Laying Down the Law at The National Library of Norway

‘Upholding the Law: Magnus the Lawmender’s Law of the Land, 1274-2024’ – a new refined, atmospheric and delicately-staged exhibition for The National Library of Norway has now opened, designed by Nissen Richards Studio. The show celebrates the 750th anniversary of the country’s 1274 ‘Law of the Land’, which laid the foundation for the Norwegian legal system and for popular participation in it – effectively establishing the prerequisites for democracy. Read more here

20.02.2024

Green light for John Rylands Research Institute & Library

Manchester City Council has approved proposals for the £7.6m transformation of Grade I-listed John Rylands Research Institute and Library. Led by conservation architects Donald Insall Associates, the proposed designs are a series of sensitive adaptations that enable the building to meet mid-21st century challenges. Nissen Richards Studio will create an enhanced exhibition space to display the Institute’s collection in optimum viewing conditions, as well as celebrating the building’s existing architecture.

15.02.2024

Newark Castle Visitor Attraction Gets Planning Go-ahead

Newark and Sherwood District Council has approved plans to create a new and improved visitor attraction at Newark Castle and Gardens in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire. The stone Castle, a Grade I-listed Scheduled Ancient Monument, was originally built in the mid-12th century by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln. Working with Martin Ashley Architects, with landscaping by Urban Edge Architecture, Nissen Richards Studio has created the project’s Interpretation Masterplan and will be working on the scheme’s exhibition design, graphic design and wayfinding, as well as heading up the community participation initiatives.

‘Harriet Backer: Every Atom is Colour’ Opens

We have completed our first exhibition for the National Museum in Norway. ‘Harriet Backer: Every Atom is Colour’ examines the life and work of one of Norway’s most significant artists, who painted real life in everyday settings with a stunning sense of light and colour, and who also opened up paths for other women into the fields of art and social development.

The exhibition design goes on a journey with the artist, using colours, lights and architectural shapes inspired by her paintings within a built interior series of spaces that shift in scale and form and that create striking vistas and windows, and a central room for sketching. See more here.

02.12.2023

Double Winners at London Design Awards

Nissen Richards Studio took not one but two awards at this year’s London Design Awards, taking both the Gold and the Silver Award in the ‘Interior Design-Gallery-Exhibition’ category for its work on ‘China’s hidden century’ for the British Museum and on ‘Inspiring People’, the 3-year refurbishment of the National Portrait Gallery, which re-opened in June this year.

‘Goya and Munch: Modern Prophecies’ Opens      

 A new exhibition we’ve been working on with MUNCH in Oslo has now opened. We worked with their in-house team, and sound designer Carolyn Downing to create a series of immersive spaces that introduce three larger gallery spaces around the themes of society, war and faith.

Light ‘23

Pippa Nissen was joined onstage at this year’s DARC Talks programme at the Light ’23 event in London by long-time collaborator, lighting designer Zerlina Hughes of studio ZNA, to talk about the complex refurbishment of the National Portrait Gallery, which re-opened in June of this year. With over 1,000 individual artworks forming the multi-gallery display – and questions of conservation, significance and a huge variety of typologies and display methods to consider – this was a project calling for the subtlest of calibrations.

The People’s Poll Award

The Courtauld Gallery, shortlisted for The Stirling Prize 2023, and on which we worked as gallery, exhibition and wayfinding designers, alongside architects Witherford Watson Mann, took The People’s Poll Award on the night, as voted for by the public. A wonderful accolade from the Gallery’s visitors and public!

29.10.2023

Clwb Ifor Bach Submitted for Planning

Ambitious expansion and upgrading plans by Nissen Richards Studio have now been submitted for planning for legendary Cardiff grassroots music venue Clwb Ifor Bach. The new vision for the venue – which has helped launch the careers of many big-name Welsh bands, from Stereophonics to Super Furry Animals – is for a contemporary and fully-accessible space that will increase engagement and broaden Clwb Ifor Bach’s activities in line with its charitable objectives.

09.10.2023

Job Opportunity

Nissen Richards Studio is seeking an experienced exhibition designer/architect to join its studio in London. This job is for a maternity cover and on one year’s fixed-term contract with possibilities to extend. We are looking for candidates who are self-motivated and have creative skills as well as technical knowledge and experience. Please submit your CV and a concise portfolio, under 5MB to cvs@nissenrichardsstudio.com. More information here

15.09.2023

The Courtauld Gallery Shortlisted for Stirling Prize

We are very excited to hear the transformation of The Courtauld Gallery, for which we were gallery, exhibition and wayfinding designers, working alongside Witherford Watson Mann, has been shortlisted for the RIBA’s Stirling Prize, the UK’s greatest architectural accolade. Congratulations to our client and all the team!

11.09.2023

A Museum for Now

Published now on our sister site A Museum for Now, where we examine and discuss ideas about what a museum should be – and needs to be – in an ever-changing world, are 5 great concept essays on a new Museum for Hackney. The essays are by 4th and 5th year students on the architecture course responding to a brief that formed part of our teaching module. Read all the essays here

Wordsworth Grasmere a Tourism Award Winner

Wordsworth Grasmere has won the ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’ at this year’s Cumbria Tourism Awards. The project is comprised of Dove Cottage, where the great English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived, and the accompanying Museum, with all gallery, exhibition design and interpretative overviews by Nissen Richards Studio. More on this project here

26.07.2023

RIBA National Award for The Courtauld

‘Courtauld Connects’, the huge-scale project to renovate The Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House, has been given a RIBA National Award 2023. Nissen Richards Studio were gallery and exhibition designers on the scheme, as well as creating bespoke visitor furniture, showcase design, paint colour and all wayfinding and signage. The lead architects were Witherford Watson Mann. This is the second Nissen Richards Studio project to win a RIBA National Award, following the success of Sutton Hoo in 2022.

26.06.2023

National Portrait Gallery

Today, the National Portrait Gallery’s ambitious reinvention programme – Inspiring People – opened to the public, following a three-year Gallery closure. Nissen Richards Studio worked with Jamie Fobert Architects and heritage consultants Purcell as the scheme’s Interpretation Designers, helping create the new look of the galleries and the permanent exhibition design throughout. We worked closely with the curatorial team to optimise the new chronological hang of, in total, over 1000 artworks, and lighting designers Studio ZNA who beautifully lit the works throughout.

