Specialisms:
The
Practice has come to specialise in designing new houses in the country.
A parallel interest has developed in the reordering of existing houses
to make them more suitable as a background for the lives of their
owners. The refurbishments include designs and colouring for the details
of the interior and can be extended to the purchase of furniture,
the design of carpets, textiles and all other aspects of the house
and garden.
Background:
After training as an architect at the Brighton College of Art and
Crafts, Nicholas Hills prepared his European tour, working first in
Greece with Aristotle Sakelarios, in Denmark with Professor Arne Jacobsen
and in Finland with Professor Amo Ruusuvuori. Before setting up his
own practice in 1973 he widened his experience with some notable architects
in this country including Sir Hugh Casson, Dennis Lennon and Ove Arup.
Trained in the modernism of his era Nicholas Hills has nevertheless
now embraced a vernacular architecture closely following a creative
continuity of the Arts and Crafts tradition. The style can vary from
county to county, but here in Norfolk it finds expression in an idiom
which he refers to as Agricultural Mannerism. It owes something to
the farm buildings of Samuel Wyatt, but in the interior planning and
in the way natural light is contrived to enter the buildings something
more to the work of Sir John Soane.
Recent clients:
| Berry
Brothers and Rudd Ltd. |
Offices
in Pall Mall |
| CoI.
Phillip Bradfer-Lawrence |
House
in Warham |
| The
Earl of Chichester |
House
at Cape Cornwall |
| Viscount
Colville of Culross |
House
at West Lexham |
| Fairfield
Halls, Croydon |
Foyers
and restaurant |
| Mrs.
J. Hattrell |
House
in Stanhoe |
| The
Earl of Leicester |
House
at Holkham |
| Jonathan
Powell Esq. |
House
at North Creake |
| The
Dowager Lady Rathcavan |
House
at Cley next the Sea |
| Richard
Worsley Esq. |
House
at Burnham Norton |
Recent Awards:
| 1994
House at Holkham |
Graham
Allen Award and Norfolk Society Award |
| 1997
House at Burnham Norton |
Norfolk
Society Award |
| 2000
Fakenham Corn Exchange |
Norfolk
Society Award and Graham Allen Award. |
| 2000
House at North Creake |
King’s
Lynn Mayors Award for Design in the Environment. |
Contact:
NICHOLAS HILLS, THE OLD RECTORY, TITTLESHALL, KINGS
LYNN, NORFOLK PE32 2PN
TEL: 01328 700 700 FACSIMILE: 01328 700 030 E-MAIL:INFO@NICHOLAS-HILLS-ARCHITECTS.CO.UK
