April in May, May in April, then glorious June! Its not surprising things feel a little topsy-turvy. We even missed our quarterly window for our spring newsletter. Here’s the new season’s lowdown.

With things speeding up after lockdown it’s hard to know which way is up! But we’ve also never been busier. This month we’ve got a photoshoot to share, and we get nerdy with architectural materials. And our new house commissions run the gamut from compact urban sites to complex rural piles.

It’s February already. We’re here with news and WFH views, to give you something to smile about. Working from home over the past few lockdowns has given us some room to reflect. We make playful, sustainable buildings for a lifetime. We want our clients to feel good in the spaces they live in. And strangely enough, in lockdown that vision has only got stronger.

Our listing in The Modern House Directory went up in January, and we’re talking with our partners Wedesignhomes about a feature on our practice, due out in the spring. Our Instagram account is booming, and in January Rita featured as a guest contributor to the Women In Architecture Northern Ireland account!

Despite the gloom of impending lockdown, we still have a few things to celebrate. It’s seven years since we started the practice in 2013, and five years since our Project Architect, Rita, joined us. In that time we’ve grown to a team of four, won a London LABC Building Excellence Award in 2019, and featured extensively in the media. We are listed by We Design Homes, are soon to be in The Modern House directory and recently designed a brochure talking about what we do. This newsletter is dedicated to who we are now. And accompanied by lovely images of our recent work, like the gorgeous Choumert House above. Oh, and we’re offering a free case of wine to existing clients who successfully recommend us!

We’re delighted to announced that our lovely project, Dylways, was longlisted for New London Architecture’s Don’t Move, Improve Awards 2020. NLA exhibited the innovative cedar shingles at the Building Centre in Bloomsbury, London.

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It’s strange to think how much the world has changed in a few short months: how furloughs, working from home, social distancing and the everyday rhythms and frustrations of domestic life have become pressing concerns for us all. Spaces certainly feel different when you have to work, live and exercise in them 24/7.

To celebrate the end of the dark winter months, we’ve focussed our spring newsletter on a few of our colourful little projects. It’s easy to get swept up in our large new-build houses or commercial developments, but some of our most rewarding commissions are at the smaller end of what we do. So we’re celebrating a handful of those projects where we’ve helped our clients to be brave and bold in their ambitions, even on the smallest of scales. If you are thinking about a redesign or new development, large or small, why not get in touch?

We’ve just sent out our latest newsletter. It’s full of our latest office and project news. Take a look

As the summer arrived, we celebrated two major achievements: successful planning permission for our first new build house, and a Building Excellence award. We have some some beautiful images of our new build to show you, as well as some inspirational projects just completed. Our step-by-step guide for residential clients is due out this summer, to help make the process more transparent for those starting their first projects. Some of our oldest clients are now moving on, and though we’ll miss them (and their lovely home), it’s pleasing to have positive feedback on the high market value of our work. If you are thinking about a redesign or new development, why not get in touch?

We are thrilled to feature in the Daily Telegraph’s Property section! Our beautiful Choumert House features in the two-page article, where Darren talks about how to introduce natural light to even the most constrained spaces through well-designed roof lights and skylights

We are delighted to announce that we were announced the winners of the LABC London award 2019 for best alteration or extension to an existing home. Our beautiful Choumert House in Peckham was the winning project announced at the LABC regional awards ceremony at the Guildhall, home of the City of London Corporation. Needless to say we are over the moon to see this particularly beautiful project recognised in this way!

The first month of the year is well behind us, and with it no doubt many of the resolutions that seemed so fresh on 1st January. But the lengthening days and shoots of new growth mean that transformation and renewal are on their way. We’ve had a flood of enquiries since the start of 2019, and if you are one of them, we want to congratulate you on taking the first step towards a happier, better-designed home. To inspire you, we’re showcasing some of the transformational projects that we’ve recently completed. Our clients regularly feed back to us how delighted they are with their new home spaces. While those first stages can feel intimidating, each of them tells us that it was worth it to create standout spaces for their families to grow into.

The slow, warm slide towards the Autumn has given us a chance to reflect on how far we’ve come since we began in October 2013. We’ve just celebrated our five year anniversary, and our most recent appointment to the practice, Phil, also brings our staff up to five! We’re pleased to see that our ethos of light, thoughtfully designed, voluminous spaces for living is working so well for our clients: you can see a snapshot of a couple of our projects below. We’re proud to invest in our majority-female staff, and pleased that the rest of the industry is beginning to address the gender imbalances that have long existed within Architecture. Despite one of the hottest summers on record in London, we’ve also had no shortage of new projects and enquiries.