We were appointed to transform a mid century modern home at Alnmouth, appreciated by its family for its elegant proportions. The challenge was to honour that past while preparing the building for a future rooted in sustainability. Working closely with a passionate client, we achieved a significant ninety percent reduction in energy use while safeguarding the architectural essence. What emerged is a house that remembers and renews, keeping its flame alive. Dive in for more insight.
Read MoreHow can materials express memory, resilience, and place? Concrete Quarterly, Volume 59 explores this question through Edge House, where a timber frame superstructure defines the home, light in spirit yet enduring in a coastal climate. Beneath a restrained use of concrete provides the durability required at the cliff edge and anchors the building into bedrock. This dialogue between timber and concrete reflects a balance of pragmatics and sustainability. We are honoured to see the project featured in such a respected publication.
Read MoreThinking of building in a National Park, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Green Belt, or Conservation Area? For over 20 years we’ve been shaping award-winning architecture in some of the UK’s most protected landscapes. This guide reveals how we design with deep sensitivity, navigating complex planning, respecting place, and delivering buildings that endure and truly belong.
Read MoreSometimes, the boldest move is silence. “It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top,” wrote Virginia Woolf. This kitchen, in our latest work is dark and poised, it lets the sea speak louder. Replacing the predictable with presence, it listens quietly to context, to instinct, and to the soul of the home.
Read MoreWe’ve been working with our client to create an off-grid home beside a vast loch on Scotland’s remote west coast. This is a place of wildness, folded between land and water. Black Swan House is shaped by memory and restraint, offering stillness through architecture attuned to its surroundings.
Read MoreIn the heart of the New Forest, architecture steps back, allowing the ancient landscape to lead. Fragmented forms, local materials, and a deep respect for place shape a home that settles into its setting with quiet clarity.
Read MoreResonance House in South London honours our client, a notable figure in the music industry, with a vinyl archive that serves as both storage and a poetic expression of musical memory. This bespoke piece was conceived to embody a life shaped by sound. We pushed structural limits to create a symmetrical element that expresses cantilever and tension with crafted precision.
Read MoreArchitecture, at its best, is not just built, it is felt. Discover our obsessions and the quiet power of light and shadow. Explore da Vinci’s chiaroscuro and Tanizaki’s reflections on the unseen. At Quatrefoil House, these timeless ideas shape a world for our client, where detail, depth, and darkness reveal beauty beyond the obvious.
Read MoreOur Thinking Cube is a forest retreat designed for a polymath, maverick and maker. Suspended above wild ferns, it dissolves boundaries between comfort and nature, inviting immersive reflection and deep connection. A sanctuary for living deliberately and discovering new possibilities.
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