21.06.2023

RIBA Talk by Jim Richards

Nissen Richards Studio Director Jim Richards will be giving a talk, followed by a Q&A, as part of the RIBA’s Building Stories series at lunchtime on Tuesday 6 June, celebrating our RIBA National Award-winning project ‘Sutton Hoo’. The event is virtual and registration is free via this Eventbrite link here

22.05.2023

‘A Revelation from First to Last’

‘China’s Hidden Century’, designed by Nissen Richards Studio, is now open at the British Museum and runs until 8 October. Reviews so far have been stunning, with Jonathan Jones giving the exhibition 5 stars in The Guardian and saying: ‘This dumbfounding exhibition shows modern history to be as thrilling and mysterious as the ancient past’. Laura Cumming in The Observer, meanwhile, called it ‘a revelation from first to last’ in another 5* review.

The Courtauld Gallery Wins an RIBA London Award

Adding to the WIN ’22 Silver Award and the Time Out ‘Best Museum Award’ in 2021, we’re delighted The Courtauld Gallery is also a winner at the 2023 RIBA London Awards. Nissen Richards Studio created the scheme’s gallery and exhibition design, bespoke visitor furniture, showcase design, paint colour and all wayfinding and signage, working with a large team including basebuild architects Witherford Watson Mann and specialist lighting designers Studio ZNA.

16.05.2023

Black Metal Exhibition Opens in Oslo

Bad Vibes, is a new exhibition examining the cult phenomenon of Norwegian Black Metal, that is now open at The National Library of Norway in Oslo. We have really enjoyed working on the scenography that takes visitors through different ideas and places, and through darkness and shadows.

15.05.2023

‘Portraits of Dogs’ Opens to 5* Reviews

‘Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney’ is the latest exhibition designed by Nissen Richards Studio to open at The Wallace Collection, featuring 59 works of art, and winning 5* reviews in many titles, including the Telegraph, with the Evening Standard saying the exhibition ‘will bow wow all doggie lovers’.

16.04.2023

Highly Commended in Civic Trust Awards

The Abbey Strand Buildings in Edinburgh have just been awarded a Highly Commended placement at the Civic Trust Awards 2023, as one of a series of phased projects that transform the experience of visiting Edinburgh’s royal palace at Holyroodhouse. Nissen Richards Studio’s role was as Wayfinding Consultant.

15.04.2023

The Shape of Freedom Opens at MUNCH

The Shape of Freedom – a new, temporary exhibition at MUNCH in Oslo – has now opened and will run until 21 May 2023. The exhibition brings together high-profile artworks from collections worldwide and examines the story of the great 20th century post-war art recovery, especially through the Transatlantic dialogue between the USA and Europe after the Second World War and the birth of abstract expressionism and its European counterpart, art informel. Exhibition design on the project, including graphic design and bespoke furniture, is by Nissen Richards Studio.

13.03.2023

Pippa Nissen a Design Week Awards Judge for 2023

Pippa Nissen of Nissen Richards Studio is set to join the judging panel for the Design Week Awards 2023, bringing her particular expertise in the successful design of exhibitions and installations to this year’s entries.

Re-opening date set for NPG

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has officially announced its re-opening date for 23 June 2023. Under the title ‘Inspiring People’, the Gallery has undergone a huge-scale transformation since its temporary closure and Nissen Richards Studio is proud to be part of the team on the redesign. In our role as Interpretation Designers, we have been involved in the gallery redesign, from the interior spaces to plinths, lighting and the exciting re-hang of the Gallery’s great portrait treasures. Read more here

Come work for us

We are currently looking for talented Architects or Architectural Assistants to join our studio to work on architectural and exhibition projects. Please send your cv and a short paragraph on why you want to work for us to info@nissenrichardsstudio.com.

18.11.2022

If the shoe fits

Nissen Richards Studio has been commissioned by the Alfred Gillett Trust to work with its curatorial team on a new Museum, showcasing and preserving the collection of historic artefacts and archives associated with British shoe manufacturer and retailer Clarks in Street, Somerset – where brothers Cyrus and James Clark first set up in business in 1825.

14.11.2022

Sutton Hoo Surfaces

The incredible awards recognition for our work at Sutton Hoo’s ancient royal burial ground for the National Trust continues with our first shortlisting for 2023 at the Surface Design Awards, in the ‘Landscape and Public Realm’ category.

Norway Exhibition Wins Gold Award

‘Labyrinth: Tracing Harry Hole’, the exhibition we designed at the National Library of Norway, focusing on ‘Oslo’s number one detective’ – the fictional character created by multi-million-selling Norwegian author Jo Nesbø in his hugely-popular crime series – has won GOLD at the 2022 London Design Awards.

04.11.2022

Pippa Nissen opens Contacts Book for RIBA Journal

The RIBA Journal asked Pippa Nissen to share her top industry contacts for a regular feature it runs on the people and firms architects love to work with and why. There are many more great collaborators than we could possibly mention, but we were happy to have the opportunity to namecheck Studio ZNA, Nick Street of Street Films, Factory Settings and Little Greene. Click here to read the piece

26.10.2022

Sutton Hoo wins Alternative Stirling Prize

This year, Dezeen Editor Tom Ravencroft ran an ‘Alternative Stirling Prize’, which was voted for by the public, to sit alongside the official version. Our RIBA National winning-project – the new viewing tower at Sutton Hoo – progressed smoothly through each round and was eventually declared the overall winner of the competition. We are delighted, however unofficial!

Pippa Nissen named Design Ambassador for BCFA

Pippa Nissen has been named as one of the new Design Ambassadors for the BCFA/Design Insider, joining a panel of leading designers and architects working in the public domain. Read more here

Double Shortlisting for Sutton Hoo

Nissen Richards Studio’s work at the ancient Royal burial ground of Sutton Hoo – created for the National Trust – has just been shortlisted twice over at this year’s FX International Interior Design Awards in the Museum or Exhibition Space category and also for UK Project of the Year. The project has already won four architectural and design awards, including a RIBA National Award ’22 for its new-build Viewing Tower.

19.09.2022

World Interior News Shortlisting

The Courtauld Gallery has just been shortlisted in the Cultural Venues category of the WIN Awards 2022. Nissen Richards Studio were charged with the interpretation of the new visitor experience for the project, considering the entirety of the visitor journey from arrival, through all three levels of gallery space, culminating in the extraordinary LMVH Great Room.

