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Westgate Plaza Hotel | Cardiff

We designed a concept for the Westgate Plaza Hotel, a significant new-build leisure project in the centre of...

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Integrated Retirement Community for Untold | Newport Shropshire

How to make retirement housing affordable and accessible to more people has interested us since our 2005 scheme...

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Sovereign Harbour | Eastbourne

Sovereign Harbour sits to the north of Eastbourne town centre and was a originally a series of gravel...

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Blackdown Hills Assisted Living | Somerset

We carried out a feasibility study and scheme design for new assisted living retirement accommodation for an established...

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St Marys House | Cardiff

St Mary’s House is an existing office building on the corner of Penarth Road and Trade Street, Cardiff....

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Parkgate Hotel | Cardiff
Parkgate Hotel was a real opportunity to do the things that matter to us. Rescuing unloved and empty buildings. Working...
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Cardigan Memorial Hospital | Ceridigion

Cardigan - A Rich History

Cardigan Memorial Hospital in Ceredigion proposes the demolition of existing hospital buildings, but retention of the...

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Agile Working | Admiral Pioneer

GFA has worked for Admiral Group for over 15 years, indeed we used to share an office...

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Glasfryn | Powys
Background The remote village of Llangynidr lies about 9 miles south-east of Brecon. The village has upper and lower parts, divided...
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Mayfield | Hove
This new mid-market care community for Mayfield Villages was granted planning permission in 2020. It forms part of a...
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Scarcroft Park | Yorkshire

We successfully gained planning consent for a new care community of 172 retirement homes in the village of...

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Fairmile | Cobham

Gaunt Francis Architects designed a new care community on Fairmile Lane, Cobham, for Audley Villages. The brief...

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Blythe Valley Care Home | Solihull

Octopus Real Estate is part of the Octopus Group and is a leading UK specialist real estate investor. They commissioned...

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Sunningdale Park | Berkshire

Set within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, the Sunningdale site is in the Greenbelt. It contains...

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Bakers Road Uxbridge
This is a scheme for a new residentia scheme on the Bakers Road site in the heart of Uxbridge, which...
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Mayfield | Watford
Gaunt Francis Architects has been a leading voice in design for retirement care communities since 2005, together with long-term client...
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Ladywell Playtower | London SE13
The benefactors of Ladywell Playtower baths built them in 1884 response to the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875....
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The Lakes by YOO | Lechlade
The Lakes by YOO is a stunning 850 acre private estate sited in the eastern section of the Cotswold Water...
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Upper Hayne Farm | Aylesbury
Upper Hayne Farm is a 210m2 private dwelling sited in open countryside just off a small country lane, which replaced...
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CityPoint Reception | London EC2
City Point is a Square Mile landmark. It was acquired by Beacon Capital Partners in 2007 but some...
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St. Philips Point | Birmingham
St. Philips Point is a triangular plan tall office building with a prow facing Cathedral Green. It is iconic in...
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Bicester Airfield | Bicester
The airbase at RAF Bicester essentially dates from 1925 until 1994, when the final United States Air Force personnel stationed...
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Llys Cadwyn | Pontypridd
There were several failed attempts by private developers to initiate new development on this important town centre site (now called...
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18 St. Swithins Lane | London EC4
St. Swithins Lane is a busy City pedestrian thoroughfare – a prime link between Cannon Street station and many parts...
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31 St James Square | London SW1
St James Square contains some of central London’s most valuable real estate. No 31 is significant by virtue of its...
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Savoy Hill House | London WC2
Savoy Hill House was originally constructed as a late Victorian apartment building, but was acquired by the Institution of Engineering...
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38 Finsbury Square | London EC2
The project brief focused on careful and elegant detailing that would be executed to the highest quality and a design...
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2 Savoy Place | London WC2
Gaunt Francis’s connections with the Institute of Engineering & Technology (‘The IET’) go back a long way. In 2008 the...
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Centre Point 1 | London WC2
Although now an icon of 1960’s pop art, Centre Point had previously suffered from inadequate reception space, poor access and...
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Centre Point 2 | London WC2
Crossrail's alterations to the famous Centre Point pool and plaza (to form the new Tottenham Court Road tube stations) necessitated...
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British Council | Cardiff
British Council Wales commissioned Gaunt Francis Architects to design the fit out for their new offices in Central Cardiff....
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Piccadilly Plaza | Manchester
The brutalist behemoth that overlooks Piccadilly Gardens has been the subject of a series of conversion and upgrade proposals by...
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One Finsbury Circus | London EC2
Sir Edwin Lutyens was best known for his country houses, but also carried out several significant commercial buildings in the...
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Chalfont Dene | Buckinghamshire
Chalfont Dene is an Audley Retirement Village comprising 84 units of accommodation in a range of apartments and cottages. It sits...
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Redwood Lodge | Bristol

