KEY SUPPORTERS
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris makes buildings that are satisfying and enjoyable to use, beautiful to look at and easy to understand. We design very different buildings for very different people to use in very different ways. We believe in making places as well as buildings, that work over time and have lasting qualities intrinsic to their architecture.
Winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2015 for Burntwood School and many other awards for architecture and design, AHMM has received public and media acclaim for its work on education, commercial, residential, arts and masterplanning projects in London, around the UK and internationally.
Allies and Morrison
Allies and Morrison is a practice of architects and urbanists. We strive to design buildings that have long life and can adapt over the generations. We also shape enduring places whether new pieces of city or settlements at any scale. All our projects are concerned with the crafting of every detail and an appreciation for the uniqueness of each context.
Our work ranges from masterplans and buildings at King’s Cross and the Olympic Legacy to numerous projects for leading universities to the rejuvenation of London’s Southbank and the ongoing Barbican Renewal, to major sites of redevelopment in cities such as Manchester and York, Toronto and Beirut.
Based in London, we come from around the world and our diversity is one of our fundamental strengths. While we are one of the largest practices of our kind in London, we have many of the qualities of a small studio culture where individuals can thrive on the exchange of ideas in a friendly and nurturing environment.
BeFirst
Be First is a pioneering urban regeneration company wholly owned by Barking and Dagenham Council, but operating independently.
Our mission is to accelerate growth and capitalise on the borough’s position as London’s hottest investment and development opportunity. We will help deliver 50,000 new homes and 20,000 jobs in the next 20 years.
As a developer in our own right, we utilise council and commercial investment resources to acquire sites, get planning consent and build out new residential and commercial developments. As a development manager we offer project management, land assembly and planning consultancy services to the council and to commercial partners who share our core values of delivering high quality development which benefits local people.
BPTW
BPTW is a 120-strong AJ100 studio based in London. We deliver award-winning architecture, urban design, masterplanning and BIM services from our forward-thinking and collaborative studio in Greenwich.
Our practice ethos stems from our early work designing social and affordable housing. Today, we lead ambitious residential led masterplanning and regeneration projects across London, and South and Central England, in partnership with communities using innovative co-design and engagement processes. We work across a wide spectrum of project types, varied in scale and typology, and are actively committed to sustainable design with Passivhaus and Net Zero Carbon homes.
Our collaboration with the London School of Architecture continues our commitment to supporting positive change in architectural education to improve equality, diversity, and inclusion in the industry. This is reinforced by a strong focus on Social Value through outreach activities such as our Careers in the Built Environment programme, aimed at enabling inclusion in architecture.
The wellbeing of our people is a key priority and is reflected in our inclusive and flexible working policies. This is supported by regular appraisals, a generous benefits package and an active programme of social and wellbeing activities led by our design teams, Social Committee and EDI groups.
We place an ardent focus on design quality and placemaking and continue to embrace new construction technologies, all with an ongoing commitment to regenerative practice and sustainable design to meet the challenge of climate change. We do this whilst remaining true to our social values and practice ethos; designing and delivering homes and places that transform people’s lives.
Buckley Gray Yeoman
Formed in 1997, BuckleyGrayYeoman is an award-winning architecture and design practice based in Shoreditch, London. Directed by Matt Yeoman and Paul White, the firm provides pragmatic and deliverable solutions to complex design issues.
With an expanding portfolio of work across a range of sectors including offices, residential, retail, hotels, schools and masterplanning, BuckleyGrayYeoman prides itself on delivering projects on time and within budget, regardless of the size or complexity of the challenge.
Carmody Groarke
Carmody Groarke is a London-based architectural practice founded in 2006 by Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke.
The practice has developed a reputation for working internationally on a wide range of arts, cultural, heritage and residential projects. Completed projects include the New Architecture Gallery at the Royal Institute of British Architects headquarters, the permanent memorial to the 7 July London bombings, Frieze (London) Art Fair 2011–2013, Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre Clatterbridge Merseyside, an artist studio for sculptor Antony Gormley and a contemporary gallery for White Cube at Glyndebourne.
