“The necessity of sharing and combining spaces – packing them in without feeling packed – dictated an approach that recurs through the practice’s work.”
God’s plan: Bethnal Green Mission Church in London
- Jon Astbury, Architectural Review
”The 14 apartments on its upper levels subsidised a handsome new double-height place of worship, a vicarage, co-working facilities for charities, a community hall, a café, a bookshop, a community kitchen, and foodbank. The round-the-clock occupation also had a transformative effect on the adjacent park, which had long been blighted by anti-social behaviour.”
Religious architecture: ‘In whose blent air . . .’
- Ellis Woodman, Church Times
”Gatti Routh Rhodes’ proposal places an existing and much-loved but somewhat hidden garden at the centre of the buildings, reimagining it as a cloister or almshouse garden.”
Gatti Routh Rhodes Chosen for Second East London Church
- Elizabeth Hopkirk, Building Design
”Bethnal Green Mission Church in London’s East End represents a groundbreaking model for contemporary places of worship in dense urban environments.”
New Work in Brick: Bethnal Green Mission Church
- Brick Bulletin
”The Bethnal Green Mission Church project is a delight throughout. It is a low-budget scheme, but shows quality and considered detailing that testifies, undoubtedly, to Gatti Routh Rhodes’ energy and perseverance over many years.”
Heavenly Mansions
- Matthew Lloyd, Architecture Today
“[Bethnal Green Mission Church] offers a welcoming, vibrant, and accessible space for people in our local community, and with a design which connects our rich history with our contemporary needs and expression.”
”Set design and architecture often make for a fruitful combination: but what happens when the playwright gives not even the slightest hint of where a performance is set, or what appears in the space?”
Set Design: Gatti Routh Rhodes imagines the world of Martin Crimp
- Jon Astbury, Architects’ Journal
”New Architects 3 is the Architecture Foundation’s landmark guide to the best architectural practices set up in the UK in the past decade.”
New Architects 3 Launch
- Architecture Foundation (Featuring Gatti Routh Rhodes)
”The complex mixed-use requirements were dealt with successfully to deliver a low-energy use building that provides space for community use, residential units, and has reinvigorated the adjacent Paradise Gardens.”
”With its ancillary buildings converted into new flats, the main building of this 1892 Hackney Wick church has been refurbished and retained as a place of worship - creating a unique ecclesiastical blend for new residents.”
St Mary of Eton, Hackney Wick
- Ike Ijeh, Building Design
”New Architects 3 is the Architecture Foundation’s landmark guide to the best architectural practices. The judges were impressed by the variety of projects in the entry, ‘all approached with architectural sensitivity’ – as well as by the practice’s track record of delivery. ‘They can build and that’s the ultimate test,’ said the judges.”
Gatti Routh Rhodes wins Young Architects of the Year Award (YAYA) 2019
- Building Design
”Lined with birch-ply shelving and red terracotta floors, while utilising white powder-coated steel for the stairs and library ladder, the scheme helps maximise daylight to the previously underlit lower ground floor.”
Height and light: Cut House, Oxford
- Rob Wilson, Architects' Journal