Services
Six service lines, one team. Most clients appoint us for the full architectural service, but the studio is just as often brought in for a feasibility read, a heritage strategy, or interiors inside someone else's building.
Process
The same sequence runs on a 165 m² extension and a 2,600 m² museum. Only the durations change — and we quote those honestly at the start, including the stage most practices leave out.
A conversation, a site visit and a written brief. We test whether the ambition, the site and the budget can hold each other before anyone commissions a drawing.
2–3 weeks
Survey, climate and statutory reading, then two or three distinct design positions — modelled, costed at band level, and argued for honestly.
6–8 weeks
One direction developed to the millimetre with structural, services and landscape consultants inside the same model. Approvals are filed in this stage.
10–14 weeks
Tender drawings, specifications and schedules, then contractor interviews and a levelled comparison so the award is made on quality as well as price.
6 weeks
Weekly site presence, shop-drawing review, mock-ups for every junction that will be visible, and a snagging process that closes before handover — not after.
Duration of build
Scope
Full architectural service from first site visit to the day the keys turn. We stay on a project through construction — the drawings are only half of the work.
Interiors designed with the building rather than onto it: the same drawing set carries the wall, the cabinet and the light that lands on both.
Masterplanning at the scale where buildings become a place — blocks, streets, shade, water and the sequence in which they get built.
Adaptive reuse and conservation. The greenest building is usually the one already standing, so we start by asking what can stay.
Landscape and site strategy — grading, water, shade and planting worked out at the same time as the plan, not after it.
Advisory work for clients who need clarity before they need drawings: what the site can take, what it will cost, whether to build at all.
Appointment
Architects are notoriously vague about fees. Here is how ours work, before you ask.
Start a project
Every commission begins the same way — a conversation, a walk around the plot, and an honest read on whether the brief and the budget can hold each other. That first conversation costs nothing.