Sarah Featherstone Explained

Sarah Featherstone
Practice:Featherstone Young
Significant Buildings:Stonecrop (2019)
House, Haslemere (2018)
Bay 20 community centre and Dale Youth Amateur Boxing Club(2018)
Tŷ Pawb (‘Everyone’s House’)(2018)
Jack Windmill (2017)
Habitat House (2011-16)
Waddington Studios (2014-15)
Byam Shaw School of Art(2014)
Staff Club at Central Saint Martin's Kings Cross Campus (2013)
Dellow Arts and Activity Centre (2012)
Ty Hedfan (2010)
Sunshine Centre (2007)
SERICC (2007)
Bayswater penthouse for Harry Handelsman (2007)
Orchid House (2006)
Fordham White Hair Salon(2002)
Drop House (2001)
Voss Street House (2002)
Baggy House Pool (1998)
Blue Note Club for Acid Jazz, previously the Bass Clef, Hoxton, London (1993)

Sarah Featherstone (born 1966 in Barnstaple, Devon) is a British architect.

Career

Her practice, Featherstone Young, is based in London and has designed projects in the housing, community, cultural, education and commercial sectors. She is also a Co-Founder of VeloCity, a strategic growth and placemaking approach centered on a modernized vision of the English village.[1] [2] [3]

Sarah studied architecture at Kingston University London, the Architectural Association School of Architecture and The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Prior to setting up Featherstone Young with co-director Jeremy Young, she was a founding partner of Hudson Featherstone Architects, and Featherstone Waugh with Andrew Waugh (1992-1995).

Sarah teaches at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL), on the interdisciplinary MA Narrative Environment course, and has been a visiting critic at various UK architecture schools, including the Welsh School of Architecture - Cardiff University.

She was an inaugural member of the CABE National Design Review Panel and has been an External Examiner at a number of universities including UCL, London Metropolitan University and Oxford Brookes University.

She is a Civic Trust Awards judge and RIBA Awards judge and is currently on the Islington and St Albans Design Review panels, and formerly those of Southwark and Camden. Sarah and her work have been widely featured in various media, including Channel 4's Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig, Channel 4's George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, Channel 4's Not all Houses are Square, BBC 2's The House That £100k Built, BBC 2's The Culture Show, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and BBC Radio 3's Night Waves.

Awards

Established in 2002, Featherstone Young has won a number of awards, most recently RIBA Awards for Tŷ Pawb (2021), Stonecrop (2021) and Jack Windmill (2017); AJ Retrofit of the Year Award 2019 for Tŷ Pawb (2020); and the Gold Medal for Architecture of the National Eisteddfod of Wales for Tŷ Pawb (2019). RIBA Awards have also been awarded to homelessness charity Providence Row’s The Dellow Centre in London, SERICC (South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre) and Ty Hedfan, a new house in Wales.

The practice was a finalist in BD Architect of the Year Award (2017) and The Architecture Foundation’s Next Generation Award (2007)and BD Young Architect of the Year Award (2006).

Education

Significant Buildings

Practices

Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions

Teaching and Examining

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Home. VeloCity. 14 March 2022. VeloCity is a strategic vision that solves some of the most critical issues facing the [English] countryside today, delivered by a team of industry experts..
  2. Web site: 100 Day Studio: Annalie Riches & Sarah Featherstone (Velocity). YouTube. Google LLC. 14 March 2022.
  3. Web site: The 21st-century village: Sarah Featherstone and Jennifer Ross on VeloCity. Apple Podcasts. Apple Inc. 14 March 2022.
  4. Web site: Swirling countryside . Herbert Wright. Corriere della Sera. Abitare. 29 October 2020. 14 March 2022.
  5. Web site: Stonecrop House / Featherstone Young . Featherstone Young. ArchDaily. 6 February 2020. 14 March 2022.
  6. Web site: Home! 'All we kept of the old house was the view'. Dominic Bradbury. The Times. 26 October 2019. 14 March 2022.
  7. Web site: Rowan. Moore. Tŷ Pawb review – an art gallery that truly is everybody's house. The Guardian. 1 September 2018. 11 November 2018.
  8. Web site: History of Clayton Windmills. 3 September 2017.
  9. Web site: Unique venue at landmark windmill near Brighton. Airbnb. 3 September 2017.
  10. Web site: Mill House, West Sussex, UK Sleeps 17. The Modern House. 3 September 2017.
  11. Web site: The Financial Times on the Habitat House's Eco-Credentials. Silver Lake. 5 July 2017.
  12. Web site: . Creature Comforts: Buildings designed for humans and animals . The Financial Times . 3 March 2017 . 5 July 2017.
  13. Web site: Colin Buttimer. Staff Club and Table Nests Shortlisted for Blueprint Awards. University of the Arts London. 7 October 2014. 5 July 2017.
  14. Web site: Ty Hedfan. 3 September 2017.
  15. Web site: Ty Hedfan, Wales, UK Sleeps 6. The Modern House. 3 September 2017.
  16. Web site: Jonathan Margolis. The only flying house in the village. Times.co.uk . 12 September 2010 . 3 September 2017.
  17. Stefania Vourazeri. Ty Hedfan – Featherstone Young. Design Exchange . 1 June 2012 . 3 September 2017.
  18. Catherine Warmann. Ty Hedfan by Featherstone Young. De Zeen . 24 February 2011 . 3 September 2017.
  19. Web site: Elfreda Pownall . At home with Harry Handelsman, the man behind Chiltern Firehouse . Telegraph.co.uk . 15 October 2016 . 5 July 2017.
  20. Web site: Station master: Harry Handelsman | London Evening Standard . Standard.co.uk . 4 September 2009 . 5 July 2017.
  21. Web site: Cate Trotter . UK Eco-house Sold for world record £7.2m! . Inhabitat . 6 May 2008 . 5 July 2017.
  22. Web site: Naomi Cleaver. Home trial: sinking to new heights. The Telegraph. 8 May 2004. 3 September 2017.
  23. Web site: Voss Street . ARVHA : Association pour la recherche sur la ville et l'habitat. 3 September 2017.
  24. Web site: Tamsin Blanchard. On the rise. The Guardian. The Observer. 8 September 2002. 3 September 2017.
  25. Book: The house book . Phaidon . London New York . 2001 . 9780714839844 .
  26. Web site: AJ Retrofit Awards - Winners 2019. The Architects’ Journal. EMAP. 14 March 2022.
  27. Web site: The 2017 Shortlist. BD Online. 5 July 2017.
  28. Web site: Next Generation Award shortlists Fobert, Featherstone and DSDHA. BD Online. 5 July 2017.

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