Current projects include: the new Windermere Jetty Museum the Lake District, an extension of the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester, a major renovation of Dorset County Museum in Dorchester, a new Members’ Room for the V&A, a hotel in Devon, a new studio for artist Julian Opie, several private houses and a private art gallery.
The practice has earned international recognition, winning several architectural competitions and awards for completed projects. The first monograph of the practice was recently published in the Spanish periodical, 2G.
Common Ground Workshop
Common Ground Workshop is an architecture studio (established in 2014) with a unique vision for professional practice that puts collaborations between clients, end users, communities and industry professionals at the heart of everything we do.
Situated within a hybrid workspace, café and art project space, our practice philosophy is based on breaking down barriers between people and our profession. We believe that this open and inclusive public-private ecosystem challenges conventional norms of siloed practice, leading to the evolution of exceptional projects that collectively enrich and drive lasting value into our work and the built environment.
We are an RIBA Chartered Practice creating a bespoke experience for every new project, and work in a broad range of sectors that include residential, commercial, arts and culture, place-making and regeneration. Owning and operating our own hybrid commercial space we are a commercially minded practice and are in the best possible position to work with you at all stages of your project from creating an initial brief and a vision to delivering exceptional architectural solutions and guiding the construction of projects to come in on time and on budget.
daab design
daab design is a RIBA chartered Architectural practice located in Battersea London, our work is based on finding creative solutions to our client’s needs. Simple as it seems it takes experience in managing clients expectations, knowhow of the planning process and a curiosity of how things go together to achieve this goal.
Founded in 2014 by Dennis Austin (former RSHP) and Anais Blehaut (former Will Alsop) we bring our diverse backgrounds of delivering beautifully executed international projects to our studio. Having met and worked together on the site of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 project Dennis and Anais share a common passion of translating design ideas into built reality.
We are a mixed group Architects working on a series of exciting projects ranging from single family residences to large urban master plan and a whole lot in-between. Our open studio is organised to promote a dynamic cross flow of information. We share everything from ideas and inspirations to the task of watering the plants.
David Chipperfield Architects
David Chipperfield Architects was founded in London by David Chipperfield in 1985. The practice has since won numerous international competitions and built over 100 projects. Its diverse international body of work includes cultural, residential, commercial and educational buildings and spaces for both the private and public sectors, as well as civic projects and urban masterplans.
Offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai, contribute to the wide range of projects and typologies. Together, the four offices drive common architectural ambitions and share a commitment to the collaborative aspect of creating architecture.
The practice’s work is characterised by meticulous attention to the concept and details of every project, and a relentless focus on refining design ideas to arrive at a solution which is architecturally, socially, and intellectually coherent.
David Chipperfield Architects has won more than 100 international awards and citations for design excellence, including the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2007 for The Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany, and both the Mies van der Rohe Award (European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture) and the Deutscher Architekturpreis in 2011 for the Neues Museum, Berlin.
dRMM
dRMM is a leading architecture and design studio founded in 1995 and led by co-founding Directors Alex de Rijke, Philip Marsh, Sadie Morgan together with Jonas Lencer, Saskia Lencer and Judith Stichtenoth.
We create extraordinary architecture within the standard constraints of the construction industry. Our radical projects are led by site, client needs, concept and construction. dRMM make innovative, high quality and socially useful architecture.
Fletcher Priest Architects
Fletcher Priest is a 120-strong practice formed of a highly collaborative and diverse group of people. It is led by a partnership group with wide ranging internal and external interests, including long-term involvement with academic institutions such as the Bartlett and Architectural Association. We have studios in London, Cologne and Riga and the majority of teams are based in the UK.
We concentrate on four highly integrated scales of practice: urban design, architecture, interior design and design research. We strive to think about sustainability holistically – from an environmental as well as a social perspective – and we pride ourselves in creating places that benefit the people who come into contact with them. A key part of this is designing for the long-term, and we are involved in projects across their life cycle, from earliest conversations and ideas to long after they are built.
Most of our work comes from clients we have worked with in the past. Just as important to us are the long-term relationships we build with the people who work with us. Many colleagues continue working with us throughout their education, or return to the practice after their studies. We recognise that careers in architecture can be hard to enter and our involvement with the LSA is part of our commitment to widen access to the profession and to support close collaboration between practice and academia.
