publications
The Architects’ Journal Kilburn Quarter
25.06.2012
ABA’s South Kilburn Estate Regeneration project was featured in the article, “Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Alison Brooks scoop planning in Kilburn.”
ABA’s South Kilburn Estate Regeneration project was featured in the article, “Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Alison Brooks scoop planning in Kilburn.”
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The Architects’ Journal Exeter College Cohen Quad Albert Crescent Quarterhouse
12.01.2012
Alison Brooks was interviewed for this article entitled “Women in Practice“.
Architecture A Woman’s Profession
2011
In this volume, well-known female architects from the United States and Europe discuss their academic and professional experiences, as well as their visions for the future.
In this volume, well-known female architects from the United States and Europe discuss their academic and professional experiences, as well as their visions for the future.
In the western world, the number of women studying architecture now roughly equals that of men. As women increasingly come to the fore as practicing professionals, the question of how this shift will affect the profession and the teaching of the discipline is of greater and greater interest.
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Perspectives on Design London Fold House Wrap House
2011
Perspectives on Design London showcases the creativity of locally based residential design professionals, featuring ABA projects, Fold House and Wrap House.
Perspectives on Design London showcases the creativity of locally based residential design professionals, featuring ABA projects, Fold House and Wrap House.
This stylistically diverse collection includes the work of dozens of celebrated creative experts. Whether focused on the homes design, structure, decoration, amenities, or outdoor living spaces, each professional featured in this large-format book offers insight into how bespoke residences come to fruition.
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Adventures In Regeneration Quarterhouse
2011
“It’s a stunning looking building, which has been brilliantly designed and equipped for live performances.”
Nick Ewbank, Art consultant, founding director of The Creative Foundation, and client for Quarterhouse Performing Arts & Buisness Centre
“It’s a stunning looking building, which has been brilliantly designed and equipped for live performances.”
Nick Ewbank, Art consultant, founding director of The Creative Foundation, and client for Quarterhouse Performing Arts & Buisness Centre
Nick Ewbank wrote Adventures in Regeneration, charting the town’s trajectory over the past decade, through the development of the Folkestone Creative Quarter in the Old Town, to the Folkestone Triennial, the Book Festival, the new University Centre and ABA’s Quarterhouse Performing Arts & Business Centre. It is part memoir, part archive, and part strong case study for culture-based regeneration.
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Neue Top 100 Hauser Salt House Herringbone Houses
BD Online: Rainham
19.11.2010
“A previously derelict warehouse on the border of the marshes with Rainham Village is being reclad by Alison Brooks, in a refurbishment project funded by the LTGDC. The bright, barcode cladding will encase five new self-contained units, with a new insulated roof, bicycle racks and showers.”
“A previously derelict warehouse on the border of the marshes with Rainham Village is being reclad by Alison Brooks, in a refurbishment project funded by the LTGDC. The bright, barcode cladding will encase five new self-contained units, with a new insulated roof, bicycle racks and showers.”
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What Architects Desire (Die Walverwandschaften)
2010
This book collects sketches produced for the German contribution to the 12th Architecture Biennial in Venice, including one by Alison Brooks.
This book collects sketches produced for the German contribution to the 12th Architecture Biennial in Venice, including one by Alison Brooks.
The leitmotif, desire , is at the same time the topic of a survey among architects; answers are given through drawings. What are you longing for? The response drawings are highly individual, diversity becomes programme: both in picture language and in the presentation in terms of content, reactions are quite different.
But there is one thing they all have in common: the burning desire of something concrete. Sometimes it spreads lightning-like on the observer, sometimes time is required for a contemplative involvement with form and content. The architectural sketch, as it may seem, degenerated into a side product of architectural work within the last years, is back!
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Encyclopedia Of Detail In Contemporary Residential Architecture Herringbone Houses
2010
This book features detail drawings and photographs of the illusory patterned timber facade and monolithic timber staircase of ABA’s Herringbone Houses.
This book features detail drawings and photographs of the illusory patterned timber facade and monolithic timber staircase of ABA’s Herringbone Houses.
This comprehensive reference work contains scale drawings of every type of detailing used in contemporary residential architecture.
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The Audi Urban Future Initiative: The Summit
2010
Summarising Audi’s urban research to date, this book features ABA’s City of Collaborative Consumption research and proposal.
