The community centre at Chase Meadow in south west Warwick is close to completion. Designed for the District Council, the new facility will provide local residents with a worship space, community hall and cafe at he heart of the development. The project has been delivered in partnership with Faithful & Gould and constructed by Morgan Sindall.
Restful Homes’ new care home, Banner Court is taking shape in Coventry. The project will create a community of 106 residents with generous bedrooms and social facilities to create a higher standard of living for the elderly occupants.
Above, a visualisation of the new home by JK Visuals.
Robothams have been appointed to prepare the detailed design for Deeley Construction of a residential scheme targeted at people aged 55 and over at Queensway in Leamington Spa. The original design for Orbit Group was prepared by PRP Architects for 178 one and two bed extra-care apartments received planning consent in November and is anticipated to start on site in early 2013.
Planning consent has been granted for Abingdon & Witney College’s new engineering facility at their Wootton Road site. The building will provide a further motor vehicle training workshop and a CADCAM teaching room extending their existing provision on the site. Work is due to begin in March with the demolition of the existing temporary teaching rooms and the relocation of services. The appointed contractor is Stepnell, and the project will be managed from their Wantage Office.
Planning consent has been granted by Walsall Council for a new care home for the Restful Homes Group.
The development will provide 70 spacious rooms with a range of activities for residents including a cinema room, cafe and roof garden. The building is set in landscaped grounds making excellent use of the existing trees to form a sensory garden to the rear and a green buffer to the adjacent roads. The external appearance is contemporary using a palette of traditional materials to appeal to the changing tastes of those seeking high quality residential care. A start on site is anticipated later in 2013.
Representatives of the practice attended the official opening of Sidney Stringer Academy. The proceedings included music and dance performances from the students, speeches and a formal opening by HRH Duke of York.
We worked with Sheppard Robson Architects to deliver the academy across two sites in Hillfields, Coventry.
2011 and 2012 have seen a significant increase in the number of commissions from the Care Home market.
Since completion of Homewood in Leamington in 2009 for Methodist Homes for the Aged and Earlplace this sector has grown into an important specialist area for the practice. The challenge of designing attractive residential and social space for the elderly and catering for those with various forms dementia, has played to our strengths, including careful design and attention to detail.
Above, Avon Court in Stratford Upon Avon’s town centre.
Having completed Avon Court earlier in 2012, construction work has been progressing on Avalon Court in Coventry and Darwin Court in Lichfield, residential care homes for the Restful Homes Group, a family run organisation with sites across the south of England and the Midlands. These schemes in addition to providing comfortable, spacious individual rooms have also placed a focus on communal spaces which cater for a range of residents and care needs.
Above, Avalon Court in Coventry due for completion in 2013.
David Cameron MP opens the new campus designed by Robothams Architects for Abingdon & Witney College. After a tour of the new campus he met students and staff before officially opening the new facilities which have rejuvenated the site in Witney’s town centre.
His opening speech is captured on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu3ODYVVY3Q.
Work is almost complete on this new teaching building being constructed at Myton School in Warwick. The new facility forms part of a wider campus regeneration for this specialist science and training school, and is the second scheme completed by the practice at the site.
The Skills Funding Agency and Abingdon and Witney College have agreed to fund a new facility for engineering training at the College’s Abingdon campus.
The building will enhance the College’s existing engineering provision, adding workshop space, theory teaching rooms and IT spaces. The scheme is due for completion by September 2013.
