Alison Brooks

ABA Practice Profile

Alison Brooks Architects, founded in London in 1996, has developed an international reputation with award-winning work in urban design, housing, commercial interiors and landscape. ABA.s work is intensely situation-specific, often cross-fertilizing with disciplines outside of architectural profession to create a fertile mulch of ideas at the core of each project. The aim is extend the boundaries of architectural experience through an integration of interior and landscape, exploring a new language of smooth space, de-materialization, texture and movement. ABA has collaborated with some of the UK's most prominent new generation of artists to integrate site-specific art into the work.

In addition to winning a 2002 RIBA award for the VXO House Hampstead, which features in the newly published Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, ABA was shortlisted for the British Pavilion at the 2002 Venice IX Architecture Biennale and for the Blueprint Awards 2002 Best Residential Building. ABA's Atoll Hotel interior on the island of Helgoland, Germany won 1st Prize in two categories at the European Hotel Design and Development Awards 2000 and has been described as a benchmark in contemporary hotel design. ABA is featured as one of 33 female-led practices worldwide in the book 'The Architect - Women in Contemporary Architecture'.

Alison Brooks was born in Canada and educated at University of Waterloo before moving to London in 1989. She joined Ron Arad's One Off Studio and in 1991 became a found-ing partner of Ron Arad Associates where she completed the New Israeli Opera Foyer Architecture and the award-winning London restaurants Belgo Noord and Belgo Centraal. Based in North London ABA is a 10 strong practice committed to excellence in design, technical quality and client service.

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