Summarising Audi’s urban research to date, this book features ABA’s City of Collaborative Consumption research and proposal.
The Audi Urban Future Initiative broadcasts a range of perspectives and explores innovative advancements, tracking and analyzing the trends of the day. To reimagine urban mobilityto seek sustainable, accessible, equitable, and enjoyable ways to move from one place to anotheris to reimagine the city.
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Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture Salt House
2010
This book features the crisp timber detailing of ABA’s ipe-clad Salt House, with a combination of detail drawings and photographs.
This book features the crisp timber detailing of ABA’s ipe-clad Salt House, with a combination of detail drawings and photographs.
Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern timber architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 50 of the most recently completed and influential timber designs for both residential and commercial architecture.
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Architecture 09: RIBA Buildings of the Year Newhall Be Quarterhouse
2009
On Quarterhouse Performing Arts & Business Centre: “This is the centrepiece of a brave and exciting regeneration scheme that seeks slowly to claim Folkestone town centre for artists and performers.”
On Quarterhouse Performing Arts & Business Centre: “This is the centrepiece of a brave and exciting regeneration scheme that seeks slowly to claim Folkestone town centre for artists and performers.”
Architecture 09 is the official guide to the work of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and all RIBA Awards presented in 2009. It features ABA projects Quarterhouse Performing Arts & Business Centre, which won a RIBA National Award and Newhall Be, which won a Housing Design Award.
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Houses of Steel
2009
This book features ABA’s proposal for low cost steel housing in Warsaw, Poland, which was a competition finalist.
This book features ABA’s proposal for low cost steel housing in Warsaw, Poland, which was a competition finalist.
Living Steel is a worldwide, collaborative program designed to stimulate innovative and responsible housing design and construction. This book presents the winning and finalist schemes from the three competitions held to date. Each project is presented with a description, drawings, sketches, plans, and renderings of the submitted projects; and is an inspirational source of information about sustainable steel homes and low-cost housing. The projects presented are at the vanguard of international architectural design for a world suffering from a critical housing shortage.
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Dwelling: Accordia Accordia Masterplan Accordia Sky Villas Accordia Brass Building
2009
Dwelling describes the design and architecture of this new residential quarter in Cambridge, a multi-award winning green project, designed in collaboration with FCB Studios and Maccreanor Lavington. In 2008 Accordia became the first housing development ever to win the prestigious Stirling Prize, the highest accolade awarded to architecture in the UK.
Dwelling describes the design and architecture of this new residential quarter in Cambridge, a multi-award winning green project, designed in collaboration with FCB Studios and Maccreanor Lavington. In 2008 Accordia became the first housing development ever to win the prestigious Stirling Prize, the highest accolade awarded to architecture in the UK.
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MARK Quarterhouse
06.2009
This issue of the journal features ABA’s Quarterhouse Performing Arts & Business Centre with the article, ‘Alison Brooks Provides a Seaside Town With a Theatre Curtain’.
This issue of the journal features ABA’s Quarterhouse Performing Arts & Business Centre with the article, ‘Alison Brooks Provides a Seaside Town With a Theatre Curtain’.
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Architecture Today: Practice Quarterhouse
04.2009
Upon completion of Quarterhouse in Folkestone, Architecture Today featured an extensive Practice Profile of Alison Brook’s Architects, placing the project in comparison with previous projects, such as Wrap House, Lens House and Newhall Be.
Upon completion of Quarterhouse in Folkestone, Architecture Today featured an extensive Practice Profile of Alison Brook’s Architects, placing the project in comparison with previous projects, such as Wrap House, Lens House and Newhall Be.
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Spaces Magazine Herringbone Houses
03.2009
“The Herringbone Houses’ T-shaped design creates exterior spaces that interlock with interior rooms, blurring the line between inside and out and making perfect use of the woodland setting.”
“The Herringbone Houses’ T-shaped design creates exterior spaces that interlock with interior rooms, blurring the line between inside and out and making perfect use of the woodland setting.”
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Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture Accordia Masterplan Accordia Sky Villas Accordia Brass Building
Architects’ Journal
Architecture 08: The Guide to the RIBA Awards Accordia Masterplan Accordia Sky Villas Accordia Brass Building
2008
“This is high density housing at its very best, demonstrating that volume housebuilders can deliver high-quality architecture and, as a result, improve their own bottom line.”
