INTERIOR DESIGN
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Our collaborative approach to any interior design project is driven by a rigorous interrogation of the brief to make sure we fully understand how a space will be used. Our multi-award winning interiors team has created and delivered schemes for a wide range of sectors, including commercial, retail, education, arts, health, leisure and residential. We can provide feasibility studies, occupancy reviews, expert advice on ergonomics and circulation, BIM specification, and furniture design and selection.
Our interior design work includes: a major refurbishment scheme for Birmingham Royal Ballet; a redesign of the interior of the Cardiff Metropolitan University Students’ Union facility; the conversion of the Grade II listed Music Hall in Shrewsbury into a new Museum; and the refurbishment of the Maritime Dining Rooms in Liverpool’s Maritime Museum.
- FITZALAN HIGH SCHOOL, CARDIFFA key brief objective was that the design of the new school should provide flexible and adaptable spaces to teach and learn the New Progressive Curriculum
- AYRSHIRE HOSPICEDesign of a supportive palliative care environment for those in Ayrshire with life-limiting illness
- OLD COLLEGE, ABERYSTWYTHWe are developing a vision for the future of this Grade 1 Listed building
- COMMUNITY HUB, ARCHIVE + LIBRARY, SWANSEATransformation of two vacant department stores in the heart of Swansea.
- BANANA ISLAND VILLASThree villas in the affluent Banana Island neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria
- CARMARTHEN HWBRe-purposing of the redundant Debenhams department store building in the centre of Carmarthen into a new Hwb facility
- YSGOL Y GRAIG PRIMARY SCHOOLNew build, 240 pupil, one form entry primary and nursery school in Merthyr Tydfil
- SCHOOL OF HEALTHCARE SCIENCES RELOCATION, CARDIFF UNIVERSITYRelocation of the School of Healthcare to a new site adjacent to the UHW hospital
- LIFE SCIENCES INNOVATION CENTRE, INVERNESS£9 million Life Sciences Innovation Centre in Inverness for partnering Client consortium of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI).
- ALEXANDER HOUSE OFFICE REFURBISHMENT, CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYPDR is a world leading design consultancy and applied research facility owned by Cardiff Metropolitan University.
- TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY: THE CURVE (Interiors)Competition-winning design for the heart of Teesside University’s campus
- LIVERPOOL CENTRAL LIBRARY (Interiors)"It’s like going to meet your gran and finding she’s turned into Beyoncé’
- NISSI BEACH VILLAS, CYPRUSHomeSERVICESINTERIOR DESIGNNissi Beach Villas Cyprus Austin-Smith:Lord designed a number of high specification villas for Fastro Developments and SolTerra on the last beach-fronted site in Ayia Napa. Located to the East end of Nissi Beach the site has stunning views of the Mediterranean Sea. As the brief called for exclusive properties, privacy was central to the development of the designs. The decision was made at the start of the project to organise each plot around a pool and sheltered gardens, with an essentially L-shaped floor plan, the orientation of which was established through solar studies to achieve maximum daylight for the private external spaces as well as the main outlook from the principal reception and bedrooms. The villa forms a protective barrier for the private external space, with its external façade evolving into a thick curved concrete wall, reflecting traditional local structures and forming a distinctive street presence.LOCATION: CYPRUSCLIENT: FASTRO DEVELOPMENTSVALUE: NOT DISCLOSED SERVICE: ARCHITECTURE, INTERIORS, LANDSCAPE SECTOR: RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPE: AUSTIN-SMITH:LORDDATASHEET
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES NEWPORT CAMPUS REFURBISHMENTInterior Design services for phased refurbishment works at the University of South Wales Newport Campus
- MILKWOOD ROAD LONDONHomeSERVICESINTERIOR DESIGNMilkwood Road London Austin-Smith:Lord worked with Pocket Living to design contemporary, stylish, intermediate-affordable homes for Londoners to buy on a number of different sites. For this long, narrow brownfield site that backs directly onto Network Rail land in Lambeth, South London, Austin-Smith:Lord proposed 48 units in a mix of modular one-bedroom Pocket units, socially rented and private-sale housing types, broken into three distinct building volumes. Each block establishes its own geometry and landscaped spaces in response to the changing conditions along the triangular strip of land, but the three share a common material treatment of dark, semi-glazed brick and full-height bronze anodised windows. Together, the group will connect the derelict site with the local community, possibly for the first time in its history.LOCATION: LONDONCLIENT: POCKET LIVINGVALUE: £4.8M COMPLETION: PLANNING 2011 SERVICE: ARCHITECTURE, INTERIORS SECTOR: RESIDENTIAL COST CONSULTANT: POCKET LIVINGDATASHEET
- THREE PICCADILLY PLACE (Interiors)Mixed use development of 97,000m2 comprising offices, hotel, residential apartments, shopping, food and drink over three levels of underground parking
- BUSINESS SCHOOL AND GROWTH HUB, GLOUCESTER (INTERIORS)Flagship building for the University of Gloucester
- LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT (Interiors)State-of-the-art new facility that encourages collaborative and social learning
- LLANELLY HOUSE, CARMARTHENSHIRE (INTERIORS)Restoration of this Grade I Listed Georgian Town House to its 18th Century glory
- CARMELITE MONASTERY (Interiors)Purpose-built new monastery for the Carmelite Sisters in Liverpool
- G-LIVE CONCERT HALL, GUILDFORD (INTERIORS)RIBA Award winning G-Live Concert Hall and entertainment venue
- DANCE HUB, BIRMINGHAM (Interiors)A striking new rooftop extension to Birmingham Hippodrome’s campus, the home of Birmingham Royal Ballet
- CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART + DESIGN (Interiors)Our second RIBA Award winning project for Cardiff Metropolitan University
- SHREWSBURY MUSEUM (Interiors)Sensitive restoration and conversion of the Grade II* listed Vaughan’s Mansion and Grade II* Music Hall
- MONASTERY OF ST FRANCIS & GORTON (INTERIORS)RICS NW Building of the Year: Restoration and extension of the near derelict Grade II* Listed Church and Friary
- BEDWELLTY HOUSE + PARKFull restoration of this Grade II Listed 19th Century House and Parkland
- PEOPLE'S HISTORY MUSEUMOur mission was to consolidate the Museum onto one site and give it a striking new presence in the city
- CARDIFF SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT (Interiors)RIBA Award-winning building, forming first phase of a redevelopment masterplan for Cardiff Metroplitan University's Llandaff Campus
- MOBILE CHEMOTHERAPY UNITMobile chemotherapy treatment vehicle for Tenovus Cancer Care, the largest of its kind in the world
- COLEG Y CYMOEDD ABERDARE CAMPUS (Interiors)BREEAM Excellent new college building on a town centre site