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Ivan Harbour
Andrew Morris
Project Leads
Mark Rintoul
Andrew Partridge
Date
2017-
Client
Hammersmith & Fulham Council, A2Dominion
Location
London, UK
Construction Cost
£160m
Site Area
17,628 Sq.m
RSHP has designed a new, high-quality Civic Campus to replace the existing Hammersmith & Fulham Town Hall extension and the adjacent large cinema site, located at the West of King Street in Hammersmith Town Centre. This ‘ruthlessly inclusive’ zero-harm scheme at the heart of Hammersmith’s community will breathe new life into the King Street area and reinvent the concept of the Town Hall to make it exciting and relevant for the people it serves.
The mixed-use development, including a contemporary intervention to the existing Grade II-listed Town Hall building, creates a welcoming, open and accessible community hub with flexible office and start-up workspaces and 204 residential dwellings offering 52% shared ownership and social rent homes for local people. All the architecture and materials are of the same quality regardless of tenure.
The scheme also provides homework space for young people, a new cinema and orchestra performance space, a public roof-top bar and café, public art gallery, and a new public square connecting with the riverside.
RSHP’s Civic Campus project includes cutting-edge sustainable technology in its design. Extensive stakeholder engagement throughout all project stages demonstrates the community focus of the scheme, consulting closely with residents through a range of methods. One of the council priorities is “doing things with residents, not to them.” This innovative community engagement, through the Town Hall Commission and Disabled People’s Commission and attendants of the public exhibitions, led to planning and listed building consent by unanimous vote at committee with no public objections.
Accessibility issues were raised before plans were submitted ‒ and robust, time and cost-effective solutions found early in the process. This unusual approach should be adopted in all major development projects.
The campus is set for completion in April 2023, with demolitions in progress and preparation for construction (RIBA stage 5) starting at the end of September 2020.
Awards
2020NLA Finalist Mixing Catergory
2020Highly Commended Stakeholder Engagement in Planning (Development management) Planning Awards
2020Winner People’s Choice Award NLA New London Awards
Date
2017-
Client
Hammersmith & Fulham Council, A2Dominion
Location
London, UK
Construction Cost
£160m
Area
Site Area
17,628 Sq.m
Co-Architect
Heritage Architect - Purcell
Contractor
Armore
Structural Engineer
Meinhardt
Landscape Architect
Gillespies
Services Engineer
AECOM, Silver EMS
Lighting Consultant
Speirs + Major
Branding
Pentagram
Wayfinding
Whybrow Pedrola
Project Manager
Silver DCC and Inner Circle Consulting
Cost Consultant
Silver DCC
Planning Consultant
Barton Wilmore
Fire Consultant
Fire Surgery
Team
Ben Morgan Jones
Dzidzor Kwaku
Jai Watts
Joseph Park
Janos Katona
Kyle Hyde
Maria Taboada
Migena Hadziu
Suzan Ucmaklioglu
Tadashi Arai
Richard Breen
Bridget Munro
Project Partners
Ivan Harbour
Andrew Morris
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