NBA have secured planning approval and Listed Building Consent for the conversion of a disused internal courtyard at St Edmunds College, Ware into a modern styled extension to its dining facilities.

NBA continue the collaboration with global Co-Living brand COHABS, with the project at Fulham Road. Located within the Walham Green Conservation Area. The design will include renovating the existing 3 storey building, with the addition of a mansard roof extension and a new phase II rear extension. This project is developed based on the contextual understanding of the site and its heritage value.

Shared Living specialist COHABS progressing with their second project with NBA. Renovation of the existing building is ongoing, with a new mansard roof extension under construction.

UK's leading retirement living provider Audley Villages opened operations at our Shiplake Meadows scheme near Henley-Upon-Thames. The project brings valuable retirement living provisions to South Oxfordshire. https://www.audleyvillages.co.uk/retirement-villages/shiplake-meadows

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The RIBA Journal covers our Middlesex Street project in the Building Intelligence section in their November Issue. Tribute to all the hard work from our team! Well done!

NBA’s Middlesex Street ‘Wilde’ brand hotel has been completed at the beginning of September 2024. This complex and aspirational project has been an ambitions redevelopment of a corner plot along the main street of Petticoat Lane market. The history of the area has been ‘captured’ in the architectural design and form of the new building. This project creates a new identity respectful of its heritage whilst also including a twist that looks to represent the capabilities of today’s construction methodologies along with new interpretations of classical building materials, both inside and out.

NBA team visit the Shiplake IRC project to review progress on a cold January morning.

External tiling on our Middlesex Street Hotel project for Staycity almost complete. Overall completion is set for Spring 2024.

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The Artist Irmengard Baker has created a magnificent tapestry of our Villa Caroisla Project. We are delighted to announce that the Tapestry has been selected by the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition for 2023. The tapestry is currently on show in the Architecture room until August, 20th 2023 at Royal Academy in London.

The Project at Shiplake Meadows Integrated Retirement Community (IRC) has been included in the retirement section of the Times Newspaper. Identified as an exemplar design for integrating an IRC into a landscaped setting. The project uses a number of specimen trees and shrubs to create a unique identity.

The clubhouse building, which will form the heart of the IRC at Shiplake, has developed on site. The roof structure is now in place and the entrance feature clearly visible. 300.000 bricks have been delivered to site to progress the enclosure of the walls to the apartment building.

East Herts Council have approved our proposals to add a learning centre to St Edmund's College. The new building will provide support facilities for students and staff in this popular and successful independent school.

Progress has been made on the external cladding at our hotel project at Middlesex street, London. The final zinc cladding layer has been added to complete the dramatic 3D favours that compose the top floor additions.

Our project at Clanricarde road in Notting Hill has progressed to site. The interval floors and staircases have been removed to be replaced with a single stair and a new lift. Temporary structure has been insulated to maintain the integrity of the existing building prior to the reinstatement of the floors and walls.

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Nick Baker Architects celebrated 17 years in business this month. Having negotiated the trials of the pandemic we now have projects on site that consist of a 106 bedroom hotel in Liverpool Street, London and a 65 unit Integrated Retirement Community in Shiplake, Oxfordshire..

NBA have been appointed to design and develop a site at St Edmunds College, Ware, to provide a much needed Learning Centre at the school. Following the development of an extensive masterplan by Lytle Associates a series of sites were selected for further development. These include a site central to the college that acts as a fulcrum to the circulation of pupils around the existing buildings. The proposed scheme acts as an extension to an existing wing of the original main school block developed in 1795. The proposal will need both planning consent and Listed Building Consent As it sits within a collection of Grade I and Grade II listed structures. Careful consideration will be needed to craft in a solution that compliments its existing surroundings.

NBA have won planning approval for the redevelopment of the 3rd and 4th floor of 64 Bayswater Road, London. The site overlooking Hyde Park sits on the northern boundary of the park with sweeping views to the south and over Kensington. Located in a Grade II Listed building the project combines two floors of the existing building to create a 200sqm apartment and roof terrace over 3 levels. Careful consideration was given to neighbouring properties along with the onerous guidelines from Westminster City Council who were involved in two pre-application submissions. The scheme for Leufroy developments completes a set of 5 projects with the client that have achieved planning approval in the challenging central London boroughs of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea.