Veterans Aid Hostel

Tower Hamlets, London

Sector: Hotel

Client: Veterans Aid Charity

Status: Completed

Budget: £5-6m

Team: Alex Zimmermann, Joaquin Vizcaino, Leonardo Pelleriti, Phil Hurrell, Will Wimshurst

A competition-winning proposal for Veterans’ Aid to renovate and extend its East London hostel. The project responds to the charity’s aim of creating an environment that supports comradeship, dignity and mutual support for veterans in crisis.

Working to an ambitious brief and programme, Wimshurst Pelleriti developed the scheme to a stage that secured a recommendation in principle from the local authority, an important step towards obtaining public funding.