Ian McChesney Architects
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Ian McChesney
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Ian McChesney graduated from the Royal College of Art before joining John McAslan + Partners, where he later became an associate. This position provided significant experience working on projects such as the redevelopment of the Royal Academy of Music and new offices for international art and architecture publisher Thames & Hudson. He went on to found his own practice, Ian McChesney Architects, in 2000. It soon made its mark, winning an international open competition to design a series of wind shelters for Blackpool’s South Shore promenade.
The practice has recently won competitions to design a bandstand for the new Walkergate development in Durham and a pavilion for Avenham Park in Preston. It is currently engaged on a project to create a day nursery and community building in south London.
Preston’s Avenham Park
Ian McChesney’s design for a pavilion for Preston’s Avenham Park will be the centrepiece of a Heritage Lottery funded scheme to revive parkland designed in the 1860s by noted landscape designer Edward Milner. The brief called for a classroom, WCs, a rangers’ base and a performance space. The site is in a saucer-like depression, with the roof form particularly important. A forest of raking slender columns supports a series of roofs that fan out across the site.