This 160,000 ft2 new build care community was completed in 2018. It comprises 126 units of accommodation on green-belt land...

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Cooper’s Hill | Runnymede
The original mansion that occupied the site dated back to the start of the 19th Century, and over time was...
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Mote House | Maidstone
Mote House is a Grade II* Listed Building set in the grounds of Mote Park near Maidstone. Working with Audley,...
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Clevedon Hall | Ilkley

We secured detailed planning consent for Audley for a 100,000 sq ft scheme of 98 apartments set around the Clevedon...

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Ellerslie House | Malvern

Set against the backdrop of the Worcestershire countryside, Audley Ellerslie is situated in the beautiful spa town of...

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The Navyard, Harwich Old Town | Essex
The proposal for this site is to create an addition to the town of Harwich, taking the grain and density...
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Pearl House | Newbury
Pearl House was once a significant 1960’s podium and tower office development, but its tower was demolished in the 1999...
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292-298 High Street | Slough
The Gaunt Francis commission involved conversion of a redundant 1960’s office tower into new residential accommodation, by taking advantage of...
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Parc Ceirw | Morriston
Gaunt Francis Architects were commissioned by Edenstone Homes and S I Green UK to consider the feasibility of redeveloping the old Cwmrhydyceirw Quarry, within...
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Woodside | Leeds
A redundant former stone quarry in a spectacular setting with a 63m change in level from north to south. The...
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23-24 Newman Street | London W1
16 private residential and 6 affordable residential apartments formed out of the envelope of an existing office building, with the...
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St. Katharine Docks | London E1
Our scheme proposed a development framework across the whole estate which sought to significantly improve all public realm elements; introduce...
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Porthcawl Harbourside | Bridgend
The brief for this exceptional site was a regeneration scheme focused on a foodstore; new retail space; leisure uses, car...
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Hackett Farm | Thornbury
Our work focused on promoting the site through the local development framework process. This 500 home development is intended to...
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Green House | Garston
Gaunt Francis won the national architectural competition for the British Homes Awards ’House of the Future’, which was organised with...
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Great Hampton Street | Birmingham
Gaunt Francis Architects were responsible for carrying out a £5m comprehensive upgrade of this existing former-warehouse in the Jewelry Quarter...
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The Maughan Library | London WC2
Formally the Public Records Office – ‘the strong box of the empire’ – Kings College London acquired this massive Victorian...
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Temple Circus | Bristol
Temple Circus was the fifth project undertaken for the College of Law (now 'University of Law') in a rolling programme...
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University College London | London WC1
The Pearson Building and the Slade School of Fine Art form two sides of the Grade 1 Listed quadrangle at...
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2 Bunhill Row | London EC1
The conversion of a redundant office building for The College of Law (now the 'University of Law') to form a...
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British Council Headquarters | Cairo, Egypt
The extension of an existing 19th Century colonial villa located on a beautiful site facing the Nile, to provide a...
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