Studio Four News

As part of Portsmouth's St Marys Community Health Campus redevelopment with Solent NHS Trust we are actively engaged in the £1.3m full internal remodelling works to Block C, due for completion in August 2019. This redevelopment will house relocated hospital staff,...

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust commissioned Studio Four Architects, in conjunction with TNG Consulting Engineers Ltd and Currie & Brown to ensure the fire alarm system and fire compartmentation at Romsey Hospital complied with current legislation. It was...

The Compton & Sarum Housing scheme, located in Totton, has now been completed for New Forest District Council. This development represents a flagship project for the Council, being their largest new-build housing scheme for 25 years. The scheme seeks to address the...

Building work has finished for a single dwelling infill development on an awkwardly-shaped, tight site on land to the rear of a property at St Denys in Southampton. Despite the size of the site and Planning constraints, the new house includes 3 bedrooms, off-street...

We travelled to Thruxton Kart Centre again for our annual 2-hour endurance race, with 12 mixed teams of 4 guests and staff battling it out on this high-speed circuit.   The weather was very kind overall, but a short mid-race shower added some exciting challenges on...

Studio Four are Incredibly proud to announce that our holiday cottage development in Hampshire was shortlisted for 2 RICS Awards this year in the South East region. Thanks to all involved in the project and congratulations to all of the...

Works have now begun on our project in Hursley to build a new 5 bedroom house on the site of an existing bungalow. An off site timber frame panel construction was chosen for this project which will also incorporate oak trusses which are a key part of the...

Planning consent has been granted for a multi-phase extension to Hope Church in Ferndown to accommodate this growing church and its community activities. The initial phase provides an enlarged entrance foyer and meeting rooms at the front with a later phase to provide...

The Dementia Ward at St. Mary’s Hospital on the Isle of Wight has been handed over following a lightning-fast refurbishment. Crownpark Builders completed the works in 9 weeks, with the first design meeting held only 3 months ago. Research into dementia over the last...

Studio Four, in collaboration with Atlas Planning Group, have been working with a private client to design an extension to an existing house near Wherwell, Andover. The proposal will provide bedrooms, home office, bathroom and additional living space for the existing...

Hiding amongst the trees on this steep site overlooking Winchester is the first phase of a major first floor extension at St Paul’s Surgery. The first 2 of a proposed 5 new consulting rooms have now been provided. These, together with a new sub-waiting area, will...

Located within the South Downs National Park, our project to convert a redundant farm building into an office has now begun on site.  The intention is to carefully repair and retain the majority of the existing timber frame roof and walls to create a modern open...

A new 6 bedroom replacement dwelling in Chilbolton is now complete. The project involved the demolition of a previous bungalow and construction of a much larger property, with a connected "granny annex" for the client's relative, seamlessly integrated into the overall...

We've just submitted a Full Planning application for a major GP surgery extension at Hayes in the London Borough of Hillingdon.  The proposals include a new ground floor extension with Sedum roof to the existing building on North Hyde Road, a new first floor extension...

Works have begun on site on one of our private dwellings in the South Downs National Park. We have been working with the client since February 2018 to design multiple extensions to an existing dwelling as well as undertake a complete external and internal...

Studio Four was originally appointed in early 2018 to assist with a Planning application for a new build house on agricultural land in Ringwood. Over the last year the client has been working closely with a Planning consultant to develop the project. The design of the...

Over the past two years we have been working with a private client to design them a new home, adjacent to their existing rural property. The narrow site and close by large mature oak trees were challenging constraints, but we obtained Planning permission in 2018 to...

On Monday a group of our intrepid staff visited Winchester Cathedral and were conducted on the ‘tower tour’ by Paul Tanner – a friend of the practice – with his excellent structural and historical knowledge. We learnt why Winchester possibly wasn’t bombed in WWII, the...

Works are progressing on the alterations to St Peters Vets with completion due in June.  The public face of the practice has been occupied by the client with the waiting area, reception, vets-dispensary room and the first consulting room now in use.  Current phases in...

Studio Four are proud to sponsor Southbrook FC’s under 12 team who are based at the Sports Centre in Southampton. Recent games have succumbed to the worst of the British winter with flooded and/ or frozen pitches, but their last match in mid-February was a sunny day...

Danielle and Steve were honoured to be shown around the now-empty, previous Penlee lifeboat station at Penlee Point in Mousehole, by Patch Harvey, the current Penlee coxswain.  The building no longer houses the lifeboat, but has been maintained through the hard work...

Work is really picking up pace at Penlee now the building is weathertight – the generous Accoya windows are in and the Siberian Larch timber cladding starting to go on.  Internally the energy efficient underfloor heating (linked to the ground source heat pump) has...

We are delighted to be informed that our project at Gambledown Farm in Sherfield English has been shortlisted in 2 categories for the RICS 2019 South East Awards. Judges will shortly be visiting the project and winners will be announced mid May....

Our Romsey office have been working with a private client for a few months and have successfully achieved planning permission for the removal of a large extension to a private house and the addition of a new one. This along with some works to the existing house will...

As another busy year comes to a close, it's time to shut the Studio Four computers down until 2019. Our staff Christmas Card Competition produced the usual excellent selection of ideas and the voting was very close, but Claire Lingham's design (above) was the winner. ...

Studio Four were pleased to give one of our client's an early Christmas present in the form of a planning permission for the creation of a new build house in the countryside. The new dwelling is of a traditional style to reflect the client's taste and provides a large...