Self are commercially minded Architects designing and delivering quality buildings and spaces

Self have designed and delivered The Pointing Dog Clubhouse, the flagship venue of the group. The former landmark Polish ex-servicemen’s club has been sympathetically refurbished and extended to create a ‘Clubhouse’ for socialising and dining. The extensive additions included the demolition and rebuilding of a single storey extension to the rear for the kitchens and a new single storey pitched roof extension providing a dramatic dinning space with its high-pitched ceiling.

The existing bar wing has been remodelled exposing the roof soffit and it has been opened up with floor to ceiling glazed concertina windows. The 1st floor has been refurbished to provide private dinning rooms, with an additional bar. The front courtyard and approach have been redesigned to create extensive outside seating and a generous entrance approach from the street.

The existing building consisted of three blocks of 8-storey student accommodation located around a central courtyard. This major project was split into two distinct phases. Phase 1 involved the refurbishment of the existing cluster 386 bedrooms to form 33 new studios from existing cluster flats and redundant staff rooms.

Phase 2 was a new build wing that provides an additional 33 studio rooms. A new common room was created in redundant storage space to provide additional amenity areas. The external façade of the building was re-clad using new powder coated aluminium cladding panels.

The proposed scheme is for an extra-care housing development for older people consisting of 61 one and two-bedroom apartments, of which 8 two-bedroom dual-access apartments form a terrace. The supporting accommodation includes a café, residents’ lounges, staff facilities, hobby rooms, guest suites, laundry and associated landscaping works including the provision of 32 car parking spaces.

Self completed the design and delivery for the £multi-million fit out (retail, back of house and ancillary) of the new build store. The 64,000ft² department store is House of Fraser’s first store at an out-of-town retail and leisure complex and their first sustainable store, as every aspect of its architecture and interior is designed to connect with the beautiful natural setting. The interior connects beautifully with the store’s natural setting and even includes a naturally lit, 48m² living wall in the central atrium which is home to more than 2,000 indoor plants. The ‘fashionably beautiful’ Rushden Lakes Shopping Centre is set in one of Northamptonshire’s outstanding areas of natural beauty.

Self redesigned all the amenity space in the 981 bed Marsden House, an existing student accommodation block close to Leeds City Centre and the Campus of Leeds Beckett University.  The design utilised redundant areas of a health club, with a gym, a pool and changing rooms.

The design creates a range of different areas for socialising and study and now provides lounges, study areas, work pods, refreshment areas, cinema and entertainment areas, games pods, table tennis, pool, table football areas, a gym and laundry. The design takes took inspiration from the diversity of Leeds and its industrial heritage in the use of materials, fabrics and lighting.