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Fish Island Mix-Use Building University of Arts London / Henley Halebrown

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Fish Island is a mixed-use scheme combining homes, workspace, and teaching and learning space for higher education. Fish Island was commissioned as two projects, 'West' in 2018 and 'East' in 2021. The site is the former John Broadwood & Sons piano factory on Fish Island in Hackney Wick, an old industrial neighborhood bounded by infrastructure – the A12 dual carriageway to the west, Hertford Union Canal to the northwest and the River Lea Navigation to the southeast, which separates the Island from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Fish Island West includes a residential building for 330 students, an incubator workspace for graduates of the University of the Arts London (UAL), and affordable commercial space. Fish Island East combines accommodation for a further 204 students, additional incubator workspace for graduates, and a building for Stour Trust, a local community organisation that provides affordable workspace for creatives.

Thames Christian School and Battersea Chapel / Henley Halebrown

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The Thames Christian School and Battersea Chapel project in South London underscores Henley Halebrown’s continued interest in exploring buildings that create both small spaces for people to interact and a concentric focal space to which we can gravitate intuitively and, by implication, recede. This type of space can be a courtyard or a central hall as at Thames Christian School where it has also helped to eliminate the need for corridors. Sited next to Clapham Junction railway station the project brings together the Battersea Chapel Baptist Church and Thames Christian School, an independent coeducational secondary school, under one roof. The new 6-story 5,000m2 building provides the church with a new community hall and sanctuary, and allows the school to expand to 400 pupils, of which nearly half are on the special educational needs register, whilst enabling the regeneration of the inner city Winstanley & York Road Estate. The chapel and school share a rectilinear, two-story plinth that gives the project the gravitas of a public building. Within, the chapel’s congregation gathers in the hall and sanctuary which can be combined into a larger space for baptisms and other big events. Meanwhile, the school hall facilitates performance, dining, physical education, and assembly, and is shared with the community for events outside of school hours. For Henley Halebrown this is about making spaces that configure the way people gather; spaces that can democratize and create hierarchies and spaces that can atomize or unite us.

98–100 De Beauvoir Road / Henley Halebrown

Andreas Luco — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0000

98–100 De Beauvoir Road continues the practice’s work in the adaptive reuse of existing and historic structures such as Talkback, E.W. Pugin’s St. Monica’s, Hoxton, and the more recent schemes De Beauvoir Block, Laszlo and the Poppy Factory. 98–100 forms part of a range of early twentieth-century industrial buildings immediately west of De Beauvoir Square, and its listed Neo-Jacobean houses, in De Beauvoir Town, an area of London planned after the Grand Union Canal and Kingsland Basin were cut in the 1820s.

The Poppy Factory / Henley Halebrown

Andreas Luco — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:00:00 +0000

The Poppy Factory is located in Richmond alongside the River Thames in South West London. It is a charity founded between the World Wars focused on identifying employment for veterans and raising funds for families affected by war. Its premises in Richmond have evolved over the years and occupy a group of buildings including a 1930s Art Deco 3-storey factory where poppies are still made as a symbol of Flanders Fields to mark the end of WWI hostilities on Remembrance Day.

The Laszlo / Henley Halebrown

Andreas Luco — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:00:00 +0000

The Laszlo is on a largely residential street in a conservation area close to Highgate in North London, and a neighbor to the University of Arts, London. The 5-story building dates from c. 1900. Originally the Batavia Mills, it was used for manufacturing and printing. During World War II gas masks were stored in the building. The facades are brick, with pronounced piers and arched set-back window openings layered to create a facade with depth and shadow. Inside the structural frame is steel.

333 Kingsland Road & Hackney New Primary School / Henley Halebrown

Paula Pintos — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Located on Kingsland Road, one of Hackney’s busy arterial roads on the edge of a conservation area, Hackney New Primary School combines a community-led school with affordable homes and shops at street level. It represents an exemplary approach to hybrid architecture combining different functions without losing the strengths of either the original educational or residential building typologies.

333 Kingsland Road & Hackney New Primary School / Henley Halebrown

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 24 May 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Located on Kingsland Road, one of Hackney’s busy arterial roads on the edge of a conservation area, Hackney New Primary School combines a community-led school with affordable homes and shops at street level. Designed by Henley Halebrown, the project represents an exemplary approach to hybrid architecture combining different functions without losing the strengths of either the original educational or residential building typologies.

Taylor & Chatto Courts + Wilmott Court Frampton Park Estate / Henley Halebrown

Andreas Luco — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Taylor Court, Chatto Court & Wilmott Court has won the Civic Trust Awards 2022 National Panel Special Award, selected by the National Panel members as their favourite scheme from the year’s award-winning projects. The scheme designed by Henley Halebrown on the Frampton Park Estate was given the Special Award as “a bold and ambitious project commissioned by the London Borough of Hackney, representing the best of council-led housing.”

De Beauvoir Block / Henley Halebrown

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 07:00:00 +0000

This Spring saw the completion of De Beauvoir Block - a group of 33 workspaces over three floors ranging from 250 square feet to 3,000 feet designed and equipped to support individuals and businesses, particularly those involved in the creative industries. Known as ‘The Block’, the building is located in the nineteenth century neighbourhood of De Beauvoir Town, Hackney (East London), which was largely open country until the 1820s when a new, predominantly residential area was built.

Hackney New School / Henley Halebrown Architects

Daniela Cardenas — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 02:00:00 +0000

Hackney New School is a new mixed-ability Free School with a focus on music, combining a 500-pupil secondary school and 200-pupil sixth form.