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INTRODUCTION Part of the Ingenium international group of companies, NORR is a leading, UK-based, architectural practice, delivering intelligent solutions to clients in both the public and private sectors. We offer the highest level of service in both design and technical delivery. Our approach to projects is always client-focused: we deliver bespoke solutions innovating to suit the precise needs of the client. Our concept design and detailed construction technology is delivered with a high level of management experience, always with a Director allocated to every client throughout the commission. Our track record of award winning projects reflects the quality of our work and our attention to detail. Serving the needs of a diverse international client base, we create the spaces and places that people value for…
Creative Integrity Economic Performance Environmental Responsibility Personal Experience Social Contribution
This is our philosophy for achieving bespoke strategic solutions for clients in every commission…
…this is what we call ‘Intelligent Architecture’.
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OUR ETHOS NORR’s focus on client requirements encompasses the consideration of a set of 5 parameters which, together combine to create a unique strategic blueprint for every project.
We call this ‘Intelligent Architecture’.
CREATIVE INTEGRITY At the heart of all successful architecture. Our approach ensures that each project delivers at aesthetic, practical and technical levels.
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Fundamental to every project’s success. We create high quality environments that are commercially robust ‘Added value’ by ‘Intelligent Architecture’ is central to NORR.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY All buildings have a short and longer term impact on the environment. NORR pioneer low-cost, commercially viable, sustainable designs.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE A project ultimately succeeds or fails at an individual level: buildings must work on a human scale and create a positive experience for every user.
SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION NORR believes buildings can, and should, have a positive impact on the quality of life of those who use them, directly or indirectly.
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CONSERVATION / REFURBISHMENT The UK is privileged to boast a vast and unique array of fine historic buildings, spaces and monuments. It is also one of the most developed countries in the world and as such possesses a fund of many thousands of buildings without this status themselves but being sited within an historic area that are capable of re-use or in need of repair, extension or refurbishment. The value which we, as a society, place on our architectural heritage, together with the current UK government’s objectives for the historic built environment are such that through re-use of existing buildings and care and maintenance of heritage assets, we are able to preserve and enhance our unique historic building stock whilst at the same time providing sustainable development that: — Recognises the sensitivities of a non renewable resource — Takes account of the wider social, cultural, economic and environmental benefits of heritage asset conservation — Recognises that intelligently managed change may sometimes be necessary if heritage assets are to be maintained for the long term. At NORR, we have a team of highly qualified and experienced professionals capable of dealing with the often conflicting challenges of historic fabric and the commercial needs of development. In addition to this, we have a demonstrable track record in successful conversion and refurbishment of listed and other heritage buildings and urban quarters involving change of use, re-use and extension and redevelopment – of both buildings individually and in groups. This brochure highlights a selection of listed and non listed environments demonstrating these skills.
CLIENT The Lugano Group SCALE 2,500 m²
LUGANO BUILDING NEWCASTLE, UK
VALUE £3 million
NORR’s Lugano Building project, Melbourne Street, Newcastle is a conversion of a Victorian warehouse formerly used as a night club into high quality contemporary headquarter office space.
COMPLETION 2008
The building has been stripped ‘back to basics’ and the shell and core redeveloped to provide arguably the most individual suite of offices in the city centre, located at the top of the Tyne Gorge with postcard views out and over the River Tyne to include all Tyne Bridges and the Gateshead Sage.
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CLIENT Cattlemore Securities SCALE 25,000 m² VALUE £35 million COMPLETION 2004
WAVERLEYGATE EDINBURGH, UK
Waverleygate is situated within the New Town Conservation Area and World Heritage Site of the City of Edinburgh. The concept design retained and restored the “Category A” listed facades on all frontages, and provided modern uncompromised office accommodation as a new independent structure behind the facades. The new structure is set back from the original stone walls, forming bright top lit atrium spaces around the building. These perimeter atrium spaces act as an environmental ‘buffer zone’ moderating thermal conditions, protecting the new offices from adjacent traffic and railway noise; and providing good natural daylight and ventilation distribution within the building.
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CLIENT Permisson Homes SCALE 5,500 m²
SHERIFF COURT GLASGOW, UK
VALUE £14 million
This project saw the conversion of Glasgow’s landmark Sheriff Court building into a mixture of luxury apartments, shops, bars and restaurants, and Britain’s only custom-built Youth Theatre.
