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WEST ST STUDIO is an architecture and design practice established by Jack Hughes in 2019. The studio is based in Hastings and works across a broad range of sectors and scales including furniture design, refurbishment, new build, public realm and masterplanning, and has considerable experience both in residential design and working with listed buildings, in Conservation Areas, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and other sensitive settings. Designs are developed through an understanding of context and place to respond to the client's individual aspirations and needs with an emphasis on simple, cost effective buildings, and imaginative spatial planning. Jack is an architect with experience across a range of sectors gained over the past decade in practice. He studied at the Welsh School of Architecture under Peter Salter and has worked with some of the UK’s leading design practices, developing expertise working with historic buildings and landscapes over 5 years at Inskip + Jenkins Architects in London where he was part of a team working on contemporary interventions in nationally significant settings including Waddesdon Manor; Green Templeton College, Oxford; and as Project Architect for the new garden building at Strawberry Hill House, completed in 2014, and at Metropolitan Workshop where he gained further experience in complex residential and mixed-use developments, estate regeneration, urban design, and public realm as project architect for a number of high profile, multi-disciplinary projects in highly sensitive contexts including, from 2018, an extension to Sir Richard MacCormac’s Cheltenham Maggie’s Centre. During his time with Metropolitan Workshop he collaborated with prominent residential and urban design practices including Allies and Morrison, Proctor and Matthews, Levitt Bernstein, Studio Egret West, and Maccreanor Lavington, and notable clients from both the public and private sector including the London Boroughs of Lewisham, Camden, and Lambeth; Wates; Igloo; Dorrington; Green Templeton College Oxford; and Maggie’s Cancer Caring Trust. In 2016 he co-founded Hurley + Hughes Architects, completing a number of small residential and commercial projects. |