A contemporary two-storey house of pale timber cladding and board-formed concrete stands at the edge of a calm lake among birch trees at dusk, with a few warm lights on inside

Built to last

Buildings that belong to place

We are an architecture practice designing homes, workplaces and public buildings that are calm, durable and good to be in.

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About the practice

A studio of architects who start with the site and the people

How do we begin a project?

With a visit and a conversation. We walk the site, listen to how you live or work, and agree a clear brief.

What does it usually cost?

Fees follow the stages of work and are fixed at each one, so you know the cost before committing further.

How long will it all take?

A house typically takes eighteen months from first sketch to keys. We give you a programme at the start.

Square metres

Designed across housing, schools and workplaces.

86K+

Homes delivered

From single houses to schemes of sixty flats.

380+

Awards won

National and regional prizes for built work.

50+

Planning approvals

Including rural, sensitive and heritage sites.

120+

01.

Listen and survey

We study the site, light, access and planning context, and talk with everyone who will use the building. The brief that results is short, specific and agreed.

An architect in her thirties in a dark wool coat stands on an empty grassy building plot holding a notebook, looking across the site towards a line of trees, with a surveyor's tripod beside her

02.

Design and test

Sketches, models and visuals explore options side by side. You see how each one performs on cost, energy and daylight before we settle on a direction to take.

A white card architectural model of a small house sits on a pale timber studio table beside rolled drawings, a scale ruler and two sharpened pencils, lit softly from a window

03.

Detail and build

Technical drawings and specifications turn the design into something a contractor can price and build. We stay on site through construction until handover.

An architect and a site manager, both in white hard hats and high-visibility vests, stand inside a timber-framed building under construction and look together at a large drawing sheet that one of them holds open

Client stories

What clients say about our work

We felt heard from the first site walk to the day we moved in. The design made far more of a narrow plot than we thought possible, the drawings were thorough, and the builder said it was the clearest set he had worked from. The house is warm, bright and ours.