Two New Associates

02 May, 2012

Studio Indigo is delighted to announce that James Kandutsch and Raimundo Torres have been promoted to Associate with immediate effect.

James has been with Studio Indigo since arriving from his native New Zealand in late 2008 and became a Team Leader in 2010. He has worked on a number of prestigious projects, including two large Victorian town house refurbishments in Kensington and a Grade II listed building in Chelsea.

Raimundo joined us in November 2008 from Venezuela and proved himself a valuable member of the team from the beginning. During his four years with us he has gone from strength to strength, and is now running his own two large projects in Kensington.

We know that with their strong leadership, project management and design skills, coupled with their ever growing experience in high end residential refurbishments, the appointment of James and Raimundo will allow us to continue to strengthen the Studio Indigo management team.

Pre Planning Consultation Success – Pool in a Grade II listed house

08 September, 2011

Studio Indigo had a successful pre application consultation with the local Conservation Officer on this project.

Won in a limited competition, planning restrictions on the site called for innovative thinking, resulting in an elegant solution where the pool has been sunken into an existing walled garden and covered by a green roof.

A new pavilion which uses the forms and materials of the existing buildings in a contemporary way completes the complex. After the succesful pre application advice, we are hopeful construction can start summer of 2012.

Planning successes – Chelsea and St Johns Wood

09 September, 2011

This week two projects for the same client finally received planning consent. In RBKC Studio Indigo made a successful application to raise the roof height on a detached house in Carlyle Square, allowing for an additional floor to be created from the original cramped attic rooms.

Meanwhile consent also came through from Westminster council for refurbishment and new basement to a Grade II listed house in St Johns Wood.

Both projects are now well into documentation with start on site anticipated to be spring 2012.

Planning Appeal approval - Kensington

07 October, 2011

Studio Indigo was commissioned to gain planning approval for a lower ground floor playroom extension and a second floor dining room extension to this distinctive corner terrace located in RBKC.

From the outset it was decided to split the application into two components to minimise the chance of either alteration impeding the approval of the other.

The lower ground extension was straightforward and approval was granted in April 2011, allowing refurbishment works to begin on site.

The second floor was far more controversial and after nearly a year of negotiations and refusals we won our appeal and works have started on the second half of the project. The property is due for completion in early 2012.