← Pop Brixton - a ground-breaking cultural hub for South London
We activate and energise
We bring places to life, creating trampolines that propel people upwards and initiate positive change. We start by thinking 'what's the least we can do to get things moving?'
We listen and we lead
We know it takes collaboration to make special places and buildings. We lead the way in creative consultation, but our clients are the real experts when it comes to their own needs. We listen, engage, and bring often conflicting requirements together into inspiring, adaptable solutions.
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We prioritise people
People are the core of everything we do. We always start with what people need, working from the inside out to create spaces that are useful, inspiring, and adaptable.
RIBA Award winning Mountview Drama School - "a warehouse for the arts" →
We design for change
The most sustainable buildings are the ones that are able to adapt and stand the test of time. Flexible design is what we do, allowing spaces to evolve with the people who use them.
← DZ1 - Imperial College London, White City Campus, under the Westway
We elevate the overlooked
We transform neglected places into remarkable ones. We empower overlooked communities. We unlock potential and create value where others don't see it. We turn the tricky bits into the best bits.
Featured Projects
Work → Arts & Culture
Hackney Bridge
We found inspiration in converted warehouses to provide new temporary spaces for artists, makers and creatives
Work → Arts & Culture
Mountview Drama School
We created a ‘warehouse for the arts’ – a drama school by day, a community space by night (and weekends), and a venue for the performing arts industry
Work → Meanwhile / Short Term
Peckham Levels
We kick-started the temporary transformation of an underused urban space into affordable start-up spaces for artists, makers and local people to work, learn and play in
Work → Meanwhile / Short Term
Pop Brixton
We re-used old shipping containers to create low-cost, low-energy, stackable studios, workshops, cafés and public spaces
Work → Arts & Culture
Department
The transformation of a former department store into a space to dream, create, display, perform, learn, and exchange
Work → Creative Workplace
Florentia Village
We are creating 100,000sqft of new maker space for independent manufacturing and design businesses to thrive
Work → Creative Workplace
Imperial DZ1
Transforming a historic flyover in West London into a new vibrant social hub for the Imperial College community and beyond. A celebration of interactions at the heart of the White City Campus
Work → Residential
Slip House
The award-winning Slip House occupies a gap site in a typical terraced row of houses in Brixton, South London, built on a patch of brownfield land
Work → Urban Strategies
Super Weston
We produced a Microplan for Weston's future, and helped the local community remember why it’s Super
Work → Urban Strategies
LAX Bergen
Competition-winning masterplan for a former shipbuilding district in Bergen, Norway
Work → Residential
Thomas Lane Yard
We are transforming a former car park and light industrial yard into a vibrant community featuring 113 affordable homes, complemented by commercial spaces and thoughtfully designed landscaping
Testimonials
"The 10,650m2 build took just 17 months to complete and was finished on time and on budget. It is a beautiful building of which we are rightly proud and which inspires our students, staff and visitors alike."
"An incredibly unique project collaboration! Truly going to be the first proper purpose built home for creative making businesses in London."
"Turner Works has responded to our brief in this unique location with two buildings which celebrate their surroundings and welcome our community. As with everything we are doing at White City Campus, the buildings will meet the highest sustainability standards."
"Turner Works' exciting and innovative approach has been a breath of fresh air, challenging conventions and delivering exceptional results. They have not only helped redefine our spaces but also elevate our brand presence in the market"
"The best thing about Turner Works is that they don't just understand buildings; they understand people. They steered the process and gave us the opportunity to create an amazing space in our community, a space to be proud of"
"To have Turner Works on this project and help make the dream a reality was a no-brainer. The site brought its challenges with strict building restrictions dictated by local planning laws, yet the result forms a sensitively executed set of interventions."
"As lead consultants, Turner Works have been fantastic. Thanks to their open approach to collaboration, challenges have always been met head on, and together the project team have arrived at innovative, well thought through, timely and humanistic solutions."
"It's refreshing to be surrounded by creatives who genuinely want to help fulfil a vision on something we feel very passionately about!"
"Turner Works will bring fresh thinking about how places can and do change along the way of placemaking and regeneration."
"Carl Turner is a master minimalist with a genuine understanding of the building process, having undertaken numerous residential projects both for himself and enlightened clients."
"Turner Works have been very impressive at developing the brief, leading consultation and overseeing the construction of a high quality building. They are very flexible and able to respond at short notice to design changes."
"Turner Works consistently deliver quality, style, and creative thinking; but above all they demonstrate absolute attention for detail. The environment they created is constantly admired for its unique look and feel."