Flokk
Flokk is the market leader in the design, development and production of workplace furniture in Europe. We are the proud owner of product brands HÅG, RH, Giroflex, BMA, Offecct, RBM, Profim, 9to5 Seating and Malmstolen. About 1800 employees work together to realize the vision of our company: Inspire great work.
Our head office is in Oslo, Norway, with main production sites in Røros (Norway), Nässjö (Sweden), Turek (Poland) and Hawthorne (USA). In addition, we keep sales offices in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, UK, France, Switzerland, Singapore, USA, Canada, China and Australia. Flokk products are sold in more than 80 countries worldwide.
Foster + Partners
Sustainability is at the heart of everything we undertake. We audit all projects against global standards, while developing bespoke strategies that drive our environmental agenda. To build sustainably requires us to design holistically, and our unique integrated design approach enables us to develop innovative strategies that have a firm focus on the future of the environment.
From within the practice, structural and environmental engineers, together with many other specialist design teams, work alongside the architects to develop fully integrated design solutions. Every project starts with fresh thinking, leading to a solution that is tailor-made to both site and user. Design is typically undertaken by a small, close-knit team; the team that starts a project sees it through to completion, thus providing continuity throughout. We always consider the built environment as a totality and to apply a truly integrated approach to responsible design.
GPAD
Started in 2002 GPAD is an award winning architecture & interior design practice based in Old Street, London.
We work across a wide range of building types, including housing, private residential, offices and mixed-use developments. We take a design led approach producing simple elegant design, whilst being sympathetic to each site and its context.
Getting to know our clients as well as their approach and aims is at the heart of the practices’ ethos and good communication is a big part of the service that we offer. We strive to ensure value and results, but with our personal touch.
Whilst the majority of our projects are focused in London we carry out projects across the UK; including Leeds, Reading, Cardiff and Bristol.
Grimshaw
Grimshaw is an award-winning, international architectural practice with offices in New York, London, Melbourne, Sydney and Doha, employing over 400 staff. Committed to providing architecture of the highest calibre, the practice’s work is characterised by strong conceptual legibility, innovation and a rigorous approach to detailing, underpinned by the principles of enduring and sustainable design.
Complete architectural services are provided: master planning, feasibility studies and planning applications through tendering to construction and inspections on site. Grimshaw’s international portfolio covers all major sectors, and has been honoured with over 170 international design awards including the prestigious Lubetkin Prize.
Haptic
Haptic is an architecture practice based in London and Oslo. Our designs are conceptually driven, inspired by nature and formed through a critical, iterative design process. A strong emphasis is given to user experience; how one interacts with the buildings and spaces. We believe a shift away from the optical to the haptical is a move that benefits the users of our buildings.
Our love of design, rooted in Scandinavian values, inspires everything we do. The Haptic Way is how we do things, a way of working led by curiosity and ambition. It’s how we deliver exceptional design, getting more from less, irrespective of scale, programme or place.
Haptic relates to touch: we care deeply about the impression we leave — on both places and people.
Hopkins Architects
Hopkins Architects have helped pioneer British architecture since our founding by Michael and Patty Hopkins in 1976. The Practice is now led by five Principals and we are based in London, having completed projects throughout the world. Our deeply-rooted architectural, environmental and social convictions guide our designs and we work confidently and collaboratively in a manner appropriate to each client’s needs, ambitions and budget.
We take great pride in our adaptability throughout the design and construction process and we have worked with varied clients ranging from individuals to city councils to Boards of Trustees to developers. We work from offices which we designed ourselves in Marylebone that house a team of approximately 100 architects and staff. In addition, we operate a second Design Studio in Dubai and maintain Project Offices in Tokyo, Shanghai and Munich. The size of our practice has allowed us to gain a breadth of experience from projects in a variety of sectors while maintaining an intimate connection to the development of each design.
HTA
Our purpose.
HTA Design sets out to create great places to live, and to be a great place for our people to work.Making great places to live.
