of the student accommodation scheme at leeds trinity university Higher Education • • • • •

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The Department of Journalism and Economics for the University of Sheffield Teaching and Learning Centre for Leeds Trinity University New Social Learning Space for Leeds Trinity University Student Hub for Leeds Trinity University Leeds Trinity University Masterplan foyer in construction at the beverley campus, east riding college

Index of projects Schools and Academies

Transport and Infrastructure

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Apollo Studio Academy for Kier Construction Music Building and Changing Rooms for Hymers College Learning Resource Centre for Hymers College Extension to Bessacarr Primary School for Kier / Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council Extension to Sale Grammar School for Kier Hunter’s Bar and Nethergreen School for Kier Loxley, Beighton and Stannington School Extensions for Kier Springbank and Westroyd Primary School extension and refurbishment for Willmott Dixon Armthorpe Southfield Primary School Extension for Kier

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Office Workplace and Industrial Workplace • • •

18 Back Swinegate for Royal London Property Fund / Michael Jenkins Meter Provida premises, Markham Vale for Henry Boot Developments Butterfield Park, Luton for Henry Boot Developments

Duncrue Street Bus Depot, Belfast for Translink Durham Interchange for AECOM / Durham County Council Cradley Heath Interchange for Parsons Brinckerhoff Chester Bus Station for Graham Construction Refurbishment of roof at Darlington Station for Hyder Consulting

Retail • The Square, Beeston for Henry Boot Developments

Index of projects

completed & ongoing in 2014-2015

Urban Design and Masterplanning • • • •

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Braintree Town Centre Development for Braintree Council Airport Business Park, Southend for Henry Boot Developments Markham Vale masterplan for Henry Boot Developments St. Luke's residential and commercial development for Henry Boot Developments Beeston Town Centre Development for Henry Boot Developments

visual of beeston town centre Healthcare •

18 back swinegate, york

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• • visual of airport business park, southend - masterplan

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Acre Mills Outpatients for Pennine Property Partnership The Mount, Dementia Care for Leeds and York NHS Trust Consultation and Diagnostics Suite, The Mount for Leeds and York NHS Trust Archive Storage, offices and group therapy suite, The Mount, Leeds and York NHS Trust Crisis Assessment Unit, Becklin Centre for Leeds and York NHS Trust Section 136 suite, Becklin Centre, for Leeds and York NHS Trust CAMHS Suite, Becklin Centre for Leeds and York NHS Trust Primary Care Centre, Braintree for NHS England

Bluelight and Defence

Culture and Civic

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Hull Fire Stations for Mace / Humberside Fire and Rescue Titan House for Kier Bentley Ambulance Station for Kier

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hull fire stations visual

Braintree Football Club for Braintree Council

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“People I know I can work with”

“People I know I can work with” We are proud of the excellent service we deliver, knowing that the way in which we collaborate with clients and stakeholders is fundamental to the success of our projects. This is our USP, and it is also what we find most rewarding about our jobs. This year we have collected some excellent feedback which is reflected in our Key Performance Indicators. Consultant and Client Key Performance Indicators

Average KPI Scores 2013-14

Average KPI Scores 2014-15

Overall Performance

9.47

9.18

Value for Money

9.03

8.64

Quality of Service

9.37

9.45

Timely Delivery

9.47

9.18

Health & Safety Awareness

9.33

9.09

* scores are out of 10

We’ve also had some excellent feedback from our clients: “We chose Jefferson Sheard’s submission based on quality and price. We stick with them for the same reasons but there’s more to it than that, like trust and relationship. And they’ve proved themselves in everything they’ve delivered. We like that they are local to us, because they can be here, and they do like to be responsive. ” “They’re so quick to come back to me, they’ve never let me down in that sense. Very responsive, and even better than that I think they work hard to anticipate problems and head them off. It’s vital to me that they give us good advice and they do.” -Brian Redshaw, Peterborough Regional College

