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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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23.01.2014     Thoughts → Designing

At the Foot of the City

Suburbs literally means ‘at the foot of the city’– & beneath the concentration of wealth & power upon the Roman hills.
03.11.2013     Thoughts → Making

Collage

A love of the process of collage as a working method springs from our background as teachers.
09.09.2013     TW.TV → Running

Slip House

The building includes a number of innovative design features to make it as flexible as possible to allow the spaces to function both as living spaces and working spaces whenever possible.
19.07.2013     TW.TV → Making

Jack Spade Store

Every year the Royal Institute of British Architects selects a handful of cutting edge design studios to partner with stores on Regent Street for a series of large-scale installations.
Works → Making

Jack Spade Store

We were paired with American men’s brand Jack Spade to design a temporary window installation

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.

24.05.2013     Thoughts → Designing

An ‘Urban’ Condition

Like many small practices, our studio has followed cheap space around central London for the last ten years or so.
Works → Imagining

Supernature

Supernature imagines a new type of community-focused suburban landscape where the emphasis is on quality of life

01.02.2013     Thoughts → Making

Craft and Materiality

We built our early projects ourselves for a number of reasons.
Works → Making

Home from Home

Home From Home was a temporary installation at MUDE, a cultural and design centre in Lisbon, Portugal.

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.

Works → Designing

Design Council Offices

This project involved the reconfiguration of the Design Council’s offices located opposite the Royal Opera House

Works → Designing

Magnificent Container

Small studio on Hackney City Farm in East London.

Works → Running

Slip House

The award-winning Slip House occupies a gap site in a typical terraced row of houses in Brixton, South London

Works → Running

Ochre Barn

This barn conversion in Norfolk demonstrates our dedication to retaining the existing character of buildings and saw CTA

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.

Works → Making

Moleskine Shanghai

We were paired with the iconic notebook maker Moleskine to design and animate their shop windows in the Xintiandi

Works → Designing

Frame House

One of the studio's first completed projects that allowed us to experiment with shuttered concrete.

Works → Running

Stealth Barn

Renovation of a dilapidated concrete frame that was carried out on an extremely tight budget

Works → Imagining

Pullens Yard Micro Plan

Proposal for the improvement of neglected spaces in and around the Pullens Estate in near Elephant and Castle

Works → Making

Opal House

This project involved the transformation of a semi-detached Victorian villa into a home and workshop

Works → Designing

Designer’s House

A new home built on an L-shaped plot in a back alley in Bethnal Green.

Works → Making

McCann Erickson Offices

A media suite for Chrome at McCann Erickson advertising agency.

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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