Jan Kattein Architects have submitted a bid for Harringay Green Lanes on behalf of the Harringay Traders Association and the London Borough of Haringey to the Outer London Fund – Round 2. The proposal is part of an ambitious plan to undertake lasting improvement works across all scales of the public realm. Funding allocation to be announced at the end of November. See the Green Lanes project page for more details.
Jan Kattein Architects are advising Haringey council and the Harringay Trader’s Association on their £2 million high street improvement project for Green Lanes. The project comprises interactive lighting displays, urban realm improvements and works to 50 shops.
Our production of Anna Malunat’s stage play Halt Dich am Zaun der Himmel ist hoch is showing at the Studiobuehne in Cologne and at the Theater im Ballsaal in Bonn. The production which is based on material collected during a road trip through Eastern Prussia will feature as the opening act of the West Off festival. For tickets and times check www.studiobuehne-koeln.de or www.theater-im-ballsaal.de.
We have been working with Camden Council’s overcrowding team for six years to devise a strategy that would help overcrowded families by adapting or extending their homes. Three micro-extensions with green roofs that are carefully designed to suit their dense urban context are progressing on site in various parts of the borough. Once complete, the small buildings will provide additional living space to allow overcrowded families to remain in their existing home. Sustainability is achieved by careful adaptation and extension rather than demolition and re-building.
Our Courtyard House has been submitted to the London Borough of Islington for planning. The house reconfigures an empty retail unit around an internal lightwell and generous outdoor space to include the addition of 2 new residential units.
Our sub-terrain extension is submitted to Hammersmith & Fulham for planning consent. The extension makes innovative use of glass floors and a sunken courtyard to bring light into the new rooms.
The second phase of our High Road Leyton Shopfront scheme is now on site. Works to the terrace designed to celebrate the local identity of the high street include new shopfronts, signage, awnings and giant fruit lights. Works are due for completion in January, ready for the Olympics.
We are open during Open House again this year. Last year more than 100 visitors came to see the building and the exhibition of models, drawings and prototypes in our shopfront gallery. Save the day & join us on 17 or 18 September for some bubbly and an exhibition of recent work.
Jan Kattein and Anna Malunat will lecture at the Utopie und Expirment conference at the European Center for the Arts Hellerau in Dresden, Germany on 13. September 2011. The lecture entitled Performance Environments presents 3 collaborative projects where space, acting and composition have merged into a common choreography.
Peter Pan wins award at the Jugendtheatertreffen in Cologne. The Jury writes “We were impressed by the stage set. With fantasy a lamp became a totem pole, a sofa and a grandfather clock became a crocodile, drum sticks weapons and nighties became nappies. A mirror creating a window to phantasy and the audience participates.. [...] Peter Pan is a performance that enchants and addresses the audience and invites for reflection and remembering childhood and the future”. Click here for link to Jugendtheaterwettbewerb website.Peter Pan is is running Theater an der Ruhr until the end of the 2011/2012 season. Click here for tickets.
