Latest news from Famella

As seen on Netflix…

The Gentlemen is an action comedy television series created by Guy Ritchie. The series stars Theo James in the lead role and was released in March 2024. Susie Glass’s (played by Kaya Scodelario) apartment is our Aria House project.

British Homes Awards 2023

These prestigious awards celebrate excellence in British Homebuilding. We are delighted to announce that our House in Surrey project designed by Ström Architects has been shortlisted for an award in the Home Extension Of The Year category:

The house, an Arts and Crafts period property in Surrey, underwent a transformation to enhance its performance and coherence. Instead of demolishing, a contemporary single-storey extension was added, connecting to a refurbished main house. The design focused on integrating indoor and outdoor spaces through full-height glazing and a courtyard housing a gym, sauna, and office. The new extension complemented the original house's style with white brick and pre-cast concrete elements, creating a harmonious and respectful coexistence.

The winner will be announced on Thursday 5 October 2023 at Raffles London at the OWO. 

Visit: The British Homes Awards
View the Project in Our Portfolio

RIBA Nomination
One of our projects has been shortlisted for the 2023 RIBA South East Awards. The Project by Strom Architects can be viewed here.

You can read more about the awards at the RIBA website.

Primrose Hill Project wins RIBA 2022 Prize
We are delighted that our Primrose Hill project designed by Jamie Fobert Architects won a prestigious RIBA London Award. The RIBA Regional Awards celebrate great architecture across the UK. The awards have been featured in all industry press, including RIBA, Arch Daily, and Architects Journal.

RIBA London Regional Awards Shortlist
For 50 years the RIBA awards and prizes for buildings have championed and celebrated the best architecture in the UK and around the world. We are proud that our Primrose Hill project designed by Jamie Fobert Architects has been shortlisted. See the shortlist here.

The Wormley Reds
Famella are proud to sponsor The Wormley Reds Football Team under 14s away kit:

Sponsorship
Famella are now the proud sponsors of Molesey Juniors U9 Falcons. Molesey Juniors is one of the largest and oldest clubs in the Elmbridge area.

Famella are delighted to have started the following new projects: -

• St Johns Wood

• Regents Park

• Kensington

• Lowndes Square

• Connaught Square

• A country house in Hertfordshire

New Starter
Famella are pleased to welcome Samantha Williams to the team in the role of Contracts Manager, Josh Persuard as Quantity Surveyor & Roya Sharifi at Assistant Quantity Surveyor

New London Office
Our London Office will be opening in June, which is situated in Berkley Square.

Strom Architects
Famella are pleased to complete our first project with Strom Architects

The Architects’ Journal Retrofit Awards 2019 finalists have been announced, and we were delighted to see that our project ‘House Of Layers’ has been shortlisted in the ‘House £500,000 and over’ category.

Images from the project (designed by West Architecture) can been seen in our portfolio here.

The annual AJ Retrofit Awards programme is one of the most highly regarded in UK architecture and celebrates the design, engineering and construction excellence that prolongs and improves the life of our built world.

Project Feature in Architecture Today

Our project A House in Highbury has been featured in the latest edition of Architecture Today magazine. We’ve added the article to our Publications section for you to take a look.

The project, designed by West Architecture, features a stunning limestone staircase and you can view the images in our Portfolio

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New Projects

• Design & Build of a large refurbishment & fit-out of a home in SW3

• A large refurbishment & restoration of a large house in Hampstead

• A large refurbishment & restoration of a large house in Kensington Square

The following projects are near complete: -

• Abbotsbury Road, W14

• Two storey apartment in SW3

• Our project in Primrose Hill for Jamie Fobert Archiects is well underway with fair-faced concrete being poured as we speak!

Famella are pleased to introduce 3 new members of the team:

Owen Palmer (left) as Trainee Quantity Surveyor,

Mike Edgar (centre) who is now undertaking the role of senior Contracts Manager,

& Andy Crawford (right) who is now undertaking the role of Quantity Surveyor

ITALY

Tony Carter visited Italy to ensure the best quality stone was purchased for our clients:

ATHENS 

Tony Carter visited Athens to ensure the best quality stone was purchased for our client:

ZURICH

Tony Carter visited the skyframe factory with our valued glazing subcontractors to view the process of manufacture, and an architectural tour of Zurich

The students gained a real insight into the industry, and it gave them an excellent opportunity to find out more about a potential career path and make informed career choices.

Clapham Common has been shortlisted for The British Home Awards by The Sunday Times.

The “Home transformation of the year” seeks the best refurbishment, restoration or conversion of an individual home designed by an architect in Britain.

The Clapham Common project is in out portfolio here

Peter Carter

After 55 years of 14 hour days 6 days per/week Famella’s founder; Peter Carter has decided to reduce his days down, move away from live projects and only assist with snagging & defects liability works. He is also visiting sites regularly to give support and share his wealth of knowledge & experience within the construction industry with our site agents.

Award Winner!