COMPLETION 2005
The building, with a B-listed neo-classical façade, occupies a full block in the inner city, and the project was a milestone in the ongoing residential renaissance of the area. The 62-apartment project retains the building’s exterior, but blends it with a completely contemporary interior including an open-air central courtyard dramatically spanned by an elevated walkway. Each apartment is set over two levels, most with spiral staircases, and all the penthouses open onto private terraces. At the street level, the project provides a number of commercial units occupied by high-end retailers, along with restaurants and bars, while the basement of the building contains the headquarters of the Scottish Youth Theatre.
CLIENT Carlton Hotel SCALE 35 bedrooms VALUE £5.2 million
CARLTON HOTEL EDINBURGH, UK
NORR has been granted Planning & Listed Building Consent to build a new floor of bedroom accommodation on the roof of the Grade B Listed Edinburgh landmark. Commissioned by Puma Hotels Plc, who have long held a desire to increase the number of rooms in this popular Old Town destination, NORR took on the challenge to increase the number of rooms on this highly visible site. Through detailed discussions and site visits with both the Council’s Listed Buildings Team, and officers from Historic Scotland, NORR has designed a scheme providing 25 new high quality bedrooms to the top of the hotel without detriment to the rich skyline of the Old Town, to which the Carlton Hotel is a significant contributor. Formerly a major department store, the Carlton Hotel, together with the Scotsman building opposite, provides a gateway to the Old Town from the North, and as such remains an iconic image of Edinburgh. The views from the rooftop, particularly to the East, with Calton Hill, Arthur’s Seat and the Forth Estuary beyond are truly stunning, and the new rooms take full advantage of their privileged position. The new rooms are certain to be the most sought after in the four star hotel, operated by Barcelo. Chris Browning, Director of NORR’s Edinburgh Office said “We have chosen to use the existing materials of the building, natural slate, sandstone and traditional dormer windows to marry in with the existing fabric of the hotel, to enhance, rather than detract from the existing roofscape and skyline. The rooms within, however, will boast the 21st century luxuries one would expect of a capital city hotel of this calibre, with views second to none”
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SCALE 97 bedrooms / 2,600 m² COMPLETION 2012
121-123 PRINCES STREET EDINBURGH, UK
This ambitious development marks the first new hotel on Edinburgh’s main shopping street for more than 50 years. It comprises some 2,600 m² of retail space on basement, ground and first floors, already pre-let to clothes chain New Look, and a 97-bed Premier Inn, with bar and restaurant, taking up the second to sixth floors. The project will largely retain the Georgian building at 123 Princes Street and the gable ends and chimneys of the Victorian building at 121-122 will also be kept. This is the first significant consent at this end of Princes Street to compliment the Council’s ‘String of Pearls’ concept.
CLIENT Take Two Developments / PPG
1 MORRISON STREET EDINBURGH, UK
VALUE £9.5 million COMPLETION 2003
This City Centre development primarily involved demolition of a large out of date cinema whilst retaining the magnificent Listed Art Deco facade. It lies within the ‘Exchange Business District’ adjacent to Lothian Road, and the frontages onto Morrison Street and Semple Street. The project was designed as a contemporary mixed use inner city development, incorporating modern multiplex cinema requirements at low level, retail space at ground and high quality office accommodation on upper levels. The design approach allowed the new cinema to reuse the former main access through the listed facade on the corner of Lothian Road, whilst also creating new retail frontage along the south side of Morrison Street. The main entrance for the offices is prominently located on the acute angled corner of Morrison Street with Semple Street. This new business entrance is celebrated with a dramatic double height glazed entrance hallway with a glass tower rising through the elevation above letting natural light flood into all upper level lift lobbies.
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CLIENT NFU Mutual Insurance Society / Salmon Developments
80 GEORGE STREET EDINBURGH, UK
SCALE 7,274 m² VALUE £8 million COMPLETION 2003
The building was originally built (1903–07) to a design by JJBurnet, altered c.1936; and again comprehensively redeveloped in 1972. This rebuilding removed the entire original Edwardian interior. The building was listed Grade B and subsequently upgraded to Grade A in 1972 to protect remaining front and rear elevations. In particular the listing refers to the six-storey, five-bay ‘Edwardian Baroque’ street frontage with central three bays and flat proscenium arch framing recessed portico at ground. The redevelopment relocated cores to one side of the building, allowing modern ‘column free’ space for the office accommodation on upper levels, and much more flexible retail space at lower levels. Recreating the original shop front screen, from 1904 drawings by JJBurnet, gave the architects the opportunity to design a new dedicated double height office foyer, through one of the original three openings in the elevation. This configuration of the original screen also optimises visibility for entrance and display for retail use on George Street.
