Morris+Company, 16-24 Underwood Street, London (2026)

26/04/2024

Contents of our shelves and cupboards; artefacts, samples, failed studies, repeated iterations, a variety of scales, all made in house by our talented team of architects and designers.

www.morrisand.company
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01/02/2024

SPOTLIGHT ON..... SUSTAINABILITY
David Storring, director and lead, joins 24 leading built environment professionals Design Review Panel, providing expert, independent and objective advice on development proposals across .

Speaking of the appointment David commented.
“It is an honour to be working with a great team of experts at the Royal Borough of Greenwich utilising our collective skills to assist the borough reach its commitment - whilst creating inclusive, impactful architecture that will delight and elevate the borough, its communities and its status.”

Cllr. Aidan Smith, Royal Borough of Greenwich Cabinet Member for Regeneration said: “Greenwich welcomes the new Design Review Panel’s role in influencing the continued development of the borough and ensuring a high-quality of architectural design at early-stage design reviews. This panel will help to ensure the future development of Greenwich is sustainable, supports our residents, and keeps it a compelling, vibrant, and healthy community.”

25/01/2024

Office+ Workshopping the Workplace
That’s a wrap for Office+ workshopping the Workplace, for January!

Over two days across four sessions with over 50 voices we deliberated workplace , , /life and . The discussions have led to some extraordinary emerging themetics that will be tabled for further exploration and debate in the Spring,

A huge thank you to the rich team of multi-disciplinary workplace experts who gave their time, and highly experienced opinions to our 2023 call to explore the role that takes in shaping our cities and lived experience.

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08/01/2024

The

MORRIS+COMPANY X GENERAL PROJECTS

On Thursday 11th January 2024, at 12:30pm, at 215-217 Mare Street in the , we will be joined by of who will be presenting their ground breaking approach to delivering transformative change.

Ben will reflect on why the built environment must innovate or face obsolescence.

“The early signs of change are with us today. But, as history has shown, the first-gen is swiftly outmoded by the next with better, faster, and more effective ways of achieving the same goal.

The future of our cities and buildings hinges on high-performance – with an emphasis on efficiency, integrity, sustainability, and a human-centric approach.

A new era of regeneration and reinvention awaits, driven by a commitment to exceed economic, environmental, and social targets through performance-based solutions.

It’s time for a new different kind of (re)development. For a better tomorrow.”

Ben will cover many relevant topics and themes, including , the role of , how to define , prioritising , the important of delivering , and of course

The event is free to attend by reserving a seat through the link in our BIO;

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mid-week-26-tickets-791027563737

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FOOTNOTE

Our Mid Week seminar Programme is an opportunity for our studio to share insights and learnings to a wider community of locals and industry professionals, from a broad church of experts on a variety of subjects which are relevant to the critical nature of our time. It is intended to foster relationships, and build and share knowledge as we strive to collectively face the many challenges we face in the industry. The programme also features an opportunity to discuss each seminar over lunch, catered for by .restaurant (https://www.edit.london) our resident hyper seasonal, low impact restaurant.

31/12/2023

Top Nine 2023

+ Nine Elms
+ Camden Hub Hotel
+ Tower in City of London
+ Norton Folgate
+ Curtain Road Shoreditch
+ Norton Folgate
+ Kings Place
+ Norton Folgate
+ Camden Hub Hotel

Most Liked Project 2023

+Norton Folgate

20/12/2023

K1 : COMPLETION

Members of our team were privileged to tour the recently completed 7 Roberts Close (formerly known as K1) we designed for British Land and AustralianSuper delivered by McAleer & Rushe under the excellent Stewardship of White Ink Architects Architects, creating 79 affordable homes for Southwark Council and families included on the Housing Register.

The scheme was conceived as an open courtyard block, with the south-eastern wing removed, forging a visual and physical link between the new communal court and the Russia Dock Woodland, a linear park formed through the infilling of one of the former Surrey Commercial Docks in 1980 and originally a dock used for importing timber from Norway, Russia and Sweden.

The building has an elegant simplicity, with a rustic red outer skin, articulated by large cantilevered balconies and accents of white stitched brick details to corner logia’s. Whilst the inner court facades use the same white brick throughout.

The standout feature of the scheme are the six storeys of expansive decks, the primary circulation strategy, fed by two cores. These decks span into the courtyard over 3 metres in depth, with such generosity that voids are cut into it, to create ample opportunities for residents on the many floors to connect with each other, and brings sunlight onto each level.

The deck therefore breaths life into the scheme, a ‘mixer’ for the project, a place which brings people together. A dynamic, spacious and (in parts) fluid sequence of spaces, with the additional benefit that every one of the homes (which are all affordable) is either ‘dual’ or ‘triple’ aspect.

Design and Delivery Teams

Design Architect Morris+Company
Delivery Architect White Ink Architects
Project Management AECOM
Structural Engineer AKT II
M&E Caldwell Consulting Engineers LTD
M&E Sweco
Fire Jensen Hughes

25/11/2023

The in wedding mode this Saturday 24:11:2023 catered by .restaurant

25/11/2023

Paddington Central: Progress November 2023

by for in collaboration with and prefabricated by and assembled by .

The project is fast taking shape with 9 storeys of hanging gardens and terraces planned to transform an end of the Twentieth Century corporate edifice into a playful, human centric, celebration of biophilia. The geometric composition of the hanging decks now clearly evident.