08.09.2022

New Houses in Thornton Heath Granted Planning Approval

Our proposals for the redevelopment of a corner suburban site has now received planning permission. The proposals include the replacement of two existing detached houses and development of an adjacent brown-field site with three pairs of semi-detached houses that intensifies the density of the site while responding to the forms and materiality of the surrounding context.

22.07.2022

Exhibition Opens at the Munch Museum

We designed ‘Playing Pieces’ that has just opened at the new Munch Museum in Oslo. The exhibition centres on the collection of the Saving Bank Foundation, who have been collecting and collaborating with Norwegian Museums since 2005, and the exhibition picks up on questions and themes around collecting. It includes a wide range of work including artists Nikolai Astrup, Andy Warhol and Kurt Schwitters, and works by German Expressionists, American artists and photographers and pioneering women artists including Louise Bourgeois and Sonja Ferlov Mancoda. Read more here

03.07.2022

Sutton Hoo wins RIBA National Award 2022

Nissen Richards Studio is delighted to announce its first-ever RIBA National Award for the practice’s work at the ancient Royal burial ground of Sutton Hoo – created for the National Trust. The scheme, which includes a new-build Viewing Tower, is one of only 29 projects across Great Britain to receive a prestigious RIBA National Award for 2022, following an initial RIBA East Award win in May of this year.

28.06.2022

New Exhibition at National Library of Norway

Nissen Richards Studio has completed the design of an immersive labyrinthine exhibition at The National Library of Norway in Oslo, focusing on fictional character Harry Hole – ‘Oslo’s number one detective’ – created by multi-million-selling Norwegian author Jo Nesbø in his hugely-popular crime series. The exhibition, entitled ‘Labyrinth: Tracing Harry Hole’, is located in the Library’s 195 sq m first floor temporary exhibition space.

Wordsworth Grasmere Shortlisted for Design Week Award

The wayfinding at Wordsworth Grasmere, the visitor centre based around the great English Romantic poet’s former home in the Lake District, has been shortlisted for a Design Week Award 2022, after already taking the GOLD prize for Wayfinding at the London Design Awards 2021.

Shortlisted for £2.5m Henry Moore Foundation Project

Nissen Richards Studio is one of six teams shortlisted for the design of a £2.5 million interpretation centre at its headquarters in Perry Green, Hertfordshire. The contest sought proposals to redevelop and extend a £1.25 million Hawkins\Brown complex – known as the Sheep Field Barn Gallery – constructed more than 20 years ago on the rural site where the famous sculptor lived for more than four decades between 1941 and 1986.

Photo from the Henry Moore Foundation, credit: Martin Bond

05.05.2022

Sutton Hoo Wins RIBA East Award

Our 5-year project to redevelop the ancient royal burial ground at Sutton Hoo for the National Trust has been recognised with a RIBA East Award. The judges said ‘Nissen Richards Studio have proved to be exactly what the doctor ordered in terms of filling in the gaps in the ability to understanding this charged landscape. Their combination of architectural design and interpretive and conservation expertise has allowed them to develop a narrative walk from site entrance through to the burial mounds, while also refreshing the various moments encountered along the way.’

The Art of Data Opens at Bletchley Park

The Art of Data is now open at Bletchley Park, exploring how data can be visualised to help us make sense of the world. As Content Curators of the exhibition, Nissen Richards Studio created the exhibition’s content and narrative structure, working closely with the brilliant team at Bletchley Park and a number of data visualisation experts.

Life Through A Royal Lens Opens

Nissen Richards Studio’s second project for Historic Royal Palaces at Kensington Palace – has now opened. The new, temporary exhibition, which runs until October 2022, explores the Royal Family through photography and brings together in one place some of the most iconic images of the Royal Family ever taken.

30.04.2022

Museums Journal Delivers Courtauld Verdict

The new edition of the Museums Journal includes a detailed review of the refurbished Courtauld Gallery. We were delighted with the positive response to Nissen Richards Studio’s interventions for the LVMH Great Room: ‘The majesty of the room’s original proportions has been re-established through diagonal sightlines and the removal of false ceilings, which allows natural light back through. The simple intervention of two freestanding walls creates a sense of encounter and discovery.’

21.04.2022

Sutton Hoo Published by The Architectural Review

It’s always an honour to be in the AR, who have published our project at Sutton Hoo – which was five years in the making – over an eight-page spread in the March 2022 issue, saying ‘Nissen Richards’ interventions are best understood as a thread woven across the landscape, gently guiding a journey; the architects’ mission was, among other things, to evoke ‘walking in the footsteps of kings’.’

10.04.2022

Shortlisted for the revamp of Colchester’s ‘Jumbo’ Water Tower

Nissen Richards Studio is one of three teams shortlisted for the restoration and repurposing of the iconic Balkerne Tower, nicknamed ‘Jumbo’ in Colchester. The two-stage competition seeks concepts to restore, convert, and extend the Grade II* listed water tower, which has been disued for more than 35 years. The estimated £4 million project, planned to complete in 2025, will transform the 1882 Romanesque Revival building into a new ‘commercially valuable and attractive space’.

30.03.2022

Pippa Nissen to Judge Design Week Awards

Pippa Nissen was delighted to have been asked back to the Design Week Awards judging panel for 2022 – the third time Pippa has judged these awards – find out more here. Pippa’s previous judging roles include the panels of the Blueprint, FX and AJ Student Awards.

23.02.2022

Transforming Barns into New Homes

Nissen Richards Studio is working with client Q New Homes to transform six barns on a former dairy farm in the heart of the Kent countryside – in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – into nine modern homes. Charred timber cladding will give each barn a unique pattern, as well as creating a unifying aesthetic.

15.01.2022

Sutton Hoo shortlisted for RIBA East Award

Nissen Richards Studio’s re-working of the visitor experience at the ancient royal burial
ground and Scheduled Ancient Monument of Sutton Hoo for the National Trust has been
shortlisted for an RIBA East Award 2022. The project included the arrival area, Tranmer House, the exhibition hall, information nodes and a new-build visitor tower.

