Client Projects Showcase | DV Architects, Staffordshire

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Moon under Water

Watford

Situated in the heart of Watford town centre, this popular boozer needed a garden refresh.

Yr Hen Orsaf

Aberystwyth

Our design specialists and project managers successfully completed a full internal refurbishment to this existing public house.

Thomas Botfield

Telford

DV architects completed a small refresh project which included new flooring, full internal redecoration, new artwork & bric a brac and new glass storage racks.

Mercure Oxford

Eastgate

Due to the historic location it was important for our interior design specialists to design the rooms to suit a largely tourist clientele.

Mr Miyagi’s

Portsmouth

With the client’s main customer base being students one of the most important aspects of the brief was that the design was very instagramable.

The Flying Boat

Dartford

Our design focused on modernising all customer areas and upgrading the back of house areas to improve operations for the staff.

Corn Exchange

Leicester

Our design focused on modernising all customer areas and upgrading the back of house areas to improve operations for the staff.

Coliseum

Abergavenny

This Wetherspoon free house has been meticulously refurbished incorporating tributes to its former use as the Coliseum cinema.

The Bridgehouse

Chippenham

The refurbishment created a fresh new warm welcome with a traditional pub atmosphere.

Bole Bridge

Tamworth

Our team put forward proposals to push the garden back into the small unused car park and create an orangery extension to the rear of the pub.

Mercure Dunkenhalgh

Blackburn

The design throughout had to work for both leisure & commercial clientelle as the hotel is very popular with business people but then at weekends it becomes a weekend retreat and popular wedding venue.

Back of Beyond

Reading

With the premises being located right on the edge of the river Kennet which forms part of the Kennet & Avon Canal. DV architects took their inspiration from the traditional paintings found on the passing barges.

The Wheatsheaf

Elsmere Port

The scope of works for the project was to make the pub feel more welcoming to clientele, to utilise the outdoor drinking areas more, and generally smarten the frontage to give more curb side appeal.

The Brockley Barge

Brockley

The scope of works on this Wetherspoon pub house included all newly painted external walls, windows, doors, and a completely new signage pack.

Figure of Eight

Birmingham

DV Architects were tasked with bringing the old décor up to date, using existing furniture whilst retaining the traditional character and charm of the building.

Bespoke fitness centre

Birmingham

This fitness centre aims to offer a boutique fitness brand in the setting of a flagship members only gym. The facility is set to be hosted within a modern retail complex in a curved corner plot in Birmingham.

Moon in the Square

Bournemouth

The initial challenge to the venue architects was to increase the capacity of the garden to meet demand, using the existing available exterior space. The first phase of work was so successful that DV Architects was then asked to work on an internal and external refurbishment for the ground floor.

Pasta di Piazza

Newcastle-under-Lyme

The challenge was to make better use of the interior and exterior space available, incorporating a fresh, new look that would appeal to a new audience without alienating the restaurant’s loyal customers.

The Mare Pool

Sutton Coldfield

DV Architects’ team of venue design specialists were challenged to consider both the exterior and interior space and to provide a full design and build service to attract new customers from the retail development.

Pasta di Piazza

Stone

The challenge for DV Architects was to take a new brand development concept and to extend it to a complete refurbishment of the premises. The objective was to provide a fresh, new look that would appeal to a new audience without alienating the restaurant’s loyal customers.

Waterend Barn

St Albans

The new internal refurbishment incorporated decoration, artwork throughout the space and new furniture that would work in groups of two, three or four, and could also come together allowing the space to be used as a banqueting hall. Now everybody orders from the original main barn and then chooses to sit in the refurbished barn.

Abraham Darby

Brierley Hill

The Abraham Derby is situated at the popular Merry Hill Shopping Centre. Its location is just outside of the mall, between the car park and the main entrance. The main challenge for our venue design specialists to overcome was that customers were walking past and not feeling invited to go in. It had almost become a blind spot.

