17 Jul 2025
We’re delighted that Live and Let House has been shortlisted for the AJ Retrofit and Reuse Awards 2025. This retrofit project transforms a poorly subdivided, semi-detached 4-storey Victorian villa into a sustainable and flexible home for our client, shaped around her passions for food, music, and gardening. Delivered through a two-phase masterplan, the project redivided the units … Continued
30 May 2025
We are excited to share that Discovered House has been commended in the light, space and atmosphere category of the Daylight from Above Awards 2025, sponsored by the RIBA Journal and Velux. It has also been published in the May 2025 edition of the RIBA Journal seen below.
17 Apr 2025
We were appointed to carry out the feasibility and planning reports for the development of two mews houses in Camberwell, working with the same developer as on our previous project at nearby Madeline Terrace. Building on that experience, we brought a strong understanding of the local context and planning approach, helping shape a scheme that … Continued
14 Mar 2025
We are delighted to share that ‘Discovered House’ has been shortlisted for this year’s London RIBA awards! We are in great company this year, diverse projects of all scales across the city, and to see our domestic work on the same list as some of London’s large scale new architecture.
17 Dec 2024
After she lost her life partner, our client had a clear ‘downsize’ brief: to re-design her recent property purchase – a 4-storey Victorian villa that had been rather badly separated into 2 maisonettes. From this she wanted to achieve a lettable unit for her own economic sustainability whilst creating an uplifting double-storey garden apartment in … Continued
11 Dec 2024
Our clients were downsizing to a 3-bedroom early-Victorian house as their final home. Although re-worked in the 1990’s, the property lacked practicality, coherence, connectivity, lightness or heart. This underpinned the agreed brief at the outset. By stripping back the rear and side extensions, we ‘discovered’ the old house. We floated away a new family room … Continued
01 Dec 2021
One thing we are often asked to create are unique bathing spaces. Naturally, not all of our ideas make it through the design process to construction, but here’s a glimpse of some of those that do!
04 Nov 2021
As a Practice we strive for the sustainability of our projects to be discrete and indivisible from the architecture. This could mean using thermal mass such as exposed concrete slabs, high thermal insulation, natural light and low-sun penetration for winter-time solar gain, ducted air and heat-recovery systems, green roofs, rainwater harvesting and ground surface permeability, … Continued
29 Oct 2021
As the days are getting darker, we’ve been looking back at warmer times – specifically some sun soaked brick detailing from one of our more recently completed projects. We love the day detailing techniques can add texture, definition and beauty to brickwork! It’s all in the details! Check out our Heavy House project for more.
15 Oct 2021
Government will call for producers and consumers of commodities such as soya and cocoa to commit to stopping land clearances