CLIENT Burrell Coy SCALE 3,400 m² VALUE £3.5 million COMPLETION 2007
SCHAW HOUSE BEARSDEN, UK
Schaw Hospital was a large 19th century B-listed Tudor gothic building in Bearsden. The four-storey building, which was gifted to Glasgow as a convalescence home, has now been converted into 23 flats aimed at both retired and young couples. Historic Scotland was keen to retain the external fabric, but supported the subdivision of the interior. The internal volumes are arranged in such a way as to provide as many main-door-entry apartments as possible. There are five duplex apartments, while the gothic tower forms one single property with accommodation over three levels and a roof garden. In what was once the dining room, an original cupola now floods the new circulation staircase with natural light. The interiors are open plan – a typical floor plan has the kitchen sitting like a piece of furniture within the main living space. The kitchen walls stop below the original ceiling height allowing light and a visual connection with the living area and the existing cornice to run through.
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CLIENT The Trades Hall VALUE ÂŁ1.1 million COMPLETION 2010
TRADES HALL GLASGOW, UK
The Trades Hall was completed in 1794 and is the only Robert Adam building still surviving in Glasgow today. Adam was originally commissioned in 1791 by the Trades House and Incorporations of Glasgow and despite some alterations over the years it is the oldest secular building in Glasgow still being used for its original purpose. NORR were originally approached by the Trustees of the Trades Hall to prepare a feasibility document identifying ways in which the existing Grade A Listed building could be improved and adapted to ensure the long term financial future of the Hall. All original architectural detailing and decorative cornicing has been retained and repaired where necessary. The space to the north of the main entrance has been converted to a retail unit at ground and basement levels. The primary elevation to Glassford Street has been remodelled at street level to form shop fronts; the two most extreme north and south windows have been increased in width, as originally envisaged by Robert Adam The installation of the shop fronts along the Glassford Street elevation has reinforced the position of the building as the only historically significant secular building remaining in Glasgow still used for its original purpose. The remodelled elevation more closely resembles the original Robert Adam proposal. Further alterations in the building include the creation of a new, purpose built reception space to the rear of the ground floor along with the remodelling and refurbishment of the basement toilets and additional, improved accommodation for the Hall staff. Other alterations are primarily of an upgrading and decorative nature making the building more desirable in the competitive functions market while also greatly improving the condition of this important Grade A-listed building.
CLIENT Lindores Ltd SCALE 12 flats VALUE ÂŁ2.9 million COMPLETION 2009 AWARD Dundee Civic Trust Award 2009
CONVERSION OF CLOCKTOWER DUNDEE, UK
The conversion by NORR of a former barrel vaulted warehouse into a 12 luxury flat development at the Clocktower, City Quay Dundee has seen the retention of the cast iron structure together with many of the original features, including cast iron columns and brick barrel vault ceilings. Whilst individual roof terraces have been created for the penthouses and copper clad balconies have been added to the gable end to afford spectacular views over the River Tay, the disused clock mechanism and clock faces have been restored to full working order. The conversion of the Clocktower marks the latest stage in the evolution of NORR’s development masterplan, prepared some years ago, aimed at regenerating the City Quay area and inviting people to renew their relationship with the river. As part of that masterplan, this quality development will help transform, energise and reconnect the city to the waterfront, threading the city and water together to create a special sense of place.
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CLIENT Stepnell Ltd SCALE 1,000 m² VALUE £1.1 million COMPLETION 2007
NICHOLAS WILSON HOUSE LEAMINGTON, UK
NORR’s design for this small scale office development built on the banks of the River Leam on stilts, demonstrates that it is possible for a project of any size to incorporate sustainable measures into its design and secure recognition for it; Dormer Place has achieved a BREEAM rating of ‘Very Good’. Set within a conservation area, the building has been designed to be sympathetic to and protect the existing character of the riverbank. One of the more unusual and yet key sustainable technologies incorporated into the site is the innovative ‘louvre’ system fitted in the basement. This enables any flood water to be accommodated and channelled back into the river rather than encroaching into the rest of the building.