We are delighted to announce that our Aria House Project won ‘Best Apartment’ in the Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2017. The project was designed for the client by Moreno Massey but executed by Famella as a design & build contract.

Read the Evening Standard article below, or take a look at more images from this stunning project here.

New Projects

Work has begun on the following 3 projects:

• A large basement and full refurbishment in W2 with Kevin Allsop architects

• A full fit out of a 3 storey basement in Chelsea with TDO Architecture

• A basement and full refurbishment with Alan Higgs Architects

Completed Projects

We are pleased to announce the completion of 2 new projects; A 2 storey Penthouse Newbuild in London Fields, and a project in Kensington designed by Stiff + Travillion. We will have professional images of these projects on the website soon.

Sponsorship

Famella are proud to support the local community and sponsor the kit of several local youth teams. Last year we supported Cheshunt Under 16 EJA Squad and Bury Rangers who both won cups. This year we have assisted the Cheshunt Under 17 EJA squad who are currently first in the division.

The World of Interiors Magazine Feature

Our project House In Earls Court, designed by Alex Cochrane Architects, is featured in The World of Interiors magazine this month

It has been added to our Press and Publications page. Click here to see the feature.

Press Features

Our project Fitzrovia House, designed by West Architecture, is featured in The Evening Standard’s Homes and Property section.

This house also won ‘Best Historic Intervention’ in New London Architecture’s Don’t Move Improve! awards this year.

You can read the full article here: Renovating a Georgian Wreck

Also, our Willow Bridge Road project has been featured in the Royal Institution of British Architects’ publication ‘London 16′.

Links to both these publications have been added to our Publications page

Recently Completed…

We announce the successful completion of our Embankment Project:

And the successful completion of our Kensington Place Project:

Willow Bridge Road Project

Our Willow Bridge Road project has now been professionally photographed and is in our Portfolio

Press Feature

The ‘Hackney Citizen’ newspaper features our project with Simon Conder, which involved placing a 350 square metre prefabricated structure onto a warehouse. Click on the image below to read the article

Architecture Today Feature

Our East London project with Simon Conder has been featured in Architecture Today.

View Article Here

Project Updates

We are pleased to confirm that the following new projects are well underway:

• Second Phase of St Pancras Way with Studio Mackereth, MPA & Eckersley O’Callaghan

• Large civil engineering package and concrete frame for 6 houses in Highbury – with Scott Architects, Bonfield & Elliotwood

• Very large basement & refurbishment in Hampstead with Stiff & Trevillion, Lavingtons, Bonfield & Heyne Tillett Steel

• House Refurbishment & glass-box extension & loft conversion in Kew with Monument Architecture & Elliot Wood

• Basement & full refurbishment in Kensington for Stiff & Trevillion, Bonfield & Symmetrys

• New penthouse in East London with Simon Conder & Fluid

We are pleased to confirm that we have been instructed on the following projects, due to start in mid-October:

• Large refurbishment & basement in St. Johns Wood with Swanepoel Design, Jinny blom & Davis Boulton

• Large refurbishment including 4 storey cantilevered stone staircase in Chelsea with Charles Brice, Lavingtons & Price & Myers

We announce the successful completion of our projects in Kensington with West Architecture & Bolton Gardens for MillsPower Architects & Willow Bridge Road for Barbara Weiss Architects.

Staff Update

To assist with our increased workload; Famella have promoted Daniel Court from Site Agent to Contracts Manager.

Chris Watkins will soon be joining the management team and we have had to extend our office premises.

Famella Award Nominations

Our House In Putney Core-ten steel house has been nominated for a RIBA Award and has won a Structural Steel Award 2015 for Merit.

Famella Supporting Local

Famella have assisted financially with kit purchase etc. for local football teams for 2015 season:

• Cheshunt boys under 16 EJA squad

• Bury Rangers girls under 14 squad

New Instructions

We are pleased to confirm that we have been instructed on:

• The Design & Build of a 2 storey penthouse apartment over the Playhouse Theatre on the Embankment – contract value circa £2.1m – Project Managers: Bonfields, Client’s Architect: Moreno Massey

• New Basement & Wellness Centre in Clapham Common Southside – Contract Value £1.7m for Guarnieri Architects

• The full refurbishment of a house in Kensington Place – contract value circa £400K for West Architecture

• New Basement to a house in West London – contract value circa £1m for Rob Haine & Co. Ltd

• Combining two flats into one in West London – contract value circa £400K for Mills Power Architects

New Graduate QS

We are pleased to announced the appointment of Adam Johnson as our new Graduate QS. Adam graduated from Nottingham Trent University and this is his first job.

Completed Projects

Famella are pleased to announce the successful completion of the following projects:

• Our Earls Court Project – View Project Images

• Our Putney project– View Project Images

• Phase one of St Pancras way (Studio Mackereth) is drawing to a close, with hopefully Phase 2 starting soon.

• Willow Bridge Road (Barbara Weiss Architects) is one month from completion along with Colville Place (West Architecture) and Gayton Crescent for Niall Mclaughlin Architects)