JOURNAL
HOUNSLOW DRP
Giles Heather joins Hounslow Design Review Panel
30/10/2024
Giles Heather has joined the Hounslow Design Review Panel. Giles is among 13 new members, a diverse group of professionals who bring expertise from various fields, including architecture, urban design, planning, landscape, and sustainability.
The HDRP is an independent advisory group that provides expert, impartial design advice on major development projects, regeneration efforts, and policy initiatives within the borough. By drawing on the insights of its members, the Panel will play a vital role in helping Hounslow Council maintain the highest design standards for its fast-evolving urban landscape. HDRP members meet monthly to evaluate major planning applications, considering factors like development scale, site context, and local issues to support the Council’s commitment to sustainable and high-quality development.
Many of the panel members, including Giles, have personal and professional connections to the borough, deepening HDRP’s ties to Hounslow’s local communities. Their involvement will create a built environment honouring Hounslow’s heritage and addressing its dynamic future.
SUMMER DAY OUT 2024
Annual Summer day out: Cambridge
14/08/2024
This year we ventured to the beautiful City of Cambridge for our annual team trip. Our day started with a peaceful punt along the college ‘backs’, featuring homemade picnics and prosecco, courtesy of Studio Manager, Abbé. Followed by an al fresco lunch in the picturesque garden of The Punter Pub. We visited brilliant local architecture including the Magdalene College Library and King’s College Chapel and finished the day off with a couple of canal-side beers in the sunshine. A fantastic day all around!
Check out the reel of our day here.
PRESS RELEASE
Stirling Close, Streatham
31/07/2024
Following its recent planning permission, Stirling Close was featured in The Architect’s Journal.
Read the full article here
PLANNING CONSENT
Stirling Close, Streatham
25/06/24
We have just received full planning consent to transform a brownfield site with nine much-needed high-quality family homes in Streatham.
Sensitive to surrounding suburban grain and scale we have divided the terrace into three groups of three dwellings. To lend a sense of movement and dynamism to the street-scene we have gently curved these groupings in plan, and have added distinctive porches and dormers which we feel lend just the right amount of decorative interest. We have carefully assembled a palette of vernacular natural materials and combined these with low-key and minimalist detailing to give the scheme both a timeless as well as contemporary quality so ensuring that it will weather and bed into the neighbourhood.
Read more about the project here.
PLANNING SUBMITTED
Mayford Place, Wandsworth
12/07/2024
We have just submitted planning for 3 mews houses to replace 17 garages in the Nightingale Triangle.
Following a constructive pre-application meeting with LB Wandsworth on this challenging back-land site, we have developed plans for three carefully considered, highly sustainable and picturesque family homes, arranged around a secluded courtyard integrating an existing mature tree and adding further shrubbery and planting.
It has been a pleasure working alongside such a fantastic team & we look forward to a positive outcome.
Read more about the project here.
PLANNING CONSENT
Grove Park, Chiswick
31/05/2024
We recently gained planning consent for a rear and second-floor extension in leafy Grove Park, Chiswick. Currently, this mid-terraced Edwardian house is rather cramped, and being north-facing, is rather lacking in natural light. The rear and side return extension will allow the opening out of the darkest area of the house, allowing more space for a properly functional kitchen and a new area for dining and more abundant natural light. The main feature of the extension will be an almost square pivoting door, allowing the light in and making the garden seem more like a room connected to the rest of the house.
Read more about the project here.
PLATT PACKA-HUS
The Davidson Prize 2024
27/03/2024
The recent availability of the IKEA site in Tottenham presents the London Borough of Enfield with an opportunity to tackle its housing needs in an area earmarked for growth and increased infrastructure. Our proposal catalogues the existing steel building, dismantles it and transforms it into a series of homes of varying sizes, from young-family homes with space to grow to smaller dwellings for young professionals, supporting a vibrant and diverse community in real need of places to live.
THE DAVIDSON PRIZE
Platt Packa-Hus Longlisted
27/03/2024
There's a housing crisis; the problem is evident but solutions are few. With a National Housing Federation poll revealing that seven in ten Londoners have struggled to find decent housing, action is imperative. PLATT-PACKA HUS addresses this gap by mining and reusing the untapped potential of materials locked in unused buildings to create attractive, affordable, and sustainable homes.
We were delighted to have been longlisted for this award.
Also featured in the Architects Journal.
PLANNING CONSENT
Regent’s Park Road, Finchley
30/01/2024
We are delighted and proud to have received a delegated planning consent from the London Borough of Barnet for a multi-unit residential site in Finchley. Our proposals will replace a very ordinary 1930s house with an apartment building that makes far better use of a prominent townscape location. Our design plays on a sense of elegance and understated grandeur, with distinctive lines and a dynamic form, making a particular feature of the corner.
Read more about the project here.
PROMOTION
Giles Hampton
31/01/2024
We're thrilled to announce the well-deserved promotion of Giles Hampton to Associate.
He brings a wealth of talent and experience to Goldstein Heather, as well as innovative ideas and leadership .
Well done, Giles, and here’s to your continued success!
