07•2023
07•2023
Rotaro at Liberty
Rotaro at Liberty
We are excited to share our latest project for fashion rental brand Rotaro. Working within the unique spaces of Liberty we have created a project focused around ideas of circularity, both in terms of materials and spatial ideas. The environmental response towards fashion is a key message that translates into the overall concept for the space.
The essence of creating a calm and inviting space is enhance by the feeling of warmth that emanates from the cork walls. Two large column like structures help to demarcate the space and make the sense of a room within a room. Wrapping these two elements is a sculptural rail that circulates the space, making places to curate the collection.
Altogether the project has been conceived as an easily demountable system that can be re-purposed for other spaces. The project aims to make claim that beautiful spaces can be created for temporary activations while still considering the environmental impacts of materials and construction. Primarily using cork to line the space we have also sought to introduce a sculptural rail that becomes functional to hold garments in a multitude of ways.
Title: Rotaro
Location: Liberty, London
Year: 2023
Client: Rotaro
Photographs: James Retief
Type: Retail
Status: Completed
07•2023
07•2023
Cubitts
Cubitts
We have recently completed the latest Cubitts on Broadway Market (our hood) in the legendary F Cooke’s Pie and Mash shop. Working within the Listed interior we have looked to retain the character of the site while introducing new elements and making use of the old dining tables, transforming the space into a fresh retail space. Altogether the new material palette picks up on the tones of the existing tiles and at the same time adds warmth. In the basement we have lined the space with wood panelling, using the square motif of the tiles upstairs, creating a comfortable eye testing space and waiting area.
Title: Cubitts
Location: Broadway Market, London
Year: 2023
Client: Cubitts
Photographs: Felix Speller
Type: Retail
Status: Completed
07•2023
07•2023
WatchHouse
WatchHouse
EBBA have worked alongside WatchHouse and Deidra Hodgson on the design of a new coffee shop in Marylebone. As Executive Architects we have developed from concept through to execution and delivery on site. This is part of a continued collaboration with the coffee brand on a series of new houses across the London and the UK. The design of this unique shop includes a large open plan ground floor with feature central bar in fibreglass, and a lower ground level for working and dining.
Title: WatchHouse
Location: London
Year: 2023
Client: WatchHouse
Photographs: James Retief
Type: Retail
Status: Completed
05•2022
05•2022
Creative Office
Creative Office
EBBA completed the design of a flexible studio space for MMBP. The project sought to find ways to create joinery and storage solutions through off-the-shelf products. The light touch refurbishment has turned an old storage unit into a warm office space through soft pink and chocolate tones. Maximising the project for flexible working by providing storage solutions that can be easily concealed, while finding ways to add delight in the details and fixtures. Moving down into the office you go through a portal-like entrance concealing a compact kitchen. Enjoyment in this project came through using utilitarian fixtures and soft finishes to achieve a rich result and a calming space to work from. The bookshelf wall was made from parts of a previous table designed for the RA coupled with the stools shown as part of our exhibition design; a nod to EBBA’s consideration of ways to up-cycle projects and products for new uses.
Title: MMBP
Location: London
Year: 2022
Client: MMBP
Photographs: Thomas Adank
Type: Dwelling
Status: Completed
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05•2022
AORA Retail
AORA Retail
Retail design developed as part of our work for AORA Gallery exploring ways to display and showcase products in a way that can connect with people’s senses. AORA is an acclaimed virtual gallery exhibiting and supporting artists, offering unique digital experiences and wellness products while also aiming to be a place that can bring slowness into peoples lives. Pioneering a culture of care is at its heart and never has this been more important than the present.
Title: AORA Retail
Location: London
Year: 2021
Client: Client: AORA Gallery
Type: Retail
Status: Completed
05•2022
05•2022
Penhaligon’s
Penhaligon’s
The project was developed as part of the RIBA Regent Street Window Competition in 2014 for the classic perfumery, Penhaligons. The delicate copper lattice structure was designed as a reference to the antiquated methods of distilling perfume and the copper apparatus used in the process. The project was proposed as an evocated and experiential piece that aimed at drawing people into the shop to engage with the making of the perfume.
The project was awarded Best Dressed window and due to its success was later installed in 17 of their stores globally.
Title: Penhaligon’s
Location: London
Year: 2016
Client: Penhaligon’s
Collaboration with Aljawad Pike
Type: Retail
Status: Completed
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05•2022
05•2022
Restaurant Facade
Restaurant Facade
EBBA have developed a proposal to reimagine the frontage to a prestigious restaurant in a conservation area within Central London. The new facade will be framed by tall cast pillars in aluminium and galvanised metalwork, to add a sense of texture and delight to the famous street. The project received planning consent and is currently in the technical design stages.
Title: Restaurant Facade
Location: London
Year: 2020
Client: Private
Type: Retail
Status: Planning granted
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05•2022
05•2022
Stockton Bar
Stockton Bar
An exciting new venue in the heart of south-east London, Stockton functions as a coffee shop by day and evolves into a cocktail bar at night. Designed in close collaboration with the client, Stockton is an elegant and flexible space with scope to develop over time – an example of the studio’s responsive open-ended approach to making architecture.
The site’s original stone flooring which we decided to retain, inspired a raw and earthy colour palette. Instead of simple painted walls, a rough plasterwork was explored to line the walls; a technique that dates back to stucco applications developed in ancient India and China. The intention was to provide surfaces with a distinct textured quality in plaster that would transform with the changing light, becoming richer as the space darkens which in turn both changes the look and feel of the space.
All the designed elements – including the furniture and shelving – are made from raw welded steel, simple enough that it could be fabricated by local metalworkers, creating an unassuming, elegant aesthetic. The terrazzo bar is complemented by the steel tables topped with white-washed plywood. Despite its bespoke furniture and fittings, Stockton is intended to serve as a blank canvas to offer architecture as a backdrop to be populated and activated by visitors who will ultimately give life to the space.
Title: Stockton Bar
Location: London
Year: 2018
Client: Private
Type: Retail
Status: Completed
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05•2022
Artist Studio & Archive
Artist Studio & Archive
The conversion of an outbuilding for Flat Time House forms part of a phased approach for the future of the gallery. EBBA have developed proposals for the small yet ambitious gallery in South London, taking inspiration from the works of the founder John Latham. As part for the first phase, EBBA have created a new artist studio and archive for the gallery’s growing research and events programme.
These proposals look to resolve some issues with the use of the spaces on the ground floor, by creating better connections to the existing gallery, establishing a new research centre with a store for the large collection of artworks. The future works will consider how to connect the outbuilding with the house through a landscaping proposal. The project is conceived as a series of abstracted and sympathetic revisions that will allow the users to interact with the gallery in a new way.
The spirit of the new spaces take cues from the existing house and the works of John Latham, seeing the interventions as “attachments” that respect the existing conditions of the gallery. Understanding the house as a number of events and accumulations, the new elements are conceived to be read as such. These small projects are an add-on that speak of the materiality of layers, building on the importance of the house as an artwork. Reuse of the demolished interior structures become new workbenches for the artist studio and rubble from previous alterations are ground into aggregate for bespoke concrete fixtures. The history of the mezzanine is retained as an imprint in the floor where the legs used to sit.
Title: Artists Studio & Archive
Location: London
Year: 2020
Client: Flat Time House
Photographs: Lorenzo Zandri
Type: Cultural
Status: Completed
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