“I would like to thank you (Jefferson Sheard Architects) for the clever way you have adapted the layout and access to the community space to create a venue that will be fully accessible. I believe that what you have designed is even better than the earlier layout and now offers the community a fantastic new venue that will take advantage of the adjacent urban park and waterfront environment.” -Vincent Pearce Planning Specialist, Colchester Borough Council Annual Report 2013 | 2015 2014 2014

“I have nothing but good words to say about Jefferson Sheard. When they tendered, they were the only ones to come and see me, explore the site and really get to grips with the challenges before they began their thinking – they understood the subtleties and the needs of the students. It showed and it’s the reason they won and we continue to work with them. That ability to really understand was so impressive.” “I’d say what defined it was their listening. They were very professional and accommodating and have taken on challenges with enthusiasm. Like mixing our traditional buildings in with the new – they came up with a very elegant, clever solution.” -David Elstone, Hymers College

Chris Race Architect & CPD Co-ordinator

Daniel Morgan Architectural Assistant

Amna Shahid Architectural Assistant

Joe Dickeson Associate Director

Chris Jackson Junior Technician

Jack Bowler Architectural Technologist

Ian Gunstone Architect

Mark Ustun Architect

Alex Geddes Architectural Assistant

Martin Hughes Senior Architectural Technologist

Andrew Houston Architectural Assistant

Andy Plant IT Manager

Mike Hall Regional Director, Sheffield

Viraj Mistry Architectural Assistant

Colin Snape Senior Architectural Technician

Clarissa Whelbourn Architectural Assistant

Heath Denton Technical Director

Margaret Lowe Practice Manager

Peter Bradley Architectural Assistant

Arjun Sampat Architectural Assistant

Peter Whitlam Architectural Assistant

Josh Jackson BIM Development Manager

Peter Hand Associate Director

Maisie Crafter Trainee Architectural Technologist

Clare Ailward Regional Director, Manchester

Chris Hunt Architectural Technician

John Hyams Board Director

Catherine West Marketing & Comms Manager

Ken Mwaniki Architect

Phillip Pollington Associate Director

Mark Fannon Board Director

Peter Matthews Architect

Richard Desmond Architectural Technologist

Tim Millington Architectural Technician

Tom Rhys Jones Managing Director

Steve Whiteside Regional Director, Peterborough

Adrian Johns Architect

Charles Smith Architectural Assistant

Martin Deveaux Architectural Assistant www.jeffersonsheard.com

Joanna Espin Silvester Stewart Swindell Claire Hickling Architectural Senior Architectural Administrative Office Assistant Technician Manager

David Legg Architectural Assistant

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Community matters

Community matters This year, in memory of Bryan Jefferson, we are raising funds for Epilepsy Research UK – our charity of the year. Man of Concrete We are teaming up with Music in the Round and RIBA Yorkshire to present a commemorative concert for Bryan Jefferson PRIBA CBE on the 19th October, held at the Crucible in Sheffield. Whilst remembering Bryan Jefferson, we will be raising valuable funds for Epilepsy Research UK. Tickets are on sale via the Music in the Round website. We hope to see you there. #manofconcrete Sheffield Design Week 2015 In conjunction with the launch of the Modernist Guide to Sheffield, which we have sponsored, Tom Rhys Jones gave a talk on the life and work of Bryan Jefferson. Modernist Guides were sold on the evening with all proceeds going to Epilepsy Research UK. Emmaus Hull In December 2014 we helped raised some festive cheer and money too for Emmaus Hull be sponsoring their annual charity carol concert, which was hosted by Hymers College. We, alongside fellow colleagues working on the Learning Resource Centre at Hymers College – Triangle Consulting Engineers, Alan Wood and Partners and PDR Construction – together sponsored £1000 to cover the production of the programme.

