Our clients for Banana Tree House are from Germany and Jamaica, and their initial brief contained images of tropical plants, houses in Brazil and pictures exotic holidays. The design of…
A quaint ‘sticks and stones’ cottage which forms the heart of this family home is situated in a grade two listed site and is set within a concealed location, surrounded…
The clients had just installed a new kitchen, when they realised the house needed much more attention. They approached us and the main brief was “to get things right!”. So…
Statkraft is a leading company in hydropower internationally and Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy. Realising the true value of the workplace well ahead of their time, the Statkraft team understood the…
Before we started working on this Portland Place apartment, it had not been modernised for a long time and still had its very original layout – a separate dining room,…
YARD Architects first met Nathalie and Alex at a Don’t Move, Improve! consultation run by the NLA at their annual exhibition of the best new domestic residential architecture in London.…
With views overlooking Highbury Fields, our renovation of a two bedroomed-apartment on Highbury Terrace sought to extend this leafy outlook to as much of the flat as possible as well…
“Good design is something that fulfils its purpose in the most beautiful possible way.” Thousands of architects and interior designers are produced by the education system each year. It is,…
“Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a…
As more and more people start to leave behind a suburban lifestyle to be part of the dense urban city, housing is under constant pressure to support more people. Living…
Cities are defined by a range of stimuli that affect the planning, growth and resilience of their urban fabric; this range of stimuli are determined by social, cultural and economic…
Around the 16th century, Britain set out trade companies in different parts of the world to explore the global markets. Within the next 2 centuries, these trade companies took over…