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From Us to You

2011-12-22T07:11:00.000-08:00

The Results Are In

2011-12-09T05:50:00.000-08:00

Lauren, Sophie and Chloe were awarded Bronze in the final of the Eat Art Competition last night. Great effort and well done to all of them.

Gingerbread...but not as you know it!

2011-12-08T08:31:00.000-08:00

Good luck to our designers Lauren Crilly and Sophie Taylor and to Chloe Green of HLW who have been shortlisted for tonights Eat Art competition grand final run by Bene and Fritz Hansen. Their unique take on the theme 'Timeless Beauty' that presents a syringe alongside a bottle of botox really struck a chord with the judges. Other tilney shane entries of the Apple Logo by Shannon Pope-Ellis, Vitit Limpaphatanavanich and Brian Reynolds and the Diamond Ring by Claire Nicholls, Terri Scott and Elaine Law were also fantastic efforts.

Tilney Shane Christmas Jumper

2011-12-01T03:52:00.000-08:00

Our light box this year fashions a rather fetching Christmas Jumper.

Rising Star

2011-12-01T03:46:00.000-08:00

Actor Andrew Buchan recently returned to our TV screens in a new series of "Garrow's Law" on Sunday nights on BBC 1.
The Radio Times interviewed the rising star over his various likes and dislikes however they surprisingly failed to ask him about his favourite workplace design consultancy. If they had, they may have heard Tilney Shane mentioned.
Our picture shows him mugging up on our work when filming at our offices in 2007

Mixology North

2011-11-17T01:27:00.000-08:00

Andrew Bartlett is one of the judges for the Mixology North awards this evening. He is quoted as saying "It's going to be a great night and I am looking forward to seeing the reactions to the various awards for excellence"

Streets Ahead

2011-11-16T08:10:00.000-08:00

Team Tilney Shane (Andrew Bartlett, Sophie Taylor and Ben Boxshall) won the first round of the Fritz Hansen Grand Prix. Sadly the coveted trophy has had to be returned in time for the next round but don't worry, it will find it's way back home to us next month!

Beautifully Restored

2011-11-07T02:11:00.000-08:00

The Victorian Society are quoted as saying "30 Euston Square in London, it has been beautifully restored by its owners" in the November issue of their publication.

Royal College of General Practitioners

2011-11-02T03:24:00.001-07:00

October has seen some major works being carried out with the formation of the volume of the Auditorium; new steels (a mere 675mm x 12.5m weighing 6 tonnes each) being winched into position so that existing columns can be removed and temporary roofs being erected so that the new extensions can be commenced.

Mock ups are also underway for the fit out works with close co ordination between all the services to ensure minimum visual impact with in a listed environment.

Great Exhibition

2011-11-01T09:14:00.000-07:00

The new Power of Making exhibition at the V&A is well worth seeing. We particularly liked the Gorilla made of steel coat hangers and the prosthetic suit for Stephen Hawking.

www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/power-of-making/power-of-making

Sport Relief Mile

2011-11-01T08:48:00.000-07:00

Next years sporting challenges will start with the London Sport Relief Mile on the 25th March. So far we have 6 runners who will run a total of around 36 miles for Charity. Details of how to sponsor us will follow.

www.sportrelief.com

Jones Lang Lasalle Property Triathlon

2011-07-26T09:00:00.000-07:00

A great day out and above all, we raised £1240 for MacMillan Cancer Trust. A very big thank you to all our supporters and sponsors.

Mixology 2011

2011-06-16T01:40:00.001-07:00

Good turn out to Mixology by tilney shane. Left to right: Terri Scott, Robert South, Shannon Pope-Ellis, Brian Reynolds, Sophie Taylor, Carl Fisher and Lauren Crilly.

Tilney Shane Triathlon Team

2011-06-07T05:39:00.000-07:00

One month to go before the three teams from tilney shane compete in the Jones Lang LaSalle Property Triathlon raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

If you would like to sponsor us please visit the tilney shane just giving page.

www.justgiving.com/tilneyshane/

Eco Build Highlights

2011-03-25T04:58:00.000-07:00

The latest issue of Green Eyes highlights some of the products we liked at Eco Build.

Predicting Trends

2011-03-24T05:11:00.000-07:00

tilney shane's creative team recently attended the Scarlet Opus Trend Forecasting seminar hosted by Steelcase. Terri Scott presented the highlights to the rest of the tilney shane team at one of our monthly discussions. You can view the presentation on our Flickr page. For further information, please contact t.scott@tilneyshane.co.uk or visit the Scarlet Opus Trend Forecasting blog www.trendsblog.co.uk.

