Ealing Studios
Ealing, London

We were first appointed to work at Ealing Studios in 2006 to develop the design of two new buildings, as a continuation of three previously constructed, along the southern boundary of this large site. We gained a new planning consent for these in 2007 to accommodate an increased floor area, generated through a more efficient layout, providing 25,900 sq. ft of office / studio space across three floors around a shared single vertical circulation core within a glazed link between them. Both buildings were completed in 2008.

In 2009 we undertook a similar exercise for a third building to the northern edge of the studios site, obtaining a new planning consent in 2011.

In 2012 we were appointed to carry out a substantial review of an extension, proposed as part of a previous planning consent, to the Grade II listed White House at the south-east corner of the site. Our examination of both the site context and the efficiency of the consented extension led us to propose a freestanding pavilion building adjacent to the White House, set between mature cedar trees and southern boundary wall. This solution preserved the integrity of the original listed building whilst achieving the same quantity of accommodation. Consent was granted in 2012 and the building was completed in 2013.

In tandem to the process of reviewing the White House pavilion, we also obtained planning consent for a single-storey rooftop extension to the Grade II listed south sound studio, to generate providing additional office and studio space.