Architectural Model Makers in London
22 September 2008
Andrew Ingham and Associates Ltd are now part of the Design Build Network, providing one of the most experienced and architectural friendly model making services in London. Our model making is entirely geared to architectural models, from marketing, planning and design development to public exhibition models.
Andrew Inghams’ background and interests lie in architecture. As a graduate of the Architectural Association, he co-founded Tetra Associates in 1980 and Andrew Ingham and Associates in 1992, which now employs 20 people, including a number of highly experienced project model makers who have been with the company for many years.
In over 30 years of model making, we have been involved in many notable projects, starting with the Lloyds building for Lord Richard Rogers, and more recently, the Swiss Re Tower and Sackler gallery for Sir Norman Foster. This has also included various schemes for Battersea power station from SOM, RHWL, John Outram, Arup and Associates, and The London Eye for Marks Barfield Architects.
We have also been involved in many commercial developments:
- Canary Wharf – Ballymore
- Kings Cross, Regents quarter – RHWL
- Paternoster square, St. Paul’s – Terry Farrell
- Waterloo passenger terminal – Grimshaw architects
- Bristol Broadmead development and Portsmouth northern quarter – Chapman Taylor
- St Davids’, Cardiff – Benoy
We have completed many stadium models:
- The 2012 Olympics main stadium
- Royal Ascot
- Sydney Olympic stadium
- Durban stadium
- Wembley arch and Wimbledon roof mechanism for HOK sport venue event
We have provided models for many architectural competitions, including:
- Yokohama ferry terminal, Kolizea, Novartis underground car park - Foreign Office Architects
- Scottish Museum, British Museum, Scottish assembly, Welsh assembly – Benson and Forsyth
- Pulkovo airport, St Petersberg, Russia and Zurich airport – Grimshaw Architects
- London Terminal 5 – Auckett Ltd
- Birmingham New Street – Crab Studio (Peter Cook)
- Warsaw Museum, Carlisle Pier and Manchester master plan – Heneghan Peng
Our current projects include:
- Ferrari world, Yas Island – Benoy
- Resort scheme for Doha – Thomas Heatherwick studio and RHWL
- Marks and Spencer retail interior – Caulder Moore
- Cromwell Road – Multiplex
- York House – Koen Pedersen Fox
- Victoria development – Benson + Forsyth
- Lansdowne Road stadium, Dublin – HOK SVE
- St Giles’ development – Grimshaw Architects
- Exeter University development – Exeter University
- Projects for Tesco at Hillingdon – MAKE Architects
- Dublin North quarter – Horan Keoghan Ryan
We have also been involved in a number of events and exhibitions:
- Building a full-size Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying machine for the Hayward Gallery and the city of Armana
- Egypt the Pharaoh Ahkatans abandoned capital for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
- The Royal Academies New Architecture Exhibition 1986 – Lord Richard Rogers
- The Royal Academies Living Bridges exhibition: 14 historical bridges, including Old London Bridge, Palladios design for the Realto Bridge, Melnikov proposal Paris parking garage, Pulteney Bridge, Sir John Soanes Triumphal Bridge, Jellicos and Coleridge crystal span bridge at Vauxhall
- In France, the Thiepval memorial arch for the War Graves Commission, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens
Many models are shown at the Royal Academy summer show and the Venice Biennale, including Nigel Coates’ Ecstacity installation in the Biennale garden, Venice zoo, for which we made 20 models. For the Eden project, development models and more recently a model for ‘the edge’ project was used on national television to promote and assist fund raising.
Other projects have included:
- St. Martins In the Field redevelopment – EPA
- In and Out club, Piccadilly – EPR
- Silvertown development – Urban Strategies
- Millennium Dome redevelopment – HOK
- The BBC Music Centre – FOA
- The Grand Museum, Egypt – Heneghan Peng
We have provided models for MIPIM:
- Gresham street – Asticus and Grimshaw Architects
- St. Botolphs – Grimshaw Architects
- Lombard St. – Asticus
- Battersea power station – Parkview
Most of our models incorporate internal lighting and some use mechanisms to open up interiors and show sections. The Battersea power station incorporated four separate scissor lifts for each quarter of the building. The ‘edge’ model for the Eden project has a swing mechanism that raised and lowered the split model. Some are simple hinges, others are fully remote controlled.
