The Edridge – 23-storey high-rise apartments design
ECA have been developing architectural and interior designs for this proposed 23-storey, high-rise residential tower in Croydon, London. ECA are the consultant architects on this project, working with the project architects MDR associates. The project was submitted for planning permission by MDR two years previously. The site has since come under the control of a...
Strategic Sites
Top Real Estates appointed ECA in 2010 to promote a growing portfolio of sites in the South West of England. ECA-P have a number of roles as the lead consultant, including: • Planning Consultancy • Master Planning • Project Management • Public Consultation Work to date has included: • Preparation of extended Planning Appraisals on...
Green Burial Sites
ECA were appointed by KPWG International in 2011 to prepare and submit planning applications for new Green Burial Sites in Borehamwood and Bromley. Both sites are located within the London Green Belt and one is within a Landscape Conservation Area with a local wildlife designation. ECA have managed a team of specialist consultants, including CDS,...
Two Bespoke Houses, Poole
ECA recently obtained planning permission for two quite special houses located in Lower Parkstone (between Poole, Bournemouth and Sandbanks). The client and their family have lived on the site since the existing house was built in the 1930s. But the house is nothing special and has become dilapidated. ECA-P were appointed to produce designs for a...
Contemporary Addition To Historic Barn
Edwards Covell Architecture and Planning obtained planning permission for a significant addition to an extremely sensitive site in Cheltenham. The site is a 16th century barn adjacent to a Grade 2 listed thatched cottage. The barn is small, barely accommodating two stories and is a simple gable ended structure with many original timbers in the...
Knowledge City
ECA were commissioned to develop masterplan proposals for the City of Knowledge project. The site is located 4.9 km south of central Mecca (from the Kaaba) in Saudi Arabia. The site has an area of 5 square kilometres. It is a vast project that will be undertaken in 17 phases. The site consists largely of...
Aamby Valley
Aamby Valley is strategically located between Mumbai and Pune, two of southern India’s major cities. At an altitude of 766 metres, the valley is cooled by year-round breezes. It has some of the best weather in the country, with the temperature rarely rising above 32C, meaning the climate is comfortable all year round. ECAP were commissioned...
Marina Star
Edwards Covell Architecture and Planning acted as consultant architects on this superb tower block in the Dubai marina development. Here are some pictures as construction advances: The Marina Star project is now progressing at a phenomenal rate. In the past week we have seen the first of two tower cranes installed on the north-east corner...
Yarrells School Studio Theatre
This preparatory school in Dorset came to us having exhausted several designs for schemes on this sensitive site. We went back to the basics, looking at the brief and the site constraints from the bottom up. The main school is housed in a late Georgian manor house and surrounded by woods and playing fields. The...
Metropolis Lofts
We were asked to look at designs for 2 x G + 38 apartment towers to be built in central Dubai. The site lies adjacent to Emirates Hills and is part of the ever-expanding new district called Jumeirah Village, and although is only now beginning to be laid out at this stage, will soon take...
Sony Shop
Sony/Noble associates approached us at Edwards Covell Architecture and Planning to look at submitting proposals for a shop in Great Marlborough Street, in competition with two other practices. They came to us with an unusual desire for a shop that wasn’t really a shop. We were approached as a result of some work they had...
House
This very small house in East Dulwich was to be substantially extended. Edwards Covell Architecture and Planning were asked to provide proposals for a rear extension and loft conversion as well as remodelling the interior. All had to be done to an extremely tight budget. There were no precedents for other loft conversions (dormer windows) on this...
