Our Values

We design and produce high-quality buildings to meet our clients' needs in all respects: visually, environmentally, technically, on time and on a budget. We recognise that this involves the work of a team. Our aim on every project is to establish close working relationships with the contractor and the other disciplines involved.

Our design method involves close dialogue with the client. We regard the development of the brief for a building as crucial. We aim to explore and develop this with our clients to ensure that the design of a building grows out of a shared understanding of the needs that it will satisfy.

This must be achieved amidst the constraints of a realistic and practical world. There are inevitable tensions between what is desirable and what is possible; between what one would like to achieve and what one can afford. The design process aims to close these gaps using such constraints as a springboard for ideas and invention from which solutions develop. Solutions, which give rise to coherent, functional and efficient buildings appropriate to the activities that they will contain and represent. 

Each design is a response to a new and different situation that integrates the general and the particular into a coherent whole. Each of our designs reflects the specific requirements and unique conditions of the site and its location.