25.01.2022

Pippa Nissen Profiled by FX

‘Exhibition design sits straight down the middle between theatre and architecture’ Pippa
Nissen says in a four-page profile, dedicated to the development of her career and ideas in the January-February issue of FX Magazine, featuring many of the studio’s projects. Read the article here

Predictions for Design Week

Pippa Nissen was asked by Design Week to predict what might lie ahead for exhibition design in 2022. Read the predictions – which include ‘wondrous escapism’ and ‘plugging into the Zeitgeist’ – here

23.02.2022

‘Gold of the Great Steppe’ highlighted by leading critic

The Guardian’s Jonathan Jones, who previously gave a great review to ‘Forgotten Masters’, the beautiful exhibit we designed for The Wallace Collection, has included ‘Gold of the Great Steppe’ as one of his Top 5 exhibitions of 2021.
The critic calls it ‘A poem of a show that marries emotion and science’. Read the full article here

14.01.2022

The Courtauld Gallery Wins Best Museum of 2021

Within weeks of its re-opening, The Courtauld Gallery has already won an award, to add to its multitude of 5* press reviews – named by TIME OUT as London’s Best Museum – with the judges saying: ‘Having opened to rave reviews in November, The Courtauld Gallery has been selected as London’s Best Museum in the 2021 Time Out Best of the City Awards’.

21.12.2021

Come Join Us

We are currently looking for talented designers to join our team:

• Middleweight / Senior Graphic Designer – An experienced graphic designer to work in the team to deliver our exciting cultural projects. Read more here

• Experienced Part 2 / Architect – A talented architect or part 2 designer to join our studio to work on architectural and exhibition projects, that often cross over between the two disciplines. Read more here

03.12.2021

Wordsworth Grasmere Wins Triple Gold

We are truly delighted to announce that Wordsworth Grasmere, our wonderful project in the heart of the Lake District, has won not one, not two, but THREE Gold Awards in the 2021 London Design Awards in the ‘Identity and Branding’, ‘Wayfinding’ and ‘Gallery and Exhibition’ categories. The project successfully brought the words and world of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth to life for a new generation of visitors.

04.12.2021

More Gold at Sutton Hoo!

The new viewing tower at Sutton Hoo, designed by the architectural team at Nissen Richards Studio, has just been awarded GOLD in the ‘Architecture – Public and Institutional’ category of the London Design Awards 2021.The tower gives visitors to the historic site a never-before-seen view over the Anglo-Saxon burial grounds, as well as back towards the River Deben, from where Sutton Hoo’s famous royal burial ship was originally dragged.

The Courtauld Gallery Re-opens

The Courtauld has now re-opened after a three-year redevelopment period, with Nissen Richards Studio acting as gallery and interior designers, interpreting the great London art gallery’s new visitor journey and creating its new paintwork interiors colour scheme as well as a new signage and wayfinding system and bespoke showcases. The redesign has been received with stunning reviews, including five stars in The Times, The Guardian and The Standard.

23.11.2021

Exhibit Celebrating Life and Work of Terence Conran

The Design Museum is celebrating what would have been Terence Conran’s 90th birthday with a display, designed by Nissen Richards Studio, that explores the late designer’s life. Terence Conran was a prolific designer, retailer, businessman and restaurateur and is credited with ‘changing the way we eat, shop, and live today’. The showcase coincides with a new book,  ‘Terence Conran: Making Modern Britain’ by Deyan Sudjic, Director Emeritus of the Design Museum.

Photography: Felix Speller

27.10.2021

Gold of the Great Steppe Opens

A new exhibition has now opened at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, featuring exhibition and graphic design by Nissen Richards Studio. ‘Gold of The Great Steppe’ will run until January 30, 2022 and is the first-ever reveal, anywhere in the world, of an archaeological sensation, comprised of hundreds of outstanding gold artefacts discovered in the extraordinary ancient burial mounds of the Saka people of East Kazakhstan.

Art Installation for Skipton Big ideas

The art installation Nissen Richards Studio created for Skipton Big Ideas – ArtHouse Jersey’s major flagship project for 2021 – has made the front page of the Jersey Evening Post. The artwork, re-using cardboard boxes, shows how the ordinary and throwaway can be transformed by the imagination and forms part of a spectacular, immersive exhibition at St Helier Town Church in Jersey, featuring over 20 installations by local and international artists.

Ensuring Success for Public Attractions

Pippa Nissen was asked by Design & Build Review magazine for advice on how to ensure success when creating high-profile public attractions. ‘We work hard to make sure any stakeholders or advisory groups are able to contribute to the design’ Pippa commented, adding ‘we find that at the early stage, listening is as important as designing. Harnessing enthusiasm through consultation can short-circuit serious problems later on.” Read the full article here

Wordsworth Grasmere Shortlisted for FX Awards 2021

We are delighted that Wordsworth Grasmere, a project centred around Dove Cottage, the former Lake District home of the great English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, has been shortlisted in the ‘Museum of Exhibition Space’ category of the 2021 FX International Interior Design Awards. Nissen Richards Studio created the project’s identity, wayfinding and exhibition design.

Watford Redevelopment Granted Planning Approval

Our proposals for the redevelopment of a complex, central Watford site, encompassing a new, mixed-use scheme that includes 25 residential units and a commercial ground floor area, have now received planning permission. The proposed massing was split into two to address the different conditions and scales of buildings facing two streets. The front block roughly aligns with the existing massing of the prevalent 4-storey buildings that front the High Street, while an 8-storey tower to the rear reflects the number of new, taller developments on that street.

16.10.2021

Exhibition Longlisted for the Dezeen Awards

‘Refugees – Forced to Flee’ – a temporary exhibition we created for IWM London – has been longlisted at the 2021 Dezeen Awards. More on this fascinating exhibition on the refugee experience here

22.08.2021

Poetry in Motion

Great title and great review by Museums Journal of our labour-of-love project to bring the poetry of William Wordsworth and the lives of William and his sister Dorothy back to life at Wordsworth Grasmere.
‘The tension between visitor experience and conservation is a real challenge in historic houses and the approach here feels like a happy medium that could blaze the trail for other museums. This isn’t a memorial to a long-gone poet, it’s an opportunity to share that same sense of place.’

Reuniting Two Great Rubens Landscapes

Nissen Richards Studio has worked with The Wallace Collection on the historic reunion of two great masterpieces by Peter Paul Rubens, brought together for the first time in over two hundred years in the show ‘Rubens: Reuniting the Great Landscapes’. The paintings – ‘The Rainbow Landscape’ and ‘A View of het Steen in the Early Morning’ –form part of an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, with the former painting part of the Wallace’s collection and the latter on loan from The National Gallery.