6 GEORGE STREET
MONUMENT HALL
EDINBURGH, UK
NEWCASTLE, UK
In 1999 the Nat West Group Property commissioned NORR to build a modern retail banking hall with offices and support facilities on a site at the east end of George Street, Edinburgh. The site had been occupied by four storey stone build neo-Victorian offices, flanked to the east, by the much taller and renowned 1930’s Guardian Royal Exchange offices, and to the west by a higher modern office complex.
CLIENT National Westminster Bank plc SCALE 2,325 m² VALUE £3 million COMPLETION 2002
The architecture of the new bank provides a stylish contemporary double height glazed shop front, with articulated sandstone screen above, harmonising the eaves heights, and the rhythm of fenestration along this section of George Street.
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At Monument Mall in the historic centre of Newcastle, NORR has created a multi-level covered shopping arcade linked below ground to the rail Metro Station Above ground, the design produced an appropriate architectural response to the ‘Tyneside Classical’ architecture at the west end of the site, as well as a newer elevation, to harmonise with the more modern buildings at the east end. The design also still managed to retain and incorporate much loved listed facades along Blackett Street. The master plan incorporated underground shopping links to existing retail at Fenwick’s department store and the creation of a new setting for an existing Methodist Chapel within the restored and rebuilt rear service lanes.
CLIENT St Martin’s Property SCALE 19,034 m² VALUE £22.5 million COMPLETION 1992 AWARDS Special Landscape Design Award from the Natural Stone Federation presented by Prince Charles
ST LEONARDS
FORMER GPO HQ
ST ANDREWS, UK
GLASGOW, UK
St Leonard’s House itself was built around 1927. The upper dormer windows feature crow stepped gables adding strength to the Scottish vernacular style of the building. The project involved extending the existing building to the north, resulting in the removal of the lower parts of the buildIng near the road. This allowed for a continuation of the T stem on plan creating a wing of three stories. All render is buff coloured, unifying the old and new sections. Internally the building is now divided into 20 flats, 14 of which are within the original building.
modern house standards.
NORR was commissioned to design a major mixed-use development The new stonewall is set back from in a key landmark listed building the road with a lowered section in Glasgow City Centre. The and gateposts at the entrance, project now provides a variety of which allows a continuous residential flats, duplex units, and pavement past the development executive penthouses, on upper to the hospital. On site parking levels, with fashion retail units at division for 30 cars is distributed ground, basement and first floor. around the west of the site, with a drop off point directly In front of The original robust stone built the main entrance to the houses. elevations of the Former GPO Headquarters building required CLIENT careful attention to create new The Robertson Group full height openings and display windows onto Ingram Street, as VALUE required for fashion stores. Estimated ÂŁ15 million
The elevational treatment of the new extension takes its inspiration COMPLETION from the roof-line and window 2000 style of the original building and the tower element from the abbey wall opposite, although the floor to floor heights are in keeping with
The new prestigious residential entrance foyer areas are built behind the grand arches formerly used as mail van docking areas, and the huge windows of the old sorting hall now give light into prestigious double height duplex flats. CLIENT Crown Dilum Plc
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CLIENT Carlton Hotel SCALE 35 bedrooms VALUE £5.2 million
CARLTON HOTEL EDINBURGH, UK
NORR has been granted Planning & Listed Building Consent to build a new floor of bedroom accommodation on the roof of the Grade B Listed Edinburgh landmark. Commissioned by Puma Hotels Plc, who have long held a desire to increase the number of rooms in this popular Old Town destination, NORR took on the challenge to increase the number of rooms on this highly visible site. Through detailed discussions and site visits with both the Council’s Listed Buildings Team, and officers from Historic Scotland, NORR has designed a scheme providing 25 new high quality bedrooms to the top of the hotel without detriment to the rich skyline of the Old Town, to which the Carlton Hotel is a significant contributor. Formerly a major department store, the Carlton Hotel, together with the Scotsman building opposite, provides a gateway to the Old Town from the North, and as such remains an iconic image of Edinburgh. The views from the rooftop, particularly to the East, with Calton Hill, Arthur’s Seat and the Forth Estuary beyond are truly stunning, and the new rooms take full advantage of their privileged position. The new rooms are certain to be the most sought after in the four star hotel, operated by Barcelo. Chris Browning, Director of NORR’s Edinburgh Office said “We have chosen to use the existing materials of the building, natural slate, sandstone and traditional dormer windows to marry in with the existing fabric of the hotel, to enhance, rather than detract from the existing roofscape and skyline. The rooms within, however, will boast the 21st century luxuries one would expect of a capital city hotel of this calibre, with views second to none”
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28 ST ANDREWS SQUARE
9-10 ST ANDREWS SQUARE
EDINBURGH, UK
EDINBURGH, UK
NORR carried out a full refurbishment of this listed building, retaining essential Victorian features including the entrance hall and first floor meeting suite and a full Grade A uplift, rationalising floor levels, introducing daylight, flexible cooling and extending the floorplates to the rear. The property was initially occupied by Scottish and Newcastle plc.
