March 2012 - Winners of the Pinders Design Award for Best Care Home Extension
Award Winners Again

We are delighted to announce our recent success at the Pinders Design Awards 2012. The Wohl Building for Nightingale has received recognition by winning Best Care Home Extension at this years ceremony.

The new dementia wing at Nightingale House was opened on 6th July 2011 by Prince Charles. The stunning contemporary architecture and interiors were designed by Scurr Architects and provide a superb environment for the residents and staff. The Wohl Building is a contemporary state-of-the-art building dedicated to the care of residents with dementia, set within the grounds of the existing grade 2 listed home. The new facilities include a synagogue, hairdresser & beauty salon, crafts & activity rooms, lounges, quiet room and seating areas, dining rooms and a newly refurbished concert room.

March 2010 - Winners of the Pinders Design Awards for Best Large Care Home 2010
Award Winners Again

We are delighted to announce that together with our long term client, Sunrise Senior Living, we are the winners of the Pinders' Design Award for Best Large Care Home 2010 for their new care home in Knowle in the West Midlands. Winning the award two years running is very special.

The Pinders' Design Awards continue to be one of the most important events in the care industry.

This award is another substantial achievement for the Practice and we are very pleased that our client has received further acclaim for their commitment to provide the highest quality care environment which coupled with innovative care provides a new standard of care for the frail elderly and residents with dementia.

August 2009 - The Care Show, London Olympia
Care Show October 2009

We will be exhibiting at the Care Show, London Olympia on the 7th and 8th October 2009.

It is the UKs largest and busiest older people care sector event, now in its fifth year.

We are on stand number G5; we will be delighted to see you.

Please come and meet us and have a chat or bring along your ideas and we would be happy to discuss the opportunities with you.

June 2009 - Frankie & Benny's in Sheffield
Great new restaurant in Meadowhall

We are pleased to announce that we have completed our fourth Frankie & Benny's restaurant for The Restaurant Group. The latest completion is a very successful flagship store located within the 'Oasis' food arena of the Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield.

Working closely with the centre's structural engineer we designed a new mezzanine floor suspended from the existing roof, which allowed us to place the toilets upstairs and release more of the main floor for extra restaurant covers.

June 2009 - Dementia Care Centre at The Nightingale in Wandsworth
Planning permission granted

Scurr + Partners Limited have gained permission on behalf of Nightingale to build a new contemporary wing within the site of the existing Nightingale Care home. The scheme provides a new specialist dementia care centre designed to encompasses the latest principles in best practice for the care of dementia sufferers.

The home provides accommodation for 40 residents on two floors and provides a mix of communal facilities laid out in a series of transitional spaces enhancing the lives of the residents whilst maintaining their personal privacy, independence and dignity.

Each new resident wing will boast an activity room, lounge, dining room and serveries, activity kitchen, quiet room and a choice of separate seating areas. The garden will provide a wonderful environment for the residents and include a meandering path, a sensory garden, raised planting beds, a greenhouse, bird feeders, a water feature and various seating areas.

Also permitted is a new development of 20 extra care 1 and 2 bedroom apartments able to provide residents with an additional degree of independence from the homes existing accommodation. A trustee of the charity said "planning permission of this scale in the middle of Wandsworth is a real result which I know will serve the Nightingale very well over the years to come".

April 2009 - Winners of the Pinders Design Awards for Best Large Care Home 2009
We are delighted to announce that together with our client, The Royal Star and Garter Home, we are the proud winners of the Pinders' Design Award for Best Large Care Home 2009 for their new care home in Solihull.

The Pinders' Design Awards have become one of the most important events in the care industry, providing a great arena for clients, consultants and contractors to meet in a relaxed environment.

Adding to our numerous awards over the past eleven years, this award is a substantial achievement for the Practice and we are very pleased that our client has received such acclaim for their commitment to provide an exemplary care environment and an innovative new care home, which provides high quality care for the frail elderly and residents with dementia.

April 2009 - Sunrise at Hale Barns
Care Home for the Frail Elerly!

Sunrises's latest care home in the North East located in the village of Hale Barnes, concludes an impressive run of four care home openings in four months for our partnership with them, following on from Beaconsfield in January, Bagshot in February and Knowle in March.

The building provides a high quality residential care environment for the frail elderly, including Sunrise's acclaimed specialist reminiscence wing located on the second floor. Sunrise homes provide both generous resident rooms and a considerable amount of communal space, including their trademark Bistro, large Dining Rooms. intimate Parlour and Lounges, and an Entertainment Room with Activities space.

The building design uses local vernacular and materials to create a traditional building and complementing the architectural style of several of the older buildings within the village centre.

March 2009 - Sunrise at Knowle
Two Care Homes for the Price of One!

We are delighted to note the recent opening of Sunrise's latest venture into the provision of care for the frail elderly, located in Copt Heath, Knowle, near Solihull, in the West Midlands. This project includes the provision of the first specialist high needs nursing environment within a Sunrise care home in the United Kingdom.

The final design solution for the site consists of two complementary care homes, one providing specialist care environments for high needs nursing and dementia, and the second providing Sunrise's trade mark quality environment for the frail elderly.

Sunrise of Knowle is Sunrise's 22nd, and Scurr and Partner's 16th care home, in the United Kingdom.

January 2009 - Pinder Awards
Pinder Awards - 2nd April 2009

We are delighted to learn that the Royal Star & Garter care home in Solihull has been selected as a finalist for the 2009 Healthcare Design Awards for larger care homes.

The Royal Star & Garter is a charity caring for ex-service men and women. The new home in Solihull is a few minutes from the town centre and provides accommodation on two floors for 60 residents in four clusters of 15. The design objectives were achieved through an intensive briefing process between the client and the design team which involved the residents and staff of the existing home.

The residents rooms provide bed-head facilities on each wall allowing choice and flexibility for furniture layout. The wall mounted up-light has been carefully positioned and a booster is located above the bed for residents reading and clinical care.

Each room has two windows with splayed reveals maximising the the amount of natural light and a projecting bay window gives each resident their own personal seating space. The colour scheme is restful and domestic.

Entrances to all the rooms are set back from the corridor with plenty of space for furniture and features to personalise the space and entrance to the room, (Memory boxes, door knockers, framed pictures and furniture) promoting respect, privacy, choice and independence.

A lounge, bar, cafe, library and dining room located centrally and provide each group with an alternative space to meet and socialise with each other and visitors.

Residents enjoy sitting in the reception, the heart of the building, listening to the grand piano or watching the comings and goings of local community and visitors to the building.

The atrium voids link the ground and first floors increasing the sense of grandeur and maximising the natural light, and at the same time utilising the stack effect to provide natural ventilation of all the communal rooms, avoiding the need of comfort cooling.