British sculpture exhibition

2011-03-22T02:57:00.000-07:00

Lauren Crilly and Sophie Taylor recently attended an evening at the Royal Academy of Arts to see the first exhibition for 30 years to examine British sculpture of the twentieth century. The show represents a unique view of the development of British sculpture, exploring what we mean by the terms British and sculpture by bringing the two together in a chronological series of strongly themed galleries, each making its own visual argument.

Tilney Shane to support the King Sturge Property Triathlon

2011-01-21T08:59:00.000-08:00

For the second year running, Tilney Shane are going to enter the King Sturge Property Triathlon. This year we will be looking to enter three teams for the relay.

Green eyes focus on Ska

2011-01-19T07:43:00.000-08:00

Our latest edition of Green Eyes can be downloaded here.

Snow is falling

2010-12-21T06:42:00.001-08:00

Last year we had a 4m high pink Christmas Tree. This year we went for snow flakes to adorn the light box in reception. We didn't know that the real stuff was going to be so abundant.

Merry Christmas to all our Clients and Industry Colleagues and thanks for a great year.

Christmas is coming

2010-12-13T03:08:00.000-08:00

To celebrate Christmas, Claire Smithurst and Terri Scott have created the tilney shane twelve days of Christmas. These will be posted on our Flickr page every day, from today.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Royal College of General Practitioners

2010-11-15T08:21:00.000-08:00

We are delighted to announce our appointment as lead architects on the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) new premises.
GPs are at the heart of the nation’s health service provision, and the RCGP strives to ensure that the family GP has the skills and confidence to fulfil their crucial role.
In order to achieve its vision for general practice, the College needs versatile, accessible, highly specified and sustainable accommodation. In 2012 they will be moving into new premises. Bringing the College's diverse interests together under one roof, demonstrating its own sustainability ethics, introducing more effective ways of working, being able to host quality events and attract the best thinkers in the medical world will all help the College to play its role in supporting excellence in primary care.

tilney shane out and about

2010-11-01T06:55:00.000-07:00

It's the time of year when everyone clambers to be at the European furniture and design fairs to see the latest trends. This year Shannon and Brian attended Orgatec and Lauren went to Interieur. Please do not hesitate to contact them if you want to know more about what they saw and to share ideas about future developments.

Unilever Customer Centres

2010-10-08T07:52:00.000-07:00

Tilney Shane has recently completed the design of Unilever’s new customer centres in England and France.
The customer centres were created to be used for day long conferences between Unilever and their prospective/exisitng clients . The key to these projects was flexibility and usability. The idea being that each time a client is invited into the centre it is dressed with their corporate identity and products.

Shannon Pope-Ellis spotted in Mix Magazine

2010-10-07T02:37:00.000-07:00

Following our success at the Mixology awards, Shannon appeared in Mix Magazine last month.

The Last tri of the Season

2010-10-07T01:53:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Carl Fisher for completing the Hever Castle Triathlon in a time of 2:45:58.

This is the week

2010-07-04T12:08:00.000-07:00

After months of preparation and fine tuning, the moment has almost come for tilney shane Project Manager Tim King and Projects Director Carl Fisher to take part in the King Sturge Property Triathlon on Friday 9th July at Dorney Lake near Windsor. The final preparations have seen Tim disappear to Loch Ness to perfect the art of open water swimming and Carl has been seen cycling up Box Hill in Surrey. It's a rest week this week to ensure they conserve all their energy for race day.
Carl is in wave 3 setting off at 10.55am, Tim is in wave 13 at 3:20pm. The very best of luck to both our boys and to all our industry colleagues taking part.

AIS Contractors Award

2010-06-15T05:03:00.000-07:00

The Association of Interior Specialists (AIS) recently presented OPL with a silver award in the "Interior Fit Outs" category for BAA Heathrow. A tilney shane design.Take a look at the attached article from the AIS publication to see what they thought of the project.

