What we solve
Your project is in safe hands. We spot the opportunities.
Most enquiries begin with a problem rather than a building - a refusal to overturn, a listed building to adapt, a Green Belt site with value to unlock, or a brief that fits no single category. Open any service below to see what it involves.
Our core offering covers architectural design from the concept stage through to construction and delivery, across multiple sectors including, private residential, civic, commercial, ecclesiastical and hospitality work. Design is iterative and grounded in context and investment value.
We help to execute both straight forward and complex technical drawing and Building Regulations packages and do not shy away from construction detailing which can be effectively priced by a QS and delivered by a contractor. In some instances our technical drawing suites for complex sites can amount to many hundreds of annotated and buildable construction drawings which are NBS compliance and operate within shared BIM environments.
Early-stage options tested against the defined brief, the site and the planning position, so the direction is chosen by the team with as much information supporting it as possible. We are able to integrate deep rooted development knowledge to ensure the scheme is deliverable and explores various use cases to achieve attractive GDV and outcomes.
We have a track record of testing feasibility work architecturally and through the lens of other disciplines, so that planning sensitivities and opportunities are fully analysed. We combine this with development viability testing - appraising value, cost and return alongside design and planning - so that clients see a single, joined-up picture of what a site can deliver.
In conjunction with viability assessment and feasibility work, as part of a wider conceptual brief, we have a track record in adding value to masterplans through intelligent planning strategy, architectural design and viability testing.
Our track record is demonstrable and includes a varied group of projects which have provided developers with genuine returns that go far beyond what they previously envisaged. We achieve this through a variety of means, but ultimately it stems from our creativity, multidisciplinary approach, multi-sector knowledge, entrepreneurial thinking and commercial astuteness.
Extensive experience in historic restoration and renovation, and in ecclesiastical architecture with Grade I, II and II* listed buildings.
Acting as contract administrator through construction - valuations, instructions and inspections - so the built result matches what was consented.
Complex sites rarely call for one discipline. We have extensive experience acting for consortiums, leading teams of 30+ professionals across more than five disciplines - structural and M&E engineers, planning specialists, heritage advisors, quantity surveyors, scientific analysts, party wall surveyors and more - with our practice as the single point of contact throughout. On our largest diplomatic commissions, teams of over thirty consultants working across multiple languages are commonplace, producing bilingual reporting that can run to 3,000 pages at each RIBA stage. Clients get complete accountability for it: the whole consortium remains security-vetted, and background checks, action logs and structured reporting mean the hierarchy can be traced at every stage.
Diplomatic and government commissions carry requirements that sit outside ordinary planning and design work - vetted personnel, controlled handling of sensitive drawings and information, and the ability to work within secure, often still-occupied embassy buildings. Our core team holds the security clearances this work demands, and we extend vetting to the wider consultant team as each project requires, so a mission or government client can appoint one practice for both the building and its security obligations. Every individual working on a cleared project is background-checked and logged before they set foot on site, with that record maintained for the life of the commission. Moreover, we ensure from the top down that values are aligned and that the long-term relationships these projects demand are maintained.
Difficult sites can be won or lost long before a decision is issued. We build the planning strategy alongside the design and carry it through each stage of the system - site promotion, pre-application engagement, representations on our client's behalf, and representation at planning committee - supported by financial modelling and viability assessments, market demand assessments, and the specialist reports that give a contentious scheme its footing, from heritage statements to technical evidence prepared for sites others have already been refused on. Where a scheme is likely to be tested, we prepare the evidence base to withstand that scrutiny from the outset, rather than assembling it in response to an objection. Not only do we succeed where others fail, we add value to your site. An exceptional case in point is an increase in site GDV from around £500,000 to a market disposal value north of £20,000,000 post build-cost.
Not every client or every site of ours sits inside the UK. We deliver projects for overseas clients and on international sites, coordinating design and construction information across jurisdictions, time zones and, where required, languages - currently including live work in Jeddah alongside our London and Home Counties commissions. We also work with international clients, including governments, on projects in London. The same RIBA 0–7 lead-consultant model applies wherever the site is, adapted to the local planning and regulatory framework rather than exported wholesale, and in some instances worked in tandem with international models.
We deliver in Revit and the wider Autodesk suite, maintaining our own in-house BIM-trained personnel rather than outsourcing the model. Working in a shared federated model to BS EN ISO 19650 allows every discipline - architectural, structural, M&E - to design against the same live information, with clash detection catching conflicts on screen rather than on site. Combined with survey data and the wider software toolset, it means design, coordination and construction information stay accurate and current across every RIBA stage, for one consultant team or thirty.