Residential & cultural work · Enquiries for 2027 open
Residential · Cultural · Adaptive reuse

Walk the site with us before you buy it.

A twelve-person studio working on houses, small cultural buildings and adaptive reuse. We will walk a parcel with you before you commit to it, because access, orientation and setbacks decide more than the floor plan ever will.

0112-person studio
02AIA registered
03Full service through construction
04Enquiries for 2027
The thinking, architecture
Services

What we take on

Roughly eight projects at a time. We are not the cheapest and we are honest about that early.

01

Private houses

New build and substantial renovation. Typically construction budgets from $900k, where the site or the brief has genuine difficulty in it.

02

Adaptive reuse

Industrial, agricultural and civic buildings given a second life. The constraint is the interesting part and usually the reason it works.

03

Cultural & civic

Small galleries, libraries and community buildings, including competition work and public procurement.

04

Feasibility & pre-design

Before you buy a site or commit to a scheme. A short, paid piece of work that regularly saves people a great deal.

Results
12People in the studio
8Live projects, max
$900k+Typical construction budget
19Years in practice
Process

How a commission runs

Five stages, and we stay through the last one, which is where most of the risk actually sits.

  1. 01

    Feasibility

    A short paid study: what the site allows, what it will cost, and whether the idea survives contact with reality.

  2. 02

    Concept

    Two or three genuinely different directions rather than one refined proposal. You choose a direction, not a drawing.

  3. 03

    Developed design

    Resolved with engineers and costed properly. Permitting runs from here, and we handle it.

  4. 04

    Construction

    Tender, contractor selection and site administration through to completion. We do not hand over drawings and disappear.

On site

Walk the site with us before you buy it.

Every project started with a site visit before there was a brief. The ground, the light and the neighbours came first.

On site, before the drawings
On site, before the drawings
Samples on the table
Samples on the table
Study model, third iteration
Study model, third iteration
The built work
The built work
Under construction
Under construction
Concrete meets oak
Concrete meets oak

Have a site, or a building you don't know what to do with?

A first conversation is free and best had standing on the land. If the site is wrong we would rather tell you before you own it.

Or leave your details and we'll call you back.

Enquiries for 2027 now open. Feasibility studies available as standalone work.

Discuss a project(959) 671-3352