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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

hello@turner.works
020 3846 1890

07.03.2016 TW.TV → Designing

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?

09.12.2015 TW.TV → Designing

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.

24.09.2015 Thoughts → Designing

Frame House in Detail

At the start we all had to agree to play nicely and never fall out if we worked together.

02.09.2015 Thoughts → Imagining

Home not House

We think of home as a stage where events take place and conjure up memories of childhood.

Works → Designing

Container House

Built to coincide with the London Design Festival 2015 and exhibited outside the Building Centre

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.

Works → Imagining

Pop Brixton

We re-used old shipping containers to create low-cost, low-energy, stackable studios, workshops, cafés and public spaces

Works → Designing

Silvertown

Our proposal for a vacant plot in Silvertown, East London reimagines this site as an active live/work community hub

24.04.2015 Thoughts → Designing

Four Principles

Legibility, flexibility, durability, affordability.

24.02.2015 TW.TV → Imagining

Pop Brixton – Container Delivery

Delivery of containers to POP Brixton by Carl Turner Architects on the 12th of December, 2014. London, Uk.

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.

24.11.2014 Thoughts → Making

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.

14.09.2014 Thoughts → Making

Slip House in Details

Making good buildings requires more than good ideas. Read the detailed story of the Award-winning Slip House.

19.08.2014 Thoughts → Imagining

Small is Good

If there are any positives from the last recession one is the discovery of thrift, recycling, the temporary & the small.

14.08.2014 Thoughts → Running

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.

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.