KSS Design Group Ltd

 
Address   KSS Design Group Ltd
6th Floor
1 James Street
LONDON
W1U 1DR
United Kingdom 
 
   020 7907 2222   
   020 7907 2299   
Email   info@kssgroup.com  
Website   www.kssgroup.com 
Contact   Mr David Alan Keirle 

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1: Project NameLeicester City FC Training Centre
Dates: 2017 - 2020
Location: Charnwood 
Gross Area: Not available 
Sectors:
Sport - Specialist Sports Clubs,  Sport - Stadia,  Sport - Swimming Pools
 
Key Services:
Full Architectural Service,  Graphic Design & Illustration,  Interior Design
 
Description:
Leicester City's training centre at Charnwood builds on the Club's incredible 2015-16 Premier League winning season and reflects its owners' ambition to keep the Club competing at the very highest level. The masterplan includes 12 full-size pitches, a show pitch with a 500-seat stand to allow academy teams to play in a match environment, a full-size indoor pitch signature building that moulds into the landscape forming the centrepiece of the masterplan, an integrated training centre building for first-team and academy squads including fitness and hydrotherapy suites, tactics, medical, media, dining facilities and a 9-hole recreational golf course and sports turf academy which will train the next generation of elite ground staff. The facility seeks to combine best practices in elite sports training with celebrating the Foxes' culture and ethos.
 
2: Project NameMerrielands Crescent
Dates: 2019 - 2022
Location: Barking 
Gross Area: Not available 
Sectors:
Houses and Housing - General
 
Key Services:
Full Architectural Service
 
Description:
A joint venture between Clarion Housing and Inland Homes comprises 327 residential units and retail space with associated off-street parking and soft landscaping on a disused ‘Ford’ Brownfield site. Winning ‘Best Off Plan Development’, First Time Buyer Readers’ Awards 2021 for the brownfield redevelopment, the active frontage along Merrielands Crescent will integrate the scheme into the surrounding area by creating a high-quality and active environment with a strong sense of place. The development provides a contemporary collection of one and two-bedroom apartments with a prime location on the city’s fringes.
 
3: Project NameMain Stand Development, Anfield
Dates: 2012 - 2016
Location: Liverpool 
Gross Area: Not available 
Sectors:
Sport - Stadia
 
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Key Services:
Full Architectural Service,  Graphic Design & Illustration,  Interior Design,  Master Planning
 
Awards:
Builder & Engineer Awards 2017, Commercial Project of the Year
Description:
The expansion of Liverpool FC’s Anfield stadium sits at the heart of a master plan regarding the area around Stanley Park. The architectural design reflects the owners’ request to maintain the traditional four-stand configuration, capture the unique spirit of the venue using club and historical references, and reinforce the intense Anfield experience. The phased development sees the stadium capacity increased to just under 54,000. The first phase is now one the most significant single stands in Europe and accommodates a full range of top-quality facilities for players, general admission fans and 4000 premium seat hospitality.
 
4: Project NameStone Lodge School
Dates: 2020 - 2022
Location: Stone 
Gross Area: 10,000 to 49,999 sqm 
Sectors:
Education - Primary Education,  Education - Secondary Education
 
Key Services:
Architects' Service & Fee Advice,  Full Architectural Service
 
Description:
Stone Lodge is the first non-selective school for the Endeavour MAT Trust and will house 1,450 pupils and 250 sixth-form places by 2025. The teaching and sports blocks border the north and east of the site boundary in anticipation of the future large-scale residential development planned for the adjacent site. The school sports centre integrates into the neighbouring ‘sports hub’ where various club venues, including Bowls, Rugby and Judo, have easy access from a public path. This site composition also integrates three sports pitches across the site and a multi-use game court on the grounds, key elements of our competition-awarded scheme design. Classrooms on the teaching block ‘wings’ enhance student comfort with full-aspect windows overlooking the central south-facing courtyard and abundant green space. Efficient space planning allows simultaneous passive supervision of students, internally and externally. The sixth form centre, LRC and creative subjects such as Food Technology, Music and Art feature framed views toward The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, under two miles from the site, achieving the inspirational learning setting desired by the school in the early stages of the client engagement process. This project delivers highly functional and learning-centric spaces with the potential for curriculum evolution and future adaptation. The design aims to surpass the standard DfE Output Specifications and School Specific Brief. A high focus on energy efficiency, inclusivity and occupant well-being engenders the positive education environment offered at Stone Lodge.
 
