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Five things we do, and the way we do them.

Every commission runs through the same stages with the same team. What changes is the scale, from a single chair to a city block.

Every commission runs through the same stages with the same team. What changes is the scale, from a single chair to a city block.

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Capabilities

Plates 01—05

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Architecture

New buildings from first sketch to handover. Houses, cultural buildings and the occasional folly, taken through planning, tender and site with the same team throughout.

Deliverables

Feasibility & site study

Concept design

Planning submission

Tender documentation

Site supervision

Curved concrete edge under a pale sky

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Interior Architecture

The inside of a building deserves the same structural thinking as the outside. Joinery, light, acoustics and material — specified to last decades rather than photograph well once.

Deliverables

Spatial planning

Joinery design

Material & finish schedules

Lighting design

FF&E specification

Two timber chairs against a concrete wall washed by light

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Masterplanning

Work at the scale where buildings become streets. We set the rules — grain, height, frontage, planting — then design enough of it to prove the rules hold.

Deliverables

Site & context analysis

Density studies

Design codes

Phasing strategy

Public realm design

Masterplan model with card buildings and dried-plant trees

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Adaptive Reuse

The greenest building is the one already standing. We survey what is there, decide honestly what is worth keeping, and make the new work legible against the old.

Deliverables

Fabric survey

Structural appraisal

Reuse strategy

Heritage consultation

Retrofit detailing

Passage between an old brick wall and a new glazed one

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Furniture & Objects

Pieces made for specific rooms, usually because nothing suitable existed. A few have outgrown their buildings and gone into production.

Deliverables

Bespoke furniture

Prototyping

Fabricator liaison

Small-batch production

Cane and timber armchair in a patch of sun

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Process

Stages 05

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The same five stages, with the same people, on every commission.

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Survey

We measure the site, the fabric and the brief before anything is drawn. It takes longer than most clients expect.

4–11 weeks

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Concept

One idea, tested in models and sections until it holds up from every side.

6–10 weeks

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Planning

Drawings and consultation carried through consent by the people who drew them.

3–6 months

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Tender

A complete construction package, priced by builders we have worked with before.

8–12 weeks

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Site

Someone from the studio is on site every week until the last snag is closed.

12–24 months

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Closing

Plate 06

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Let’s draw something lasting

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