“This is high density housing at its very best, demonstrating that volume housebuilders can deliver high-quality architecture and, as a result, improve their own bottom line.”
“The Stirling judges awarded the prize to Accordia as the scheme they felt could push things forward in a very ordinary way. It is an exhiliarating project that adheres to the tenets of Modernism, reinstating values lost from housing in the latter part of the twentieth century to deliver light and fresh air at high density. Accordia, they felt, marks a paradigm shift in British housing. To an industry that has for too long been anti-design and to politicians who have regarded houses as targets to be achieved, it sends a message that good housing does matter: it is the place where people’s lives and attitudes to society are shaped. Like all the best architecture, Accordia creates its own context and is already a place that appears always been there. Its values are those British cities need: a subtly controlling masterplan, a collaborative approach, and an eye for both detail and the big picture.”
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Architectures à Vivre Herringbone Houses
London 2000+ Wrap House
2008
“Wrap House… unfolds in a series of angular movements that articulate its internal and exterior spaces and guide the eye from one zone to the next.”
“Wrap House… unfolds in a series of angular movements that articulate its internal and exterior spaces and guide the eye from one zone to the next.”
London 2000+ portrays twenty-eight projects completed since the millennium, representing a broad range of design styles and scales. Prominent structures such as Sir Norman Foster’s iconic ‘Gherkin’, the London Eye by Marks Barfield, Daniel Libeskind’s addition to the London Metropolitan University campus, and Herzog & de Meuron’s Laban Dance Center are featured alongside lesser-known buildings of merit by innovative, emerging designers to provide a superb representation of the many lively firms active in the city today.
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Architecture + Detail Salt House
2008
“Modern, but not shunning tradition: The Salt House has already won two prestigious prizes; the Grand Design Award for The Best New Build House (2006) and the RIBA National Award 2007.”
“Modern, but not shunning tradition: The Salt House has already won two prestigious prizes; the Grand Design Award for The Best New Build House (2006) and the RIBA National Award 2007.”
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IW Herringbone Houses
09.2008
“Given the automation of the process and simplicity of the traditional construction method this delicate and refined façade took no longer and cost no more than a standard horizontal weatherboard system. Yet the result is a distinctive facade with an optical ‘accordion’ effect and with the refinement of a piece of renaissance marquetry.”
“Given the automation of the process and simplicity of the traditional construction method this delicate and refined façade took no longer and cost no more than a standard horizontal weatherboard system. Yet the result is a distinctive facade with an optical ‘accordion’ effect and with the refinement of a piece of renaissance marquetry.”
This issue of this Taiwanese publication, focussed on architectural details, featured ABA’s Herringbone Houses.
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Telegraph Magazine Quarterhouse
Smart Home Extensions Wrap House
2008
“The project is a form of research into ideas and technologies not often realized on a larger scale. Its formal complexity is not a stylistic conceit, but emerged from an open-ended process of responding to the particular conditions of the site and brief with a fully integrated architectural concept. The scheme reflects in equal measure a client’s open-minded approach, adapted construction techniques, structural finesse and unparalleled craftsmanship, bound together by a shared understanding of the potential of the project.”
“The project is a form of research into ideas and technologies not often realized on a larger scale. Its formal complexity is not a stylistic conceit, but emerged from an open-ended process of responding to the particular conditions of the site and brief with a fully integrated architectural concept. The scheme reflects in equal measure a client’s open-minded approach, adapted construction techniques, structural finesse and unparalleled craftsmanship, bound together by a shared understanding of the potential of the project.”
“Although formally complex, the autonomous timber ‘envelope’ of the extension renders it legible as a ‘pavilion’ and integrates the projects spatial, structural, and technical ambitions. The three-dimensional manipulation of the roof and ceiling planes as a continuous series of triangulated folds serves many roles: it implies a subdivision of the internal space, creates particular relationships with the garden and frames apertures that capture or diffuse the ever-changing light conditions. At the same time the ‘pitching and rolling’ roof responds to the variety of roof pitches of neighbouring Edwardian properties.
The Wrap House embraces its outside spaces elegantly and effectively, integrating an old tree into the wooden decking, which also accommodates storage space and a barbecue, and treating the roof as a dynamic and beautiful elevation in its own right. The origami-like roof appears to fold maximising views of the back garden from the master bedroom.”