A Museum for Now

We’re delighted to announce the launch of a new project we’re very passionate about – A Museum For Now – a new website and forum that looks at what museums could and should be, now and in the future. It takes the form of ideas and essays by our own team, along with some fascinating future visions conceived of by the postgraduate class we’ve been leading at the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University. Further guest writers to be announced.

www.amuseumfornow.com

25.07.2021

We Are Hiring: Part I, Part II and a Graphic Designer

We are advertising at the moment for talented designers to join our busy team. On the 3D side part 1 / part 2 architectural assistants see advert here and for a Middleweight / Senior Graphic Designer see advert here

Please send in your cv’s and portfolio to info@nissenrichardsstudio.com

07.07.2021

Sutton Hoo in the Architects’ Journal

We’re very grateful to the Architects Journal for their superb, newly-published Building Study of the Sutton Hoo tower, a new-build intervention and just one part of our five-year project to rework and reinterpret the visitor experience at one of the jewels of the Anglo-Saxon era and one of the most archeologically-significant sites in Europe. Read the article here

26.06.2021

The Human Touch Opens at the Fitzwilliam Museum

This exhibition at the Fitzwilliam that explores touch, has opened. There are many extraordinary artists displayed in this fascinating exhibition – including: Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Turner, Rodin, Degas, Frank Auerbach, Richard Long, and many more. We really enjoyed creating a sensory set of displays where the craft of making and tactility is explored throughout the displays. We were also thrilled to be invited to make a film about the exhibition’s themes that features at the Fitzwilliam. Read more about the exhibition here

31.05.2021

The Museum at Wordsworth Grasmere opens

The Museum at Wordsworth Grasmere, the second phase of work at the former Lake District home of the great English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, is now complete and open to the public, with all gallery, exhibition design and interpretative overviews by Nissen Richards Studio. The first phase of re-design work encompassed the conservation and reinterpretation of Dove Cottage itself, where William and Dorothy once lived, plus the design of a new identity for Wordsworth Grasmere and the scheme’s signage and wayfinding.

21.05.2021

Victoria: Women and the Crown Exhibition Wins Eastern Eye Award

We are so delighted that the exhibition ‘Victoria: Woman and Crown’ we designed for our client Historic Royal Palaces at Kensington Palace in London has been given the Eastern Eye ‘Editor’s Special Award’ for its great success in attracting a diverse mix of visitors. Congratulations to everyone who worked on the project! See the project here

21.02.2021

Jim Richards chooses his Designer Playlist

Jim Richards was asked by online magazine Designerati to share a list of his 15 favourite tracks for their Designer Playlist page, as well as to talk about three of the most significant songs on the list. Jim’s list runs from The Smiths and The Clash to The Stone Roses and Interpol. Read about his choices and listen to the playlist here

17.02.2021

Pippa Nissen a Judge at Design Week Awards 2021

Pippa Nissen has been invited to be a judge at this year’s Design Week Awards. Pippa very much enjoys this exposure to new work and upcoming designers and practices, as well as the inevitable debates with fellow judges! This is the second time Pippa has served on the Design Week Awards jury, having also judged at the Blueprint and FX Awards and for the AJ Student Prize in 2020 and 2019.

Boundary Yard, Newbury

Our new residential development in Newbury for Nelson Land is progressing well on site and the concrete frame is now ‘topped out’. The redevelopment of the former Sterling Cables site required extensive remediation and will eventually provide 167 new homes over two phases. The external two-tone masonry envelope to phase one will commence later this month and we look forward to completion in 2022.

01.02.2021

RIBA Publication RETHINK Design Guide: Architecture For A Post-Pandemic World

Pippa Nissen has authored a chapter of a new RIBA book  on post-pandemic architecture called RETHINK. The chapter concerns the future of the cultural sector and includes essays by Pippa, Jim Richards and Marie-Lise Oulmont from the practice, along with clients Sushma Jansari of the British Museum and Jane Samuels of the Natural History Museum, plus various of our regular creative collaborators; Zerlina Hughes of Studio ZNA; Lu Mansell from Factory Settings and Finn Ross from FRAY. It is now for sale in the RIBA bookshop!

20.01.2021

New Installations at the Wallace Collection

We have worked at the Wallace Collection on two new installations to showcase highlights from the Collection – an exceptionally rare full set of medieval armour, one of only three in the world, and the works of Jean-Henri Riesener, France’s most important cabinetmaker during the reign of Louis XVI. Read more here.

21.12.2020

New film in The Human Touch at The Fitzwilliam Museum

We made a film as part of our work on the exhibition design at the Fitzwilliam Museum, The Human Touch: Marking Art, Leaving Traces that opens on January 6th. We worked on the project during 2020 and the various stages of lockdown, reappraising our relationship with touch. The film explores the key themes from the exhibition as well as looking in detail at some of the artworks on display. Thanks to the director of photography Pete Bateson for his expertise as we experimented together with the objects and light. Watch the film here

20.12.2020

National Portrait Gallery Interpretation Design

Nissen Richards Studio is delighted to have been appointed as Interpretation Designer for ​the National Portrait Gallery​, London’s major transformation project, Inspiring People. The project involves a comprehensive re-presentation of the ​Collections and new interpretive approaches across the entire Gallery. It represents the Gallery’s ​biggest ever redevelopment since the building in St Martin’s Place first opened in the late 19th Century. Pippa Nissen, Director of Nissen Richards Studio, commented ‘We are very much looking forward to working alongside the existing design team – Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell. The National Portrait Gallery is one of our favourite galleries and it will be a great pleasure to work with one of the largest and most significant portrait ​Collections in the world.’

14.12.2020

Jim shares his inspirations for Architecture Magazine

Jim Richards, Director of of Nissen Richards Studio has talked about what inspires him in the new edition of Architecture Magazine. Jim namechecks the Birnbeck Pier, an icon of hometown Weston-super-Mare, the photography of Bernd and Hilla Becher and the uplifting experience – currently on hold – of being part of a crowd at a football match or music gig. Read the article here

11.12.2020

Gold London Design Award

We are delighted to be awarded the Gold London Design Award in the ‘Interior Design – International Public or Institutional’ category for Opplyst, a new gallery space for the National Library of Norway. Opplyst, meaning ‘Enlightened’, refers to the new exhibition’s central concept: the display of thirty highly-significant objects from the country’s history – fragments that helped shape the nation. Read more about the project here.

