Success at 2024 RIBA East Awards

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We are honoured to have had such a successful evening at the 2024 RIBA East Awards, on 16th May 2024. Our Bluebird project for HARP scooped three awards! RIBA East Award 2024, RIBA East Sustainability Award 2024, and HARP deservedly won RIBA East Client of the Year 2024.

The judges were impressed by ‘the client’s commitment to sustainability on this project, within a modest budget, [which] is to be applauded, as is its determination to deliver high-quality architecture in support of an important social need. Bluebird is an exemplar for the role good architecture can play in transforming lives and demonstrates what can be achieved by an ambitious and far-sighted client working with an equally committed architect.’

Please follow the links below to learn more about our Bluebird project and the work that HARP does, or click on the image to see more on our Projects page.

https://www.ribaj.com/buildings/riba-awards-2024-east-bluebird-skarchitects-housing-southend-on-sea-essex

https://www.harpsouthend.org.uk/

Winner of an AJ Award 2023

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We won Housing Project (up to £5 million) at the AJ Awards 2023 at the London Hilton Metropole on Wednesday 22nd November 2023.

The judges were immensely moved by this housing scheme. Not only is it unique to its place, built to Passivhaus standards and well-resolved, but ‘it has gone over and above on its social approach,’ they said.

To read more please see the link below:
https://awards.architectsjournal.co.uk/ajaa2023/en/page/2023-winners

Empire Theatre

Upcoming Projects / By

After nearly four years of design development we are eagerly awaiting the outcome of our planning application to progress Southend City Centre from a town to a city.

The old Empire Theatre site in Alexandra Street is proposed as mixed-use development with a large area given over to a new pedestrian tree lined street together with a series of small commercial units to the ground floor within an enclosed arcade.  The proposal also includes community space on the first floor opening out onto a shared garden and a series of City Centre contemporary apartments.

We believe this scheme along with other projects we are working on are transformational and will lead to an aspirational City Centre living, working and relaxing by the sea.

We are keeping our fingers crossed for a positive outcome.

Tylers Avenue, Southend City Centre

Upcoming Projects / By

Tylers Avenue is an aspirational development to realise the potential of living by the sea, with estuary views, less than a 2-minute walk from Southend Central station.  The proposal includes commercial ground floors and a new landscape square to alleviate what has previously been a very tight pedestrian pavement on the back edge of Chichester Road and Tylers Avenue.

We believe this scheme along with other projects we are working on are transformational and will lead to an aspirational City Centre living, working, and relaxing by the sea.

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