LONDON
PLACEMAKING
ARCHITECTURE
Our in-house architects are at the heart of every project stage from concept design to handover
Our in-house architects are at the heart of every project stage from concept design to handover
By embedding the in-house architects within the entire delivery process, our architecture, commercial and construction teams remove the conflicting interests and fear of taking responsibility that often stifles delivery.
We create high yet gentle density through joyful street-based typologies that bring people and communities closer together.
Our designs are defined by playful articulation, material variation and beautiful asymmetry. We bring these elements together at a human scale to give new build developments an organic sense of permanence.
Pieces of the city organized around coherent public streets play their part in the social world by making us more connected to one another.
London Placemaking focusses on the place. Exemplary placemaking is not just about buildings but rather their active relationship with the street. This relationship is best served by narrow building fronts and streets with variety in the pattern, heights, breadths and planting. These elements, together with an abundance of front doors, terraces, courtyards and small squares ensure that the street is a place where people want to pause and relax. In turn, this builds connections between people, and between people and the buildings themselves.
Our designs are dedicated to bringing people closer together and closer to nature when they live in tall urban buildings.
We achieve this by creating an abundance of external shared amenity surfaces using cantilevers, deck access, setbacks and balconies that host benches, plants, shrubs and even trees. These social spaces contribute to biodiversity and improve occupants’ quality of life. Also, they allow for elements of a green suburban lifestyle in the urban cityscape.
Whether we are designing mews streets or tall buildings, we push common circulation out of corridors and lift lobbies into naturally lit external spaces where residents feel most comfortable interacting with their neighbours.
Using this approach, our aspiration is to create Vertical Villages that introduce a sense of individualization and personalization to the architecture. This allows people to have a genuine sense of ownership over their space whether they have a front door opening onto a mews street or a cobbled external deck on the 10th floor.