HTA is a practice of over 250 architects, urbanists, planners, landscape architects, interior designers, sustainability specialists, graphic designers and researchers. Our collective focus is on creating great places to live and we have a 50 year track record of the design and delivery of better housing. We have a singular focus, applying an inter-disciplinary approach to the design of homes and residential neighbourhoods. Our collaborative effort is to improve all aspects of housing, from individual homes and housing typologies, apartment buildings small and large, masterplans and design codes, urban neighbourhoods, suburban settlements as well as brownfield and estate regeneration. We are experienced across all stages, from concept to completion and feedback.Making a great place to work.
We are dedicated to creating a supportive and healthy professional environment that nurtures talent, builds careers and fosters creativity, enjoyment and satisfaction in our shared endeavour. We work hard to be the best employer possible and were rewarded by becoming winners of the AJ100 Employer of the Year Award in 2022 & 2018, as well as being selected as one of Building Magazine’s top 50 Good Employers for the third year running.HTA is committed to ensuring that our practice is a great place to work and we believe that our success relies on the active encouragement of contributions from a diverse range of people both within and outside the practice. We encourage everyone at HTA to be themselves and share in different perspectives, experiences, lifestyles and cultures in a safe, supportive environment.
HTA offers a range of benefits including healthy lunches, mindful craft sessions and office massages.
IDOM
Founded in 1957, IDOM is an established architecture and engineering consultancy, bringing scale, capacity and 59 years of experience to the delivery of complex master planning, architectural and engineering projects on an international level across all major sectors. Today IDOM employs more than 2,700 people and has a network of 39 offices in various countries, including the UK.
IDOM’s architectural division is an award-winning practice, ranked as one of the top 47 architectural firms in the world (Building Design World Architectural 100 rankings 2016). IDOM provides a complete in-house multi-disciplinary design approach, offering integrated services all from a single company for the benefit of our clients.
Jack Carter Architects
Founded in 2016, Jack Carter Architects is a London based design studio with an international experience and outlook. Our work ranges in scale from small domestic commissions to complex mixed-use developments.
Our team enjoy working in a collaborative environment to create buildings with a highly sustainable agenda, meticulously suited to a client’s needs. Current projects include a new campus for Santander in Liverpool and a masterplan for a school and community centre in a township of Cape Town, South Africa.
Karakusevic Carson Architects
Karakusevic Carson Architects are award-winning specialists at the forefront of urban regeneration and public housing design across London. Design and strategy led, the practice formed with the sole intent to raise standards in housing in the UK after 40 years of neglect and drives forward successful masterplans, urban design, viable mixed-use and tenure housing, and estate renewal architecture projects. The practice is committed to working with public sector client groups and local authorities to deliver housing, public buildings and neighbourhoods of exceptional quality with real social value.
Karakusevic Carson Architects projects have won numerous RIBA, Housing Design and Civic Trust Awards. The practice was named ‘Housing Architect of the Year’ in 2012 and 2014 and again shortlisted for ‘Masterplanner and Housing Architect of the Year’ in 2015 and 2017.
Loader Monteith
At the core of our practice is the belief that architectural education should be accessible to all. Our director Iain Monteith engaged in architectural part-time education for over a decade whilst working in practice and as such we fully appreciate the opportunities that this method of education can provide and the dedication it requires.
This is why our practice fully supports the LSA’s approach to provide the opportunity of architectural education to people from all walks of life. We believe that diversity helps shape the profession, allowing us to be truly representative and responsive to the challenges facing society, both locally and globally.
As a practice we are actively engaged in architectural education through tutoring and lecturing at various educational institutions, and by joining with the LSA Practice Network we look forward to expanding our engagement throughout the UK.
Our work is diverse and responds to a variety of factors. At the core of our work is a desire to produce architecture that is truly responsive to both user and context. Focussing on understanding the needs and requirements of our users allows us to form a truly bespoke solution. This is combined with our consideration of the physical environment and appropriate construction methodologies allowing us to determine the most suitable approach to project delivery. Many of our projects focus on ‘reuse’, either through site and materials, or through conservation and restoration. We seek to maximise the potential of opportunities to work with existing buildings and materials in order to extend the life and narrative of fabric and form.
Minotti
Minotti is a modern Italian furniture company; leader in high quality modern furniture, contemporary furniture, outdoor furniture and furnishings for residential and hospitality environments. Minotti London offers a premium showroom experience matching the service expected of “100% Made in Italy” product. Minotti is in the field of contemporary furniture design an ambassador of a classic-modern lifestyle in the residential and commercial sector.
