After she lost her life partner, our client had a clear ‘downsize’ brief: to re-design her recent property purchase – a 4-storey Victorian villa that had been rather badly separated into 2 maisonettes. From this she wanted to achieve a lettable unit for her own economic sustainability whilst creating an uplifting double-storey garden apartment in … Continued
Our clients were downsizing to a 3-bedroom early-Victorian house as their final home. Although re-worked in the 1990’s, the property lacked practicality, coherence, connectivity, lightness or heart. This underpinned the agreed brief at the outset. By stripping back the rear and side extensions, we ‘discovered’ the old house. We floated away a new family room … Continued
One thing we are often asked to create are unique bathing spaces. Naturally, not all of our ideas make it through the design process to construction, but here’s a glimpse of some of those that do!
As a Practice we strive for the sustainability of our projects to be discrete and indivisible from the architecture. This could mean using thermal mass such as exposed concrete slabs, high thermal insulation, natural light and low-sun penetration for winter-time solar gain, ducted air and heat-recovery systems, green roofs, rainwater harvesting and ground surface permeability, … Continued
As the days are getting darker, we’ve been looking back at warmer times – specifically some sun soaked brick detailing from one of our more recently completed projects. We love the day detailing techniques can add texture, definition and beauty to brickwork! It’s all in the details! Check out our Heavy House project for more.
Government will call for producers and consumers of commodities such as soya and cocoa to commit to stopping land clearances
We’re very excited to have been included in the October 6th episode of Your Home Made Perfect on BBC2. Check it out via the link below for a unique insight into our Shades of Grey project: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0010csf/your-home-made-perfect-series-3-6-victoria-and-raheel
Staircases can be the centre piece of a house, but there is rarely a case of ‘one-size-fits-all’. We love designing beautiful, bespoke solutions for our projects! Here are some of our favourites:
While most of the world has recently been introduced to Home Working, we’ve been designing spaces to work at home for decades! Check out our ‘home working’ tag to see some examples of the different types of workspaces we’ve created over the years.
Check out the October edition of Grand Designs Magazine, featuring our Shades of Grey House project! Including interviews with the clients & our Principal, Robert Dye. And we made the cover!
Things are progressing at one of our sites in north London.Choose to bathe in water or natural light below this newly installed skylight!
The structure for this side extension is up! We’re on site in the rain to make sure it’s all as intended
We’re just about ready to hand this project back to our client’s! We can’t wait to see the space filled and lived in!
The loft extension at one of our projects is taking shape – it’s wonderful to see the quality of light our client’s will get!
Things are really coming together as we approach completion on one of our projects!
Grand Designs have published this taster article for one of our projects which is to be featured later this year, once photographed!
Wow! Amazing light flooding into this elevated glazed box which is almost ready for our client’s to enjoy!
We’re on site today, over seeing the installation of a new block & beam floor
From concept sketch through construction! We absolutely love seeing our designs built & realised
Drying plaster in a Victorian terrace that we’re refurbishing and extending to create a life long home for a young family
On site and together with the builder we’ve revealed this amazing view across London for our Client’s to enjoy
Check out the reading room in our Gayton Road project!
A subterranean space is coming along nicely at one of our projects under construction in North London. Can you spot the skylight?
Demolitions have commenced at one of our sites in London!
Brick by brick our design is becoming reality in London!
Grey card models are one of our favourite ways to explore ideas in 3D