Month: January 2021

Warren Court

HUB have gained Planning Approval for 4 flats on a reconfigured 6th Floor above the residential block at Warren Street Station. 

The Warren Court site was originally redeveloped in 1907 to accommodate a new station serving the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, the station was then named Euston Road, then subsequently the name was changed to Warren Street in 1908. The station was modernised in the 1930s with the initial design by Architect Charles Holden and later developed by Stanley Heaps in 1934. Holden and Heaps are responsible for many of London’s underground stations during the 1930’s.

HUB Architects designed the new units to blend with the character and proportion of the existing historic building. Fenestration is aligned and matched, brickwork and stonework details carefully copied and new balustrades designed in keeping with the original building. With careful attention to detail, the new proposal extends from the existing building lines parallel to the edge of the host building and aims to maximize the underused areas of the roof whilst minimising the perceived mass.

Pavillion Road

At HUB, we like to design with the “bones” of a final interior designed scheme in the background throughout the project. This ensures that opportunities are not lost further along the line and enables our clients to thoroughly understand the design choices from the outset.

The brief to gain Planning Approval to reconfigure and update an existing mews house on Pavilion Road included structural alterations and a full internal remodeling. With input from M&E designers Slender Winter Partnership and Elliott Wood, HUB analyzed the site at an early stage and illustrated a set of 4 design options with sketch up models and precedents, so that the client could consider the opportunities that the site presented and decide their preferred plan for design development. At this early feasibility stage the illustrated options enabled the client to consider the furniture, circulation, storage, lighting and so on. 

The client’s preferred scheme was then developed by HUB in to a full set of working drawings for Stage E tender.

HUB are delighted that the project is now on site in the careful hands of ….. and project manager Luke Makari of Walton Wagner.


Interior Trends in 2021- a HUB perspective

What are the emerging Interior trends for 2021? My instinct is that the next few years will see a trend towards repurposing, collecting, personal expression and careful curation of the quirky and timelessly beautiful. There will be an emphasis on authenticity and craftsmanship. 

Personal history and story-telling will become more important as people begin to express themselves and their interests through their environment. Carefully positioned antique ebay finds alongside favourite old photos, childhood books and vases of foraged flowers will all become the go-to objects in this new palette. The softer warm tones, now available in LED light, look great washed on darker colours and I would expect bolder colour palettes to emerge with this in mind.

Without setting out to be on trend, I have found myself exploring all of this when Simon and I renovated our own Grade 2 listed Regency house at the North end of the Cotswolds. The works are still ongoing, we need to hang pictures, curtains etc. but there is an emerging flavour.

When we bought Aldington Manor, we decided that our approach would be to enhance the intrinsic qualities of the house and reconfigure a few of the less attractive aspects. In particular we have gained a bedroom and study/ snug and created a larger kitchen with family dining space. The work remains ongoing but the emerging style could be defined as timeless and has been respectful of the original house with layers of texture and colour used in appropriate proportions and locations to create an eclectic journey, punctuated by focal points and resting spaces. When you enter, the colour palette meanders from a yellow hall with fresh white joinery to a dark aubergine kitchen with red accents and hand-crafted textures. This vibrant, tactile palette is given continuity with a simple stone floor running through these 2 zones. It is important to “ground” a vibrant palette with a consistent “thread” to give the scheme cohesion.

The living room is less colourful with soft neutral wall colours enlivened by a vibrant mix of comfortable textiles and paintings. The bow window bench in this room has been made bespoke to blend seamlessly with the existing panelled joinery and disguises radiators underneath. By contrast the dining room is dark and sultry. Throughout there is a bold mix of contemporary art by friends and family. 

When HUB Interiors design for our clients, we aim to help you find the heart of your home and surround you with a place that is authentically yours. We want your home to be filled with the things that make you happy in a space that enables you and yours to live at ease.

BEST WISHES FOR HEALTH & HAPPINESS IN 2021 FROM HUB ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS

In response to the changes that 2020 has brought, we have opened our second office in the Midlands, currently located in the Basepoint, Evesham. Hub’s London team are relocating to a smaller London office in Marylebone. We have a planning application pending for the conversion of our barn at Aldington Manor, where the Midlands team will move in 2022. 

From 1st January 2021, we can be contacted on the same phone number: 02073282576

and at Unit 25, Basepoint, Evesham, WR11 1GP

From 1st February 2021, our London office will be located in 1 Burwood Place, London, W2 2UT

& in case you are wondering what we have been up to recently……..
In 2020 Hub has gained Planning Approval for 55 new homes and await approval for 30 more homes in London and the home counties.
A further 100 new homes are on the drawing board at Feasibility stage.
We have achieved Planning Approval for 4 units built over the Deco building at Warren Street station in Central London.
We have designed and gained Planning Approval for a new HQ office building in Hertfordshire Green belt and designed the fit out of a Grade 2 listed Mayfair office. We have designed and project managed the site stages of a grade 2 listed house in Worcestershire.
Our Part 1 Architects have entered a competition to re-design Finsbury circus. Currently we are appointed as Architects for a substantial new build home in London’s West End. 

It’s been an extraordinary year and we are enormously grateful for the professional, and flexible resilience of our team at Hub and all those that we have worked with in 

2020. We look forward to an exciting year ahead and to working with you.