CLIENT Delma Developments / TJH Holdings SCALE 4,200 m² VALUE £4.5 million COMPLETION 2005
This is a Sir Basil Spence grade A listed property last occupied by Scottish Widows. NORR sensitively refurbished the granite and limestone facade, retaining internal leather clad meeting rooms, reworking of the internal circulation and facilitating food retails to the ground floor public spaces and basement and providing a business centre for MWB on six upper floors.
CLIENT Sainsburys Developments / MWB SCALE 1,600 m² retail, 2,800 m² offices VALUE £5 million COMPLETION 2001
CLIENT Premier Property Group SCALE 8,000 m² VALUE £9 million COMPLETION 2007
PRINCES MALL EDINBURGH, UK
NORR designed internal refurbishments and a new food court for the 1980s Princes Mall shopping centre. The refurbishment creates extra usable space within the centre by extending the perimeter shop units forward creating a new mall environment on both levels and linking the atria space at the east end and the west end. The alterations to Princes Mall are designed to rationalise the mall at both levels, removing the internal retail islands, improving shop depths and forming a major user space on the east site at the upper mall level. All major plant and life safety systems have also been upgraded and replaced. All this within the confines of an underground shopping centre with trading continuing uninterrupted throughout the contract period. To compliment the refurbished mall, the escalators have been relocated and replaced, new floor and ceiling finishes installed throughout and a new glazed feature entrance canopy and new granite steps will be formed to Waverley Bridge.
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SCALE 10,500 m² COMPLETION 1987 (additional works in 2000)
PRINCES SQUARE GLASGOW, UK
The award-winning Princes Square is a unique, five-storey shopping centre, created around a cobbled Victorian Square, dating from 1841. It is located in the historic centre of Glasgow and creates attractive public environments which complement the commercial efficiency and investment value of the shopping centre. The original cellars of the buildings were excavated to provide an additional level of shopping areas and add to the impression of height, with the entire space being covered by a clear glass dome roof. The design sought to preserve and restore the original sandstone buildings and yet transform the space into a modern shopping centre that would provide an attractive meeting place: ‘a new Rialto’. New galleries were carefully designed to afford generous movement and allow as many shops as possible on all levels to be seen from any one vantage point. The later addition of ‘The Glasshouse’ extended the centre into Springfield Court, providing a further 20,000ft² of retail area and a new retail frontage to the east.
MALLORY COURT HOTEL
THE WOOL EXCHANGE
WARWICKSHIRE, UK
BRADFORD, UK
NORR was retained for this new £2.3 million wedding and conference facility extension, which is connected to the existing Grade II listed hotel building.
CLIENT Mallory Court Hotel
The eleven new executive bedrooms in the Knights Suite are contemporary in style, with flatscreen televisions and high speed internet access.
VALUE £3.2 million
SCALE 11 Bedroom
COMPLETION 2004
The magnificent decor and continuing attention to detail creates a setting of elegance and modernity. Phase II provides a new brasserie for approximately 80 covers.
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NORR commenced design work on the former Wool Exchange in Bradford - a Grade I listed building which had laid dormant for some time and which had been considered by a number of developers, but with little success. As a result we approached booksellers ‘Waterstones’ for a major, but sympathetic retail user for the Hall. In order to open views into the hall, a large section of non-original infill wall was demolished and replaced with a new planar glass screen with new floors behind. The glass wall incorporates a major new entrance into the hall. A period of negotiation took place with English Heritage and the Local Planning Authority.
