interiors
Upgrade to Whitgift School’s catering
a transformation of the catering and dining facilities at Whitgift School in South Croydon, an independent school for boys aged 10 to 18. CDG was recommended to the school by
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its caterer Chartwells, following previous collaborations on several successful independent school projects. The brief to CDG was to design and build an extension to the existing dining facility, ensuring it was in keeping with the aesthetics of the school and its historic parkland setting, whilst reflecting its reputation and high- quality offering. As part of the brief, CDG was also commissioned to create a dedicated area for staff and boarders, which would allow for an increase in capacity and enhanced dining experience. Additionally, the wider brief also included
an upgrade to the kitchen and supporting back-of-house areas, including the supply and installation of new cooking equipment, the conversion of an existing dry store into a dedicated chilled prep area and the
ESTAURANT and commercial kitchen design company, Catering Design Group (CDG), has completed
creation of a new, external dry store. For the dry store, CDG was briefed to think ‘outside the box’ to provide a creative, cost-effective solution. The designs for the new extension now
feature a seating area with a small hospitality/meeting space. The area is glazed to retain a sense of space whilst still offering privacy for up to 12 people for use across a variety of functions. Furniture, lighting and finishes were
chosen to provide a more contemporary, fresh approach, whilst remaining sympathetic to the traditional features and architecture of the school. Feature parquet flooring was used in the dining space and limestone-effect flooring in the servery. Following extensive research as to how
to meet the dry store brief of thinking ‘outside the box’, the CDG team converted
a shipping container, which was externally clad in wood to blend in with the surrounding buildings. This solution provided the school with a 50% saving compared to a previously considered option. James Stremes, Whitgift School
Estates Manager, commented: “We’re absolutely thrilled with what the CDG team has created for us. The addition of a separate staff servery is a fantastic bonus for staff, easing congestion at the pupil servery. We also took the opportunity to incorporate a private dining area for use with visitors to the school, and this has proved very successful. It double-hats as a meeting room too, something the school was desperately short of.”
www.cateringdesign.co.uk
New washrooms at Ormiston Dene S
TANDING as a Grade II listed building and presenting 109 years of architecture, Ormiston Denes
Academy, Lowestoft, needed to update the washroom facilities to modern standards. With over 50 years’ experience of
designing and manufacturing washrooms, Dunhams Washrooms Systems worked closely with architect and contractor to create new washroom areas. Ormiston Denes selected Dunhams’ Altitude SGL cubicle system, which offers
security and privacy to deter anti-social behaviour and vandalism. Altitude uses SGL panels, solid aluminium hardware and Corian washtroughs. The washrooms were taken through to
installation and completion stage through Denhams’ subsidiary company Cube Install, which provides the complete washroom package from design to installation for contractors in large projects.
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