CLIENT: NAVIGATION PROPERTY MARKETING SUITE SERVICES COLLABORATORS: NU LIVING, SWAN HOUSING DATE COMPLETED: JULY 2018 LOCATION: BLACKWALL, LONDON Located within a busy urban estate of London, this two-storey marketing suite is situated within the Blackwall Reach redevelopment scheme in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets over the Northern section of Blackwall Tunnel. The brief from our client was to design a marketing suite with a dedicated sales area to the ground floor with a first-floor area capable of housing two show apartment layouts relevant to the current and future construction phases of the main development. The floor had to have an adaptable space so that the show apartments can be updated as the construction phase is completed. The genus loci of the building was the Robin Hood Gardens Estate in close by Poplar, which can be seen from the site; sympathetic signs of this brutalist architecture can be seen reflected […]

CLIENT: Navigation Property Marketing Suite Services COMPLETE: 2017 LOCATION: Brixton, London Details coming soon. Watch this space!

CLIENT: Nicholas Anthony COMPLETED: 2016 LOCATION: 121 Chesterton Road, Cambridge SIZE: 408sqm   Nicholas Anthony are a 50 year old family run business, providing luxury kitchens, bathrooms and interiors via their showrooms in Ascot, Cambridge, Colchester, Knightsbridge and Mayfair. The company had recently taken control of a new property in Cambridge, and required GROW to undertake the transition, adaptation and fit-out of the property, to their exactly standards. GROW were appointed to carry concept designs, involving liaising with all parties involved with the project and formulating a design around the stakeholders requirements. We formulated a planning strategy around the mechanical and electrical contractor, signage company, structural engineer and Building Control Authority, and the planning application was submitted and approved. The project involved close co-ordination with SieMatic designers, Faces of Interior, to ensure the space was well designed, flexible to allow for future refurbishments and layout adjustments, and that could incorporate […]

CLIENT: Tendring District Council COMPLETED: 2015 LOCATION: Clacton on sea, Walton on the Naze, Essex SIZE: 12sqm The Changing Places Consortium provide changing facilities and toilets for people who cannot use standard accessible toilets. This includes people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, as well as older people. To use the toilet in safety and comfort, many people need to be able to access a Changing Places, which have more space and the right equipment, including a height adjustable changing bench and a hoist. We were approached by Tendring District Council to design two new Changing Places, one in Clacton on sea, and one in Walton on the Naze as part of a forward thinking initiative by the LA and local councillors. A grant had been provided by Essex County Council Short Breaks team to facilitate the initiative. Several possible seafront sites were […]

CLIENT: NAVIGATION PROPERTY MARKETING SUITES LOCATION: NEW NORTH SQUARE, HAINAULT, ESSEX In close proximity to Stratford and central London, the Taylor Wimpey development of New North Square consists of around 200 contemporary new homes to which our client Navigation Marketing Suites Services was approached to construct the new marketing suite with a strong focus towards innovative building technology. Our design offered a sophisticated exterior using a combination of ACM cladding and full height glazing which allowed our client to install retail screens to be controlled remotely by the agency, the first of their kind in the UK. Expanding upon the brief of innovative building technology we decided to use timber frame construction methods throughout for both ease of construction and its sustainability aspects. In conjunction with this we designed a slim angled aluminium gutter profile in order to provide a seamless roof profile within the customer’s eye-line as they approach […]

CLIENT: NAVIGATION PROPERTY MARKETING SUITES COMPLETED: NOVEMBER 2016 LOCATION: HALSTEAD HILL, GOFF’S OAK AWARDS: CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGISTS, ALAN KING AWARD 2016, COMMENDED       Background The Halstead Grange development consists of a collection of 14 luxury homes set within an exclusive gated community in rural Hertfordshire, with properties at this development launching for around £1.4 million, the marketing suite had to exude and reflect the luxury and branding of the Halstead Grange development. Taylor Wimpey North Thames requested the design, build and installation of the marketing suite within an 8-week construction programme. This was the first project that we worked on with our client Navigation Marketing Suites Services who were directly approached on the back of a successful internal fit out for a marketing suite for Peabody. In turn we were employed by them to design a marketing suite to be located within the development. Functionality The […]