The triangular gothic building was then transformed into a modern book store. The overriding concept was about ‘transparency’, with a new glass wall being introduced essentially to create giant ‘shop window’ to showcase the combination of bookshop and hall. CLIENT Maple Grove Developments VALUE £4 million
CLIENT Garbe UK VALUE £50 million COMPLETION 2003
VICTORIA HOUSE LONDON, UK
Victoria House is a Grade II listed building occupied until recently by the insurance company which built it. Located between the Georgian Bloomsbury Square, close to the British Museum, and the busy Southampton Row, Victoria House is monumentally Classical in style (though steel framed) and contains some impressive interiors, particularly its entrance lobbies and staircases. The building was considered as the headquarters for the new Greater London Authority. Alsop Sparch’s brief was to create a large space for the client, Garbe UK as well as lettable offices to modern standards and ancillary areas. The scheme balances preservation and innovation. Working with the local planning authority (LB Camden) and English Heritage, Alsop Sparch identified interiors of historic interest, which have been carefully retained and restored. In terms of core commercial accommodation, the building has been substantially remodelled. Two full floors of offices have been added, and former circulating areas such as the central tower altered to provide additional office space. The internal lightwells have been remodeled as environmentally controlled atria with ‘pod’ meeting rooms suspended in the space.
CLIENT George Washington Golf and Country Club
SKIBO SWIMMING PAVILION DORNOCH, UK
SCALE 550 m² VALUE £3.5 million COMPLETION 2010
As part of the Estate and Castle created by Carnegie at Skibo, the swimming pavilion was housed in a state of the art conservatory built by MacKenzie and Moncur Limited. The original building contained a 25 yard long pool, its own heating system, a minstrel’s gallery and extensive changing rooms. Seawater was pumped from the Dornoch Firth for bathing and treatment. NORR was commissioned to recreate a swimming pool pavilion that matches all modern aspirations, whilst retaining and reflecting the original building’s history. The new building will be slightly shorter than the original to allow for external decking and will accommodate a 21 metre by 10 metre pool. Special glass to the roof is to be used to deflect the sun’s rays to ensure against overheating. In addition, a thermal system will be installed to ensure the temperatures can be controlled automatically.
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CLIENT The Gleneagles Hotel SCALE Various VALUE Various COMPLETION 1999-2005
GLENEAGLES VARIOUS PROJECTS GLENEAGLES, AUCHTERARDER, UK
NORR was commissioned in 1999 to carry out a Master Plan for development at the Gleneagles Hotel and Estate with the ambition of providing new bedrooms; expand conference, meeting, and business tourism facilities; expand kitchen and restaurant accommodation, and new landscape and setting for the central rooftop courtyard, the car park areas and main entrance. As part of the project to add 59 new Presidential Bedrooms at Braid House, the practice also designed an innovative expansion to the main Strathearn Dining Room at Gleneagles Hotel. The project involved rationalisation of the main kitchen, storage, staff and servery areas to provide space for a new dining area linked to the main restaurant. The former dishwash and cutlery areas now provide a comfortable wing facing east across the tennis court, which can be divided off for private functions as required but which has also been finished to completely integrate with the main dining area.
CLIENT Bradford MDC VALUE ÂŁ15 million COMPLETION 2006
MULTI-FAITH CENTRE BRADFORD, UK
The project brief was to design and construct a building to house a permanent exhibition celebrating the influence and diversity of faith within Bradford. The design team worked in close collaboration with the client in the development of proposals and securing of funding packages that enabled the project to be realised. A two storey steel and glass bridge provides a link between the Cathedral Precinct and St Peter’s House - a Victorian building refurbished to house the exhibition and offices for the local council. The bridge, positioned directly opposite the Cathedral is the public entrance to the exhibition areas. A restrained palette of materials- glazing, timber cladding and zinc roofing accentuate the lightness and transparency of the new structure which contrasts with the predominantly stone built context.
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CLIENT Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council
GODDARD BUILDING HINCKLEY, UK
SCALE 4,414 m² VALUE £5.9 million
NORR was retained for the refurbishment of the Grade II listed former hosiery factory in Hinckley. The new hub for creative industries provides managed work spaces; exhibition, gallery and performance space; retail and a café bar area; conference and meeting space; and general office units for creative enterprises.
COMPLETION 2010
The building’s simple, open floor configuration allows the multitude of new activities to be accommodated with flexibility for incremental or radical change in the future. The tall windows will continue to flood the interiors with daylight and sunshine throughout the day and the refurbished opening vents will maintain natural ventilation. The thermal mass of the building fabric will assist in the balancing of the internal temperature. New arrangements for external access and internal circulation incorporate the retention of the distinctive central archway for the main reception, a direct entrance to the retail and café bar area adjacent to the College main entrance and new lifts to provide access for all.
