Sarah Featherstone

Sarah Featherstone (born 1966 in Barnstaple, Devon) is a British architect.

Sarah Featherstone
Born1966 (age 56–57)
Further information
OccupationArchitect
Awards
PracticeFeatherstone Young
BuildingsStonecrop (2019)

House, Haslemere (2018)
Bay 20 community centre and Dale Youth Amateur Boxing Club(2018)
Tŷ Pawb (‘Everyone’s House’)(2018)
Jack Windmill (2017)
Habitat House (2011-16)
Waddington Studios (2014-15)
Byam Shaw School of Art(2014)
Staff Club at Central Saint Martin's Kings Cross Campus (2013)
Dellow Arts and Activity Centre (2012)
Ty Hedfan (2010)
Sunshine Centre (2007)
SERICC (2007)
Bayswater penthouse for Harry Handelsman (2007)
Orchid House (2006)
Fordham White Hair Salon(2002)
Drop House (2001)
Voss Street House (2002)
Baggy House Pool (1998)

Blue Note Club for Acid Jazz, previously the Bass Clef, Hoxton, London (1993)

Career

Her practice, Featherstone Young, is based in London and has designed projects in the housing, community, cultural, education and commercial sectors. She is also a Co-Founder of VeloCity, a strategic growth and placemaking approach centered on a modernized vision of the English village.[ref 1][ref 2][ref 3]

Sarah studied architecture at Kingston University London, the Architectural Association School of Architecture and The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Prior to setting up Featherstone Young with co-director Jeremy Young, she was a founding partner of Hudson Featherstone Architects, and Featherstone Waugh with Andrew Waugh (1992-1995).

Sarah teaches at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL), on the interdisciplinary MA Narrative Environment course, and has been a visiting critic at various UK architecture schools, including the Welsh School of Architecture - Cardiff University.

She was an inaugural member of the CABE National Design Review Panel and has been an External Examiner at a number of universities including UCL, London Metropolitan University and Oxford Brookes University.

She is a Civic Trust Awards judge and RIBA Awards judge and is currently on the Islington and St Albans Design Review panels, and formerly those of Southwark and Camden. Sarah and her work have been widely featured in various media, including Channel 4's Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig, Channel 4's George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, Channel 4's Not all Houses are Square, BBC 2's The House That £100k Built, BBC 2's The Culture Show, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and BBC Radio 3's Night Waves.

Awards

Established in 2002, Featherstone Young has won a number of awards, most recently RIBA Awards for Tŷ Pawb (2021), Stonecrop (2021) and Jack Windmill (2017); AJ Retrofit of the Year Award 2019 for Tŷ Pawb (2020); and the Gold Medal for Architecture of the National Eisteddfod of Wales for Tŷ Pawb (2019). RIBA Awards have also been awarded to homelessness charity Providence Row’s The Dellow Centre in London, SERICC (South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre) and Ty Hedfan, a new house in Wales.

The practice was a finalist in BD Architect of the Year Award (2017) and The Architecture Foundation’s Next Generation Award (2007)and BD Young Architect of the Year Award (2006).

Education

Significant Buildings

Practices
  • Featherstone Young
  • Featherstone Associates
  • Hudson Featherstone Architects
  • Featherstone Waugh

Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions
  • RIBA
    • (2021) Tŷ Pawb
    • (2021) Stonecrop
    • (2017) Jack Windmill
    • The Dellow Centre in London for Providence Row
    • SERICC (South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre)
    • Ty Hedfan, a new house in Wales
  • (2020) AJ Retrofit of the Year Award 2019 for Tŷ Pawb (2020)[ref 26]
  • (2019) Gold Medal for Architecture of the National Eisteddfod of Wales for Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Wales
  • (2017) Finalist in BD Architect of the Year Award[ref 27]
  • (2007) The Architecture Foundation’s Next Generation Award[ref 28]
  • (2006) BD Young Architect of the Year Award (2006).

Teaching and Examining

Notes

    References
    1. "Home". VeloCity. Retrieved 14 March 2022. VeloCity is a strategic vision that solves some of the most critical issues facing the [English] countryside today, delivered by a team of industry experts.
    2. "100 Day Studio: Annalie Riches & Sarah Featherstone (Velocity)". YouTube. Google LLC. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
    3. "The 21st-century village: Sarah Featherstone and Jennifer Ross on VeloCity". Apple Podcasts. Apple Inc. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
    4. Herbert Wright (29 October 2020). "Swirling countryside". Abitare. Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
    5. Featherstone Young (6 February 2020). "Stonecrop House / Featherstone Young". ArchDaily. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
    6. Dominic Bradbury (26 October 2019). "Home! 'All we kept of the old house was the view'". The Times. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
    7. Moore, Rowan (1 September 2018). "Tŷ Pawb review – an art gallery that truly is everybody's house". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
    8. "History of Clayton Windmills". Retrieved 3 September 2017.
    9. "Unique venue at landmark windmill near Brighton". Airbnb. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
    10. "Mill House, West Sussex, UK Sleeps 17". The Modern House. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
    11. "The Financial Times on the Habitat House's Eco-Credentials". Silver Lake. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
    12. Edwin Heathcote (3 March 2017). "Creature Comforts: Buildings designed for humans and animals". The Financial Times. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
    13. Colin Buttimer (7 October 2014). "Staff Club and Table Nests Shortlisted for Blueprint Awards". University of the Arts London. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
    14. "Ty Hedfan". Retrieved 3 September 2017.
    15. "Ty Hedfan, Wales, UK Sleeps 6". The Modern House. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
    16. Jonathan Margolis (12 September 2010). "The only flying house in the village". Times.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
    17. Stefania Vourazeri (1 June 2012). "Ty Hedfan – Featherstone Young". Design Exchange. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
    18. Catherine Warmann (24 February 2011). "Ty Hedfan by Featherstone Young". De Zeen. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
    19. Elfreda Pownall (15 October 2016). "At home with Harry Handelsman, the man behind Chiltern Firehouse". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
    20. "Station master: Harry Handelsman | London Evening Standard". Standard.co.uk. 4 September 2009. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
    21. Cate Trotter (6 May 2008). "UK Eco-house Sold for world record £7.2m!". Inhabitat. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
    22. Naomi Cleaver (8 May 2004). "Home trial: sinking to new heights". The Telegraph. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
    23. "Voss Street". ARVHA : Association pour la recherche sur la ville et l'habitat. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
    24. Tamsin Blanchard (8 September 2002). "On the rise". The Observer. The Guardian. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
    25. The house book. London New York: Phaidon. 2001. ISBN 9780714839844.
    26. "AJ Retrofit Awards - Winners 2019". The Architects’ Journal. EMAP. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
    27. "The 2017 Shortlist". BD Online. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
    28. "Next Generation Award shortlists Fobert, Featherstone and DSDHA". BD Online. Retrieved 5 July 2017.

    Further reading
    • Buxton, Pamela (2016). 50 architects 50 buildings : the buildings that inspire architects. London: Batsford. ISBN 978-1849943420.
    • The house book. London New York: Phaidon. 2001. ISBN 9780714839844.
    • "Home". VeloCity. Retrieved 14 March 2022. VeloCity is a strategic vision that solves some of the most critical issues facing the [English] countryside today, delivered by a team of industry experts.
    • "Home". Featherstone Young. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
    • "Sarah Featherstone". LinkedIn. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
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