Sarah Featherstone

Her practice, Featherstone Young, is based in London and has designed projects in the housing, community, cultural, education and commercial sectors. She is also a Co-Founder of VeloCity, a strategic growth and placemaking approach centered on a modernized vision of the English village.{{cite web | url=https://velocityplacemaking.co.uk|title=Home|website=VeloCity|access-date=14 March 2022|quote=VeloCity is a strategic vision that solves some of the most critical issues facing the [English] countryside today, delivered by a team of industry experts.}}{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNLvS5YHq1A|title=100 Day Studio: Annalie Riches & Sarah Featherstone (Velocity)|website=YouTube|publisher=Google LLC|access-date=14 March 2022}}{{cite web | url=https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-21st-century-village-sarah-featherstone-and/id1536913247?i=1000532348721|title=The 21st-century village: Sarah Featherstone and Jennifer Ross on VeloCity|website=Apple Podcasts|publisher=Apple Inc|access-date=14 March 2022}}

Sarah studied architecture at Kingston University London, the Architectural Association School of Architecture and The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Prior to setting up Featherstone Young with co-director Jeremy Young, she was a founding partner of Hudson Featherstone Architects, and Featherstone Waugh with Andrew Waugh (1992–1995).

Sarah teaches at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL), on the interdisciplinary MA Narrative Environment course, and has been a visiting critic at various UK architecture schools, including the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University.

She was an inaugural member of the CABE National Design Review Panel and has been an External Examiner at a number of universities including UCL, London Metropolitan University and Oxford Brookes University.

She is a Civic Trust Awards judge and RIBA Awards judge and is currently on the Islington and St Albans Design Review panels, and formerly those of Southwark and Camden. Sarah and her work have been widely featured in various media, including Channel 4's Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig, Channel 4's George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, Channel 4's Not all Houses are Square, BBC Two's The House That £100k Built, BBC Two's The Culture Show, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and BBC Radio 3's Night Waves.

Established in 2002, Featherstone Young has won a number of awards, most recently RIBA Awards for Tŷ Pawb (2021), Stonecrop (2021) and Jack Windmill (2017); AJ Retrofit of the Year Award 2019 for Tŷ Pawb (2020); and the Gold Medal for Architecture of the National Eisteddfod of Wales for Tŷ Pawb (2019). RIBA Awards have also been awarded to homelessness charity Providence Row’s The Dellow Centre in London, SERICC (South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre) and Ty Hedfan, a new house in Wales.

The practice was a finalist in BD Architect of the Year Award (2017) and The Architecture Foundation’s Next Generation Award (2007)and BD Young Architect of the Year Award (2006).

• 1992–1994 Diploma, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
• 1991–1992 Diploma, the Architectural Association School of Architecture
• 1986–1989 BA (Hons) Architecture, Kingston University London