FOOTNOTE

Paddington Central is a 11-acre mixed use campus adjacent the Grand Union Canal. Since 2019 British Land has reduced the campus energy consumption by 23%, cutting carbon emissions by more than 1,800 tonnes and reducing energy costs. 100% of the energy comes from renewable sources. 100% of the waste produced by the daily operations has been diverted from landfill since 2013, and >880 tonnes recycled since 2019 and the remainder incinerated for energy.

TEAM https://morrisand.company

Jane Chew
Georgia Mansfield
Rowena Bond
Aifric Carroll
Emily Dew-Fribbance
Rose-marie Botfield
Tania Marques Pérez
Alberto Sols Carlero
Matt Fallowfield
Sandra Youkhana
Ben Myers
David Storring
Joe Morris

16/11/2023

HARRINGAY WAREHOUSES - NEW LONDON AWARDS 2023 WINNER

Our project, the culmination of a long and involved process involving landowner, residents, and Harringay Council, for 13 new warehouse living units, workspaces, artists’ studios and associated landscape works in the Harringay Warehouse District, has been recognised at the New London Awards NLA as the winner of the Mixed Use category.

Occupying a prominent site at the entrance to the Harringay Warehouse District the proposals will see the delivery of the first purpose-built contemporary Warehouse Living development. In response to the brief it is a proposal that seeks to capture both the essence and industrial character of existing warehouse living, whilst satisfying all contemporary building, fire and environmental standards, whilst ensuring that it remains affordable to existing and new warehouse residents.

The proposals are the culmination of a deeply collaborative design process involving , Dakota6, Provewell Ltd, and .co and they form part of a wider masterplanning initiative aimed at securing the longer-term sustainability of this part of the District. It is also an excellent example of joint Council and developer collaboration.

The project is a unique opportunity to acknowledge the organic growth of the district, and preserve and enhance the rich qualities and creative culture of its community with a site specific response designed to lend itself to an enduring flexibility, whilst responding to the aspirations of the development, within a challenging site topography, whilst successfully further an activating the streetscape and connection to the wider Warehouse District Masterplan.

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TEAM
www.morrisand.company Funmbi Adeagbo Matt McCluskey Kehinde Pereira Tania Marquez Perez Ben Taylor David Storring
Miranda Maclaren  Joe Morris

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09/11/2023

THE MIDWEEK - OPEN PRACTICE SEMINAR

Join us at 12:30-2pm on Wednesday 15th November at the , 215-217 to listen to Planit exploring how to grow your own experts on the journey towards , internal learning and their development programme targeted at building ‘NEW MUSCLE’  Over the last 12 months, and with the establishment of their Regenerative Practice Studio at Standish, PLANIT are growing their own experts; in the studio they describe as a ONE-to-ONE mock-up. “At PLANIT we have embarked on a ‘near future mission’ to move to and towards the ‘regenerative’ in all our work. Sounds good, but how the hell do we do that, and most importantly, where are we now?” Pete Swift director Planit.

Planit is an urban and rural place design practice, who have completed over 3,000 projects at every imaginable scale and across all sectors over a time span of 25 years. working to benefit people, places and the world at large, by designing for the living world, for today, tomorrow and the next 200 years. By seeing the world through the widest possible perspective: from community to climate, from nature to future, they focus on the creation of regenerative places.

The event is free to attend by reserving a seat through the EventBrite link in our LINKTREE profile or DM us and we will put your name on the list.

https://lnkd.in/enciUy8P

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FOOTNOTE

Our Mid Week seminar Programme is an opportunity for our studio to share insights and learnings to a wider community of locals and industry professionals, from a broad church of experts on a variety of subjects which are relevant to the critical nature of our time. It is intended to foster relationships, and build and share knowledge as we strive to collectively face the many challenges we face in the industry. The programme also features an opportunity to discuss each seminar over lunch, catered for by .restaurant EDIT (https://www.edit.london) our resident hyper seasonal, low impact restaurant.

22/10/2023

TEASER 2/3

2023 has been an extremely busy year for Morris+Company with a number of major projects reaching significant milestones, whether that be through the planning system, commencing on site or completing.

Pictured: Norton Folgate, 13-14 Norton Folgate
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A project over ten years in the making for built by , this is a story shaped by the hands of the many, with multiple architects and consultants shaping a multiple of plots. This is a complex piece of placemaking, building a narrative in which the expanding city and the Georgian street scape press against each, setting in place a transformed threshold between the two.

22/10/2023

TEASER 2/3

2023 has been an extremely busy year for Morris+Company with a number of major projects reaching significant milestones, whether that be through the planning system, commencing on site or completing.

Pictured: Television Centre, Plot D, White City
Credit:

Plot D was borne out of a collaborative and iterative process over a decade with and delivered by . The plot was defined in the first version of the site masterplan around 2013 for residential use, and consent was achieved to deliver circa 100 homes arranged around a courtyard. The scheme set basic parameters for the site which were developed in the second iteration as a workplace.

Height is moved away from Wood Lane to the NW corner of the plot, respecting the mass of the crescent building, and following the same curve. The building form and it’s geometry follows a simple logic corresponding to an internal planning grid which optimises the available plot in creating a memorable addition to the site, bookending Hammersmith Park, previously The Garden of Peace and built as part of the White City in the early 1900s on 140 acres of land as a grand exhibition site, first used for the Franco-British exhibition in 1908. It was constructed in steel and concrete and painted white, which is an obvious reference for the materiality of our proposal.

The aerial photograph looks directly SW, Plot D in the centre, with the crescent of the television centre clearly visible to the left of the image. Hammersmith Park can be seen in the gap between these two buildings.

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