Birkenhead across the Mersey from Liverpool has a proud history but its built fabric has suffered. Working with Maccreanor Lavington, Robert is devising a vision for much of the extensive, mostly derelict area between the Grade I Hamilton Square, the docks, and Birkenhead Park. The work includes the preparation of an in-depth heritage baseline that…

Lea Bridge was for more than a millennium the marshy boundary area  between London and Essex. Surviving heritage assets are not, though, always obvious. Traces of its ancient morphology drew out of elements of the past to inform Haworth Tompkins’ strategy for transforming today’s fragmentary industrial zone. Other elements include interesting interwar industrial architecture (previously…

Authentic Futures has been engaged in a number of projects to regenerate Tottenham’s historic high streets. These have included a proposal for the adaptive re-use of a fire station for Assemble, a Good Growth funded conversion of a redundant and decaying public toilet with DKCM, and a successful bid to Historic England with LB Haringey…

Authentic Futures is part of LDA Design’s team on the six-strong shortlist for the prestigious international competition to redesign Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester. As well as the central green space, the 10-acre site includes surrounding historic streets, a transport hub and contested statues and monuments.

A Postmodern wit characterises the work of growing practice Office S&M who in 2020 won BD Young Architect of the Year and inclusion in the AJ 40 under 40. On busy London Road in Slough, opposite a conservation area and listed school, the practice, after some negotiation with reluctant planners, is replacing an undistinguished post-war…

Authentic Futures has been involved in a series of heritage tasks to transform a semi-derelict farmyard complex by William Butterfield into an office complex, café and yoga studio. As well as first determining curtilage and then devising a strategy for restoring the Gothic Revival outbuildings, the project on the historic Aldenham Estate near Elstree will…

Authentic Futures is provided ongoing heritage advice for architect Damion Burrows’ remodelling of a grand Kensington townhouse including the complicated and sensitive matter of extending an underground swimming pool in the garden of the asset set within The Boltons Conservation Area. 

A Town Centre Strategy for the county town of Kent is in preparation by a team led by We Made That. It covers an extensive area on both sides of the River Medway between Maidstone’s three stations and the impressive County Hall. There are hundreds of heritage assets ranging from many timber-framed survivors to Georgian…

Hackney Council has commissioned a team including Authentic Futures, Adam Khan Architects, Muf Architecture/Art and Apparata and others, to investigate nine small sites across Dalston and Hackney Central with a view to providing additional housing.  Each site comes with complex histories and heritage issues. There are public buildings, street markets, historic factories and ancient routes…