• Stonecrop, Rutland, England (2019){{cite web|url=https://www.abitare.it/en/architecture/projects/2020/10/29/featherstone-young-architects-villa-in-rutland/|title=Swirling countryside |author=Herbert Wright|publisher=Corriere della Sera|website=Abitare|date=29 October 2020|accessdate=14 March 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.archdaily.com/933263/stonecrop-house-featherstone-young|title=Stonecrop House / Featherstone Young |author=Featherstone Young|publisher=ArchDaily|date=6 February 2020|accessdate=14 March 2022}}
• House, Haslemere, Surrey (2018){{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/home-all-we-kept-of-the-old-house-was-the-view-shmrvw557|title=Home! 'All we kept of the old house was the view'|author=Dominic Bradbury|work=The Times|date=26 October 2019|access-date=14 March 2022}}
• Bay 20 community centre and Dale Youth Amateur Boxing Club (previously housed in the Grenfell Tower), London (2018)
• Tŷ Pawb (‘Everyone’s House’), Wrexham, Wales (2018){{cite web|first=Rowan|last=Moore|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/sep/01/ty-pawb-review-art-gallery-everybodys-house-wrexham-market|title=Tŷ Pawb review – an art gallery that truly is everybody's house|work=The Guardian| date=1 September 2018|accessdate=11 November 2018}}
• Jack Windmill, South Downs National Park (2017){{cite web|url=http://www.jackwindmill.co.uk/history/|title=History of Clayton Windmills|accessdate=3 September 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/15787958|title=Unique venue at landmark windmill near Brighton|publisher=Airbnb|accessdate=3 September 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.themodernhouse.com/holiday-lets/mill-house-west-sussex-uk/|title=Mill House, West Sussex, UK Sleeps 17|publisher=The Modern House|accessdate=3 September 2017}}
• Habitat House (2011–16){{cite web|url=http://silverlakedorset.com/financial-times-habitat-houses-eco-credentials/|title=The Financial Times on the Habitat House's Eco-Credentials|publisher=Silver Lake| accessdate=5 July 2017}}{{cite web|author=Edwin Heathcote |url=https://www.ft.com/content/f9c3082c-fed1-11e6-8d8e-a5e3738f9ae4?mhq5j=e1 |title=Creature Comforts: Buildings designed for humans and animals |publisher=The Financial Times |date=3 March 2017 |accessdate=5 July 2017}}
• Waddington Studios: studios (Phase 1), house (Phase 2), London (2014–15)
• Byam Shaw School of Art campus redevelopment, London (2014)
• Staff Club at Central Saint Martin's Kings Cross Campus (2013){{cite web|author=Colin Buttimer|url=http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/csm/2014/10/07/staff-club-table-nests-shortlisted-blueprint-awards/|title=Staff Club and Table Nests Shortlisted for Blueprint Awards|publisher=University of the Arts London| date=7 October 2014|accessdate=5 July 2017}}
• Dellow Arts and Activity Centre, Providence Row, East London (2012)
• Ty Hedfan, Pontfaen, Wales (2010){{cite web|url=http://www.ty-hedfan.co.uk/|title=Ty Hedfan|accessdate=3 September 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.themodernhouse.com/holiday-lets/ty-hedfan/|title=Ty Hedfan, Wales, UK Sleeps 6|publisher=The Modern House|accessdate=3 September 2017}}{{cite web|author=Jonathan Margolis|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/the-only-flying-house-in-the-village-gdfmxsdghh9|title=The only flying house in the village|publisher=Times.co.uk |date=12 September 2010 |access-date=3 September 2017}}{{cite journal|author=Stefania Vourazeri|url=http://www.demagazine.co.uk/architecture/ty-hedfan-featherstone-young-wales|title=Ty Hedfan – Featherstone Young|journal=Design Exchange |date=1 June 2012 |accessdate=3 September 2017}}{{cite journal|author=Catherine Warmann|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2011/02/24/ty-hedfan-by-featherstone-young/|title=Ty Hedfan by Featherstone Young|journal=De Zeen |date=24 February 2011 |accessdate=3 September 2017}}
• Sunshine Centre, Tilbury Thurrock (2007)
• SERICC (South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre) (2007)
• Bayswater penthouse for Harry Handelsman (2007){{cite web|author=Elfreda Pownall |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/interiors/home/at-home-with-harry-handelsman-the-man-behind-chiltern-firehouse/ |title=At home with Harry Handelsman, the man behind Chiltern Firehouse |publisher=Telegraph.co.uk |date=15 October 2016 |accessdate=5 July 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/station-master-harry-handelsman-6759440.html |title=Station master: Harry Handelsman | London Evening Standard |publisher=Standard.co.uk |date=4 September 2009 |accessdate=5 July 2017}}
• Orchid House (2006){{cite web|author=Cate Trotter |url=http://inhabitat.com/eco-house-sold-for-world-record-72m/ |title=UK Eco-house Sold for world record £7.2m! |publisher=Inhabitat |date=6 May 2008 |accessdate=5 July 2017}}
• Room Set, Daily Telegraph House and Garden Fair (2004){{cite web|author=Naomi Cleaver|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/3324597/Home-trial-sinking-to-new-heights.html|title=Home trial: sinking to new heights|publisher=The Telegraph| date=8 May 2004|accessdate=3 September 2017}}
• Fordham White Hair Salon, Greek Street, London (2002)
• Drop House, Northaw, Herts (2001)
• Voss Street House (2002){{cite web|url=http://www.arvha.org/sitescd/euromed/femmes6/affichage.php-infosproj=180&s=&lang=1.htm |title=Voss Street |publisher=ARVHA : Association pour la recherche sur la ville et l'habitat|accessdate=3 September 2017}}{{cite web|author=Tamsin Blanchard|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2002/sep/08/features.magazine77|title=On the rise|publisher=The Guardian|newspaper=The Observer| date=8 September 2002|accessdate=3 September 2017}}
• Baggy House Pool (1998){{cite book | title = The house book | publisher = Phaidon | location = London New York | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780714839844 }}
• Blue Note Club for Acid Jazz, previously the Bass Clef, Hoxton, London (1993)

• Featherstone Young
• Featherstone Associates
• Hudson Featherstone Architects
• Featherstone Waugh

• RIBA
• (2021) Tŷ Pawb
• (2021) Stonecrop
• (2017) Jack Windmill
• The Dellow Centre in London for Providence Row
• SERICC (South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre)
• Ty Hedfan, a new house in Wales
• (2020) AJ Retrofit of the Year Award 2019 for Tŷ Pawb (2020){{cite web | url=https://retrofit.architectsjournal.co.uk/winners-2019|title=AJ Retrofit Awards - Winners 2019|website=The Architects’ Journal|publisher=EMAP|access-date=14 March 2022}}
• (2019) Gold Medal for Architecture of the National Eisteddfod of Wales for Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Wales
• (2017) Finalist in BD Architect of the Year Award{{cite web | url=http://awards.bdonline.co.uk/the-2017-shortlist/|title=The 2017 Shortlist|website=BD Online|access-date=5 July 2017}}
• (2007) The Architecture Foundation’s Next Generation Award{{cite web | url=http://www.bdonline.co.uk/next-generation-award-shortlists-fobert-featherstone-and-dsdha/3081150.article|title=Next Generation Award shortlists Fobert, Featherstone and DSDHA|website=BD Online|access-date=5 July 2017}}
• (2006) BD Young Architect of the Year Award (2006).

• Central St Martins
• University of the Arts London, MA Narrative Environment
• University College London, former examiner
• London Metropolitan University, former examiner
• Oxford Brookes University, former examiner

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• {{cite book | last = Buxton | first = Pamela | title = 50 architects 50 buildings : the buildings that inspire architects | publisher = Batsford | location = London | year = 2016 | isbn = 978-1849943420 }}
• {{cite book | title = The house book | publisher = Phaidon | location = London New York | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780714839844 }}

• {{cite web | url=https://velocityplacemaking.co.uk|title=Home|website=VeloCity|access-date=14 March 2022|quote=VeloCity is a strategic vision that solves some of the most critical issues facing the [English] countryside today, delivered by a team of industry experts.}}
• {{cite web | url=http://featherstoneyoung.com/|title=Home|website=Featherstone Young|access-date=5 July 2017}}
• {{cite web | url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahfeatherstone/|title=Sarah Featherstone|website=LinkedIn|access-date=5 July 2017}}

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