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D’Architectures Salt House
Build Your Grand Design
Patterns 2: Design, Art and Architecture Herringbone Houses
2008
“The architect adopts the [herringbone] pattern for so many elements, such as fences, terraces and interior rooms, and in this way gives the buildings their overall comprehensive appearance.”
“The architect adopts the [herringbone] pattern for so many elements, such as fences, terraces and interior rooms, and in this way gives the buildings their overall comprehensive appearance.”
Since the first volume was published, the subject of patterns has continued to evolve: colourful patterned wallpapers have returned to private homes; patterns have become a determining factor in graphic design and architecture; and designers are asked to design an ever-increasing variety of new ornaments and pattern repeats. Patterns 2 provides the necessary inspiration. It describes current trends, presents contemporary experiments, and situates the development within the cultural-historical context.
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Des Res Herringbone Houses
2008
With a view to showing how London’s housing challenge could be tackled, this publication from New London Architecture uses Herringbone Houses as an exemplar project.
With a view to showing how London’s housing challenge could be tackled, this publication from New London Architecture uses Herringbone Houses as an exemplar project.
Londons population is growing faster than any other major European city, with an estimated increase of 700,000 people over the next 15 years. We are building – or have plans to build – a lot of new housing in London. But is it good enough, is it the right sort of housing and is it in the right place? What are the best projects that are being built? And will we be build enough of them to meet the needs of Londons expanding number of households?
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Telegraph Magazine Herringbone Houses
The Independent Salt House
Making It
2008
This book showcases the success stories of celebrity entrepreneurs behind 11 great businesses, including Alison Brooks Architects.
This book showcases the success stories of celebrity entrepreneurs behind 11 great businesses, including Alison Brooks Architects.
Each profile follows the story from becoming a successful brand to coping with success and enjoying the trappings once the brand is well and truly established in the public eye.
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Period Living Salt House
12.2007
Salt House serves as an exemplar project for flood proof construction in this article.
Salt House serves as an exemplar project for flood proof construction in this article.
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Pasajes Construcción Herringbone Houses
12.2007
A detailed article showing the planning and construction of the timber cladding for The Herringbone Houses is featured in this Spanish journal.
A detailed article showing the planning and construction of the timber cladding for The Herringbone Houses is featured in this Spanish journal.
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The Architects’ Journal
BD Herringbone Houses
11.2007
“Though the timber façades of Alison Brooks Architects’ Herringbone Houses are their most striking feature, their attractions are more than skin deep”
“Though the timber façades of Alison Brooks Architects’ Herringbone Houses are their most striking feature, their attractions are more than skin deep”
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The Architects’ Journal Salt House Wrap House
11.10.2007
“Alison Brooks Architects picked up its second consecutive RIBA Special Award at the Stirling Prize ceremony on 6 October. The practice won this year’s Manser Medal… awarded to the best one-off house – for The Salt House in Essex. Last year Brooks picked up the Stephen Lawrence Prize for her Wrap House.”
“Alison Brooks Architects picked up its second consecutive RIBA Special Award at the Stirling Prize ceremony on 6 October. The practice won this year’s Manser Medal… awarded to the best one-off house – for The Salt House in Essex. Last year Brooks picked up the Stephen Lawrence Prize for her Wrap House.”
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GQ Style Herringbone Houses
2007
“Having been slow to embrace modern architecture, British planners are coming round to the benefits of innovative design. This growing flexibility allows anyone after a truly individual home to team up with one of the brilliant young architectural practices keen to hone their skills on domestic buildings. It’s a combination that can produce fantastic results, such as… Alison Brooks’ Herringbone Houses.“
“Having been slow to embrace modern architecture, British planners are coming round to the benefits of innovative design. This growing flexibility allows anyone after a truly individual home to team up with one of the brilliant young architectural practices keen to hone their skills on domestic buildings. It’s a combination that can produce fantastic results, such as… Alison Brooks’ Herringbone Houses.“
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100 Great Extensions and Renovations Fold House
2007
This collection of extensions and renovations features ABA’s Fold House.
This collection of extensions and renovations features ABA’s Fold House.
As demonstrated in this timely publication, an architect must possess significant skill to create such extraordinary extensions and renovations to suit an existing structure. From simple room additions to complete demolition and rebuild jobs, this book explores some of the infinite ways in which architects have reinvented original homes.
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