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For journeys of discovery with like-minded energetic visionaries
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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
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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.Collage
A love of the process of collage as a working method springs from our background as teachers.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.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.Jack Spade Store
We were paired with American men’s brand Jack Spade to design a temporary window installation
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.
An ‘Urban’ Condition
Like many small practices, our studio has followed cheap space around central London for the last ten years or so.Supernature
Supernature imagines a new type of community-focused suburban landscape where the emphasis is on quality of life
Craft and Materiality
We built our early projects ourselves for a number of reasons.Home from Home
Home From Home was a temporary installation at MUDE, a cultural and design centre in Lisbon, Portugal.
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.
Design Council Offices
This project involved the reconfiguration of the Design Council’s offices located opposite the Royal Opera House
Magnificent Container
Small studio on Hackney City Farm in East London.
Slip House
The award-winning Slip House occupies a gap site in a typical terraced row of houses in Brixton, South London
Ochre Barn
This barn conversion in Norfolk demonstrates our dedication to retaining the existing character of buildings and saw CTA
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.
Moleskine Shanghai
We were paired with the iconic notebook maker Moleskine to design and animate their shop windows in the Xintiandi
Frame House
One of the studio's first completed projects that allowed us to experiment with shuttered concrete.
Stealth Barn
Renovation of a dilapidated concrete frame that was carried out on an extremely tight budget
Pullens Yard Micro Plan
Proposal for the improvement of neglected spaces in and around the Pullens Estate in near Elephant and Castle
Opal House
This project involved the transformation of a semi-detached Victorian villa into a home and workshop
Designer’s House
A new home built on an L-shaped plot in a back alley in Bethnal Green.
McCann Erickson Offices
A media suite for Chrome at McCann Erickson advertising agency.