Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects

11/03/2026

Here is a selection of internal photos from our Cleaver Square project photo-shoot. Have a look at our website for the full selection.

https://www.ibla.co.uk/cleaversquare

11/03/2026

The photos from our Cleaver Square project photo-shoot have arrived, and here is a selection of external shots. Have a look at our website for the full selection.

https://www.ibla.co.uk/cleaversquare

09/03/2026

A little 'preview' here of IBLA's conversion of Harrow's Old Town Hall into residential accommodation, which is approaching completion now. This fine but dilapidated Grade 2 Listed building has been carefully restored and reconfigured, and the five flats are nearly ready, so it won’t be long before we have finished photos of it to share.

25/02/2026

Our Cleaver Square 'hidden house' from the street, on photoshoot day. Images from the brilliant Brotherton Lock photographers will be arriving soon. Watch this space.

25/02/2026

The sun shone for the first time this year yesterday, during the photo shoot of our 'hidden' new-build house, on the edge of the lovely Cleaver Square, in Kennington.

10/12/2024

Wealdstone Brook

IBLA have designed a housing project on an under-used plot of land on the boundary of Woodcock Park, in the London borough of Brent.

Wealdstone Brook, a narrow watercourse, runs along the southern edge, adjacent to a row of dis-used garages that had once served neighbouring flats but had fallen into disrepair. The site had been the subject of numerous failed planning applications, and includes a community mural painted by local students in collaboration with a company of graffiti artists.

Sensitivity to the privacy and overlooking of the surrounding houses and the outlook of their gardens was required, and, as a response to that, IBLA’s proposal reduces in height across its length. The project creates six new houses, arranged in the form of a short terrace, with a row of four 2-bed houses set between two larger 3-bed family homes, all with generous private gardens.

The soft tones of the surrounding parkland and riverside setting are echoed in the Siberian larch facade. Top floor bedrooms sit within a pitched clay tile roof, so the block reads as predominantly single storey, with dormers giving views over the waterway, and creating an animated roof form. This varied silhouette is bookended with a timber clad ‘tower’ element at the eastern boundary, which commands the crossing point of the brook. New trees and planted areas along the front face of the new terrace, and an expansive gravelled forecourt create a communal entrance. All the units have direct access to Wealdstone Brook from their living rooms, via a rear raised deck. IBLA have also incorporated the existing mural into the project, as a wall that screens the new development from the public footpath that leads to the park.

https://www.ibla.co.uk/wealdstonebrook

05/12/2024

Marlborough Place

This project is the refurbishment and extension of a five-storey terraced house, designed by Robert Adam as a replica Georgian terrace in 2004, and sits within the St. John’s Wood Conservation Area.

The relationship between the house and garden was compromised, with an awkward rear extension acting as a barrier and preventing light and views between inside and out. The project aims to repair this with a new two-storey extension that will improve the flow of spaces and manipulate the ground levels, to create a series of bright interconnected living areas and gently stepped garden terraces.

Predominantly glazed, with pale stone columns and a hipped leaded roof crowned with a rooflight, the materials of the extension have been chosen to complement the existing house. The hipped roof form is expressed internally as a plastered volume, with softly curved edges echoing those of the living room and entrance hall ceilings. Tall bronze-framed sliding doors allow the space to open fully across the corner, transforming it into a breezy loggia. A spare bedroom, tucked under the new garden room, is enclosed within a clay toned rendered wall that carries the stuccoed rusticated base order of the existing terrace through to the new construction.

The ground floor of the existing house will be re-modelled, and the entrance, living and kitchen areas linked through timber-lined openings. Timber panelled walls and a generous coved plaster ceiling detail give continuity to this sequence of spaces from front to back. This language of timber linings and sculpted ceilings is repeated on the upper floors; the master bedroom suite will also be reconfigured to create a master bathroom with walk in shower, double basins and bath area.

03/12/2024

IBLA are converting a Grade II Listed Edwardian building into residential accommodation. Located on the High Street, in the heart of the village of Harrow-on-the-Hill, the site was a former council office, council chamber and fire station, and is surrounded by historic buildings. It was in civic use until the middle of the 20th C, but now lies empty.

The building contains a number of impressive oak-panelled rooms with ornate corniced ceilings, and a grand entrance hall and stone staircase, all of which are being preserved and incorporated into the new flats. Insensitive alterations, such as non-original door openings and windows will be stripped out, and the balanced composition of the red brick, stone-quoined facades will be restored.

Careful removal of poor quality, late 20th C. accretions will enable the re-instatement of a small courtyard at the centre of the site, around which five new apartments are arranged. This will allow natural light into the building, and restore the original plan form. A new concrete spiral stair, encased within a lightweight, timber-framed cylindrical volume is designed in gentle contrast to the brick walls of the existing building. It will sit in the corner of the courtyard, and give access to the flats above ground level. Internally, bathrooms and some kitchens are introduced as ‘pods’, and expressed as contemporary elements of furniture. They are designed to 'float' over the parquet flooring, and to stop well below the horizon of the original picture rails and cornicing. Walls and floors will be insulated where possible, and specific attention has been paid to the routes of new services, which will be threaded through the existing fabric from above and below, in order to minimise disruption to the existing finishes.

The project will be starting on site in January, and construction is expected to be completed by the end of 2025.

03/12/2024

IBLA director Kim Loddo was invited to review work from BA and March students at Manchester School of Architecture last week. The event - Design Chats+ - was held at the Manchester Technology Centre, and involved projects from four of their eight Ateliers: Flux, Continuity, Intra-structure and Non Standard Habitats.

Kim gave a brief introduction to IBLA’s work, and then spent the day teaching alongside the Head of the school, Professor Kevin Singh. The students were lively and engaged, with interesting design briefs, and the sites being looked at ranged from Mayfield in south Manchester, to Cumbria, Cornwall and Crewe.

The MSA is a joint school of The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University, with over 1000 students, and is consistently ranked among the top schools in the UK.

24/10/2024

https://www.ibla.co.uk/single-post/moving-up

IBLA were asked to remodel and extend the top floor of a Victorian semi-detached house in west London to create a children’s playroom, studio space, bedroom and bathroom to meet the needs of a growing family. Key elements of the brief were to make an unusual space, and to make the house more susta...

13/10/2024

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