BuckleyGrayYeoman is a British architectural firm based in the Shoreditch district of London, UK.
Background
Since its establishment, the number of people employed by the practice has grown from three in 1997 to eighty five in 2016. BuckleyGrayYeoman has been based in the Tea Building in Shoreditch for the past 12 years.
Projects
Hashish, Amira 'Designer digs: the new wave of luxury student accommodation', London Evening Standard, London, 23 September 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015
Recently completed Recently completed projects include: The Buckley Building for Derwent London, the refurbishment of a former BBC building named for Henry Wood, the founder of the BBC proms, The Pure Aldgate Student Accommodation building (a 19-storey building), The Passage (charity), London's largest voluntary sector day centre for the homeless,Dunmall, Giovanna 'The Passage homelessness charity gets a BuckleyGrayYeoman redesign', Wallpaper magazine, 17 December 2015, London, . Retrieved 17 December 2015 new academic and sports buildings for Channing School and Forest School and a number of Citadines Apart'Hotel in the UK and France.
The firm has designed premises in Frankfurt and Bangkok for the Fred Perry clothing company.
Current projects Current projects include: a new art hub at Cromwell Place, South Kensington,Adam, Georgina "A new gallery district in London?", Financial Times, 2 March 2016, London. Retrieved 2 March 2016 the commercial office buildings that form part of the regeneration of Bishopsgate GoodsYard in Shoreditch,O'Caroll Lisa "Hackney mayor attacks Boris Johnson's intervention in skyscraper project" The Guardian, London, 25 September 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015 the revamp of a hundred metres of shop-front at the base of the Newport Sandringham building on Charing Cross Road and in Chinatown, London, the renovation of a Victorian bonded warehouse building, converting it into office spaces for the Granada Studios redevelopment in Manchester.
In January 2015 BuckleyGrayYeoman designed a refurbishment of the Wickhams Department Store in East London which included the removal of the façade of Spiegelhalter's jewellery shop, a well-known historic holdout building. After a petition and a protest campaign with the backing of English Heritage, the Twentieth Century Society and the Victorian Society, the plans were revised to keep the Spiegelhalters façade in May 2015.Moore, Rowan ' When heaven was a drive-thru hamburger' The Guardian, London, 25 January 3015. Retrieved 25 January 2015 Parkinson, Justin,Spiegelhalter's: The ultimate symbol of holding out', BBCLondon, 28 May 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2015
Other
In 2015 the practice completed the refurbishment of the Grade II listed boarding houses at Roedean School in Sussex, originally built by John William SimpsonBlackwell, Georgina, ' The swankiest boarding school in the world'Tatler, London, 22 April 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015
Awards
In 2015, a design for a Nando's restaurant in Loughton won the Best Fast/Casual category in the Restaurant and Bar Design Awards. In 2015 also, the practice won the WIN Awards for Roedean School,Dunmall, Giovanna, 'A lesson in design' The Sunday Times, London, 15 February 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015 the Retail Week Interior Award for Fred Perry in Covent Garden, the Mixology Awards for Henry Wood House.
Events and exhibitions Rethinking Old Street roundabout, Icon Magazine – Clerkenwell Design Week 2014,"Rethinking Old Street roundabout'Icon Magazine, London, 23 May 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2014 Changing Perceptions, 2012 – New London Architecture
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