2014 in a post!

Firstly, a belated farewell to Matt from everybody at the Evans Vettori office - all the best with your future endeavors!

Filling the position as new junior member is John - fresh from completing a masters at Leeds school of Architecture this Summer.

Evans Vettori's newest addition

NEWS

The big story for Evans Vettori in 2014 has been the RIBA East Midlands awards ceremony which took place earlier this year - an exciting event which turned out to be extremely fruitful for the office too!

We were thrilled to pick up two RIBA Awards which we'd been shortlisted ; the first of which was for 'St Joseph's Church Hall' in Derby and the second for 'High Edge' in Matlock.

St Joseph's Church Hall

'High Edge'

The office was also selected to receive the award for "Practice of the year 2014" for the East Midlands region - we were honored to be given the title among so many talented local peers!

Evans Vettori receiving RIBA awards

Our St Joseph's Church Hall project also later received the National Churches Trust 2014 Presidents Award. Some of you may have caught Dan speaking about the design at the Great British Buildings Event which took place at St Joseph's in October!

Talk for St Joseph's Church Hall in Derby

ON SITE

Progress on current projects continues to push forward, construction at the Nottingham Trent University Clifton Campus now in full swing - steel and concrete nearing completion ready for the masonry to start taking shape!

Nottingham Trent University 'Heart of the Campus' under construction

Here's a sneak peak of some of the exquisitely crafted vaulted planks and edge profiles which we got to see on a little office outing to Evans Concrete - some of which are already installed on site!

Edge profile components

Vaulted plank suspended at actual constructed height

More news to come soon but in the mean time... enjoy the festive season!

It must be time for an update....

Well, what a beginning to 2014 it has been! 

Firstly, in house

We would like to congratulate Dan Greenway, who after 10 years with the practice, has recently been appointed as Director.

We also welcome Gareth Puttock, our new project architect. Gareth joined the team in February and has hit the ground running on the NTU projects.  

Our active projects 

We are excited to report that works have begun on site at the Clifton Campus at Nottingham Trent University. Demolition is now in full swing for the Heart of Campus Pavilion, so watch this space. 

This is our hoarding up at the demolition site at Clifton

Meanwhile in the office, momentum remains at at all-time high, with many of us now working on an equally exciting General Purpose Teaching Block at Clifton, to sit alongside the new Pavilion. The GPT has been submitted for planning and is currently out to tender.  

In other news

The team look forward to the upcoming 2014 RIBA Awards evening for the East Midlands. We are delighted to have two projects shortlisted this year, St Josephs' Church Hall and Robert's family home; High Edge, Matlock. 

2014 RIBA Awards Short-lister: St Joseph's Church Hall, Derby

2014 RIBA Awards Short-lister: High Edge, Matlock

We'll keep you posted.

In the meantime, we're ramping up on Instagram, check out our pics (@evansvettori)......

This one of the Nottingham Council House
won NTU's Instagram 'Picture of the Week'!

Festive Farewell

A very Merry Christmas from all of us at Evans Vettori!


In less cheery news, we say goodbye to Rachel, who leaves the practice this week.
We all wish her the greatest luck with her future ventures, and are certain she will be an invaluable asset to all future projects that cross her desk.

EVA are recruiting!

We are looking for a Project Architect to join our team.

We are looking for a fully qualified Architect to initially work on a prestigious University Campus building.

Must have experience in running projects at all work stages, be motivated and enthusiastic with design and technical skills.

Knowledge of the following beneficial (but not compulsory):
Bentley Microstation
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Indesign
Sketchup
NBS Building

If you are interested, please email a copy of your current CV and examples of work to Robert Evans -
r.evans@evansvettori.co.uk

Closing date for applications: 06th December 2013.

New Plans and Completed Projects

Planning applications have been submitted in the last few weeks for two prestigious projects.

Firstly the CW Sellors Jewellery Design Centre of Excellence, that was launched to the public last month has been developed up to a full planning application. The building includes the workshops for CW Sellors, alongside retail and educational facilities with 'caves' for exploring the stones and metals that are used in the manufacture of their fine jewellery. The proposals will allow visitors to walk down through a 'canyon' of limestone walls from the carpark to Carsington Water which can be viewed from the main entrance space.

North elevation of proposed Jewellery Design Centre for CW Sellors

We have also submitted an application for the redevelopment of the Clifton Campus for Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham. This campus refurbishment will provide a new heart of campus Pavilion building including open plan Forum space alongside teaching space.

External view of proposed Pavilion

The Forum space in the Pavilion

We hope that both applications will be determined at the end of the year and look forward to developing them soon! 

Photographer Tristan Poyser has visited several of our finished projects this month. Managing to dodge the rain showers, Tristan has delivered us some fantastic photos of four recently completed schemes. Below is a taster of the final images.

St Joseph's Church Hall, Derby. Completed July 2013

Curved brick facade to Littleover Community School
teaching block. Completed September 2013.

Howghyll House, Fritchley. Completed summer 2013.

High Edge, Matlock. Robert Evans new self-built home.