Following on from the infant school project, we are currently engaged to look at early years. Located on the site of the headmaster’s house, Shah house, the project is being developed through the use of physical models to understand the scale, massing and impact on this tight and mature plot.

Sensitivity to neighbours and the adjacent conservation area have played an important part in guiding and developing the design to minimise the impact on residents and improve the chances of a smooth and uncomplicated planning process.

Work on the project with BAM is progressing well, and this snapshot from the main central teaching theatre space, shows the amazing views back across to Chester walls and the river Dee. Nestled within an existing school, this complex and unique building will provide students with first-class opportunities in a studio school environment.

On a compact footprint, the building stretches over three stories and has a range of innovative and integrated spaces that work around a central multilevel top lit space.

We are looking forward to the project completing and adding some exciting photographs to the website.

After a couple of years of trying in a tough funding climate,the school were delighted to be successful with the school expansion fund. providing library, teaching and science theory spaces to accommodate an extra form of entry, this complex and intricate scheme in the heart .of the school starts to solve circulation and movement patterns first described in our masterplan.

As part of a 15 year long term strategy, this key scheme resolves some of the circulation patterns in the process creating a traditional quad adjacent to the new library. Further phases will continue to develop the theme in the years to come.

Boasting 10 consulting rooms, seven operating theatres, two x-ray suites, a CT scanner and an MRI scanner, Atlas House will house one of the most advanced veterinary referral hospitals in the north-west of England. Undertaken for the York-based Vet Partners, this project is part of a larger rollout of schemes across the UK.

As well as developing the detailed design for this hospital, we have been commissioned to undertake the design guide to ensure a consistent level of quality in veterinary care across all the new facilities within the group.

Attention to detail, a intimate understanding of the clinical requirements and spatial adjacencies together with our unique use of virtual reality in the briefing and testing stage, have ensured that both veterinary nurses and the surgeons have had the opportunity to test and review all of the design spaces prior to sign off.

We are currently negotiating with the contractor with a view to starting on site in spring 2019.

The college continues to go from strength to strength and is massively oversubscribed. In order to alleviate some of the pressure on space, the college have engaged us to develop the new £6.5 million new extension to the rear of the existing building. Designed to tie in seamlessly with the previous designs, the scheme is currently in planning and we are preparing information for contractor tender.

Building on our previous involvement with the college, having developed over £45 million worth of capital projects on two campuses, we have recently undertaken a number of smaller projects to address safeguarding and security.

Providing you catering, teaching sports and support spaces, the new extension will provide an additional 250 places at the college.

From the original brutal 1960s entrance, we have created a sensuous and elegant stair to draw people into the main school theatre. Originally developing the options in sketch up, we then went on to develop a range of ideas which we presented to the governors in virtual reality.

Again, the power of the VR to explain and showcase our ideas allowed us to win the support of the governing body to progress with this most complicated of schemes in the heart of the school.

At the heart of the scheme is the new balustrade, laser cut out of 12 mm thick steel straight from our CAD drawings, folded and rolled to exactly match the existing profile and shape of the staircase. With virtually no room for error, pressing the button to cut the steel was a nervous affair.

In the end the scheme went to plan and has been a wholehearted success for the school.

We are delighted to work on a regular basis with the team at Soapworks providing hands-on support role dealing with all manner of architectural matters. From redevelopment and refurbishment of the café, to dealing with car parking, we are happy and willing to take on board wide range of work to assist the client in getting best value through the tender process.

This kind of ongoing support work lies at the heart of what we do, building strong long-term relationships based on providing a useful and valuable service.

Located within the local conservation area, and cheek by jowl with the existing infant school, this project is part of a long-term redevelopment and re-modelling strategy in the junior school part of the site.

Improving nursery and infant spaces, the scheme provided a range of additional facilities. As with all the projects at the grammar school, the focus on quality of materials, detailed design, flexibility and rely on the long-term was at the heart of our designs. As with all our work at the grammar school, we engaged with the staff and governing body to share the design development through the use of VR prior to sign off at each stage.

David and Alan have continued their working relationship with Loreto College and were delighted to assist the college with a scheme to reclad the courtyard elevations of the Ball Building.  Although a relatively recent construction the existing cedar cladding of the Ball Building had started to fail. It was showing signs of rot, decay, varied weathering and staining resulting in the overall appearance detracting from the character of the well-used courtyard area.  

The college approached 10architect in April and required the appointed contractor to be onsite by July with the works being completed by September – an extremely challenging time frame. Our client centred ethos and mobile working approach meant that the scheme could be designed and detailed onsite with the college’s instant feedback allowing immediate resolution of issues.  This collaborative approach saved time during the design development period and permitted a traditional tender to be issued and returned in time for the July start onsite.

In spite of unforeseen challenges with the existing building, the recladding works were completed to a high standard and the college were delighted with the quality and appearance of the refreshed elevations. 

The Biopharma facility is seen as an exemplar in the same way construction, catering, hair & beauty, engineering and science all promote their particular skills and training opportunities within the college. This transparent visual and expressive approach underpins the core of the new Biopharma building.

The organisational plan of the facility, and the movement patterns within the building, reflect real life working scenarios in order to expose the students to a professional environment and to engender habits that are fundamental to high-quality biopharmaceutical technical support. The daily routines of maintaining cleanliness are reflected in the flow of teaching spaces through the facility. With this in mind, the changing facilities and “process” of changing are treated as equally important to the laboratory training spaces.

This flow is wrapped around a central learning teaching space with glazed walls to all sides allowing students to see a snapshot of all the various stages of biopharmaceutical cleanliness in operation and delivery.

This approach is similar to an airport, where different functions are segregated but are transparent, allowing the students to engage and learn from others in the whole of the pharmaceutical process.

This learning flow is reflected in the architecture with a strong wedge shaped design with learning at the heart and pharmaceutical flow around the edges. The design hovers over the entrance area where students can arrive cluster and access the classroom, the new science laboratory and the engineering block on the lower floor. This open space for events leads to the first floor to act as a central hub for this new building to connect to the STEM Engineering complex.

This gives immense flexibility with events and showcasing manufacturers, but also allows future flexibility around converting space to increase learning provision.