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Salters’ Hall Renovation / dMFK
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- Architects: dMFK
- Location: 4 Fore St, London EC2Y 5DE, United Kingdom
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Jack Hobhouse
- Qs: Jackson Cole
- Contractor: 8Build
- Client: The Worshipful Company of Salters
- Contract Value: ￡12m
- Interiors: Todd Hunter Earle
- Structural Engineer: ElliottWood
- M&E Engineer: Hoare Lea
- Retail Consultant: Ingleby Trice
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From the architect. De Metz Forbes Knight Architects (dMFK) have completed the transformation and renovation of the Salters’ Hall in the City of London. The brutalist Grade II listed landmark, the last building to be designed by Sir Basil Spence, has been extensively refurbished and extended, and a new entrance pavilion installed. dMFK won the project in competition and were appointed by the Worshipful Company of Salters in 2006 to explore ways to improve its income producing potential in office areas, to better it’s poor sustainability credentials, and to increase the public visibility of the building, retaining the livery hall functions.
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The transformation has resulted in a 40% increase in lettable floor space and services being completely replaced, making ceremonial spaces more comfortable and commercially attractive for events. The development has attracted a single tenant to lease the additional office space created.
The installation of a new entrance pavilion establishes a strong sense of arrival, which was missing from the original design. Full height glazing and glass roof between the new and original concrete structures open up new views of the underside of the statement cantilevered ceremonial staircase on the east side of the building.
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dMFK’s designs, whilst sympathetic to the original 1970s aesthetic, feature a range of innovative materials and installations to enhance the various spaces in the building. Sculptural references to salt feature throughout, from the bush hammered white concrete exterior and salt coloured Tivoli Travertine Classico floor tiles, to a hanging light structure with salt shaped bulbs, which drops through and illuminates the ceremonial staircase.
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The building has achieved an improved energy rating from grade D to B, a BREEAM excellent rating, virtually unique for a modern listed building, and incorporates district heating and cooling from the Citigen system. Landscaping improvements, including the updating of Salters’ garden, realise the aspirations of Make’s London Wall Place Masterplan, improving the public realm in this area and enhancing public access to the historical assets around the site, including fragments of the old London Wall.
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Ben Knight, Director of dMFK said: “It was a privilege to work with The Salters’ Company to refurbish this fantastic piece of London’s brutalist architecture. As a practice we enjoy unpicking the most complex and interesting buildings and sites. On this project we replaced the uninspiring, hidden entrance, with an extended and welcoming entrance pavilion on the site of an unattractive and redundant garage. This design also allows for greater access and appreciation of the heritage assets around the site, most notably the fragments of the old London Wall and St Alphage remains.”
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7 Shitty Reasons You Keep Using To Not Better Your Life
We all want a better life. Ok well maybe those of us who don’t have a good life now would like a better one and lucky are those who already have one that wouldn’t trade it in for anything. Let’s not use the word luck here though. Surely luck had nothing to do with these people having an ideal life. They worked hard at it, or they manifested it. Either way. They have a great life and you can have that life too.
So why don’t you already have a great life anyway? What’s keeping you from having the life you deserve? You may not like this but the only thing preventing you from having that life is the stories you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t have it. the stories, the excuses, the reasons, the limiting beliefs, the lies. Call them what you want but they all mean the same thing. Here are a few that may be holding you back and I’m telling you it’s time to change your story.
It’s the way I was raised.
Ok, so we understand you weren’t raised in ideal conditions. You’re not there anymore though. You are an adult now, a grown up. Free to make your own decisions and be your own person. You’re not that child anymore growing up in that dysfunctional household. You are free to make decisions to change and improve your life any way you can. If that’s what you want of course.
I’m too scared.
Of course. Fear is a bitch. No one likes it and it has the power to keep us trapped in a really shitty life. It’s easier to stay in the life we’ve created than to change it. Fear is like a punch in the gut. The minute you start thinking about making some major changes, pow, you get punched in the gut. Punch back. Tell fear to go away, you got this and you can do it, which leads us to the next one.
I can’t do this.
Why not? That’s a limiting belief. A story you keep telling yourself. It could very well stem from childhood or from fear. One thing you must remember, you can do anything you want whenever you want. If you don’t know how to do something, learn how to do it. it may not be easy and it may not be quick but it’s not impossible. If you want something bad enough, you will figure out a way to do it, including changing your life.
They will laugh at me/think I am stupid.
Who’s they and who cares? Still so many people make decisions based on what other people will think of them. We need to stop doing this and start remembering this our life and we are the only ones to live it. and if they laugh? Who cares. Let them. they are only laughing because their insecurities bring out that emotion in them. It’s a nervous embarrassed reaction to their own lack of ambition.
What if I fail?
Oh but darling, what if you fly? Have you ever seen that quote? Many of us won’t do or try something for fear of failure. You aren’t going to fail. In life there is no failing. We grow, we learn, we evolve and we keep moving forward. There is no option to fail. No matter what you do, it won’t be wrong. The only wrong thing would be to not try. You have got to keep growing.
I don’t know how.
Yes, you do. Everything you need is inside of you already. All the answers you need are at your fingertips. All you have to do is ask or seek. But we don’t. We tell ourselves we don’t know how. I’m scared, I don’t know how. That’s the shittiest lamest excuse ever. Figure it out. You’re a smart cookie. If you want answers bad enough, you’ll find them. How big is your why?
Fear of success.
This actually is a thing. So many people are actually afraid of success. They have never had it, they don’t know what it tastes, looks or smells like. What if they actually get it? Then what? How do successful people act? What are they supposed to do? Go and get it and then you tell me.
There is nothing easy about changing your life. Nothing. But the rewards are worth it. Go out on that limb. Take a chance on you and your new life. You are worth it.
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Loures House / André Mesquita Arquitectos
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- Architects: André Mesquita Arquitectos
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Structure Engineer: Emidio Mendes
- Area: 450.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: João Morgado
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From the architect. Three principles lay down the rules behind the intervention which are: the proportions of volumes; the plans metrics and the use of colour.
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It was developed has three different dwelling areas, united morphologically and structurally through the treatment of void areas and zenithal windows. This spatial organization unites and creates living spaces and transit spaces in which the dichotomy between the different types of spaces are revealed through the character of the voids itself. Like a thread stitching the intervention giving a new dynamic to the existing spaces.
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On the ground floor, the metrics of the space was kept and was introduction a new large window in the entrance hall, framed by a concrete volume, like a box to make time known by the user of the space. This window attempts to join two gardens which were so far apart visually but almost together physically.
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In the other side of the building we take advantage of an old kitchen, creating a connection zone between the old container (the main volume of the old house) and the new concrete volume painted in red. It is through the redesign of the façade, introducing a longitudinal window, preparing the kitchen volume to the inserting of the new form taking advantage of the plastic quality given by concrete to introduce a curve line, which serves as a locking volume for the intervention. Here close to primary colors were introduced in the interior of small round windows and on the façade. The earth incarnated tone serves as to remind the torn of an animal that curves to enter the old form paying tribute to the pre-existing form. Color is introduced as an experimental approach to test how can it change the perception of space and volumes.
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In the first floor was reintroduce the metric of the ground floor but now correspondence with different living spaces. Black shade is used to prepare for more private rooms. Ceiling heights are amplified or reduced in order to reference pathways, giving it a more solemn space through its different heights. A main volume (a closet) which encloses the bedroom space creates a dressing space in one side while in the opposite side a horizontal tear of modernist nature takes on the contemporary nature of the new spaces.
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