Thread Architects have been asked by the Broomhill Community Library to look forward to how the existing library building could be develop and reimagined to become a vibrant centre for the Broomhill community.
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Post completion
This week we received some photographs from Karina Lax Photography of a couple of our projects that were completed last year. Both projects were for works to 1930’s properties and involved bespoke storage solutions for the clients collections. Havercroft Road involved internal alterations and a single storey rear extension to a semi-detached property. On the…
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A New Site for Thread
Our new exciting news is that from Monday 8th April we will be moving location to a new office in the Site Gallery in Sheffield City Centre. We are really looking forward to being in the centre of the Cultural Quarter and being part of a community working inside one of Sheffield’s newest landmark buildings.…
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Conversion of Redundant Agricultural Buildings and Class Q Permitted Development
We were recently asked to look at a potential barn conversion with a client who wishes to create a new family home for themselves. As architects who love combining old and new and working with existing buildings, its a great opportunity to be creative. We have recently completed or are working on several urban re-use…
Read MoreSheffield Design Awards 2016
Last week we all went to the Sheffield Design Awards 2016 Ceremony held in the newly converted Post Office building in Fitzalan Square. It was the first time we have seen the new interior spaces of the Old Post Office – now part of Sheffield Hallam University and is home of the Sheffield Institute of…
Read MoreSheffield Photo Marathon
In case you missed it last weekend, the people at “Our Favourite Places” organised the Sheffield Photo Marathon. 150 people or teams of amateur or semi-professional photographers went out into Sheffield between 10am and 4pm on Saturday with the aim of taking 6 photographs with the following titles: Making shapes Making a noise Making history…
Read MoreSelf-build Stories
Throughout January four Architect practices are taking over the Pop-up shop, telling our SheffieldStories. Come join us next week in the Winter Gardens for Self-build Stories, to find out about starting your own self-build project, from the process to the finish. Bring this flyer to add your house (or dream house?) to the Sheffield Map,…
Read MoreSelf-build diary
For the last year Rachel has been in the process of building an extension to her home in Sheffield. The project is a self-build project being constructed as much as possible by Rachel and her partner, Ross, over holidays, evening and weekends. As the extension becomes watertight, Rachel reflects on the process of building so…
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To tie in with RIBA Yorkshire’s Love Architecture Festival 2014, we popped up in our mobile office in Sheffield city centre this month. This time we were on the lower ground floor of the Birds Yard Shop on Chapel Walk and with a slightly developed pop-up office including a new built in desk, complete with…
Read MoreSheffield Loves Architecture
Its Sheffield Design Week this week which this year is collaborating with the Love Architecture Festival run by the RIBA Yorkshire. Andy was at the Lego store in Meadowhall yesterday at a ‘Beat the Architect’ competition. Unfortunately he lost the competition in the closing minutes to a well practiced mum! If you’d like a go, the…
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