The Winter Seam

Castleford

The challenge was to increase the pub’s appeal as a dining venue during the week and to maintain the weekend nightclub appeal with its dance floor and late opening. Following the refurbishment, the pub experienced record food and drink sales.

Acorn Inn

Lichfield

DV Architects designed an open gantry food area, where customers will see clean crockery on clean tiles, under heat lamps, as their first impression. The team worked with the existing glazed atrium roof light in the middle of the pub and introduced additional lighting to lighten and brighten the venue, improving its appeal.

The Square Bottle

Chester

The challenge to the venue design specialists was to reconfigure what was already there to improve food and beer sales without alienating the existing customers. DV Architects upgraded the existing bar and extended it to curve around to join a new open gantry food area to promote the restaurant.

Pryzm & Curve

Plymouth

a large capacity nightclub that had become a bit dated and tired. It had a big club area plus a pre-dance drinks bar that didn’t work, a restaurant that didn’t work, and a Parisian themed boudoir room with crushed velvet that looked dated and tired. There was no seating throughout the club, which allowed for 1000 capacity, but most customers were students buying cheap drinks. The challenge was to transform the nightspot into a multi-room club with a new VIP service for customers.

The London Bar

Gatwick

The owners of The London Bar had a successful pub, situated at the top of a set of escalators in the airport. When Gatwick switched the escalators to run in the opposite direction, footfall to the pub dropped. The London Bar was created as a pop-up bar at the bottom of the escalators, to drive footfall back to the pub.

Henry Tudor House

Shrewsbury

The three story, listed building, featured a pub on the ground floor, which was rundown, tired and had been closed. The challenge for DV Architects was to work closely with Anthony Carty Design, providing a full design and build service, including subcontractor management.

Kings Head Inn

Salisbury

This well known, historical listed building needed an upgrade to its hotel rooms, which had become tired and basic. Modernisation was required, but DV Architects also needed to maintain the character of the building.

SIG

Nationwide

SIG wanted to create a public face for the business and to make it more straight forward for customers to buy goods from the business.

Commercial/Offices

Ledger Buildings

Docklands

This Grade 1 listed building posed challenges with open eaves and structural changes to provide an updated, modern pub for all to enjoy.

Lloyds No. 1 Bars

Nottingham

DV Architects project to maximise space in a listed building to increase the number of covers while refreshing the tired interior. This included refreshing the bar area, the furniture, walls and floors.

The Prince of Wales

Cardiff

Formerly The Prince of Wales Theatre, built on the grounds of the New Theatre Royal.

The Rockingham Arms

Elephant & Castle

Rockingham Arms, stands on the same site as its long-standing predecessor, which was destroyed during the Blitz in the 1940s.

The Square Peg

Birmingham

The Square Peg takes its name from a remark made by JD Wetherspoon’s Chairman, Tim Martin.

The Muggleton Inn

Maidstone

This JD Wetherspoon pub is named after Charles Dickens' reference to Maidstone as "Muggleton" in The Pickwick Papers.

The Fox, Stonehouse

Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield

The Fox is the second of two pilot locations for the rebranding of the Mitchells & Butlers' Stonehouse brand.

The King of Wessex

Bath

DV Architects were appointed to enhance The King of Wessex interior of this pub while introducing key operational improvements.

The Captain Flinders

Euston

During the redevelopment of Euston station, archaeologists uncovered the remains of Captain Matthew Flinders.

The Assembly Rooms

Epsom

The Epsom Assembly Rooms were among the first of their kind built in England and are the oldest surviving example.

The Micker Brook

Stonehouse Cheadle

The first of two pilot locations for the rebranding of the Mitchells & Butlers' Stonehouse brand.

Mercure Dunkenhalgh

Blackburn

The design throughout had to work for both leisure & commercial clientelle as the hotel is very popular with business people but then at weekends it becomes a weekend retreat and popular wedding venue.