I do not often write about the personal, because in architecture the personal is rarely ours to share. People ask how we build emotion, and the truthful answer is that we can only speak around it, because the details belong to the client. Edge House is an exception, not because the story is louder in any way, but because Jane our client has allowed us to name a few themes without turning her life into a narrative.
Read MoreWe are delighted to have secured planning permission for Nexus House in the Oxfordshire Green Belt. Consent in a protected landscape is never guaranteed because every move is tested against the wider setting, including long views, tree lines, patterns of movement across the land, and the character of the place. The proposal had to do more than meet policy. It had to show that the home belongs here.
Read MoreOver Christmas, when the pace slows, the house has a way of revealing itself. Nothing has failed, but something no longer fits the life being lived inside it. Most people recognise that feeling before they can explain it. This journal explores this idea. It shows how we listen before we draw, how we test assumptions, and how a brief becomes precise enough that the architecture feels inevitable. Jump in for more.
Read MoreBlack Swan House has secured planning approval in Ayrshire, Scotland, with the decision issued at speed, and well within the expected eight week notice period. Set within a remote landscape of wildness, the project is conceived as a graceful landing at the lake’s edge. Our client is delighted, as the project aligns closely with their own values, and way of living, read on to find out how this was achieved.
Read MoreGlobal recognition for Plinth House, longlisted for the Archello Awards 2025. A bespoke home, where the design traces a clear journey from sea to sanctuary, through stone plinths that shape everyday life beside the coast. Deeply researched, our new residence offers luxury, privacy and calm while staying open to the landscape. Dive in to find out more about our clients journey as we continue to progress the project towards construction.
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 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 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.
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