CLIENT Private Client COMPLETION 2004
RHYND CHURCH NEAR PERTH, UK
The property is a B-listed T-plan Tudor Gothic Church by architect William Mackenzie in 1842. Situated approximately 3 miles south of Perth in the small village of Rhynd, the Ecclesiastical building had been lying vacant for a number of years before being purchased by the client with a view to converting it into a family home. The 19th century of the exterior remains largely unaltered, but internally provides a modern flexible living environment. The Church was split into 2 levels, with sleeping accommodation at ground level and the living area on the upper level. The lower level has 4 bedrooms, 2 of the bedrooms have large pivoting walls, which can be opened up to provide a large open space at the entrance. Throughout the upper level the windows continue to floor level providing beautiful views across Rhynd and the adjacent farmland. The stone tapestry of the windows have been retained and restored, and new double glazed windows with the low profile steel frame have been sympathetically introduced.
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CLIENT Cairnduff Developments SCALE 820 m² VALUE £3 million COMPLETION 2009
LOCHGARRY, 40 CLEVEDEN DRIVE GLASGOW, UK
A stunning conversion of a luxury five bedroom period villa in the west end of Glasgow. The former boys’ home has undergone a dramatic transformation that has seen the NORR extend and convert the property to better suit the requirements of the owner. Our approach to the conversion was to delicately restore the original classical features of the house whilst placing modern insertions where the existing fabric was absent. The original layout of the house in the middle two floors was largely restored, including the re-introduction of a bespoke designed timber stairway to the basement, replicating the original servant’s route from the garden level kitchen. In contrast, the basement and upper floors which were bereft of historical features were completed in an entirely modern aesthetic in terms of both finish and layout. Externally extensive stone repairs were carried out and re-claimed stone cobbles form the front entrance driveway and provide a historical footnote to the development.
CLIENT Calmont/ Miller SCALE 18 Units COMPLETION 2004
HIGHBURGH ROAD BEARSDEN, UK
The enhanced ceiling heights in the building allowed us to create galleries within the flats. An existing cupola was removed from the roof of the building and replaced with a new roof top extension providing each upper flat with a roof top sun rooms allowing owners to take advantage of views across the city. These new sun rooms provide access to both covered and uncovered private rooftop terraces. The development has 100% carparking within the basement. A new access was created through the Listed faรงade to access the basement.
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CLIENT Persimmon City Developments Ltd
95 MORRISON STREET GLASGOW, UK
SCALE 20,000 m² VALUE £12 million COMPLETION 2000
NORR has carried out an innovative and sensitive redevelopment of the 19th Century B-listed former headquarters of the Co-op in Scotland. Originally built as a warehouse and offices, the building has been converted to a high quality, predominantly residential development. Luxury apartments and penthouses are set around the exterior of the building and the newly formed internal landscaped courtyard. The loft-style mezzanine apartments have been created by inserting gallery floors within the old warehouse. This has enabled the formation of spacious double height living areas adjacent to the new sash and case windows that flood the apartments with natural daylight and provide views over the city. Spaces for kitchens and bathrooms are contained below the bedroom galleries. The successful combination of creativity and quality and of innovation and sensitivity has resulted in new life being breathed into one of Glasgow’s landmark buildings.
CLIENT Hutchesons’ Grammar School SCALE 1,500 m²
FOTHERINGAY CENTRE HUTCHESONS’ GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GLASGOW, UK
VALUE £3.1 million
Following success in a limited competition, NORR was commissioned to refurbish, convert and extend an existing grade ‘C’ listed church sitting on the boundary of the campus.
COMPLETION 2003
The new music and IT department occupies both the existing listed church building and a new build element which occupies the rear and side of the site. Split into 3 phases over 4 years, the fabric of the existing listed building was extensively upgraded, the main sanctuary space opened up and restored, the basement level increased and inhabited and a new 3 storey extension added to create teaching space. The main sanctuary space was retained and upgraded with state of the art audio and visual equipment, performance lighting, flexible seating and a new glass wall to the foyer. This space will be used as a rehearsal/ performance space and used as a sanctuary by the existing congregation.