Jefferson sheard’s 2013-14 campaign - Marie Curie Cancer Care "The money Jefferson Sheard has raised is a testament to the enthusiasm of the staff and the excitement Sheffield has enjoyed with le tour coming to our city. The firm of architects have really embraced our Grand Departy fundraising appeal to Go French, Go Cycling and Go Yellow, and it is a really lovely tribute in memory of their colleague. Their donation will provide over 30 hours of nursing care, which will support a terminally ill patient and their family in Sheffield." -Kate Holdsworth, Community Fundraiser for Marie Curie Annual Report 2014 | 2015

Future Professionals In the year 2014-2015 we have provided six work experience placements, two graduate placements and one traineeship. Sustainable Practice • We have continued this year to support Cavendish Cancer Care by recycling all of our printer cartridges through the charity. • We donate office materials and product samples (we get a lot of these!) to the Scrap Store, a charity supporting the reuse of resources for community benefit through the donation of waste materials from businesses. • We maintain responsible travel procedures - employees are required to take public transport and car share wherever possible and we arrange long-distance meetings via Skype. Sustainable Design We continue to follow the Building Research Establishment’s advice on sustainable design, achieving the best possible BREEAM rating on each building we design. We always look to incorporate sustainable measures and renewable technologies to ensure that the carbon footprint is lower than the Building Regulation minimum standards.

VIRAJ MISTRY Part 1 Architectural Assistant

“As a Part 1 Architectural Assistant, Jefferson Sheard Architects has provided me with handson technical training within a friendly team working environment that’s always happy to share their expertise.”

“The client wanted to ‘understand the space better’; therefore I created a 3D layout of the area using AutoCAD and SketchUp8. During this process I met more people in the office. I learnt about Architectural Technology by a student from Sheffield Hallam University; this was really useful as it showed me that I didn’t have to do Architecture as a degree to work in an Architect environment.”

Community matters

-Anna Dawson, work experience student

MAISIE CRAFTER Trainee Architectural Technologist Placement student, Sheffield Hallam University

SETC Centre, calderdale college www.jeffersonsheard.com

“Whilst facilitating my learning in a practical sense, working with Jefferson Sheard has enabled me to gain a greater understanding of the industry, what my role in it will be and helped me discover what I most enjoy about it. A lot of the work I have been doing has been in visualisations and 3D modelling such as an interior scene for Springbank School and a set of exterior renders for East Durham College’s agricultural campus. The work in this area has improved my skills in various software and taught me about detailing a visual accurately.” Annual Report 2013 | 2015 2014 2014

Bryan Jefferson - In Memoriam

Bryan Jefferson - In Memoriam Bryan Jefferson offered wise advice to ministers on subjects ranging from architectural competitions to policy’ wrote Paul Finch in a recent edition of the Architects Journal (AJ 03.09.14). This advice was solidly founded upon the experiences gained in the crucible of practice at a time when architecture sought to evaluate its impact upon society and to contribute to, if not lead, its progress to a better future. Bryan Jefferson’s more recent career in public office perhaps obscures to some degree the successes of his earlier days in practice and the purely architectural skills employed in the design of his keynote buildings are felt by many, myself included, to be overdue a proper appreciation and assessment. Jefferson was born in Sheffield in 1928 and, following the death of his father in the first blitz on the city, was sent to be educated at Lady Manners School, Bakewell before studying architecture at the University of Sheffield. Upon graduation he joined the new practice set up in Derby by the distinguished Irish architect Major Sam Morrison before being sent back home to open the practice’s Sheffield office. The Sheffield venture metamorphosed via Morrison Partners and Jefferson into Jefferson and Partners and, by 1957, with the arrival of Jefferson’s friend and fellow alumnus Gerald (Gerry) Sheard, into Jefferson Sheard and Partners. Early commissions included a series of private houses in the Huddersfield area – something of a hotspot for progressive residential design at that time with Peter Womersley’s Farnley Hey having been recently completed – but Jefferson’s bigger opportunities arose back in Sheffield where postwar reconstruction and a radical remodelling of the city was gathering momentum.

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greatly loved or reviled despite a large part of the citizenry having no idea what goes on within! The switching-on of the floodlighting was the occasion of Jefferson’s last official visit to his home city and an abiding memory is of him signing copies of the artist Jonathan Wilkinson’s specially commissioned painting of the building whilst surrounded by a new generation of admirers eager to meet its creator.

