BOOK REVIEW

Interwar, British Architecture 1919-39

18/12/2024

Exploring Britain's forgotten architectural gems: Giles Heather's heartfelt review of Gavin Stamp's tribute to interwar design diversity.

Read it here

XMAS LUNCH

Christmas celebrations 2024

06/12/2024

We celebrated and gave thanks to our team with a fantastic Christmas lunch at Sucre. We are hugely grateful for another year of hard work and commitment from our brilliant team and look forward to a prosperous 2025!

PLANNING PERMISSION

St James’s Road, Croydon

27/11/2024

We’re delighted to share that our scheme for the redevelopment of the former pub site on St. James’s Road, East Croydon, has been allowed at appeal. This paves the way for the transformation of a neglected corner, currently a magnet for anti-social behaviour, into a vibrant, residentially-led development.

Our approval includes a replacement pub/restaurant at street level to provide a focal point for the local community and activate the frontage, 23 new apartments, making a valuable contribution to local housing needs, a high-quality building with a distinctive and contextual design that lives up to its prominent corner position.

We set out to enhance the character of the area, with attention paid to getting the scale, materials and detailing right. While the delays caused by the initial refusal remain regrettable, we’re encouraged by the Planning Inspectorate’s swift and decisive handling of the appeal. 

We’re now looking forward to delivering this much-needed development, ensuring that the site serves the needs of local residents.

OFFICE TRIP 2024

Annual Office Trip: Bristol

12/11/2024

We had a fantastic, fun-filled day in Bristol for our annual office trip!

Our adventure began with a visit to St Mary Redcliffe Church, renowned as one of the finest parish churches in the country and a masterpiece of Gothic architecture. Next, we enjoyed a fascinating tour of the historic Bristol Old Vic theatre, the oldest continuously operating theatre in the UK. During the tour, we explored the recently renovated foyer, walked on stage, ventured backstage, and climbed up to the original Georgian roof space to marvel at the oldest Thunder Run in the country—a thrilling piece of theatrical history.

After a quick stop at the Harbourside food market, we were fortunate to stumble upon the thought-provoking and stunning Gaia exhibition while visiting Bristol Cathedral. From there, we headed to Clifton for a scenic walk across Brunel’s iconic suspension bridge, taking in the panoramic views and appreciating the engineering brilliance of this world-famous landmark.

We wrapped up the day with a delicious team dinner at a charming Italian restaurant, the perfect ending to a day filled with culture, history, and great camaraderie!

See more here.

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.

Click here to see the project in more detail.

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.

Click here to see more.

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! 

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!

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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. 

Check out more about the project here

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

Welcome to the team our new Studio Manager Abbé, who joins us from past experiences at internationally acclaimed practices Acme and Grimshaw. 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.

The article can be found here.

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!

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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.

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.

Check out more about the project here.

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.