 

19.11.2020

Silver London Design Award

We are really pleased to have been awarded a silver award for Magazine London, in the ‘Architecture, Commercial, Constructed’ category. Magazine London is a major new event space for the capital by our clients Venue Lab, Vibration Group, Broadwick Live and Knight Dragon. The building, an 8m-high, monolithic, L-shaped black box, forms a dynamic new horizontal plane against the vertical cluster of City of London towers beyond. Read more about the project here

Diploma Unit at London Metropolitan University

We are excited to be starting a postgraduate teaching unit as a practice at London Metropolitan University this year, where we will be asking students to design a new Museum for Now. Our unit will be looking at architecture from the point of view of experience and how we can design a series of spaces as a carefully choreographed route. We are working on 2 projects over the year. Firstly a smaller building to house an exhibition, and then a new museum building in the Hackney Marshes. We will look at themes around light and materials, and how we can make our cultural buildings relevant today; how has the pandemic changed our view of culture and society? Read more here

06.10.2020

Pippa Nissen Judges AJ Student Prize and Gives Advice

The AJ Student Prize 2020 will be announced on 30thSeptember, when the winners of the undergraduate and postgraduate categories will be revealed – as well as the winner of the sustainability award. Pippa Nissen of Nissen Richards Studio was delighted to be asked to be a judge of the awards once again this year and will additionally be giving the winners, finalists and other viewers of the virtual awards her top ten tips for starting up in practice.

Refugees: Forced to Flee Opens

We designed this moving exhibition that has now opened at the Imperial War Museum in London. The exhibition confronts common perceptions by exploring personal experiences of people who have been forced to flee their homes and the challenges they face in making their journey safe and re-settling.

27.09.2020

Pippa Nissen features in FX’s Radical Thinking

Pippa Nissen was delighted to be interviewed in depth for the regular FX feature ‘Radical Thinking’ in the magazine’s September/October 2020 issue, answering questions from childhood influences to Pippa’s fascination with the 20thcentury movement from symbolism to Art Nouveau and Art Deco in Europe.

06.10.2020

Orsman Road Development Granted Planning Permission

Planning permission has been granted for our proposed new development on Orsman Road in Hackney. This part 3/4 storey new building providing new studio office space is carefully integrated with the existing complex of buildings that sit alongside Regents Canal, and the new building reinstates the original historic wharf typology while making wider improvements to the surrounding hard landscaping as well as providing improvements to local ecology and biodiversity.

17.08.2020

Dove Cottage Opens

As part of Reimagining Wordsworth, of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the great English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth Grasmere has unveiled the first phase of a re-imagined visitor journey at Dove Cottage, Wordsworth’s former Lake District home which has now opened to visitors. The newly-expanded Museum on the site will open in spring 2021 in a second phase. Nissen Richards Studio has worked as the interpretation designer shaping the experience for the visitors – as well as exhibition, graphic, wayfinding and branding designers.

16.08.2020

Architects-who-happen-to-be-women

Photographer Ivan Jones shot a portrait of Nissen Richards Studio Director Pippa Nissen back in 2013, as part of a series on architects-who-happen-to-be-women. The series has now been revisited with the architects featured invited both to look back on that time and recap on what has happened since. Read what Pippa Nissen had to say here

09.06.2020

Shortlisted for Design Week Award

We are thrilled that Sutton Hoo has made the Design Week Awards shortlist in the Exhibition design category. Fingers crossed on the 29th June when the winner will be announced. See the project here.

05.06.2020

First Award of 2020

The temporary exhibition we completed in 2019 for the Wallace Collection, displaying the fantastical designs of master shoe designer Manolo Blahnik, set amongst the world-renowned paintings and objects of the collection’s 18th century rooms, has been granted a new plaudit to add to its double-award haul from last year. The project is a Silver Winner at the GOV Design Awards 2020 and was personally selected for the award by the Chairman of DRIVENXDESIGN.

26.05.2020

Post Lockdown Exhibition Design

We have been thinking about the post lockdown landscape and what this means for exhibition design and how we can make adjustments to the layouts to take account of social distancing. We have come up with a list of suggestions – read them here

06.05.2020

RIBA-Accredited Conservation Architect

Jim Richards has been awarded the status of Conservation Architect by the Royal Institute of British Architects, a prestigious achievement. We look forward to working on more fascinating projects where we can utilise his in-depth knowledge and expertise of working with historic buildings.

03.04.2020

Pippa Nissen Interviewed by Architecture Magazine

‘I think we are unusual in that our process is quite open in the sense that, when we take on a project, we do a lot of research because we want to work really clearly with the clients’ vision. As a multidisciplinary practice, we like to work on a project and surrender ourselves to the process to get the very best outcome’

Read the full interview here

02.04.2020

Opplyst opens at National Library of Norway

Opplyst, a new permanent exhibition at The National Library of Norway, has now opened. The title, meaning ‘Enlightened’, refers to the exhibition’s central concept: thirty highly-significant objects from the country’s history put on display together for the first time and based on a concept of light arising from darkness, with every aspect bespoke-designed by Nissen Richards Studio, including branding and graphics, in order to create this dramatic immersion into Norway’s fascinating history.

28.02.2020

New identity for Clwb Ifor Bach

Nissen Richards Studio has designed a new identity system and website for Cardiff music venue Clwb Ifor Bach, inspired by the plan for the forthcoming venue revamp. The new logomark represents a vertical re-telling of the new building configuration, also designed by Nissen Richards Studio – whilst also referencing sound bars. This triple dynamism is further reflected in the new logotype, which uses a combination of different typeface weights to convey movement and music.

29.01.2020

Planning permission has been granted in Upper Norwood

Planning permission has been granted for our proposed development on Beulah Hill in Upper Norwood, London. The scheme for CESA Developments, will create eight new homes over 2-3 storeys and skilfully integrates the new built form with a number of constraints that needed careful consideration.

21.02.2020

Wordsworth Grasmere new identity

Nissen Richards Studio has created a new identity and brand applications for Wordsworth Grasmere, bringing together the classic and contemporary through a bespoke set of characters initially inspired by Baskerville, the typeface used to print Wordsworth’s first editions. The logo’s unique ligature represents connection and references handwriting, as does its ink-and-water-stained background, created in a number of colours to reflect the site and surrounding landscape.

25.01.2020

Opening at the Wallace Collection

Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, guest-curated by renowned writer and historian William Dalrymple, has opened at the Wallace Collection, with exhibition and graphic design by Nissen Richards Studio. The exhibition features, for the first time in the UK, the Indian master painters originally commissioned by officials from the East India Company in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, recognising them as among the greatest masterpieces of Indian painting.