PROMOTION
Sarah Bass
31/01/2024
We’re delighted to announce that Sarah Bass has stepped into the role of Senior Architect and Sustainability Lead.
Her commitment to all aspects of sustainable design, her passion for sharing that knowledge and her leading role in ensuring that this guides all that we do as a studio perfectly qualifies her.
Please join us in congratulating Sarah on this great milestone!
BOOK REVIEW
Caruso St John’s Collected Works
19/12/2023
Have you seen Gile’s latest book review for Building Design Magazine? This time it’s on the latest volume of Caruso St John’s Collected Works. Check it out and let us know what you think.
The article can be found here
OFFICE TRIP 2023
Annual team trip: Brussels
06/10/2023
We took our team on a day trip to Brussels. We had a fantastic day soaking up the sights and architecture of the city, with equal measures of Belgium beer & food thrown in!
Check our socials for more photos
PRESS ARTICLE
BD Online: Palmerston Road
17/08/2023
Palmerston Road was featured on BD Online today following it’s recent planning consent.
To read the full article, please click here
PASSIVHAUS
Passivhaus Certified Designer: Sarah Bass
11/08/2023
Completing the PHPP Passivhaus course has given Sarah a comprehensive understanding of the principles and techniques essential for building design that balances comfort and sustainability and minimises energy consumption.
Passivhaus is a vitally important method for driving down emissions caused by unsustainably heating and cooling buildings. This is especially important given that the construction sector makes a costly 35% contribution to global energy usage and carbon emissions and the demand for new housing in the UK remains undimmed. Sarah's Passivhaus qualification enables her to play a studio-wide role ensuring that the designs we bring forward are always exemplary and can achieve certification wherever the circumstances allow.
SUMMER DAY OUT 2023
Annual Summer Day Out: Brighton
28/07/2023
This year we headed to Brighton for our team summer day out. We explored the laines, visited Brighton Pavilion, had a wonderful lunch and finished with a lot of fun on the pier!
Visit our instagram stories to see more.
PLANNING CONSENT
Palmerston Road, Essex
31/07/2023
We're delighted to have received planning consent for a pair of five bedroom semi-detached houses in Buckhurst Hill, Essex. These two houses are influenced by the neighbouring locally listed Victorian semi-detached houses, but we have simplified and modernised details making a for a more contemporary feel while also remaining sympathetic to the older villas. The materials palette and massing form directly complement the neighbours. The proposals were approved by Epping Forest District Council under delegated powers - We look forward to seeing these come to life in the next phase of the project.
BOOK REVIEW
At Home in London: The Mansion Block by Karin Templin
11/07/2023
Have you read Giles’ latest book review on Building Design Online? Check it out and let us know what you think.
CONSERVATION
RIBA Conservation Registrant: Giles Heather
11/07/2023
The RIBA Conservation Training Course provided a comprehensive introduction to the background, development and current philosophies of building conservation and how those are embedded in statute. It involved interactive tasks and discussion centred on actual examples that drew out the presenter's particular expertise and allowed participants to share their technical experience. Giles is now a Conservation Registrant, which, although not an accredited status, signals that, as a studio, we are aware of the issues affecting intervening and adding to heritage buildings and that we have an understanding of and sympathy for the technical and aesthetic insights historic, traditional and vernacular architecture can offer contemporary practice.
PRINCIPAL DESIGNER
RIBA Accredited Principal Designer CDM & Building Safety Act course: Ruairí Boyle
16/06/23
The course; developed and organised by the RIBA, looked at the evolving role of the Principal Designer under CDM2015 and the upcoming major changes in the Building Safety Act. Attending this accredited course demonstrates the awareness and capability of the practice to carry out the role and was led by Paul Bussey and Tony Putsman. Attended over 7 weeks from March – May, the course provided a comprehensive understanding of the regulations, context, and Design Risk Management practicalities to dutifully carry out the PD role. This course is the first step in joining the upcoming RIBA Principal Designers Register.
NEW TEAM MEMBER
Meet Abbé Wilkins
31/05/2023
Abbé joined us as our new Studio Manager in April this year from internationally aclaimed practice Acme where she was PA to the directors. Abbé will be responsible for not only the day to day smooth running of the studio but also for organising all events and help raising the practice’s profile.
A TRIBUTE
Michael Squire 1946 - 2023
10/05/2023
We were saddened and shocked to hear of the sudden passing of Michael Squire this week. Simon and Giles both worked under Michael at Squire and Partners for a number of years, owing a great debt of gratitude to his wisdom and support. He will be sorely missed by the industry, but his legacy will live on through his buildings and his tremendous impact on the architectural world.
RIP Michael.
NEW TEAM MEMBER
Meet Giles Hampton
24/01/2023
Welcome to the team Giles who joins us from past experiences at both Adam Richards Architects, where he worked on the RIBA award winning Nithurst Farm and the Cheese Barge, and more recently Stephen Taylor Architects. Giles brings a wealth of technical and design experience to the team and we look forward to working with him.
