of future neighbourhoods

We are an award-winning London architecture studio specialising in housing, neighbourhood design and urban regeneration

We approach challenging sites and complex briefs with thoughtful, inventive design that brings value for our clients and for the people who live and work there. We work across scales, from individual houses to sustainable mixed-use neighbourhoods, creating liveable, finely grained places rooted in their local context.

Phoenix

Sustainable riverside development on the edge of town

The Phoenix is a productive, sustainable, equitable and largely car-free neighbourhood of 700 homes on a former industrial site in Lewes.

Every home has its own front door

Creating a convivial neighbourhood of streets and houses on a riverside site in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Not one place but many

Inventing new futures for a canalside site in east London.

Tibby's Triangle

Tibby's Triangle

Tibby's Triangle

Ash Sakula goes vernacular

Mixed tenure homes in a traditional seaside town.

Self-initiated architecture - the changes we want to see

A 3 year locally engaged self-build campaign in Canning Town, conceived and maintained by Ash Sakula.

Old Rotherhithe

Old Rotherhithe

Old Rotherhithe

Convivial, retrofit self-build of a typical terraced house.

Transforming a 3-bedroom house with an outdoor toilet into a modern, airy and bright 4-bedroom home through an extension of only 6.5 sqm

Anglia Square

A bit of the city

An alternative vision for replacing a tired 1960s shopping precinct in Norwich

Adnams Café

A new social hub at the seaside

A flexible, informal and profitable flagship store

Hothouse

Boomerang-shaped building unlocks an improbable site

Making creative co-working space for the arts in Hackney.

Doughty Mews

Close-packed spaces, like pebbles in a jar

Spatial complexity in a tiny London mews.

Exhibition Mews

Exhibition Mews

Exhibition Mews

Making eco-living easy

Low-carbon, zero-energy homes for social rent in Hampshire.

Chapter

Arts centre with the longest bar in Wales

Opening a new chapter for Cardiff’s radical cultural hub.

LCB Depot

Creative businesses in old bus depot

Creatively injecting new life into an unloved building.

Bloomsbury House

Bloomsbury House

Bloomsbury House

Creative conservation

Restoring a listed Georgian house to make a home and gallery for an art collector.

Deptford Market Yard

Deptford Market Yard

Deptford Market Yard

A derelict goods yard becomes a buzzy new public space

Reinventing a backland site and historic carriage ramp near Deptford Station

Peckham Codesign

Peckham Codesign

Peckham Codesign

Everyone is a co-designer

Negotiating the community’s priorities for a new public square in south London.

Sparkenhoe Theatre

Sparkenhoe Theatre

Sparkenhoe Theatre

School theatre in derelict prefab

Turning a redundant council office in Leicester into a multi-use theatre for a school and its community.

Dartington

Rural campus masterplan

Reinventing a pioneering centre of rural regeneration, education, social justice and the arts.

Pedro Street

New homes on the site of an old boiler house

26 new homes for the Clapton Park Estate in Hackney, east London

Gloworks

Creative business in Cardiff docks

Smart creative co-working regenerates the ex-industrial wastelands of Cardiff Bay.

Old Police Station

Old Police Station

Old Police Station

Makers occupy listed building

Studio workspace where artists and makers thrive in a former police station in Colchester.

Peabody Housing

Peabody Housing

Peabody Housing

Fresh ideas for low-cost home ownership

A radical reappraisal of spatial priorities in a minimum-sized apartment.

The Saltings

Double holiday home in an eighteenth century sail loft and warehouse

Upper and Old Saltings, converted separately, both share a DNA that prioritises on convivial relaxation.

Carnival Arts Centre

Carnival Arts Centre

Carnival Arts Centre

'Strange, shambolic and magnificent...'

A building designed to support, enable and celebrate carnival arts.

Birdwing

Wings of glass hover over a London garden

Helping a Georgian house to connect with its garden.

Turning the old Odeon inside out

A vibrant new quarter for Ashford town centre

The Hive

An old post office becomes a place of support and fun

Co-designing with young people to make a new youth centre in north London

WAC Arts

A people's palace

Bringing new audiences to an arts centre in north London

St Paul's House, Deptford

St Paul's House, Deptford

St Paul's House, Deptford

Homes around a courtyard on London's coolest high street

An old rectory on Deptford High Street is refurbished and extended to create eleven mixed-tenure homes above two restaurants.

Bernolákovo

Baroque meets Soviet-era industry

New homes and imaginative uses carefully wrapped around a stately home near Bratislava, Slovakia.

Royal Docks Custom House

Royal Docks Custom House

Royal Docks Custom House

Jumping the Tracks

Co-creating new communities; getting two sides of the tracks to talk to each other.

Belsize Park House

Belsize Park House

Belsize Park House

Renovation for a growing family

A collaborative project turned a warren of small rooms into a spacious, light-filled home.

Askew Road

Reviving a victorian villa

Reconnecting a large family home to its garden and basement.