It was an award winning week

2010-06-10T00:08:00.000-07:00

It has been a really good week with two awards being given for BAA offices in Heathrow designed by tilney shane. On Tuesday OPL won an AIS silver award for Interior Fit Out and on Wednesday we won Best Large Commercial Office of the Year at the Mixology awards. The latter was picked up by Shannon Pope- Ellis (Left in the picture).

tilney shane recruits

2010-05-06T07:48:00.000-07:00

We are very pleased to announce that we have recruited three new members to join our team.
Darren Platt, Sophie Taylor and Vitit Limpaphatanich joined us recently to provide creative design and technical support on a range of projects. If you are interested in joining our team, please forward your CV to Andrew Bartlett at a.bartlett@tilneyshane.co.uk.

tilney shane project on front cover of Education Design and Build Magazine

2010-04-15T05:47:00.000-07:00

The staircase which tilney shane transformed as part of its project for the University of Derby is pride of place on the front cover of Aprils edb magazine.

edb magazine said " The University of Derby has transformed a multi-storey link staircase into a dynamic beacon for Kedleston Road campus. The installation was undertaken as part of a re-cladding project involving three tower blocks. Architecture and design consultants tilney shane used Martin Professional to provide a cost effective scheme to light the planar glazed staircase. Cyclo fluorescent colour changers were installed to allow infinitely programmable colour shifts and variations". (Photo: Dave Stewart)

Over The Line

2010-03-26T09:23:00.000-07:00

Well done to Terri, Lauren, Shannon and Carl for completing 18 miles between them for the sport relief run at the Embankment, London last Sunday. To date they have jointly managed to raise £970 made possible by the support of great sponsorship from friends, family and industry colleagues. Carl's wife and two children joined in for the first mile and raised a further £100.

King Sturge Triathlon

2010-03-11T09:15:00.000-08:00

Carl Fisher and Tim King have entered the King Sturge Property Triathlon to be held at the Eaton Rowing Club, Dorney Lake, Windsor which has been selected as one of the venues for the 2012 Olympic Games. For more information or to enter this event yourself, please visit their website.

http://www.propertytriathlon.com/

Sport Relief Update

2010-03-09T08:56:00.000-08:00

The clock is ticking and seven participating athletes is now down to five so the dwarf costumes have been shelved. The best alternative we've come up with so far is the Jackson Five. That said the remaining of us are almost at our peak of fitness and raring to get going.

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far and helped us near our target of £1000. Carl Fisher (self appointed team captain) is said to be delighted with the amazing contributions from friends, family and industry colleagues.

If you would like to donate, please visit the following web-site: http://www.sportrelief.com

click on the icon that says 'donate' and type tilney shane into the text box. This will link you to our team page where you can sponsor us.

University of Derby

2010-03-05T08:45:00.000-08:00

tilney shane's lighting scheme for the planar glazed Link Block provides a beacon for the campus.

Salvation Army

2010-03-05T08:35:00.000-08:00

tilney shane have been awarded the contract to specify the FF&E for the Salvation Army's training centre at Denmark Hill.

BCO award a step closer

2010-03-05T08:17:00.000-08:00

This week we have met the judges from the BCO to present the BAA Offices at Heathrow. It's now just a matter of waiting for the awards dinner to find out if we have been successful. Shannon Pope-Ellis says 'winning an award will be great recognition of all the hard work that the entire team contributed to the project'.

Social Events

2010-03-05T07:58:00.000-08:00

This month we will be going out and about to the following events:

Eco Build 02-04.03.10

Wapping project art installation gallery and restaurant with Hunters 11.03.10

Cafe Kick for the Hunters Cup (foosball) 17.03.10

Task systems showroom visit 18.03.10

The Overbury 'Not Going to MIPM drinks' 18.03.09

Running in the Sport Relief London Mile event 21.03.10

Insight 16

2010-03-05T07:43:00.000-08:00

download our latest edition of Insight 16

Insight 16

2010-02-03T04:59:00.000-08:00

download our latest edition of Insight 16

tilney shane supports sport relief

2010-02-01T09:15:00.000-08:00

2010 is the year that we intend to get out there and improve our fitness. The first small step is to enter the Sport Relief run on the 21st March 2010. We haven't yet decided which location but the Embankment looks like a firm favourite with most of us. At the moment we have seven of us enrolled. I'm sure this can lead on to bigger and better things - perhaps ironman in 2011.

BAA Offices shortlisted for the BCO awards

2010-02-01T09:03:00.000-08:00

The BAA offices designed by tilney shane and completed in 2009 have been shortlisted for the BCO awards. The client and the entire project team including Davis Langdon, Morgan Professional Services, Opl. and MHA are all delighted that the project is being recognised in this way.

tilney shane flickr page

2010-02-01T08:54:00.000-08:00

Claire Smithurst, Lauren Crilly and Terri Scott have now taken ownership of the tilney shane flickr page. They will be constantly updating it with the latest in design related images that we all find interesting. If you have a particularly innovative design solutions that you think should be posted, please send them to info@tilneyshane.co.uk for consideration.

