MARCH 2009
UNITED KINGDOM SUPREME COURT
This month saw the completion of the building works of the new Supreme Court, for which Luke Hughes & Company have designed the library fittings to fit in with the Feidlen and Mawson's architectural scheme. This appointment followed Luke Hughes's award-winning designs for another major law library - the Supreme Court Library in Edinburgh completed in 2004. Luke Hughes & Company have also designed, in collaboration with Tomoko Azumi, the furniture for the three new courtrooms, as well as the furniture for the Justices's new private rooms. The completion of the library, manufactured by joinery company E.E. Smith as sub-contractors to the Kier Group, has presented unexpected challenges including incorporating water-sprinkler fittings within the book-stack lighting. It has also meant collaborating again with the letter-designer, Richard Kindersley, who also designed the lettering for the Luke Hughes Millenium Altar for Bristol Cathedral in 2001.
www.feildenandmawson.com
www.justice.gov.uk/about/supremecourt.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom
www.kindersleystudio.co.uk
Images:
1 Tomoko Azumi with a model of the court
2 Computer generated image of the proposed plan
3 Computer generated image of the Justice's desk in a private study
© Luke Hughes & Company July 2009
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