Timeless design.
Crafted architecture.
Creative sustainability.
We are a multi-disciplinary architecture practice where design converges with purpose.
We have a passion for natural materials and low-energy solutions that look and feel exceptional.
Guided by a client-centric and collaborative approach, we strive to create considerate projects that are culturally sensitive, promote health and wellbeing, whilst treading lightly upon the planet.
Our diverse portfolio embraces projects of all scales: big or small; interior or exterior; new-build or renovation. Spanning architecture, interior design or landscape design; whether speedy or slow-burn.
Central to our ethos is a comprehensive methodology that employs a holistic approach, giving precedence to your project needs alongside environmental considerations.
Meet the Team.
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Founder | Architect | Certified Passivhaus Designer | LCA Specialist
John has a considered and sophisticated approach to design. With a keen interest in materials, craft, and function, he enjoys the finer details of a project.
As a practical perfectionist; organised, motivated, and always thinking a few steps ahead, he enjoys resolving complex problems with rational, refined, yet pragmatic solutions.
Born in Scotland, John studied architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University. John is a chartered Architect, registered with the ARB, and a member of both the RIBA and RIAS. He is a Certified Passivhaus Designer and LCA Specialist.
John has over 15 years of experience, working predominantly within commercial architecture, for a handful of award-winning architecture firms. He enjoyed several years working at Foster + Partners, on a range of global projects for some stellar clients, including Apple. He has spent the last decade working in central London, at Morrow + Lorraine. During this time, he has been involved in numerous retrofit projects, leading the design and wider project teams, from concept to completion, to deliver award-winning architecture for some of the country’s best client organisations.
John now wants to build upon the experience he has accrued to date. Bringing with him the same care and attention to detail, he would like to work at a smaller scale, collaborate with clients, create with craftspeople, and focus his work towards a more natural construction.
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Founder | Architect | Certified Passivhaus Designer | LCA Specialist
Stephanie is a big thinker and has strong creative energy. Driven by her curiosity in sustainability and sophisticated design, Stephanie gravitates towards projects that seamlessly weave the two together. She has a love of heritage projects as well as championing proposals that are low-energy, utilise natural materials, embrace circularity, are ecologically sensitive, and boast impeccable aesthetics.
Widely recognised as a respected individual within her field, Stephanie has served as an awards judge for several esteemed architectural establishments including the AJ Architectural Awards, FRAME and the RIBA Awards. Her insights have been featured in Building Magazine, Domus Nova, and The Modern House. She has also spoken at several construction events including MIPIM, AJ Retrofit Live, EG and Wastebuild in Amsterdam.
Stephanie dedicates part of her time to London, running embodied carbon assessments, post-occupancy evaluations, and cultivating greater circularity within projects. She moonlights as a landscape designer as she champions the symbiotic benefits of a holistic design approach between architecture and the natural environment. She is a Part 3 examiner at the Bartlett, UCL, London. In her free time, Stephanie also volunteers as an ACAN Natural Materials Coordinator.
Stephanie studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and Royal College of Art. She is a chartered Architect, registered with the ARB and RIBA. Stephanie has also been a Certified Passivhaus Designer since 2020 and is an LCA Specialist.
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Design DirectorIn some way, Jiro has a hand in all of our projects. Some would say he is the mastermind behind it all, ‘the guy who holds it all together’. There is no challenge too great for Jiro and he is always around to contribute.