5: Project NameNo.1 Court, Wimbledon
Dates: 2015 - 2019
Location: London 
Gross Area: Not available 
Sectors:
Sport - Stadia
 
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Key Services:
Full Architectural Service,  Interior Design
 
Description:
Our appointment by The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (AELTC) covers a full range of architectural and design services for the redevelopment of No.1 Court at Wimbledon. The scope of work includes new hospitality and support facilities together with a fixed and retractable roof covering both the playing arena and spectator seating, giving the potential for uninterrupted championship tournament play. The contemporary façade properly respects Wimbledon’s unique heritage, and the new facilities will further enhance the quality of the spectator experience, thereby supporting AELTC’s aim of maintaining Wimbledon’s status as the premier Grand Slam event in world tennis.
 
6: Project NameRoyal Albert Wharf
Dates: 2018 - 2021
Location: Newham 
Gross Area: Not available 
Sectors:
Houses and Housing - General
 
Key Services:
Full Architectural Service
 
Description:
Great Eastern Quays Phase 2 development provides 469 mixed-tenure affordable homes for end-users Notting Hill Genesis and 850sqm commercial space for business start-ups. The site sits at the north-east end of the Royal Docks / Great Eastern Quays masterplan with views across the River Thames. FCB’s design concept is a predominantly brick-built neighbourhood with 12 blocks of residential blocks of varying heights and configurations between public realm garden squares. All aspects of the technical delivery of this large scheme were challenging. In particular, the apparent simplicity of the elegant masonry façades, with their subtle changes of brick, plane and bond, requires focus and complex specialist detailing “beneath the surface”. This project won the ‘Best New Development in the South’ at the First Time Buyer Readers’ Awards 2021. It was a finalist at the Housebuilder Awards 2022 in the Best Regeneration Initiative category.
 
7: Project NamePortal House School
Dates: 2015 - 2018
Location: Dover 
Gross Area: 2,000 to 4,999 sqm 
Sectors:
Education - Primary Education,  Education - Special Needs
 
Key Services:
Full Architectural Service
 
Description:
Portal House is a school for pupils with significant behavioural, emotional and social difficulties, and the extensive development includes the refurbishment of the original school building together with a new 3 storey teaching block and sports hall set in a new landscaped masterplan. The double-pitched roof concept for the new building draws on the local Kent vernacular, and the use of humble traditional materials with simple modern detailing gives the building a quiet but distinct contemporary identity. Both internal and external spaces provide learning environments that are modest, simple but inspiring, subtly reinforcing the School’s underlying philosophy of caring and nurturing whilst maintaining appropriate levels of passive supervision.
 
8: Project NameAhmed Bin Ali Stadium, Al Rayyan, Qatar
Dates: 2017 - 2020
Location: Al Rayyan 
Gross Area: Not available 
Sectors:
Sport - Stadia
 
Key Services:
Full Architectural Service,  Interior Design
 
Description:
The Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar is one of the host venues at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. KSS worked in partnership with Pattern Design to deliver their stadium concept with Main Contractor Larsen & Tourbro. With a nett capacity of 40,000, the stadium will host seven World Cup fixtures, ranging from six Group Stage matches to one Last-16 match.
 
9: Project NameCrystal Palace FC Training Academy
Dates: 2021 - (ongoing)
Location: Beckenham, 
Gross Area: 5,000 to 9,999 sqm 
Sectors:
Education - Training Centres,  Sport - General,  Sport - Specialist Sports Clubs
 
Key Services:
Architects' Service & Fee Advice,  Art & Architecture,  Interior Design
 
Description:
This major renovation and extension project for Crystal Palace FC provides first-class facilities that locate more than 200 players on a single site for the first time. The Academy includes 13 changing rooms, a gym and analysis room, alongside a suite of classrooms for the young players to expand the education and welfare provision. Staff workplace facilities include meeting rooms, a boardroom, and open-plan offices, located alongside a shared central dining and recreation room, all with large terraces that overlook the pitches. Improvements to the external masterplan include a new indoor dome with a full-size 3G pitch and viewing gallery, a full-size 3G floodlit pitch, a full-size hybrid show pitch with seating for up to 500 spectators, and three additional full-size hybrid pitches. The £20m redevelopments have secured Category One status for the club, the highest Academy rating possible. KSS led the project masterplan, architecture, and interior design and worked closely with the club alongside the contractors, dome and furniture suppliers, and pitch specialists.