SEPTEMBER 2007

Feix&Merlin complete their first building!
Feix&Merlin's competition winning beach hut design, 'Eyes Wide sHut' was officially unveiled by the Mayor of Mablethorpe at a grand opening ceremony on the South Promenade, Mablethorpe. www.bathingbeautiesfestival.org
22nd September 2007.

Feix&Merlin on the BBC news!
Feix&Merlin's competition winning beach hut design, 'Eyes Wide sHut' was featured on the BBC news - watch it here!
22nd September 2007

Feix&Merlin in the Guardian!
Feix&Merlin's competition winning beach hut design, 'Eyes Wide sHut' was featured in an article in the Guardian.
9th September 2007.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/sep/09/escape.uk

AUGUST 2007

Feix&Merlin on the Channel 4 news!
Feix&Merlin's competition winning beach hut design, 'Eyes Wide sHut' was featured on the Channel 4 news. Check it out!
20th August 2007

Feix&Merlin win residential development project!
Feix&Merlin have won an invited competition to design 4nr.
apartments from shell & core at the Urban Splash development,
Albert Mill, for a private client.

JUNE 2007

Feix&Merlin at the Bathing Beauties exhibition at The Hub Gallery Friday 15 June - Sunday 2 Sept 2007!
Feix&Merlin's competition wining beach hut design, Eyes Wide sHut, will be featured at the Bathing Beauties exhibition at the Hub Gallery, Lincolnshire from Friday 15 June until Sunday 2 Sept 2007. Contact Mia Thornton, The Hub Navigation Wharf, Carre Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, NG34 7TW, UK hubofficer@leisureconnection.co.uk tel: 01529 308710

JUNE 2007

Feix&Merlin at the BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS Architects Exposé Wednesday 6th June - Friday 8th June 2007!
G4C (Generation for Collaboration) and YPP (The Young Practitioners Panel of the RIBA) are hosting an exposé of outstanding architectural work by talented young architects and have invited Feix&Merlin to exhibit at the Bright Young Things! exhibition at Gleeds Offices 95 New Cavendish Street London W1W 6XF on Wednesday 6th June - Friday 8th June 2007.
Sponsored by Gleeds Thomas Beney thomas.beney@gleeds.co.uk tel: 020 7631 7000

MAY 2007

Feix&Merlin win Planning permission for Eyes Wide sHut!
East Lindsey District Council have awarded Feix&Merlin Architects planning permission to build their competition winning design for a beach hut in Mablethorpe, on the North East coast of England.
The Lincolnshire Coastal Art Project is part financed by European Regional Development Fund Partners are: Lincolnshire County Council, East Lindsey District Council and the local parish councils.
Bathing Beauties Art Meets Architecture on the Lincolnshire Coast www.bathingbeauties.org.uk

APRIL 2007

Feix&Merlin win Listed Building Consent
and Planning permission for HOOD HOUSE!

The works to the Grade II listed Georgian townhouse on Kennington's Cleaver Square include the full interior refurbishment of the main building, a structural glass extension to the rear; a dormer roof extension, and a new build outhouse in the rear of the garden. The project is currently being tendered with a view to be on site by the end of 2007 with completion due mid 2008.

SEPTEMBER 2006

Feix&Merlin win the international Bathing Beauties competition to 'Re-imagine the beach hut for the 21st century'!

Feix&Merlin have been selected as one of four winners of the international Bathing Beauties competition to 'Re-imagine the beach hut for the 21st century'. The competition was devised by artist Michael Trainor with the aim of producing a linear gallery of dramatic new seaside architecture for a 10mile stretch of Lincolnshire coast between Mablethorpe and Chapel St. Leonards, UK. This highly innovative approach to coastal regeneration is part of a wider environmental improvement scheme lead by Lincolnshire County Council with East Lindsey District Council and local parish councils. Feix&Merlin hope to be on site this summer with a target completion date for September 2007.

Over 240 scale models were entered by artists and architects from 15 countries with ideas ranging from whimsical follies to creative exercises in space, light and line, the Bathing Beauties competition has elicited one of the most exciting responses to any architectural competition this century. The competition was judged by a panel of experts and all entrants details were kept anonymous until the winning designs had been selected.

The four winners who are each offered a commission of £20,000 pounds sterling to build their hut in 2007 are:
Atelier NU, Montreal, Canada for 'Halcyon Beach Hut'.
Feix&Merlin, London, for 'Eyes Wide sHut'.
'i-am' associates, London, for 'Jabba'.
we made that, London, for 'A Hut for Gazing and Canoodling'.

Bathing Beauties Art Meets Architecture on the Lincolnshire Coast www.bathingbeauties.org.uk

MAY 2006

Feix&Merlin shortlisted on the Deal Pier Cafe Bar Competition!
Feix&Merlin have been shortlisted along with three other practices in the competition to renovate the Café-bar facility at the end of Deal Pier, Kent. The project forms part of an on-going series of improvement works being carried out by Dover District Council, whose completion is scheduled to coincide with the Pier’s Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2007.

Dover District Council received eighty-two (82) Expressions of Interest from architectural practices across the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands - four of which were invited to proceed to design.

The Jury Panel consisted of representatives from Deal Town Council, the Deal Historical Society and Dover District Council, together with an Adviser from the RIBA (Robert Sakula, Ash Sakula Architects). The panel selected teams which they felt would be most capable of producing a successful resolution to the project, with a high quality, innovative, striking design that will attract interest from the sea front and encourage visitors onto the Pier.

The four practices (in alphabetical order) invited to proceed to the design phase of the competition were as follows: -

Block Architecture
Feix&Merlin
Glowacka Rennie Architects
Niall McLaughlin Architects