We work with clients, communities and constraints. We balance ambitious design with planning policy, creative ingenuity with buildability, and the latest technology with the realities of budget and programme. We challenge expectations of what is possible.
While disparate in nature, scale, form and material, our projects are all characterised by a combination of pragmatic problem solving and idealistic ingenuity. We call this approach Pragmatic Idealism.
Awards include a RIBA National Award, Civic Trust Award, Dezeen Awards shortlist, AJ Small Projects shortlist, AJ Retrofit shortlist and a BD Young Architect of the Year finalist nomination.
Our work has been widely published, featuring in The Guardian, Wallpaper, Fast Company, Dezeen, the RIBA Journal, the Architects Journal, Building Design, Detail, Arquine and Afasia.
Our projects have included four coastal holiday homes in Kent designed as a continuous spiral of floorplates to maximise sea views, an extension to a barrel vaulted community centre which creates a wraparound winter garden, a mixed-use regeneration scheme for a former Debenhams in Folkestone, and a swimming lane in the Regent's Canal. Other projects include a footbridge for Network Rail, a public space in Arrecife for Lanzarote Council, a treehouse for Kew Gardens, and a playful sculptural installation reimagining play at Dulwich Picture Gallery.
Completed works include Bradbury Works and Woodberry Works, two affordable workspace projects for Hackney Co-operative Developments, widely recognised and published internationally. We also work with people to improve their homes. Our first completed building was a carefully detailed prefabricated glass house in Birmingham. Green House is a reconfiguration of a Hackney home, designed in close collaboration with a building conservationist client. Tile House is a rooftop extension clad externally in recycled plastic tiles and unified internally by a warm palette of Douglas fir. Rigg Studio creates an artist's studio that references the language of mid-century modernism.
We are currently working on a large student accommodation scheme in South London, improvements across three University of the Creative Arts campuses, and 48 mixed-tenure apartments with commercial space in Strood Kent. Also in progress, a mixed-use scheme in Surrey where pitched roof volumes increase density while retaining the character of the street, a house on stilts on the Thames designed around flood risk, and two neighbouring houses conceived as non-identical twins.