Existing Buildings
Where existing buildings are undervalued, we see an opportunity for owners and developers who are willing to approach reuse with intelligence and long term thinking. We seek to transform the image of buildings that face challenges with policy or use, giving them the clarity and presence needed to serve as lasting assets.
Collaboration and Stewardship
We collaborate with owners and developers who prioritise stewardship, the experience of occupiers, and regulatory deliverability over short-term gains. Our scale means we are hands-on and responsive, whether supporting buildings through renovation, extension, or incremental improvement over time.
Buildings with Potential
Alongside portfolios, we assist with sourcing buildings through ground level research and feasibility studies. We work closely with developers and planning consultants, bringing an architectural ability to identify undervalued buildings with potential for extension, spatial efficiency, better compliance, quality, and resonance with place.
Existing Buildings
Where existing buildings are undervalued, we see an opportunity for owners and developers who are willing to approach reuse with intelligence and long term thinking. We seek to transform the image of buildings that face challenges with policy or use, giving them the clarity and presence needed to serve as lasting assets.
Collaboration and Stewardship
We collaborate with owners and developers who prioritise stewardship, the experience of occupiers, and regulatory deliverability over short-term gains. Our scale means we are hands-on and responsive, whether supporting buildings through renovation, extension, or incremental improvement over time.
Buildings with Potential
Alongside portfolios, we assist with sourcing buildings through ground level research and feasibility studies. We work closely with developers and planning consultants, bringing an architectural ability to identify undervalued buildings with potential for extension, spatial efficiency, better compliance, quality, and resonance with place.
Existing Buildings
Where existing buildings are undervalued, we see an opportunity for owners and developers who are willing to approach reuse with intelligence and long term thinking. We seek to transform the image of buildings that face challenges with policy or use, giving them the clarity and presence needed to serve as lasting assets.
Collaboration and Stewardship
We collaborate with owners and developers who prioritise stewardship, the experience of occupiers, and regulatory deliverability over short-term gains. Our scale means we are hands-on and responsive, whether supporting buildings through renovation, extension, or incremental improvement over time.
Buildings with Potential
Alongside portfolios, we assist with sourcing buildings through ground level research and feasibility studies. We work closely with developers and planning consultants, bringing an architectural ability to identify undervalued buildings with potential for extension, spatial efficiency, better compliance, quality, and resonance with place.
Existing Buildings
Where existing buildings are undervalued, we see an opportunity for developers who are willing to approach reuse with intelligence and long term thinking. We seek to transform buildings that face challenges, giving them the clarity and presence needed to serve as lasting assets.
Collaboration and Stewardship
We collaborate with owners and developers who prioritise stewardship, the experience of occupiers, and regulatory deliverability over short term gains. Our scale allows us to be responsive, whether supporting buildings through renovation, extension, or incremental improvement over time.
Buildings with Potential
The projects shown here are independent studies exploring opportunities for the adaptation, extension and reuse of existing buildings in London. They have not been commissioned by, prepared for, or endorsed by owners, developers, or occupiers of the buildings shown.
New Facade and Extension for a 1970s Commercial Building in Fitzrovia
The proposal extends the existing building with two new floors, while a new high performance facade achieves EPC B with minimal embodied carbon. The facade reuses the black granite cladding of the existing frontage, refinished with a fine vertical tooling. The ground floor lintel and cill are formed from new pieces of matching stone, creating a quality facade from sustainable material. Shaped pilasters, comprised of polished stainless steel sheet on LVL timber formers, make a strong rhythm across the facade and bright reflections in contrast to the dark stone.
The office interiors are serviced with localised MVHR facade units, concealed in joinery cills beneath the windows. Highly energy efficient, the units heat and cool the building by exchanging air via gaps beneath the angled stone spandrels. The units also reduce the need for building-wide servicing, increasing lettable area and ceiling height.
From Secondary Asset to High-Performance Entity
This study looks at a three-storey 1960s office with congested floorplates and a thermally inefficient envelope. Like many buildings in London from this period, it is perceived as tired and underperforming, in a market that values operational efficiency, occupant wellbeing and long term resilience.
Despite the challenges, this building and others like it have qualities that make them highly adaptable, such as a regular grid, structural redundancy, limited heritage protection, and shallow floorplates with the potential to accommodate diverse uses.
The proposal involves a two-storey extension flush with the building below. Compared to a set back or mansard roof, this simplifies structural works and increases lettable area. A new high performance facade, dressed in Cumbrian stone, creates a strong entity with the clarity and purpose of a new building.
The project achieves Grade A workspace and EPC B with highly insulating windows, all-electric services with photovoltaics, heat pumps and passive night cooling, and an accessible biodiverse landscape on the roof.
Transforming a 1960s Warehouse in King’s Cross
An existing two-storey brick warehouse on the Regent’s Canal in King’s Cross, currently used for wholesale storage, is transformed with a new thermal envelope and roof extension.
A deep-green brick facade, with silver anodised windows and pale green fabric awnings, creates a special architectural environment that connects with the canal landscape. Existing cill levels are dropped to increase the size of window openings, allowing the soft light and sounds from the canal into the apartments.
A precise insitu-cast concrete quay extends the interiors to the water’s edge, and could be used either by residents, or by a ground floor commerical space for leisure and watersports.
New facade and roof extension for a 1970s commercial building in Fitzrovia
New facade and roof extension for a 1970s commercial building in Fitzrovia
Extension and renovation of a 1960s office building in Camden
A new facade and extension for a 1960s warehouse in King's Cross
A new facade and extension for a 1960s warehouse in King's Cross