Paul Vonberg Architects is a specialist practice concerned primarily with the alteration and repair of listed historic buildings. We also design contemporary interiors inspired by our work on many historic rooms. We offer a very personal service founded on design sensitivity, common sense and long experience.
We direct architectural and interior projects ranging from a few thousand to a few million pounds in value. Since 1989, Paul Vonberg has been asked to advise on a number of prestigious historic buildings, mostly in Westminster, the City of London and Cambridge. These can be seen on the Project Pages.
Many of these projects have involved especially challenging Planning Permissions or Listed Building Consents where our particular skill at preparing and marshalling arguments seems to have brought considerable success in unpromising circumstances.
We direct architectural and interior projects ranging from a few thousand to a few million pounds in value. Since 1989, Paul Vonberg has been asked to advise on a number of prestigious historic buildings, mostly in Westminster, the City of London and Cambridge. These can be seen on the Project Pages.
Many of these projects have involved especially challenging Planning Permissions or Listed Building Consents where our particular skill at preparing and marshalling arguments seems to have brought considerable success in unpromising circumstances.
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The Old Kitchens had hardly changed in size or location since they served the Benedictine Nunnery of St Radegund in the Twelfth Century. At that time, it is thought that meals for perhaps thirty mouths were required each day. The numbers increased a little when the buildings were converted to become Jesus College in 1496, and, by 2020, the Kitchens were sometimes producing as many as a thousand meals in a day.
The Porters' Lodge was completed as expected in the Summer of 2019 and is now in full use by Fellows, students and the Porters themselves. It's early days but initial reactions have been positive, especially to the Post Room where, as is evident from the photograph, 'snail mail' is far from redundant.
Rather than creating a new dwelling which is essentially an object placed on the land, might it not be possible to create a new dwelling whose primary formal role is to engage with the land, connecting with adjacent hedges, ditches, trees, walls, footpaths, meadows and with the topography in order to create places around the new dwelling?
Computer generated visuals can be a splendid means of communicating a proposal. This entrance is currently dark and entirely lacking in timber, and will remain so until our design is built. As with all our work, the aim is not to 'prettify' but to make a place where before there was only a space. At certain times of the day and year, the sun falls on the right hand side of the entrance.
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