We’ve just returned from Utsuroi House on the outskirts of Bristol, where something quietly resolved is taking shape. The project reflects our client’s deep commitment to detail and care, and our studio’s shared pursuit of building with purpose, beauty, and intent. Together, we are shaping a home that moves towards zero-energy living. Take a moment to explore our process and glimpse the collaboration that underpins our search for rigour.
Read MoreGet an insight into the soul of our studio as Director Kristian Hyde is published in the RIBA Journal with his reflective essay 'Postcard from Firminy, France'. The piece retraces a journey made twenty-five years ago, returning to Le Corbusier’s Saint-Pierre church. First visited on a youthful pilgrimage with co-director and life partner Kay Hyde. Both architectural and human in spirit, the article explores time, memory, and the quiet endurance of buildings that continue to speak long after their authors are gone.
Read MoreOur team has just returned from London after receiving the Best Sustainability Project award for Edge House at the 2025 Homes and Gardens Design Awards. The recognition celebrates our commitment to creating homes that unite environmental performance with timeless design. Edge House stands as a quiet statement on how building with structural timber can shape a more sustainable way of living.
Read MoreWe 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. 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.
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