2007: Summer | 1 | 2 | 3

God's Place in Ewelme

Ewelme School and Almshouse Trust, Oxfordshire

BGS won a competition to design new buildings to extend England’s oldest working school at Ewelme. The Grade 1 Listed alms houses at Ewelme are set in the Chilterns’ stunning landscape. The proposals acknowledged the challenge of working within close proximity to the existing brick and flint fifteenth Century original buildings, proposing new, unmistakably modern buildings, with the same scale and using the same materials as the original.

2007: Summer | 1 | 2 | 3

New Tennis Centre

University of Warwick

We won the commission to design an Indoor Tennis Centre for the University of Warwick. The design is extremely simple, each court is expressed within its own envelope with glass slots between each to allow the segments to read independently. Recommended as good practice by the Lawn Tennis Association, this also serves to break down the bulk of the building when viewed externally. The striking curvature of the segmented roof is designed as a best fit to LTA height recommendations keeping the volume to a minimum. This will also reduce construction and heating costs.

2007: Winter | 1 | 2 | 3

The Queens College

Garden Lecture Theatre

This competition winning design for a 130 seat theatre has now been submitted for listed building consent. The design was conceived as an oak theatre rake and stage, sitting within the wonderful College gardens, surrounded by the high listed stone walls over which hovers a steel and timber roof.

2007: Winter | 1 | 2 | 3

Imperial College

Framework Agreement

Work at Imperial College continues to drive our London Office. Completed work includes the recently opened centre for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, level 3 of the Heart and Lung Institute and at 58 Exhibition Road a private dining facility. BGS have also been appointed to refurbish the 1950’s Sherfield Building in the centre of South Kensington and are producing a number of additional studies for other parts of the College.

2008: Latest News | 1 | 1b | 2 | 3

Berman Guedes Stretton win RIBA Competition for Cheltenham's Art Gallery and Museum

Berman Guedes Stretton has been announced as the winner of the RIBA Open Design Competition for Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum which featured 77 entrants from national and international architectural practices.

The proposal imagines a new gallery sympathising with the existing museum buildings, whilst showing a clear distinction between the different periods of architecture. A pedestrian link through the site invites informal exhibition opportunities at ground floor level. Vertically stacked galleries are joined to existing via a new circulation void rising through the full height of the building.

2008: Latest News | 1 | 2 | 3

Berman Guedes Stretton win RIBA Competition for Cheltenham's Art Gallery and Museum

The Jury Panel said: "The unanimous decision of the assessors was that Berman Guedes Stretton be awarded the commission, in the anticipation of realising a distinguished and successful project. The scheme possessed clarity of vision and an uncomplicated consistency that gave the design a simple elegance and logic". They also praised the design's eco-friendly aspects, including use of reclaimed and self-finished materials, ground source heat pumps and natural ventilation - and further felt that the development would enhance the surrounding area, by creating a link through to Cheltenham'´s oldest building, medieval St Mary's Church.

The new extension will create additional gallery space for the museums Arts & Crafts Movement collection, which has nationally designated status in recognition of its outstanding importance.

2008: Latest News | 1 | 2 | 3

Two major RIBA awards for BGS

Berman Guedes Stretton recently won two coveted RIBA awards:

The RIBA Ibstock Downland Live-Work Prize for BGS’s sympathetic renovation and partial rebuilding of Beard Mill, a Grade II listed water mill in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. The mill: a beautiful stone barn and millrace in a picturesque setting now houses additional family space, guest accommodation and a state of the art clinic. Beard Mill was also recently selected as one of six finalists out of sixty entries in the Grand Designs Awards restoration category.

2008: Latest News | 1 | 2 | 3

Two major RIBA awards for BGS

Berman Guedes Stretton recently won two coveted RIBA awards:

The RIBA South Conservation award for the conversion of an early 20th century industrial building, forming new high quality office space for Oxford University Press. The building was originally used as a printing works and storage space and has been transformed into a modern, open plan office space together with a series of meeting rooms and staff facilities to accommodate 110 people.

Both projects encompass sustainable principles & ecologically sound approach