Yay! Its the 4th of July. This is the flag cake that Sarah baked. We ate the strawberry bits first. Then we ate it all. Hawaii tasted best.

HEAT's successful residential conversion in Clerkenwell has been highlighted in this month's copy of Inside, the official magazine of the Interiors Association. They singled out the design of the bathrooms, incorporating full size photographic images sandwiched into glass.

This year HEAT has welcomed pupils from Rodborough Technology College and Inspire!, the Education Business Partnership for Hackney under our work placement scheme. Spending up to two weeks working in the office shadowing the HEAT Team on CAD drafting, administrative work and supervised site visits the students, considering a career in design, learned more about the practice of architecture and had hands-on experience of the work environment.

At a lunch at the Royal Aeronautical Society today Charles Humphries and Robert Ellis of HEAT Architects were presented with first prize in the Hot Dip Galvanizing Awards 2007 for the Zinc House in Islington. The judges praised the tenacity and vision of the project which used galvanized W20 window sections and exposed steel structure. The £1000 prize was accompanied by this fine galvanized watering can!

HEAT's entry for the extension to Asplund's library in Stockholm has been published on the BD Online website. This photograph shows the exhibits chosen for exhibition in Stockholm earlier this year. The competition, one of the largest architectural competitions in history with over 1200 entries was to design an extension to the world famous Stockholm Public Library by Gunnar Asplund.

HEAT worked with Giancarlo Alhadeff on a design which cut into the gravel escarpment behind the site and terraced down to the street with a series of enclosed roof gardens. Light was brought into the deep plan with a series of glazed slots. The structure relies on a forest of fabricated timber masts echoing the birch forests of northern Sweden.

Original competition entries are available for download from our downloads page.

HEAT have been commissioned to carry out the first stage of an exciting project for a new Primary School in Bounds Green, North London. As part of the initial exercise HEAT will be carrying out workshops with stakeholders including staff and pupils to establish the brief for the new school.

HEAT have expanded their Education practice with a recent appointment as architects to Oxford House College, a school for English Language Studies in central London. HEAT will be advising the College on an expansion to exciting new premises in Oxford Street which will include classrooms, admin block, and a double-height cafeteria/library in a former ballroom.

In the Education sector HEAT have been appointed to advise the prestigious Ashbourne Independent Sixth Form College in Kensington on their plans for development and expansion of their facilities including a purpose-designed top-lit art studio.

HEAT have been appointed to carry out the extension of an important Arts and Crafts house in Hampstead, North London. The owners have carefully looked after the original interior fittings and finishes and have a collection of furniture to match. The new extension will include a kitchen, larder dining and family room using traditional joinery in an arts and crafts style together with a contemporary minimal glazed extension.

Our new website goes online today. Designed and maintained directly by HEAT, it will give us more control and flexibility to upload projects and communicate. As a resource for our clients we will be updating the site with planning news.