Great Things Lie Ahead, 2020, Holborn House

by 6a architects x Caragh Thuring

Client Holborn Community Association 

Award RIBA London Award 2023 and RIBA National Award 2023 (sponsored by Forterra). Shortlisted for the RIBA Reinvention Award 2023

 

Great Things Lie Ahead is the refurbishment and extension of a community gym in Holborn, London, to provide a new community building for the Holborn Community Association.  6a Architects have stripped the old basement back to its concrete structure and opened it to the sky, with a new roof with lantern rooflights over a multipurpose hall, and a two-storey street-facing extension providing the entrance and function spaces. The result is a more accessible and more visible building that has allowed the community association to expand the range of cultural, social, and sporting activities they can offer.

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal.

Contractor Quinn London 

Structural Engineer Price and Myers 

Environmental / M&E Engineer Ritchie+Daffin 

Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant Jackson Coles 

Building Control Sweco Building 

Project Management Bidwells 

Landscape Architect Dan Pearson Studio 

Graphic Design John Morgan Studio 

Party Wall Surveyor Avison Young 

Internal area 415 m2 (gross)