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
06 Oct 2021
We’re very excited to have been included in the October 6th episode of Your Home Made Perfect on BBC2. Check it out via the link below for a unique insight into our Shades of Grey project: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0010csf/your-home-made-perfect-series-3-6-victoria-and-raheel
22 Sep 2021
Staircases can be the centre piece of a house, but there is rarely a case of ‘one-size-fits-all’. We love designing beautiful, bespoke solutions for our projects! Here are some of our favourites:
10 Sep 2021
While most of the world has recently been introduced to Home Working, we’ve been designing spaces to work at home for decades! Check out our ‘home working’ tag to see some examples of the different types of workspaces we’ve created over the years.
30 Aug 2021