Part of travelling as a studio is looking beyond architecture and questioning what we think we know. In Bregenz, Austria, we visited Cyprien Gaillard’s When you expect flutes, it’s whistles. This was an exhibition that made us look again at public space, exclusion and the systems shaping everyday urban life. It also made us realise we should make more room for things we would normally pass by. Especially things that challenge our thinking.
Read MoreWe’ve been working on a new home for a family in Mid Sussex, north of Brighton. At the heart of the woodland stands an ancient oak, already growing when the American Constitution was being written. Everything that followed began there. This journal traces what we discovered, and how the House of Solitude sits alongside other current work across the South Coast, each shaped by a different place, context and story.
Read MoreWhat Paragraph 84 really means, why it matters, and how exceptional homes in the countryside can emerge through rigour, landscape sensitivity, and a design process that turns difficulty into architectural opportunity. Jump in for 20 years of experience and an in depth guide to get you to where you want to be.
Read MoreHow do you give a home real mass, the kind that makes you feel safe on an exposed coastal site, built to take on gale-force winds with indifference, and then just make it appear to float effortlessly? The answer is in the details. Castle High follows the idea through structure and junctions. Tectonics carries the meaning of this carefully crafted home on the edge of Wales. A magical place of wildness where the impossible begins to feel normal. Jump in to find out more.
Read MoreKristian Hyde returned to the Welsh School of Architecture as a final reviewer for Shibu Raman’s Liveable Urbanism studio. The students spent the year studying Somnath, Gujarat, on the west coast of India, asking how a temple town on a fragile coast might become more liveable. For our studio, teaching remains closely connected to practice. It sharpens how we listen, how we grow as architects, and how we turn research into a meaningful architectural response.
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 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.
Read MoreCan a building feel as alive as music sounds? … Resonance House in Esher explores this connection, designed for a lifelong music producer where harmony, rhythm, and proportion become tangible. Join us for an inside look into how we craft meaningful spaces that touch the soul.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to announce that Edge House has been highly commended at the prestigious Structural Timber Awards this week. This accolade highlights our studio’s commitment to environmentally sustainable architecture, using timber as a structural solution for single residential housing in designs that celebrate the poetics of construction and embrace low-carbon solutions.
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