Planning Permission secured for remodeling of Cambridge Arts Theatre Front of House

A Burrell Foley Fischer scheme for the remodeling of the Front of House areas of the Cambridge Arts Theatre has been approved by the Local Planning Authority.

The Cambridge Arts Theatre, founded by the great economist and statesman, John Maynard Keynes, is currently celebrating its 75th Anniversary Year.  Its artistic programme includes the very best in touring theatre, opera, dance and jazz, complimented by their own productions.

The entrance and Front of House area at the Theatre is currently a small space which restricts the facilities they are able to offer their patrons.  The theatre has acquired the leases of two adjoining former retail spaces and the Burrell Foley Fischer scheme remodels the entire ground and basement floors to incorporate these within the existing front of house areas.  The resulting open and well lit space will provide new box office and cafe-bar facilities for theatregoers and the general public.

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Demolition marks start of Seven Sisters Road Residential Development

Demolition of the existing building on the site of 143 Seven Sisters Road, Islington started today, marking the commencement of this exciting development.  


The new development will provide two new 5 bedroom family houses and four 2 or 3 bedroom family flats on an underused site for Homes for Islington.  Burrell Foley Fischer LLP secured Planning Permission for the scheme, as part of a review of vacant, problematic and underused sites owned by Islington Council.     

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Designs for a new academic building for Kingham Hill School

Burrell Foley Fischer LLP have completed designs for a new Academic building at Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire.  The new building will provide new science laboratories, classrooms, a new library and small lecture theatre.  It will sit on a prominent wooded site between two fine ranges of Cotswold Stone Buildings.  The School's brief was for a quality building which sits comfortably within its Cotswold setting.

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Planning permission received for new cinema in Crystal Palace

A Burrell Foley Fischer scheme to convert a public house and adjoining car showroom in Crystal Palace into a two-screen cinema has been granted Planning Permission by Bromley Council.

The scheme designed for Future Projections, a cinema development and installation company, includes a main 203 seat cinema with a second 51 seat screen, together with a cafe-bar.

   

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Burrell Foley Fischer LLP have today moved to new premises at

Carlow House
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Please note our new telephone number 020 7755 6868

Merry Christmas from all at Burrell Foley Fischer

New Performance Spaces at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts

Official Opening of Dame Tamsyn Imison Building at Hampstead School

Dame Tamsyn Imison, former Headteacher at Hampstead School, was the guest of honour at the official opening of the building named after her and designed by Burrell Foley Fischer LLP.

An original feasibility study and development plan was undertaken by the Practice in 1996 to establish a long-term strategy for the development of the School’s facilities, with early phases including a new Sixth-form Centre.

The latest phase is a new build extension which includes specialist ICT and general purpose classrooms, and a professional catering kitchen teaching space. A footbridge connecting the new building to the existing building at first floor level is also provided to integrate the new building into the existing Technology Block. This also means that the first floor areas in the existing building are accessible via the lift in the new building.

The materials for the external elevations of the building follow the language established in the previous phases, ie. terne coated stainless steel sheet and semi glazed black bricks, combined with large areas of glass to provide light, views and ventilation to the interior of the new building.

Press coverage of the refurbishment of the Crucible Sheffield

Burrell Foley Fischer's remodelling and refurbishment of the Crucible Theatre Sheffield has been featured this autumn in both FX magazine and the BD reviews supplement, interiors issue.

The refurbishment project was careful to maintain the spirit of the much-loved original auditorium design using the original fabric colour for the new higher-backed designs and replacing the trademark starry sky, most of whose lights had gradually faded, with new LEDs. The front of house areas were remodelled and extended providing better circulation routes and a new and welcoming frontage to Tudor Square.

Read the FX magazine article on recently completed major theatre projects.

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New Dance Studios at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts

The Tring Park School for the Performing Arts have moved into their new building housing five Dance Studios, designed by Burrell Foley Fischer LLP.

The School sits in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and occupies a Listed Grade II* former home of the Rothschild family at Tring Park. The grounds are listed Grade II and the Clock House which forms the front to the former stable block is also Listed Grade II*. The School has an aspiration to be one of the leading performing arts schools in the country.

The new Dance Studio building has been designed to nestle within its heavily wooded landscape setting with randomly spaced Red Cedar perimeter posts to echo the surrounding tree trunks. The dense wildflower meadow grass roofs reference the surrounding tree canopies and undulating landscape. The studio rooflights and high level windows create visual connection with the surrounding landscape and abundant day lighting for the dancers.


The Dance Studios are the first building in a three phase BFF masterplan which has Planning Permission, with later phases including a new Art Department and a new 280 seat theatre for Dance and Music theatre.

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6-9 Carlton House Terrace profiled in Country Life

In the 350th Anniversary year of the Royal Society its headquarters at 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London was featured in Country Life magazine this month.

In 1999 to 2003, Burrell Foley Fischer LLP undertook a major refurbishment of this Listed Grade 1 Nash Building to provide a coherent, high profile, architectural setting for the society’s activities. The completed development provided additional facilities for exhibitions, scientific meetings, seminars, media events and video conferencing. A key intervention was the creation of a new atrium in a former light well on the upper levels as a focus to the new offices and providing space to display an engineering model of the Ariel 1 Satellite.

View The Royal Society Notes and Records for the Revelopment

In 2008 the Practice was responsible for the refurbishment of the Welcome Trust Lecture Theatre which now provides modern lecture facilities, with accommodation for an audience of 300 and of the Dining Room which has a seating capacity of 100 but is also a flexible space that can itself be used for smaller lectures or as an overflow space for the main lecture theatre.

Most recently in 2009 we were architects for the Royal Society Centre for the History of Science, which was created following the refurbishment of the space previously occupied by its Library in Carlton House Terrace. The refurbishment provides study, exhibition and meeting facilities, in an atmosphere that reflects the Society’s commitment to excellence and inspiration whilst equally providing for the safe-keeping of the collections.

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