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Another Wembley result for Dexter Moren Associates
Dexter Moren Associates (DMA) has achieved planning consent for 18 additional rooms at the popular Best Western Plus Hotel, adjacent to Wembley Stadium. In two successful simultaneous planning applications, DMA has redesigned the sub-basement car parking and added extensions to the rear of the existing hotel to increase the number of rooms to 210. Building on the success of their
original design for client London Hotel Group (LHG), DMA has designed the additional volumes to “avoid overpowering the hotel’s neighbours, allowing the extremely busy hotel to cater for more guests,” said the firm. In addition to the original design,
DMA has been responsible for several successful extensions to the busy hotel, the last in late 2017, adding seven guestrooms – four of which have already been built. In their latest design, DMA have added seven rooms (the application for extensions on the first, second and fifth floors creates an eleven additional rooms). Sited on the High Road in Wembley
Town Centre, the Best Western Plus is within walking distance of Wembley Central and Wembley Stadium Stations. DMA is to carry out Design and
Technical Development (RIBA stages 03 & 04) and Construction phase to completion (RIBA stages 05 & 06), with an expected start on site in quarter three of this year.
CULTURAL
Feilden Fowles wins railway museum competition
The National Railway Museum and competition organisers Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC) has announced that the team led by Feilden Fowles has won the international design competition to create the museum’s new Central Hall. Feilden Fowles’ team beat 75 others to the commission, which will “transform the visitor arrival experience and integrate the museum’s estate in time for its 50th anniversary in 2025,” said the architects. The Jury praised the winning team’s design concept for its “elegance, its ambitious energy strategy and its intriguing new visitor journeys.” Inspired by the site’s former uses, the design concept references the history of locomotive roundhouses and railway turntables with its central
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two-storey rotunda, which is clad with recycled patinated copper and lit with high clerestory glazing. An illuminated form that “will look to attract visitors approaching from York Station and the wider city to the south,” the rotunda also “unifies the diverse buildings that make up the existing site,” said the architects.
Feilden Fowles’ design concept was developed with fellow team members, Max Fordham (as building services engineers) and Price & Myers as structural and civil engineers. The museum, part of the Science Museum
Group, is “poised to become the cultural anchor for York Central, one of the largest city centre brownfield regeneration projects in the UK and Europe.”
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