Cowan Architects has won the 2021 Sussex Heritage Trust Award for a mid-scale residential project for work undertaken on The Dower House, Shovelstrode Manor. The 2021 Awards were presented by Patron, Christopher Gebbie OBE DL and Chairman, Simon Knight DL...
Cowan Architects has just succeeded in securing planning permission from the London Borough of Hounslow for a new training centre for the London Ambulance Service in Brentford. The planning application for the Brentside Executive Centre sees a change of use from...
Today the International Longevity Centre has published a report on Future Proofing for Retirement Housing stating that only 0.7% of people aged 65+ in the UK live in specific housing-with-care models. Here we take an architect’s view of designing for...
Care Home Environment Magazine recently carried a four-page article by Cowan Architects where Director, David Callin, “discusses the impact of Covid-19 on design and how future-proofing new homes and retrofitting existing ones could prevent a repeat of the tragedies of...
A WashPod unit has been installed in Exeter as a rapid solution for a housing client who needed a fully accessible wetroom in a hurry. An external WashPod unit was pre-assembled and craned in last week to provide an interim answer...
Cowan Architects has chosen homeless charity, Crawley Open House, as a deserving cause for its Christmas donation. The Company has witnessed first-hand the amazing role they play, not only in Crawley but further afield across Mid Sussex, as they have...
Here we look at the judgement made recently in the Royal Court of Justice on the Swift v Carpenter case and its impact on accommodation reports. Many solicitors and case managers will have been inundated with barristers explaining the workings...
Cowan Architects has been in the press lately with the news that Swim England has endorsed a cutting-edge pool design that has been created and developed by a Cowan collaboration. Working with Paragon using their Sprung structures and Synergy Construction...
Nigel Marcoolyn, Cowan Architect’s Director of Architecture, will be one of the top speakers at the Educational Building Virtual Forum being held next week (9 - 10th December, 2020). On Wednesday morning, 9th December, Nigel will be discussing the use of...
Cowan’s retrofit specialist architect, Mark Elton, will be contributing to a break-out session on December 5th 2020 for Fuel Poverty Action’s ‘Making Green Come True’ conference. As we near the end of the era of gas heating and the end of a...
