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Happy World Architecture Day! Take a look inside #RSHP as we evolve and reveal the process of how we work towards uncommon thinking in our architecture. Film by Taylor Made Media TV Ltd #WorldArchitectureDay

Happy 5th Birthday to Musée du Louvre Conservation Centre! This week marks five years since the building’s inauguration was celebrated with special guests and press in Liévin, northern France. During his speech at the inauguration back in Oct 2019, #GrahamStirk, Senior Director, RSHP, said that:  “It has been a great honour to be part of this incredible endeavour. Very few clients are as prestigious as the Louvre and even fewer briefs carry more weight than the relocation of one of humanity’s great treasures. The use of simple, elegant forms, marked by a solidity that resonates with the brief to create a powerful language of great French fortresses, that in this case retrain a large inclined park which protects the works of art below.” Looking back on his time working on the project, John McElgunn, Senior Director, RSHP remembers:  “The Louvre was a great design adventure. Technically very demanding and working to an extremely tight budget, our strikingly simple design solution created a series of repetitive arches rising out of the ground. The power of the architecture comes from the buildings scale and clarity. We extended the adjacent park and allowed it to flow over the roof creating a landscape building that sits in the site rather than on the site.” Centre de conservation du Louvre à Liévin: https://lnkd.in/eMrwzxxz

Happy 5th birthday to the Musée du Louvre Conservation Centre! We are very proud to have designed this incredible project. Thank you for the opportunity to create a home for your extraordinary collection. It was an unforgettable collaboration, and we are so pleased to hear that the building brings joy and inspiration to those who work there. 

This week we hosted the Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) Circular Surgery Workshop, where Michelle Sánchez Brajkovic, Sustainability Lead, RSHP, chaired insightful discussions on data ownership and warranties in the circular economy. It was a pleasure to welcome industry leaders gathered to explore how we can work together to make circularity a reality. #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #RSHP #ACAN #CircularSurgery #IndustryLeaders #FutureOfConstruction

It is always a joy to have a special visit to the Lloyd's of London building and on this occasion we were in the good company of Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) guests for an architecture tour guided by RSHP Associate Partner, Maurice Brennan, as part of the CTBUH International Conference. It was wonderful to see the reaction of the group as they saw the incredible underwriting atrium space ‘The Room', in real life for the first time, after admiring the design in architecture books and design documentaries for so many years.   A huge thanks to Darren Cox CIWFM for hosting our guests and offering such a brilliant insight into the operation of the building. Here are some architectural snaps from the underwriting space ‘The Room’ for you to enjoy! Check out this link for more insight into the project on our website: https://lnkd.in/evarA4xH #LloydsofLondon #CTBUH #CTBUH2024 #RSHP #RRP #lloydsBuilding #RichardRogersPartnership Photos Linda Stewart

Congratulations to Mark Rintoul, Social Value and Inclusive Design Champion at RSHP, selected by the British Council for Offices as a finalist for the Next Gen Impact Award. This nomination recognises the pioneering community engagement strategy he leads as the project architect on the ‘ruthlessly Inclusive’ Hammersmith & Fulham Council Civic Campus. In this role, he closely works with the local Disabled Residents Team to enhance the quality, inclusion, and accessibility of the project through their first-hand experiences. Currently in construction, explore the Civic Campus on our website:  https://lnkd.in/gD2ywmrG #SocialValue #InclusiveDesign #CivicCampus #RSHP #BCONextGenAwards #BCOAwards

John McElgunn features in KONE’s latest article, “New or renew? The challenge of shaping the future of cities,” discussing the adaptive reuse of Carlton House Terrace in St James’s, London, from an existing 1970s office building and car park into a high-quality commercial development with a vibrant social hub. (https://lnkd.in/gDVzDEfs) “We opened up the building, created a new panoramic elevator core with an atrium bringing light all the way to the basement. The existing structural frame was retained, and the reconstituted stone from the façade was reused. We worked closely with KONE to install a new central elevator core.” John McElgunn   RSHP and KONE have collaborated on a variety of projects over the years, including the much-loved panoramic lifts at the Leadenhall Building. Carlton House Terrace is currently under construction, discover a range of drawings, site images, and design renders on our website: https://lnkd.in/gUvZffiU #RSHP #KONE #Adaptivereuse

Regent's View Bethnal Green will celebrate the unique industrial character of a London gasholder site. In Wallpaper* this week, Ellie Stathaki offers an interesting insight into the project developed by St William Berkeley Group Plc Wallpaper * East London's disused gasholders are being reinvented: https://lnkd.in/ejwsJaAu

The Emory hotel offers lessons in leanness from collaborating engineers, to avoid unnecessary structure or enclosed spaces, so expending less carbon, says RSHP’s Ivan Harbour. Ivan's opinion piece published this week in RIBA Journal delves into The Emory's design strategy of integrating engineering solutions alongside space planning (https://lnkd.in/ehZctyqh), Learn about the hotel’s unconventional structure and how it balances load paths to ground in a building with no conventional load-bearing core, while oversailing adjacent subterranean spaces.  Structural Engineers: WSP,Expedition Engineering Ltd Discover more about the project and full team on our website: https://lnkd.in/dEbbKVSd

Graham Stirk #RSHP chatted to Hugh Graham about gasholders for this fascinating article recently published in The Times: Why gasholders are being saved for housing — and the nation (https://lnkd.in/eYmHbs-S) Featuring RSHP’s iconic gasholder schemes with St William Berkeley Group Plc: Bromely-by-Bow Gasworks (the largest surviving collection of gasholders in the world) and Regent's View in Bethnal Green. Explore the projects in more detail on our website: Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks: https://lnkd.in/e5PSJ7Yy Regent's View: https://lnkd.in/e-5xtvzF