20.12.2019

London Design Awards Double Success      

Nissen Richards Studio has taken Gold and Silver at this year’s London Design Awards. Two of the studio’s London exhibition design projects were named winners in the ‘Pop Ups, Display, Exhibit & Set Design’ category: ‘An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahnik at the Wallace Collection’ took Gold, whilst ‘Victoria: Woman and Crown’ at Kensington Palace took Silver.

17.10.2019

Your Stonehenge 150 Years of Personal Photos

We have designed a special exhibition at Stonehenge, which has been created using photos taken by visitors over the years. It creates a wonderful social history of Stonehenge, and also charts the changing technology of photography.

12.12.2019

The Museum of Lost and Found Potential  

To coincide with World Mental Health Day, ‘The Museum of Lost & Found Potential’ has opened in Covent Garden – a temporary exhibition revealing the stark and powerful picture of potential lost across the world to people, families, communities, businesses and society due to neglected mental health and suicide. The week-long exhibition will then go on tour internationally.

10.10.2019

Magazine Music Venue Opens

Magazine London, a major new event space for the capital, has opened on the North Greenwich Peninsula. As visitors approach from North Greenwich Station, Magazine London forms a dynamic new horizontal plane against the vertical cluster of Canary Wharf’s towers on the north bank of the Thames. It is the result of a collaboration between innovative space creator Venue Lab, production specialists Vibration Group, experiential pioneers Broadwick Live and property developers Knight Dragon.

05.10.2019

Retrospectrum Opens in Shanghai

The first retrospective exhibition of Bob Dylan’s visual artworks – Retrospectrum – has opened at the Modern Art Museum (MAM), Shanghai, marking the artist’s most comprehensive art exhibition to date anywhere in the world and enabling visitors to experience Dylan’s artwork in a uniquely immersive environment. Our design approach took inspiration from Bob’s artistic output, his huge cultural influence and the gritty bohemian settings he wrote about and lived in, de-constructing, abstracting and reworking archival images to evoke place and time.

23.09.2019

Pankhurst Mews included in Open House  

We are delighted that Pankhurst Mews has been selected to be part of Open House London this weekend. The scheme, in London’s Finsbury Park, is a new-build property on a plot that formed part of the garden of our client’s childhood home. The successful design had to navigate complex planning and infrastructural restrictions.

21.09.2019

Linthorpe Road Success

We are excited to announce our proposal on Linthorpe Road in Middlesborough has been granted planning permission. The project is to replace an existing retail building with a new 6-storey mixed use development of student housing and ground floor retail space. The design uses carefully proportioned brickwork and faceted concrete on the base and upper levels.

12.09.2019

National Waterways Museum in Specification Today  

Specification Today Magazine has homed in on the fine detail of our National Waterways Museum project in Gloucester in a great 4-page feature this month. The project – the revitalisation of a Grade II Listed Building on the docks in Gloucester that tells the 200-year history of the docks – is now a successful heritage attraction.

01.09.2019

Artists in Amsterdam opens at Dulwich Picture Gallery

  Now open at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Artists in Amsterdam is a new display exploring the personal stories of Dutch Golden Age painters and showing how Amsterdam became a cultural capital for the young artists and an economic superpower during the 17th century. Graphic design on the exhibition was by our talented in-house team.

16.08.2019

Pippa Nissen the ONE at Design Insider  

Nissen Richards Studio Director Pippa Nissen was asked by the BCFA/Design Insiderto name her influences for the magazine’s regular ONE feature. Read more about Pippa’s answers, which include artist Gerhard Richter, designer Arne Jacobsen and Tate Modern’s Turbine hall, here – https://www.designinsiderlive.com/one-pippa-nissen/

08.08.2019

Pippa Nissen on AJ Student Award Jury 2019    

Pippa Nissen has been named as one of the jurors for the 2019 AJ Student Prize, serving alongside Edmund Fowles of Feilden Fowles, Ken Okonkwo of Haworth Tompkins and Meredith Bowles of Mole Architects. The free-to-enter contest is aimed specifically at UK architecture schools and is open to all students on RIBA-accredited architecture courses.

23.07.2019

Finalist for the AJ Retrofit Awards in Two Categories

Our project the National Waterways Museum Gloucester, has been shortlisted in two categories for the Architects’ Journals Retrofit Awards 2019. Firstly in the Cultural Buildings under £5 million, and in the Listed Building under £5 million category. We worked on the architecture, as well as exhibition design, graphics and film design of this exciting project.

17.07.2019

Judge for the Blueprint Blue Riband Student Awards

Pippa was a judge for the Blueprint Blue Riband Student Awards this week, that showcased students from around the UK. It was exciting to see all the new emerging talent around Clerkenwell in the architecture schools’ exhibitions.

13.07.2019

Manolo Blahnik Exhibition at the Wallace Collection

Our new exhibition An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahnik at the Wallace Collection has opened. These exquisite shoes are placed throughout the Wallace in specially designed showcases, that resonate with the collection and different rooms.

New London Architecture Awards Commendation 2019

We are thrilled that Printworks has been commended at the New London Architecture Awards 2019 in the Meanwhile category, our project with Civic Engineers Ltd for Vibration Group.

06.06.2019

Win at the Design Week Awards for Best Exhibition Design

We won! Life in the Dark, the exhibition we designed at the Natural History Museum, has won a Design Week Award 2019 for best exhibition design.

Victoria: Woman and Crown Opens on Queen Victoria’s 200th Birthday

This fascinating exhibition about Queen Victoria has opened at Kensington Palace. We worked on the 3D design as well as the graphics, and created two films. We really enjoyed working on this interesting exhibition that looks Victoria’s private life behind her carefully-managed public image.

27.05.2019

Winner of a D&AD Award 2019

We have won a D&AD Pencil for Creative Excellence for Spatial Design / Installation Design for Life in the Dark at the National History Museum, for our exhibition design working in collaboration with Jason Bruges Studio. Exciting!

18.07.2019

Yemen: Inside a Crisis Exhibition Opens at The Imperial War Museum North

The exhibition that we designed at the Imperial War Museum North about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, opened last night. Through objects and films, it looks at the on-going conflict in Yemen.

17.05.2019

You Say You Want A Revolution? Opens in Melbourne

Our exhibition about the counterculture of the 1960’s – and the impact on today, that started at the V&A has now opened in Melbourne Museum. The exhibition consists of over 500 objects from both the V&A and the museum’s own collection, as well as international loans.

