Folkestone has a stylish new museum within the Town Hall following a £1.95m project that has transformed parts of the listed building. Godden Allen Lawn worked closely with a project team that included the client, Folkestone Town Council, a project manager, structural engineer, building services engineers, exhibition designers and contractors. Together we’ve transformed the lower ground floor and parts of the upper ground floor and first floors into a smart new facility that includes not just the museum – which […]
The team at Godden Allen Lawn is delighted to have been awarded the contract to design a new community centre at Preston, near Wingham. Our plans for bigger, better community facilities on the site of the existing sixties-built hall found favour with the Preston Community Centre Development committee, which has now asked us to take the scheme forward. Lots of new housing locally means this will be an important facility serving a growing community – and the prominent village […]
Godden Allen Lawn is continuing to strengthen its team by bringing in new specialists to deliver top quality surveying and architectural services to domestic and business clients across Kent and the south east. The award-winning team, renowned for the stunning architecture of The Wing visitor centre at the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne, also delivers a full range of surveying, property maintenance and design services covering commercial, domestic, business and industrial premises. To help it keep up with demand, […]
Here’s to an exciting and prosperous 2017, whether you are reading this as a potential homebuyer, a business or a commercial landlord. At Godden Allen Lawn we have experienced staff who can deal with all your surveying and architectural needs and help you make the best of the opportunities that come your way this year. We ended 2016 on a particular high note, with the dramatic Wing visitor centre we designed for the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust at Capel-le-Ferne […]
The iconic, multi-award wining Wing building we designed for the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust has picked up two more prestigious awards – and this time we really are celebrating. Although the wing-shaped visitor centre at Capel-le-Ferne has already collected a handful of top prizes, the Kent Design and Development Awards have always been special to us as an architectural consultancy, even more so as they are independent of any magazine or trade group. The awards are bi-annual, which means […]
The award-winning Wing building we designed for the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust at Capel-le-Ferne is in the running for yet another top prize. The Wing at Capel-le-Ferne, which houses The Scramble Experience as well as a shop, café and learning centre, has made it onto the shortlist of the 2016 Kent Design and Development Awards in three separate categories. The Spitfire wing-shaped visitor centre, which boasts solar panels and a host of other environmentally friendly features, has been shortlisted in […]
While the Godden Allen Lawn Team has a great reputation for designing modern buildings like the Spitfire-inspired Wing at Capel-le-Ferne, we also know our stuff when it comes to looking after the local heritage. As chartered surveyors, we are skilled at maintaining the fabric of old buildings, and our portfolio currently includes two of the oldest in the country. We protect, preserve and advise the Trustees who are responsible for two Kent alsmhouses, St John’s Hospital in Northgate, Canterbury, which […]
Our ambitious project to convert Folkestone Town Hall into a new museum for the town has exposed an old police cell that will now be incorporated into the final scheme. Folkestone Town Council asked Godden Allen Lawn to design and oversee the conversion of the lower ground floor and part of the upper ground floor after the authority was given £1.7m of lottery funding to carry out the museum scheme. “The lower ground floor used to house the town’s police […]
We’ve raised the roof with our innovative conversion of a former Folkestone hotel into luxury flats – literally. Our design for the St Olave’s building in Trinity Crescent, now being marketed by London-based Peak Living, involved taking off the roof and adding in two extra storeys to create a luxury penthouse flat with a stunning roof terrace. The scheme has created a total of 11 high-end one, two and three-bedroom apartments, with our novel approach to the top of the […]
The new Wing Building designed by Godden Allen Lawn for the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust is rapidly running out of wall space after picking up yet another award. The building at Capel-le-Ferne, just outside Folkestone, has now added a win in the tourism and leisure category of the prestigious RICS South East Awards 2016 to the successes it has already achieved. The award nomination said the building had added an exciting new dimension to the National Memorial to the […]