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CLIENT Oakgate Group SCALE 1,275 m² VALUE £2 million COMPLETION 2009
CLUMBER STREET NOTTINGHAM, UK
The completed shell of this bank branch adds to the quality of the streetscape in a sober and unassuming way that belies the complexity of the legislative and technical issues that the design team led by NORR had to resolve. The scheme sympathetically incorporates a listed building and retained façade into a unified composition. An efficient and stimulating interior layout was achieved by innovative design solutions to conservation and building regulation requirements, with the vertical access atrium being the fulcrum of this approach. The city centre corner site provided a great deal of challenges including; appalling ground conditions, constrained access and existing buildings that required close coordination of variations to the design and rapid responses to the contractors requests for information. The completed shell works include a full basement waterproofed to grade 4, and three levels above ground.
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DEVA CENTRE
LONDON, UK
MANCHESTER, UK
NORR was commissioned to complete interior designs to over 30 rooms, to be used by the Secretary of State and his Ministerial team, at the Grade I listed building fronting Millbank, Westminster.
CLIENT MAFF / Rogers & Grundy VALUE £3.2 million
The project involved careful liaison with the Government Ministers and their teams, together with English Heritage and other Government Agencies. The contract was completed at great speed, with many of the final designs being designed and constructed within days of being given approval. The project attracted a great deal of media publicity, whilst also producing some of the Capital’s largest single specialist restoration subcontracts, based on careful computer reconstruction of some of the damaged rooms.
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The Brewery site in Salford ceased production in the late 1980s leaving a number of important listed buildings without a satisfactory alternative use. NORR developed proposals that would revitalize the site and provide new uses for the important listed buildings and retain the original form and texture. In essence we designed an office village, consisting of a wide range of units with two or three storey blocks enclosing inter-connecting and well landscaped courtyards. This development plays an important role in the revitalisation of the area and acts as a catalyst for urban regeneration.
CLIENT Greater Manchester Property Venture Fund SCALE 8,360 m² VALUE £5 million COMPLETION 2001
CALEDONIAN HOTEL
NORTHGATE HOUSE
EDINBURGH, UK
WARWICK, UK
The master plan for the five star Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh, prepared by NORR Architects proposed to expand the hotel by creating two new bedroom wings to match the existing Listed Building, over the existing courtyard car park, and forming a new enclosed guest atrium space. The initial phases of the development, including the new Energy Centre for the hotel, built below the restored decorative arched gateway, new premium bedrooms with direct views to the Castle; and a completely new Leisure Centre incorporating gymnasium, dance studio, cafe, swimming pool, and male and female changing facilities were completed before the Hotel changed ownership.
CLIENT Norfolk Capital/Queen’s Moat House Hotels SCALE 150 Bedrooms VALUE £10 million COMPLETION 1999
NORR’s work on Northgate House comprised a total refurbishment of a Grade II listed building to form a meeting, function and dining facility for Warwickshire County Council, with the intension of opening the dining and function spaces to the public in the future. The project consisted of two main elements; firstly, the refurbishment of the existing 18th Century building, returning it to its former layout, and secondly the extension and reconfiguration of an existing 1960s garden extension to form a contemporary addition to the whole The £1.6million project was developed in close liaison with both English Heritage and the local conservation Architects. Northgate House is the latest of many projects that NORR has completed for
Warwickshire County Council over the course of a framework agreement that has been in place for over twenty years. CLIENT Warwickshire County Council SCALE 1,000 m² VALUE £1.6 million COMPLETION 2001
QUALITY + SUSTAINABILITY In each project, regardless of scale, we are driven by the pursuit of excellence. We are a creatively focused organisation believing that our ethos of ‘Intelligent Architecture’ makes life better. At the same time we are aware of our social, economic, and environmental responsibilities: we seek to implement appropriate design solutions, use resources wisely, and advise our clients accordingly.
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WE CARE ABOUT uality of Service Q Use of Energy Materials and Water Use Staff and Community Engagement Suppliers and Purchasing Transport Waste & Recycling
OUR COMMITMENT As leading members of the World’s design and construction professions, we commit ourselves to: – Place social, economic, and environmental sustainability at the core of our practices and professional responsibilities – Develop and continually improve practices, to enable the implementation of sustainable design – Educate our fellow professionals, the building industry, clients, students and the general public about the critical importance and substantial opportunities of sustainable design
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A DECADE OF GREEN BUILDINGS Working with UK government BRE/University research work Projects achieving BREEAM Excellent rating Buildings Design Advice (LCBDAA) Carbon emission / energy figures, EPC rating Carbon Management Energy Efficiency advice (CMEE) for the 2014 Commonwealth Games
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