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We’re Turner Works – a new kind of architecture studio.
Over the last 11 years, we’ve grappled with shipping containers, car parks and old agricultural buildings. We’ve built spaces and places from scratch.
Every project has brought us together with like-minded organisations, enterprising local people, and partners who share our imagination, determination and ambition.
So much has come out of each one: places with a new purpose, communities with a new heart, creativity with a new backdrop.
The Architect Pitch
Seven architects and an expert panel provided plenty of entertainment and valuable advice on how to present but who was the panel's favourite and which architect left them cold?
Nicer Tuesdays: Carl Turner on Home
Nicer Tuesdays is It's Nice That's monthly talks series bringing together four speakers to explore a particular theme.
Frame House in Detail
At the start we all had to agree to play nicely and never fall out if we worked together.
Home not House
We think of home as a stage where events take place and conjure up memories of childhood.
Container House
Built to coincide with the London Design Festival 2015 and exhibited outside the Building Centre
Our Approach
We’re imagining the way forward, designing the future, making things happen and running the show. We’ve embraced those four words – imagining, designing, making, running – to give you a sense of who we are and how we work.
Silvertown
Our proposal for a vacant plot in Silvertown, East London reimagines this site as an active live/work community hub
Four Principles
Legibility, flexibility, durability, affordability.
Pop Brixton – Container Delivery
Delivery of containers to POP Brixton by Carl Turner Architects on the 12th of December, 2014. London, Uk.
Thinking through making
I grew up in the North of England where the thought of getting someone in to fix something was almost unheard of.It's all about people
We’re hands-on thinkers, thoughtful makers, big-picture people who get stuck in. We believe in creating thought-provoking and well-crafted projects. We are creative, responsive, and not afraid to take a risk when it feels right.
Slip House in Details
Making good buildings requires more than good ideas. Read the detailed story of the Award-winning Slip House.
Small is Good
If there are any positives from the last recession one is the discovery of thrift, recycling, the temporary & the small.
Living Over the Shop
The idea of working at home is not a new one, but like so many apparently simple activities that were once commonplace.
Camberwell Coach House
The conversion of a former coach house into a private home overlooking the park.
How we work
We know that identities are all in the mind and that boundaries are there to be blurred. It’s not always about permanence, solid walls and big ideas, though we like those things too. Scraps of space are full of possibility, and long-term change can come with the briefest and smallest of projects.
Small Thought on Value
One of the lessons we learnt is that there is nothing to be gained from shying away from business or the idea of money.
Brockley House
An empty garage plot site transformed into compact home for a young family.
Lovage x Wallpaper* Juice Bar
A specially designed juice bar for Lovage and Ace Hotel exhibited as part of Wallpaper* Salone del Mobile in Milan
Floating House
Making a blueprint for housing that is carbon neutral and self-sufficient.
Rural
Increasingly we think the Green Belt in its present form isn’t working.
A House in Kensington
Transforming a run down mid-century terrace house into a contemporary home with a great roof terrace.
The Conceptual Detail
We don’t see buildings necessarily as a series of components ordered from catalogues.T.W.TV
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Mountview Academy
Discover Coachworks
Coachworks Explained
The Architect Pitch
Nicer Tuesdays: Carl Turner on Home
Pop Brixton – Container Delivery
A House in Kensington
Slip House
Carl was recently interviewed by @bbcworldservice to question “Why architecture is so big on instagram?”.
On the afternoon/evening of 15th of June 2018, we transformed our studio into a temporary radio station broadcasting live during the London Festival of Architecture.
On the afternoon/evening of 15th of June 2018, we transformed our studio into a temporary radio station broadcasting live during the London Festival of Architecture.
On the afternoon/evening of 15th of June 2018, we transformed our studio into a temporary radio station broadcasting live during the London Festival of Architecture.
On the afternoon/evening of 15th of June 2018, we transformed our studio into a temporary radio station broadcasting live during the London Festival of Architecture.
On the afternoon/evening of 15th of June 2018, we transformed our studio into a temporary radio station broadcasting live during the London Festival of Architecture.
Business of Architecture Podcast – Mastering the Language of Business and Design with Carl
