Carlisle Cathedral Fratry project has gained planning permission and CFCE permissions. This is a great triumph for the client and design team achieving consents for a project first conceived ten years ago. This is the first new building in the precinct for over 300 years and it replaces the west range of the cloister destroyed during the reformation.

The practice has made the final shortlist of 5 for the new Homerton College Dining Hall, Cambridge. This shortlist has been reduced from an initial 150 submissions from around Europe and marks the growing recognition of the practices approach and design credentials. The interview will be in January with the successful team being announced in February.

Our largest London project to date, two new town houses in Notting Hill has gained planning permission. The pair of homes replace a semi-derelict, post war terrace and will meet the highest environmental standards. The design draws reference from the unique early Victorian setting at the heart of the Ladbroke Conservation area.

The practice has just moved into their new studio, designed and funded by the practice and co-located on London’s most central city farm at the southern end of Westminster Bridge. The studio embodies our values of efficiency, beauty and function and will facilitate the practices steady growth and ambition.

Following a successful competition shortlisting, Feilden Fowles presented their scheme for the Cambridge Botanic Gardens Systematic beds project. The project sits among the historic landscape of the Systematic Beds and nearby to the Stirling Prize winning Sainsbury’s laboratories. A further round of design and consultation has been planned for the coming months.

Feilden Fowles studio is progressing at pace this month with the pre-fabricated douglas fir frame completing on site. This frame has been built by an ex-colleague Alex Thomas and his fellow carpenter Jan Ciechanowicz. A topping out ceremony was held with the whole office, marking a significant moment in the practices progression.