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A call to all ambitious future gazers who dream of creating a better world

For journeys of discovery with like-minded energetic visionaries

We can help …

Put your town on the map

Up-cycle your building

Re-work your workspace

Re-think your high street

Re-plan your home

Working with us will …

Get you noticed

Increase footfall

Help you save the planet

Achieve outcomes you hadn’t realised possible

Create fiscal value to support social value

Our buildings, places and spaces will make you happier and healthier……don’t just take our word for it, hear from the people that matter; the entrepreneurs, artists, dancers, cooks, barbers, students, families and millions of everyday people passing through our public works.

Here are just a few of them

 

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13.01.2020     Thoughts → Running

Coachworks Featured in the AJ First Look

Turner Works reimagines railway yard as community ‘start-up campus’ in Ashford
15.07.2019     Thoughts → Making

Peckham Levels Shortlisted in AJ Retrofit Awards

Our meanwhile project in Peckham was Shortlisted for the Office category.
25.06.2019     TW.TV → Running

Welcome to Turner Works

It’s been 11 years of Carl Turner Architects. It’s time for a new name and a new way of talking about ourselves. We’re Turner Works.
Works → Designing

Void House Newham

A compact, highly private courtyard house for a constrained urban site

06.06.2019     Thoughts → Designing

Mountview shortlisted for NLA Awards

Great news! We are excited to announce that our project Mountview has been shortlisted for an NLA award
Story → What we do

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.

05.06.2019     Thoughts → Designing

A Manual for Start-Up Spaces

‘A Manual for Start-Up Spaces’ sets out some of the thinking developed by the studio on the idea of meanwhile spaces.
Works → Designing

Elephant Arcade

Unused garage space transformed into small retail units and a cafe for local independent traders.

28.05.2019     Thoughts → Running

What you can learn from Coachworks

Coachworks is very much on the map in more ways than one.
24.05.2019     Thoughts → Designing

What you can learn from Pop Brixton

Have a look at what lies beneath Pop Brixton. What does ‘affordability’ really mean?
Story → Team

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.

26.04.2019     TW.TV → Designing

Mountview Academy

We created a ‘warehouse for the arts’ – see what the students think after moving into the new building in Peckham.
20.04.2019     Thoughts → Designing

What you can learn from Peckham Levels

It all starts with an open mind.
08.04.2019     Thoughts → Designing

What you can learn from Mountview

Is it possible for a performing arts college to be based on a truly sustainable business model?
25.03.2019     TW.TV → Running

Discover Coachworks

Carl Turner, Founding Director of Turner Works, explains the vision behind Coachworks and what the development will include.
Story → Our approach

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.

25.03.2019     TW.TV → Running

Coachworks Explained

Carl Turner, Founding Director at Turner Works, explains what Coachworks is and how he got involved in the project.
24.03.2019     Thoughts → Designing

What you can learn from Clarnico Quay

Railway arches are a great starting point for thinking about how to design new spaces for makers.
Works → Running

Coachworks

We’ve reinvented a collection of historic warehouses and industrial sheds

28.02.2019     PODCAST → Designing

Why is architecture so big on Instagram?

Carl was recently interviewed by @bbcworldservice to question “Why architecture is so big on instagram?”.

Works → Designing

Lewisham House

Making the most out of simple materials and construction techniques to create a family’s dream home on a modest budget.

03.07.2018     PODCAST → Running

Regent Radio pt.5

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.

02.07.2018     Thoughts → Running

Meanwhile as a solution

We have developed an expertise in temporary or ‘meanwhile’ development.

T.W.TV

03:31min25.06.2019     TW.TV → Running

Welcome to Turner Works

It’s been 11 years of Carl Turner Architects.

It’s time for a new name and a new way of talking about ourselves.

We’re Turner Works.

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