Zip Car lands in Parsons Green

2010-02-01T08:42:00.000-08:00

We have signed up to a zip car and it is due to be installed outside our offices this month. The car can be booked on line at the following address.

http://zipcar.co.uk/business/

Unilever CiiC

2010-02-01T08:31:00.000-08:00

tilney shane were invited back to Leatherhead to work closely with the European CiiC Director, the Head of Facilities Management Unilever UK, Mellersh & Harding and Ibex to deliver a new customer innovation centre. The project has a go live date of early February and will revolutionise the way Unilever collaborates with its clients.

QCDA

2010-02-01T08:15:00.000-08:00

We have now completed the QCDA with Morgan Lovell and the client is delighted with the results. There will be a phased occupation over the next 3 weeks. The project has been assessed under the BREEAM system and is rated as excellent. In addition, tilney shane have utilised some interesting and innovative materials including a recycled timber product formed from old school desks in the entrance canopy.

Happy New Year

2009-12-18T02:19:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas

2009-12-11T05:44:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas to all our friends, clients and industry colleagues. Please note we will be on our Christmas break from the 22nd December 2009 to the 4th January 2010.

BAA Site Tours and BCO Entry

2009-12-10T09:07:00.000-08:00

Thank you to Paul Buckley at BAA for assisting us in organising our recent site tours of the Heathrow offices designed by tilney shane. We had fantastic feed back from our industry colleagues.

We have also now submitted the project for the BCO awards and many thanks to everyone for their input.

Full details of the BAA project can be viewed in our case studies on our website.

Our Tree

2009-12-10T08:53:00.000-08:00

This year we have the ultimate Christmas decoration in our office. Brian Reynolds has designed a 5m high tree to get us all in the Christmas Spirit.

Terra Firma

2009-12-10T08:47:00.000-08:00

Priavte Equity Company, Terra Firma Capital Management, recently moved in to new offices in Guernsey. Tilney Shane designed the interiors and project managed the construction works and furniture installation. The office, on the top floor of Longport’s newly completed Royal Chambers development on the seafront in St.Peter Port, has stunning view s across the English Channel towards Jersey and France

Insight 16 December

2009-12-10T08:27:00.000-08:00

down load the latest insight 16 release featuring Associated Press and Cadbury

website launch

2009-11-04T06:05:00.000-08:00

Thanks to the team at Dhub for creating our new website. To view more of their work, go to www.dhub.com

insignt 16 November

2009-11-04T04:41:00.000-08:00

download an electronic copy of Insight 16

christmas is coming

2009-11-04T03:24:00.000-08:00

with the december editions of magazines arriving on your doorstep in september and christmas parties being held in november because no one is around in december, christmas seems to start earlier each year.

sooner the better we say!

here are a selection of web links to get you in the mood.

recycled decorations: www.re-foundobjects.com

living christmas trees: www.livingchristmastrees.co.uk

christmas day walk: www.walks.com

ice bar: www.belowzerolondon.com

ice skating: www.viewlondon.co.uk

green eyes update

2009-11-04T02:51:00.000-08:00

Shannon Pope -Ellis and Tim King produce a monthly internal environmental news letter that keeps us all up to date with the latest in technology, statutory obligations and green trends that are affecting the word in which we live.

Shannon Pope Ellis remarks 'our environmental mission is simply to positively influence climate change and our direct and indirect impact on the environment through responsible design and through informed working practice.'

tilney shane appoints new associates

2009-10-28T09:17:00.000-07:00

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Shannon-Pope-Ellis, Zefa Mongan and Brian Reynolds as associates.

They are all really looking forward to the challenge and excited about helping build tilney shane's future.

Projects director, Carl Fisher says, 'the move to appoint our associates will play an important role in the business going forward and will ensure that we continue to deliver to the very highest standards.'

QCDA nears completion

2009-10-28T08:52:00.000-07:00

We are nearing completion on a very exciting project for QCDA. This breeam excellent rated building will be handed over in less than 3 weeks with following a fast track fit out.

Designers Claire Smithurst and Elaine Law have worked closely with QCDA to produce an inspiring scheme. The main feature being an organic timber canopy that encapsulates the reception.

upcoming events

2009-10-28T08:45:00.000-07:00

This month we have a packed events calendar full of showroom parties, awards ceremonies and exhibitions. Lauren Crilley is quoted as saying, 'it's getting to that time of year where there seems to be something on every night!'

Here are some of the things you will see us at.

Architect of the year award 05.11.09

Inova wine tasting event 12.11.09

Boss & Office Blueprint show room party 19.11.09

Hunters wine tasting 19.11.09

FX Awards 24.11.09

Techo party 26.11.09

When will we get the christmas shopping done?