We are seeking an experienced individual for a temporary role covering the Practice Manager’s maternity leave, starting June 2024.
To find out more about this role and how to apply, follow the link to our careers page. We look forward to hearing from you!
With several exciting project opportunities on the horizon, we are seeking an experienced Senior Architect to join our award-winning team and contribute towards a number of heritage and cultural projects across the studio.
To find out more about this role and how to apply, head to our Careers page.
Feilden Fowles has been appointed as lead designer on a holistic transformation of University of Oxford’s Mansfield College, working alongside development partner Stories to address the estate and the needs of students and teaching staff. The wide-ranging project involves the development of a plan for new facilities and the significant enhancement and refurbishment of heritage buildings, while working towards the College’s ambitious sustainability targets.
Read more about the ethos behind this exciting new project, in Helen Mountfield’s interview with the Guardian, here.
Tate Britain today announced our collaboration with Tom Stuart-Smith Studio, to transform the landscape in front of the gallery. Home to the world’s greatest collection of British art, Tate Britain attracts well over a million visitors each year. Its new garden will reframe the way these visitors approach the gallery from the river. Opening in 2026, the Clore Garden will offer an open invitation to rest and recharge, a space to encounter art and engage with the natural world, and a place for local communities to enjoy.
We are delighted that Black Robin Farm, our project for Eastbourne Borough Council (EBC), in partnership with Towner Eastbourne, has been granted planning permission, following the planning committee vote in favour of the scheme. This unique project in the beautiful South Downs will deliver unprecedented equal access to the national park whilst preserving and enhancing the beauty and ecology of the site’s remarkable 19th century agricultural Downland setting. To read more about the project, click here.
Our directors, Fergus and Edmund, were recently invited to join host Dave Sharp to launch his new series, Office Talk UK, a business and marketing podcast for architects.
In the first episode, Fergus, Edmund and Dave discuss Feilden Fowles’ innovative approach to PR, marketing and architectural competitions, as well as the work they put in behind the scenes to form lasting connections with their clients. Listen here to find out how their investment in the branding, representation and design of their website, from the early days of the practice, has paid off today, leading to the award-winning schemes at Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Homerton College, Cambridge; and more.
Feilden Fowles’ plans for a mixed-use development for Green Templeton College (GTC), University of Oxford, have been granted planning and listed building consent by Oxford City Planning Committee, representing a milestone in the college’s 40-year plan, which includes improving its main accommodation, academic and social facilities, while continuing to decarbonise its estate. To read more about the project, click here.
South London community hub, Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses, has been shortlisted for the @ribajournal MacEwan Awards 2024. Read more about the scheme on our project page or in the RIBAJ.
Click here to buy your copy of our book on the new gallery and visitor centre, The Weston, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
We are excited to have been shortlisted for the Architectural Review’s Emerging Architects 2023. We’re looking forward to presenting our scheme at Homerton College alongside some of the new projects going on in the studio to the judging panel. To see the full shortlist, follow this link.
Our designs for a new arts, culture and education centre on the South Downs coast have been submitted to planning. The scheme at Black Robin Farm will create new learning studios, gallery and events spaces and become a gateway to the beautiful landscapes that surround the site. For more information on the project click here.
Feilden Fowles Director, Ed Fowles, alongside Homerton College Vice Principal, Francesca Moore, will be leading a group around the New Dining Hall in October 2023. To join them, find tickets here.
Sir David Attenborough’s compelling words, ‘The future of the natural world, on which we all depend, is in our hands’ were unveiled in bronze lettering outside the Natural History Museum’s main entrance and will overlook the new gardens. The quote will form part of the newly developed gardens, designed by Feilden Fowles in collaboration with J&L Gibbons at the Natural History Museum as part of the broader Urban Nature Project.
The Studley Revealed project for the National Trust at Fountains Abbey has been submitted for planning. It aims to deliver conservation benefits by restoring historical sightlines and vistas that have been lost over time. It will also provide more information about the garden and include improved visitor facilities, to ensure the garden receives a welcome worthy of a World Heritage Site.
Our project for Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses has featured in this month’s AR, the Plant Issue.
It was lovely to share a drink in the garden with some of our clients and collaborators in early June. Thanks to all who were able to make it to enjoy the wonderful spring evening together.
Jim Stephenson’s film installation The Architect has Left the Building is now on show at RIBA’s summer exhibition, featuring Feilden Fowles’ The Weston. Open until mid-August, the exhibition presents a different look to traditionally ‘neat’ architectural photographs, revealing how people use spaces when left to their own devices.
We revisited our Food Production Campus project for Charlie Bigham in Somerset five years after completion to assess how the building has been performing and to hear both client and architect’s reflections on the building. Read the full article here.
Our plans for the Nature + Love Project at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in South London have been submitted for planning.
Architects, artists, engineers, contractors and students gathered at a Waterloo City Farm in for a symposium on the impact of global warming on architecture, organised by David Grandorge.
We are very proud that Homerton Dining Hall has won the Best New Building and Craftmanship Prizes at the Greater Cambridge Awards.
Director Ed Fowles discusses how and why the practice have moved to working a nine-day fortnight.
“An open and unstuffy take on the traditional Cambridge dining hall, well crafted but not piously so. It plays with a range of materials – aqueous green faience, pink concrete, a light timber structure – to enjoyable and surprising effects. Along with the LSE project, it’s evidence that much of the money and ambition in commissioning buildings currently comes from universities and colleges.” See the other buildings featured in The Observer’s best five here.
“In an age defined by digital technology and the abundance of the image, accessing architects’ work has never been easier, so what can architects’ monographs offer today?” Read Ed’s review on Caruso St John’s new book, ‘Collected Works’, for BD Magazine.
