This week sees the completion of a fifth house in the Addison Gardens area in Holland Park. HEAT and contractors Bhuva Construction have been recommended by word of mouth from one successful project to the next. The latest project combines four apartments back into a single family house with a glass extension overlooking the communal gardens at the rear. To maximise the light the basement floor is a seamless poured white gloss resin. Glass floors bring light into the heart of the house. Advantageous rates of VAT apply to conversions where the number of dwellings is changed in the course of development. Contact Charles Humphries at HEAT for further details.

The Zinc House in Barnsbury has been featured in the Sunday Times "Home" section in a review by Hugh Pearman. Described as the ultimate makeover of a plain 1950's house into an "icon of modernist cool". Read the full text of the article at the Times Online.

Last week, as part of an exercise to involve students and staff at St Martin of Porres Primary School, the HEAT team ran a hugely popular "Architecture Day" with Key Stage 2. The children divided into four teams, and after a series of workshops on scale and measurement, environmental architecture and materials sciences each team went on to build an architectural model of part of the new school at 1:25 scale. At the end of the day each team presented their design to the rest of the school.

The day was part of a series of events and consultations to draw up a brief for the new school. Try the Carbon Quiz we set the students and see how you do.

Our Clapham High Street mixed use development achieved Practical Completion on the 5th May. The ground floor retail units are currently being fitted out with Tesco's taking the main high street unit.

For a private client in Hampshire HEAT are designing a new internal staircase, working with specialist joinery company Higginson to develop a helical form in cold moulded plywood. This is a development of the technique used for the award winning oval staircase in West London. These lightweight materials, used in boat building will allow an effortless smooth shape which will be structurally rigid.

The stair will be finished in oak veneer with tapering painted balustrading.

The scaffolding has been struck and the topping out ceremony held at the £4m mixed use scheme in Clapham for which HEAT obtained planning permission last year. HEAT are acting as Executive Architects for the developer Starcrest Properties.

Our valiant photographer braved the weather last week to capture this image of our recently completed house in Islington. Fortunately this project has several inches of high performance insulation and low-emissivity glass to keep it snug.

HEAT have been commissioned to prepare a suite of offices in a dramatic Clerkenwell warehouse for letting. The 3000 sq ft office floors have had the original cast iron columns, stripped wood floors and features restored. New ceilings contain service runs and provide discrete cove lighting. The unit is air conditioned and heated with state of the art heat pumps. Thermal efficiency and access to the offices have been improved in line with modern standards.

The offices are being marketed for rental through Nelson Bakewell.

An exciting £4m mixed-use development is under construction in Clapham High Street in South West London after HEAT obtained planning permission last year.

The project will incorporate a Tesco Express at the ground floor level, together with an A3 (restaurant) unit. The Metropolitan Police have taken space on the first floor level. There are thirteen residential units at the upper levels. See details in our Portfolio.

Following two years of design and construction and a successful planning appeal this dramatic reconstruction of a detached family house in Islington was completed shortly before Christmas.

It incorporates the latest advances in low-energy design with solar heating and high technology finishes and glazing to reduce the carbon footprint of the building. This in a stylish and groundbreaking contemporary design with a façade in patinated zinc and milk glass.