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Studio

The people in the studio.

  1. 01What working with us looks like
  2. 02Selected projects
  3. 03Thinking about a project?
  • Principal

    Design direction and client relationships

    Founded the practice and leads design on every commission.

  • Associate Director

    Technical design and delivery

    Takes a design from planning consent to a building that was actually built the way it was drawn.

  • Project Architect

    Planning and consultation

    Runs projects through planning — pre-application, consultation, committee — and puts together the drawings and statements that get a scheme consented..

  • Head of Sustainability

    Fabric, energy and materials

    Makes sure a low-energy claim survives the modelling.

How we work

What working with us looks like

Four stages, and you will always know which one you are in.

  1. 01

    Brief & feasibility

    What you want, what the site allows and what it is likely to cost. Sometimes the answer is not to build.

  2. 02

    Design & consent

    Design development through to a planning submission, with pre-application engagement wherever it helps.

  3. 03

    Technical design

    Drawings and specification a contractor can price and build from, coordinated with the engineers.

  4. 04

    On site

    Tender, appointment, inspections and certification, through to handover and the defects period.

Projects

Selected projects

Residential, commercial and cultural work.

A rear extension that changed the whole house

A family in a Victorian terrace · Residential

A rear extension that changed the whole house

Not much more floor area, and a completely different house to live in.

A workplace built around how the team actually works

A growing company taking its first building · Commercial

A workplace built around how the team actually works

Not an open plan, and not cellular offices either.

A listed barn brought into use

A private client · Heritage

A listed barn brought into use

Consent granted at the first attempt on a difficult building.

All projects

Thinking about a project?

The earliest conversations are the most valuable ones. Get in touch before the brief is fixed.

Discuss a commission