North Audley Street has been transformed with the arrival of the flagship Ivy Asia, designed by PLA for Caprice. With 150 covers this exceptionally well-appointed bar and restaurant sets a new standard for this exclusive London enclave.

Photography © Johnny Stephens.

This new build 125 room hotel is one of a number of hotels in the budget to upper market spectrum that PLA have designed for The Splendid Hospitality Group. Configured to the Ibis Styles brand standard, it caters for the expanding business and leisure market centred on Heathrow.

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On the upper floors, it is organised on a standard guest room module, with reception, amenity and support facilities at ground floor. A key feature of the design is the façade which is a simple rhythm of brickwork and windows, engineered to a high acoustic standard to minimise the noise from Heathrow air traffic. 

The hotel opened to the public in January 2020.

Re-invention of a Country Retreat

This three storey apartment block completes the residential and hotel masterplan for Splendid Hospitality Residences on the Great West Road. It features twelve, two bed units, all of which are dual aspect and fully adaptable. The block is designed for low energy in use with integral mvhr systems and triple insulated glazing which also functions to limit aircraft noise from the flight path into Heathrow.

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 Rayners Lane

A collection of five new-build family homes and a small apartment block for a private freeholder in Rayners Lane. The development will create a new street and contribute to the wider regeneration of this local town centre setting.  All of the properties have been designed with their public rooms on the top floor to provide private amenity space and good access to daylight and sunlight. The generous interiors are each adaptable for future wheelchair use and each home has direct access to shared communal gardens.  

Three new build low carbon family homes have been planned for a small backland site in the heart of Crouch End. They have been designed with spacious interiors and private gardens to a high environmental standard based on Passivhaus first fabric principles. The houses are constructed using lightweight pre-fabricated timber frames with heavily insulated exterior walls, and with the interior environment conditioned by a mechanical ventilation and heat recovery system. Brick has been selected as the primary cladding material to blend with the character of the local conservation area in which the site is located.

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Bohemia Club London is a rare new London venue dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community. It will bring an elegant Grade II listed Clerkenwell pub back to life with club rooms, social space and a state of the art cabaret in a substantially extended basement space.

This new residential development comprises 18 three bed family houses, 12 two bed apartments and 4 two bed wheelchair accessible houses.

All of the homes are designed to achieve or exceed London Plan requirements, complete with low carbon features such as MVHR systems. The wheelchair accessible houses are designed to comply with Mayor of London Best Practice Guidance and relevant Habiteng standards and all achieve Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4.

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In an area of high car ownership, particular attention is given to the design of the streetscape to ensure it creates an attractive, safe environment for pedestrians, cyclists and children that cars do not dominate.  Pedestrians are given priority with adequate off-street parking to create pleasant, tree-lined streets. Visual changes in surface types, planting, street furniture and raised areas slow traffic and discourage haphazard on-street parking.  The new street becomes a public amenity.

Planning consent has been secured for a 132 room IBIS Red hotel, one of the Accor group’s brands. This five storey hotel will stand as a gateway to Worcester Park and has been designed by PLA in close consultation with the London Borough of Kingston urban design team. It will cater for the expanding leisure and commuter market serving central London and the south east and is one of a number of hotels that PLA have designed for The Splendid Hospitality Group. The hotel provides generous front of house space along the primary frontage with Malden Green, the attractive open space that leads to Worcester Park town centre.

The villa is located on a distinctive tree-lined boulevard in West London with wide pavements and elegant Georgian properties that are set back behind deep front gardens.

Set within the Ladbroke Conservation Area this Grade II Listed Regency villa, one of a pair, has been thoughtfully repaired and modernised to provide for single family use.

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An urban block in Shoreditch which is undergoing a refresh and re-branding. This apartment is the first of 18 prototype apartments completed by PLA as part of the comprehensive refurbishment. The block is managed by Essential Living and caters for a young rental market.

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Fitzrovia welcomes high value sneakers

This new four star hotel is designed for the mid-upper priced Starwood Aloft brand, targeting the growing number of mid-market travellers. With over 230 guest rooms, it will provide much needed hotel accommodation in West London. The project is located within the First Central development, on a challenging site adjoining the designated HS2 rail link and on the boundary of two planning authorities. Working closely with the client and masterplan team, PLA developed a design which was granted full planning consent from both authorities and with the support of the GLA. Interior design by Twenty2Degrees.

The existing two storey courtyard building, in a Tudor Revival style, is reconfigured around a ‘wandering loop.’ This is of particular benefit to those residents with early onset dementia. Each branded environment is wholly self-contained and the existing spaces have been adapted to provide for a well-appointed and interconnected interior, in which residents and staff can move about freely.   

Planned over six floors, this new upper-mid market hotel will provide 142 guest rooms for business and leisure travellers. Located on a major junction on the Great West Road, the hotel is designed as a landmark in the regeneration of this long established arterial route. It is situated in close proximity to Heathrow with good transport links to central London.

London Borough of Hounslow have given their in-principle support for our scheme, which sets a high design standard for a site with a troubled planning history.

Our design for this Edwardian family house in Wimbledon seeks to unite the house and garden as a series of interconnected rooms. Each room is articulated by windows and screens, the pergola garden enclosed by a dedicated music room to the rear.

The Goodman Loughton is a senior living community which provides a full spectrum of C2 care from assisted living environments to memory care, nursing and rehabilitation. It is designed around a three-sided courtyard garden to provide the best possible aspect and access to daylight and sunlight for each of the 125 apartments. The accommodation includes 47 memory care studios and 27 dedicated nursing studios. There are 3 distinct and branded memory care environments, for those with early and late stage dementia and for women only. All residents will benefit from generous shared and support spaces, featuring dining, lounge, library and multi-purpose spaces and a wellness, spa and rehabilitation centre.  

Palmer Lunn were responsible for all design services to RIBA Stage 3 including engagement with Epping Forest District Council in the planning pre-application process.

Memory care has three distinct branded environments, each of 18 studios, for those with early and late stage dementia and for women only. All residents will benefit from generous shared and support spaces, featuring dining, lounge, library and multi-purpose spaces and a wellness, spa and rehabilitation centre which opens onto a secluded courtyard garden.

As Design Advisor to The Goodman Group, Palmer Lunn were responsible for all site assessments and development appraisals. We assisted with the negotiation of the land purchase and developed the concept design, including planning pre-application engagement with the LPA,  to set the design parameters for the appointment of the detail design team. For the development of subsequent design stages, Palmer Lunn acted as the design review lead, working with EPR and Anita Rosato Interior Design.

Located in a stylish 1950’s apartment building on the Southbank, this 1500 sf apartment is designed to the cosmopolitan requirements of a transatlantic family. With hints of New York, the interior has a pared down simplicity with restrained decorative touches, refined wall panelling and extensive bespoke cabinetry. Spaces that were previously enclosed have been opened up so that they flow into each other and make the best use of natural daylight.