Perhaps the most enduring – and, certainly, the most talked-about - of Jefferson’s major buildings was one of the first, the immaculately detailed Brutalist behemoth of an electricity substation commissioned by the CEGB in the early 60’s. Commended in the 1968 Financial Times Architectural Awards and statutorily Listed Grade II in 2013, this is one of Sheffield’s best-known landmarks, floodlit by the Council in 2010 and

grade II Listed moore street substation

No less starkly dramatic, but less visible, was another grittily utilitarian public work, the City Council’s Olive Grove depot, displaying a similarly skilful touch in its detailing, following which the practice embarked on a series of less muscular but still elegantly nonsense-free developments such as a Cinema and Entertainment complex on Pond Street (known to subsequent generations of Sheffielders as the “Fiesta”, “Roxy” or “O2”), offices for the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (now the AEU) and for Eagle Star and the Probation Service. A smaller project, but one that could not have been more of a labour of love, was the headquarters of the Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding Club at Great Hucklow in the Peak District. Jefferson developed a life-long love of gliding at sixteen and competed sufficiently successfully to make the English Gliding Team.

If he was so enabled to slip the surly bonds of earth, Bryan Jefferson was also a man of too much energy and vision to be contained within one city and his influence within the profession grew such that he was elected to serve as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects between 1979 and 1981. A natural diplomat (he is the only man I have ever thanked for giving me a “rocket!”) Jefferson’s many successes as President included navigating, as skilfully as if he were at the tiller of his yacht Calliope, around the tricky matter of Anthony Blunt’s honorary Fellowship of the RIBA at the time of the latter’s unmasking as a Soviet spy (Blunt took the proferred hint and resigned.) Such prominent office gave rise to projects of a yet higher profile and a more diverse client base but also to Jefferson’s swansong as a private practitioner – the restrained Peterborough Software headquarters built, controversially, within the grounds of the Grade I listed Thorpe Hall was the last major project delivered by Jefferson Sheard during his partnership – the wider world was drawing him further afield to act, for example, as an adviser to the BBC as it sought the right architect for its then proposed Portland Place redevelopment.

Inevitably, the erudition, charm and sheer skill exhibited in both his practice and his Presidency attracted wider attention and it was no surprise to anyone other than his modest self when Jefferson was offered the post of Director General of Design Services at the Property Services Agency (PSA) – he himself thought he was being consulted about likely candidates before finally realising the thrust of the questions and asking himself “Who? Me?!” The post required Jefferson to act as Architectural Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Environment and he found his way easily about the corridors of Marsham Street and beyond, leading to further positions as Chairman of PSA Projects and Architectural Adviser to the Department of National Heritage (now the Department for Culture, Media and Sport) before retirement from public office after seventeen years and at the age of 73. One might well believe that by playing his part in the establishment of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), Jefferson himself made redundant the last of his public offices. Despite the demands upon him Jefferson found time to act as Visiting Professor at his alma mater from 1992 and to serve, in an advisory capacity, on many industry bodies including the Building Centre Trust, the Cement and Concrete Association and the Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers.

Bryan Jefferson - In Memoriam

Almost exactly coincident with Jefferson’s retirement came a diagnosis of leukaemia but the disease was kept at bay by a combination of will – beneath the most velvet of exteriors was the hardest of Sheffield’s steel – an ability always to focus on the positive, the happy characteristics of a cheeky good humour and sharp, but never unkind, wit and, without doubt, the support and care of his wife and soul-mate, Jean.

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Bryan Jefferson - In Memoriam

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Bryan Jefferson, the man, his life and his works - were masterpieces of understated elegance yet solid and of real substance; his practiceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s buildings continue to serve their purpose into their second half-century (he enjoyed the fact that his creations were being listed and floodlit whilst those of his friends were being demolished!) but the part that he played in persuading those in power of the importance and benefits of architecture in our society will remain an act that is hard to follow. -Tom Rhys Jones, October 2014

FIESTA / roxy building, pond street, sheffield

the moore street substation being floodlit for the first time in 2010

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the rutter rehearsal rooms at hymers college, hull www.jeffersonsheard.com

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