Seán and Stephen

Taking part in the quality control with Perky Blenders coffee roasters. We are getting to know the processes involved in running a coffee shop. This will form the body of our new project in Finchley.

I'm told we will be quality controlling the pastries next....

Hand-drawn visuals for a house of two artists. A refurbishment proposal to introduce a more open living and allow the free flow of movement on the ground floor.

Construction is in full swing on the House with a Concrete Extension in North London. 

Our Ruby Stables project is part of an exhibition of drawings by migrants to Scottish Architecture Schools

See it here!

See our project 'House with a slide' featured in the Evening Standard!  

See it here!

As part of the Blackhorse workshop in Walthamstow, we inserted a series of containers into the yard to provide a series of studio spaces for artists and makers, bringing the unused yard to life!

We are over the moon to announce that our wonderful clients have moved in to their House with a Slide. A truly unique family home. A beautiful bespoke house for life.

Plan study of the finishes and windows at Ground and Basement level

Sectional through double height space showing slide and brick patchwork

Selected photos below - please see the project page for more :-) 

Plan study of the spatial progression towards the garden and study of external materials. 

We've written this handy article outlining some of the reasons why you might be better off improving your home, over moving home...

We're proud to be advertising in the excellent Hackney Citizen - the borough's free monthly newspaper. Get your copy!

External material study for Stage 4 presentation.

Looking up towards the kitchen window from the double height space at basement level this drawing imagines how the surfaces of brickwork, plywood, parquet and reclaimed floorboards will be brought together and be animated by natural light from above. 

This commission by the office celebrates a space we are extremely excited about and is helping the client, ourselves and the contractor to make clearer judgements about its qualities / to better craft its ongoing creation. 

Look out for a photographic study of the space under construction coming soon!

A selection of graduates from the Brighton Interior Architecture course [where Stephen has been teaching] are exhibiting at Free Range on 14th, 15th and 16th July. Check it out!

Site visit for A Loft with Arches - enjoying the dappled light on drying plaster in the double height hall.

For the past 9 months, Stephen has been teaching a design studio with Gem Barton at the University of Brighton on the Interior Architecture course. Open Sesame was the name of the studio and the brief focused on designing around intangible connections to spaces and places.

The 3rd year students recently exhibited their work at the university graduate show. The exhibition was curated in collaboration with the School of Architecture and comprised 42[!] bespoke A1 plan chests, each made especially for the event. Each chest contained 8 drawers and the graduating students were given 1 drawer to curate and present their work.

Below is a selection of student's drawers.

Julie Tysseire

Katerina Mouyiassi

Elliot Marshall

Ines Koh

Ben Merry

Podcast interview by Rion Willard with Seán, on the subjects of business and architecture. 

Published on businessofarchitecture.com and itunes

A massive thanks to all that came to our 4th birthday party at Redchurch Brewery. We hope you all had a great night... For those that couldn't make it, here's what you missed...

Photos by Yiannis Katsaris.

We're very excited to announce that for the last 9 months we've been working with Polimekanos to rework our brand, visual identity and website.

A central and early design move was the hunt for a typeface. Polimekanos found Joanna, a little used typeface these days, designed by the infamous Eric Gill in about 1930. Joanna, named after Gill's daughter, is a slab serif, with angular details on the edges of the upper and lower cases, and very legible in both headings and body text. The highest profile use of Joanna in print we can find is in the Penguin Modern Classics books of the 1960s. We think this typeface holds all the oddities, opportunities and the open-endedness we'd like to bring to our clients and projects.  We hope you like the new image as much as we do.

Enjoy four fireplaces from one of our projects, which is currently on site. The contrast between the rough brickwork texture, the lapsed composition and the sharp overall edges of the chimney breast is somehow attractive.