PLANNING CONSENT
The Plain, Epping
29/11/2022
We are please to confirm that planning approval was granted for our project at The Plain in Epping, Essex. The project provides two detatched family dwellings on a former ambulance station site adjacent to St. Margaret’s Hospital.
Check out more about the project here.
PRESS ARTICLE
Architects Journal: West London House
01/11/2022
West London House was covered in the Architects Journal today following the scheme’s planning approval. Read about the project and how we more than doubled the floorspace of the existing narrow terraced house for our clients.
PLANNING CONSENT
Mitre Wharf, West London
27/10/2022
We are delighted to announce that we achieved planning consent for the redevelopment of the prominent Mitre Wharf site in West London. Our site, fronting the Grand Union Canal, forms a critical entry-point to the 650 hectare area under the Old Oak Common and Park Royal Development Corporation's control.
Check out more about the project here.
OFFICE TRIP 2022
Office Trip: York
21/10/2022
The whole studio took a trip up to York on the train for the day to look at some of the wonderful historical buidings including the York Minster, The Shambles and Clifford’s Tower. We of course, also tried out some of the old pubs serving local ales to shield from the rain.
There are some photos of our trip on our Instagram feed, so check them out.
PLANNING CONSENT
West London House
21/09/2022
We just got approval for a substantial addition to and remodelling of a West London townhouse. Our proposals, taking full advantage of the unexpected availability of the next door building, will both open up a generous lateral floorplate for cooking, eating, dining and entertaining, as well as providing a more satisfying contemporary architectural terminus to the existing, abrupt flank wall.
Check out more about the project here.
SUMMER DAY OUT 2022
Team Day Out: Margate
05/08/2022
We took our team on a day trip to Margate as our summer day out of the studio. The weather was perfect and we got to see a lot of the sights.
We posted some snaps on Instagram which you can follow to see what we are up to here.
RA SUMMER SHOW
Team Day Out: RA Summer Show
29/07/2022
Our team went on a field trip to the Royal Academy's Summer Show and we absolutely loved it. Be sure to visit before the end of August so you don’t miss out.
Follow us on Instagram to see what we are up to here.
SERPENTINE PAVILION
Team Day Out: The Serpentine Pavilion
13/07/2022
Our team took a lunch time trip to the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion, ‘Black Chapel’ by Theaster Gates this week. It was a great day out of the office in the sun and we wanted to share some snaps of this fantastic pavilion.
Go and check it out while the sun is still out!
Follow us on Instagram to see what we are up to here.
NEW ARTICLE
Building Design: Pastiche
04/07/2022
Have you read our latest article in Building Design Online by our own Director Giles Heather? Worth a read - and let us know what you think!
The article can be found here.
PRESS ARTICLE
Architects Journal: Mitre Wharf
20/06/2022
Have you checked out our latest article in the Architect’s Journal? Read about our planning submission for Old Oak and Park Royal and let us know what you think!
The article can be found here.
NEW TEAM MEMBER
Meet Shane Carville
09/03/2022
Welcome to our newest member of staff - Shane Carville. Shane is from Monaghan in Ireland and has just joined us as a Part II Architectural Assistant.
NEW TEAM MEMBER
Meet Amaury
28/01/2022
Welcome to Amaury who has recently joined our studio!
Amaury Girardin joined Goldstein Heather at the end of 2021 to support the practice’s growth with his international and multidisciplinary experience as an Architectural Assistant.
We very much look forward to working with them and seeing what this year ahead brings!
NEW ARTICLE
The Tyranny of Balconies
14/01/2022
Have you checked out our latest article 'The Tyranny of Balconies' by one of our directors Giles Heather? Worth a read - and let us know what you think!
The article can be found here.
PROMOTION
Robert Buss
15/12/2021
Please join us in congratulating Rob who has now been promoted to Associate!
Rob joined us back in August 2019 and has been working on a good number of our projects including The Red Lion and Ferry House. He has just submitted a planning and listed building application for The Old Rectory as well as leading Epping New Road into Stage 4.
Huge congrats Rob – we look forward to the year ahead with you and your new position as Associate!
PRESS ARTICLE
Architects Journal: Elmfield
28/05/2021
Have you checked out our latest article in the Architect’s Journal? Read about our planning consent for Prospects House in Elmfield and let us know what you think!
The article can be found here.
PLANNING CONSENT
Elmfield, Prospects House
24/05/2021
We’re delighted that Prospects House, in Bromley Town Centre, received planning consent at last Thursday’s DCC, the first in person committee in over a year, with a unanimous 16-0 decision from members. Congratulations to London Green, who have been a pleasure to work with and the team at Maddox Planning. Well done to all those at GHA who inputted to this project.
PRESS ARTICLE
Architects Journal: Elmfield
03/12/2020
Have you checked out our latest article in the Architect’s Journal? Read about our planning submission for Prospects House in Elmfield and let us know what you think!
The article can be found here.
PRESS ARTICLE
Architects Journal: New Practice
21/09/2020
Have you checked out our latest article in the Architect’s Journal? Read about how we set up as a new practice in 2019 and our progress as a practice since.
The article can be found here.