Pippa Nissen writes for Architecture Today   

‘I found my architectural voice in the collaborative creativity of the theatre’, says Pippa Nissen. Read how Nissen Richards Studio Director fused her formal Cambridge University architecture training with the initially-confounding freedom of an MA in Theatre Design at the Slade School of Fine Art – http://www.architecturetoday.co.uk/set-for-life/

01.04.2019

New Cultural Venue Starts On Site

‘Magazine London’, a new cultural venue in Central London, has started on site. The Foundations have been poured and the steelwork has arrived on site.

18.03.2019

Plans for Redevelopment of Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff

We presented our future plans for the redevelopment of iconic music venue Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff.

17.03.2019

Exhibition Opens at the Wallace Collection

We are delighted that the exhibition that we designed at the Wallace Collection has opened – Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads. The exhibition displays Moore’s work alongside armour from the collection, and explores how the Wallace Collection inspired and influenced his work.

16.03.2019

Clapton Square site

Planning permission was granted last night at Hackney Town Hall for our proposed infill of a vacant site within the Clapton Square Conservation Area. Comprising five residential units our contemporary yet complimentary design approach aims to address the tight urban mews while responding positively to the adjacent heritage assets. It was very pleasing to hear comments from the conservation officer praising the quality of our architectural response and we look forward to embarking on the next stages of the project with our client Paramount Apartments London.

12.12.2018

Textiles Gallery Opens

We are really pleased to have worked on the permanent Textiles Gallery that is now open, within the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. The gallery charts the history of the cotton industry, and the textiles story through innovations in design. The space includes daily demonstrations on various machinery, and an exhibition that looks at detail points in this history. We were so pleased to work within this beautiful building, and our approach was to clear the space before designing in precise interventions so that the building can become part of this story.

13.11.2018

Planning Permission For The Conversion of Listed Building

Planning permission has been granted for the conversion of the upper floors of this locally listed building on High Street in Watford, which together with a roof-top rear extension will create four new residential dwellings. Following a refusal for a similar proposition in 2016, Nissen Richards were appointed by APG Property Management upon a recommendation from planning consultant GL Hearn, who advocated a design-led approach to unlock the site, and this referral was vindicated when members voted unanimously in favour last Wednesday as well as commenting on the quality of the design solution.

12.11.2018

Electricity Exhibition Opens in Manchester

The exhibition Electricity: The spark of life has now opened at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. This exhibition has been redesigned for this space, having originated in the Welcome Collection’s galleries in London, before touring to Teylers Museum, Haarlem in the Netherlands. The exhibition looks at how electricity is so fundamental to our lives, and traces how inventors, scientists and artists have worked with it.

HOOKED opens at new London venue

We were delighted to have designed the first exhibition at the Science Gallery, London that has now opened. We hugely enjoyed working with different artists that looked at addiction in all it’s forms, working with scientists from Kings College

06.10.2018

Edward Bawden and Tiepolo at the Dulwich Picture Gallery

We are delighted to have designed two exhibitions that are currently on at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. The stunning Edward Bawden exhibition displaying his bold and graphic works pictured here, as well as the exhibition ‘Rediscover: Tiepolo’s Joseph Receiving Pharoh’s Ring’ that explores this painting focusing on techniques and details.

Photo by Gareth Gardner.

14.08.2018

Finalist for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2018

We are thrilled that we are finalists for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2018 with the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia at the British Museum where we worked on the architecture, exhibition 2D and 3D design. We look forward to finding out the results in September!

11.07.2018

Justice in the Balance

This permanent exhibition has now opened at the Shire Hall, Historic Courthouse Museum in Dorset, and runs through the whole listed building; connecting a series of new and existing spaces that we have brought to life through layers of interpretation, objects and films. We also worked on the branding, and designed a website to accompany the experience too that you can view here.  We enjoyed bringing out the latent stories in each room, from the cells, waiting rooms, to the courthouse itself.

03.07.2018

Great Exhibition of the North

We are honoured to be a part of the Great Exhibition of the North in Newcastle, which opened last week across the city. We designed two exhibitions – firstly ‘Which Way North’ at the Great North Museum, Hancock highlighting northern creativity, innovation and industrial heritage right the way through the museum through it’s different galleries; and also ‘It’s Rocket Science’ at the Discovery Museum celebrating the return of the iconic Stephenson’s Rocket to Newcastle. The exhibitions are bold and colourful, in the spirit of a museum takeover during the expo.

Scheduled Monument Consent Granted For Sutton Hoo

We are delighted that our exciting proposals for National Trust comprising a new viewing tower and landscaped route through and around the Anglo Saxon Royal Burial Grounds at Sutton Hoo has achieved Scheduled Monument Consent and Planning Permission. A HLF stage 2 application is currently being collated and we hope to start work on the next phase in late 2017.

03.05.2017

Powis Castle Exhibition

A new exhibition ‘House of Portraits’ has opened at Powis Castle and Gardens for the National Trust. We designed a series of interventions throughout the castle that showcase the beautiful paintings of its collection in new ways, and explore our own relationship to portraiture. The centrepiece is a miniature by Isaac Oliver of Edward Herbert.

29.03.2018

Creek Road Receives Planning Permission

Planning permission was granted last night for our mixed use scheme on Creek Road in Greenwich. The proposals include commercial and retail units at ground and basement levels, with a variety of residential units above. The volume of the building is sculpted to respond to its urban location, with balconies cut into the mass and fourth floor is set back to break down the overall massing. The façade relief is detailed to express the masonry frame and produce an elegant composition using high quality materials and robust detailing.

26.03.2018

Printworks New Venue Open

The new live music space that we helped create at Printworks, Canada Water opened on Friday, with headliners Django Django performing live on stage.

28.03.2018

National Waterways Museum, Gloucester

Our extension to the Grade II Listed Llanthony Warehouse creating a new main entrance to the National Waterways Museum at  Gloucester docks, is now taking shape

The Clock Stops at Nostell Priory

We are excited to have designed this new exhibition at the beautiful Nostell Priory near Wakefield that is now open, for the National Trust. The Clock Stops showcases the handmade Harrison Clock from 1717 – and explores the life of Yorkshire’s famous clockmaker John Harrison. The artist Luke Jerram has created Harrison’s Garden with 2000 clocks as part of this 300 year celebrations of the clock’s birthday, that is on display at the same time. Photography Dan Dunkley

25.03.2018