Concrete
Cast in situ against sawn boards and left as struck. There is no plaster over it and no paint on it.
We build what lasts
We are not agents. We design, fund and build what we put our name to.
Eight projects in twelve years. Five places to live, three to work.
We hold what we build. That single fact settles every specification argument before it starts, because we are the ones who live with the answer.
One clear idea per building. A scheme with a single idea survives value engineering; a scheme with four does not.
Meridian Court
Every elevation of this building gets a different facade, because every elevation gets different light. The fins are the same section throughout, but their spacing and their angle change face by face — close and steeply raked to the south, open and near-flat to the north. From the street it reads as one texture that shifts as you walk around it.
Ashgrove House
A single house on a falling site, built as three stacked plates that step back from the street as they rise.
Thornbury
Nine houses set inside the brick walls of an eighteenth-century kitchen garden, none rising above the parapet.
Southbank Row
Forty-two apartments in precast concrete, planned across the depth of the block so every home takes light from two sides.
The Rise
Eighteen apartments arranged around a top-lit shaft that carries daylight seven floors down to the entrance.
Verge
Twenty-six apartments behind a folded metal facade, currently topping out beside the goods yard.
Gantry Works
Eighty-four thousand square feet of workplace on an exposed frame, with floor plates clear of columns for eighteen metres.
Meridian Court
A twelve-storey office building with a vertical fin facade tuned to the sun path on each elevation.
Foundry Yard
A four-storey workplace over ground floor retail, planned around a courtyard that is open to the street.
Sixty-seven acres of railway land, rebuilt over twenty years into the most tested piece of new city in Britain.
Material
Four materials, and nothing applied to any of them.
Metal
One extrusion, tuned by spacing and rake rather than by shape. It weathers to a flat grey and stops there.
Stone
Cut across the bedding plane and honed, never polished. It takes the light rather than throwing it back.
Timber
Oiled rather than lacquered, so it darkens with the room instead of sitting under a film.
Light, weather, and the hours a building keeps.
Five completed buildings, photographed doing the thing they were built to do. Hold one open to see what it is made of.
Masterplans
Stanhope Works
A four-acre masterplan of workplace and homes, built out over eight years around a retained goods shed.
They took a storey out of the building to keep the span. Four years in, we have replanned our floor twice and never once had to design around a column.
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