Project Complete – And what a stunner!
This week we saw the completion and handover of our project in St Ives for St Austell Brewery.
The Pedn Olva pub, hotel and restaurant is perched upon a granite promontory overlooking St Ives Bay, with breathtaking views out towards the town and harbour to the Northwest and the golden sands of Porthminster beach to the Southeast. The former Pedn Olva copper mine at Pedn Olva point, operated in St Ives before 1911, with the engine house and mine shaft (now sealed) located directly below the pub and hotel.
Over the years the hotel has expanded and sprawled across the promontory, in an almost organic fashion, with various extensions to all floors. Key to the proposal was the desire to enhance the relationship between the building and its unique location , both inside and out. In tune with the built and natural grain of the St Ives coastal fringe, the complex is nestled back into the rockface via the introduction of a new material palette to the external elevations, reducing the overall scale and softening the visual impact of the building.