Minotti’s designs and philosophies are embraced by interior design and architecture professionals who collaborate with us on London’s luxury property and design scene, as well as private clients. Projects are unique and our clients passion is evident in the diverse palette of projects completed in collaboration with Minotti London.
Mulroy Architects
We are architects. Our mission is to improve lives with beautiful, life-long and sustainable architecture, appropriate for our complex and changing world. We challenge assumptions to invent the best solutions for the real goals within every project. We lead collaborative alliances, of which you are part, as strong teams propose the best ideas. We use human skills to create great, green architecture that allows you to adapt to the future.
We are an RIBA Chartered Practice and RIBA Client Adviser providing design expertise and advice to develop affordable and future-proofed architecture that fits the people that will use our buildings.
Our design work has won awards, has been been exhibited at the New London Architecture gallery and published in many lifestyle, national and technical publications.
NBBJ
NBBJ is an international leader in architecture and design within corporate, healthcare, commercial, science, higher education and urban planning markets. Our clients are global frontrunners in their respective industries who inspire our own design innovation; they include Google, Amazon, GlaxoSmithKline, the University of Cambridge, the NHS, Stanford University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Samsung, Microsoft and Bloomberg.
NBBJ is founded on the evolution of 70+ years of ideas that share one driving inspiration: to design communities, buildings, products, environments, and experiences that enrich people’s lives. The firm has been named one of the most innovative architecture firms in the world by Fast Company and the architect of choice for tech companies by Wired.
With more than 750 employees across offices in London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Beijing, Boston, Columbus, Pune and Shanghai, the best attributes of a large and small firm merge at NBBJ, where specialised studios within an international network ensure holistic services customised for clients.
In addition to a full suite of architecture and design services, NBBJ brings together expertise across numerous disciplines including design computation, experience design, business analysis, environmental sustainability, Lean process improvement and workplace strategy.
Orms
Orms is an award-winning architecture and design practice based in Shoreditch, London.
We seek to elevate the human experience through insight, collaboration, and design integrity. Spirited, yet controlled, we approach each project with experience and confidence. In this way, we build architecture that is considered and wholly effective. We bring meaningful solutions to urban life, creating modern structures of clarity, beauty, and vigour, delivering a real and positive impact on people’s lives.
We believe that true innovation is in the fusion of form and method. So, we listen – to clients, to each other, and to the individuals that will live, love and work in our buildings. This insight informs our process, it is embedded into our designs, and realised in our structures.
We start conversations, to inform and encourage debate, ensuring every voice is heard. In so doing, we hope to improve the public perception of architecture, and demonstrate that buildings do make a difference.
We create an architecture that listens.
Pedder & Scampton
Pedder & Scampton is an Islington based architectural practice offering design and consultation whose work has a residential and community bias. We have a particular expertise in design for people with autism and other special needs. Please have a look through our portfolio or explore the services we offer and see the Notebook section for developing specialisms, prizes, visits and other interests.
Savills
Savills plc. is a global real estate services provider listed on the London Stock Exchange. The company has an international network of more than 600 offices and associates throughout the Americas, the UK, continental Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East, offering a broad range of specialist advisory, management and transactional services to clients all over the world.
Skyroom
Skyroom is an award-winning technology and urban development company which delivers precision-manufactured homes in the airspace above existing buildings. Our mission is to improve the lives of key workers by delivering affordable, sustainable, beautiful homes near where they work.
Stiff+Trevillion
Stiff+Trevillion are a well-established West London practice with a strong reputation for elegant and sophisticated architecture. Collaboration is at the heart of the practice’s ethos. From the development of the brief with the client, to the delivery of the project with the design team, we work together.
Established in the early 1980’s the studio employs around 60 people. As well as architects and technicians, we employ interior and furniture designers. This blend of skills reflects the work we do across the commercial, restaurant & retail and private residential sectors and builds a rich and creative working environment.
We have built a good reputation and strong working relationships with many central London boroughs, and whilst most of our work is in the capital, we carry out projects across the UK and overseas.
studio 8FOLD
Studio 8FOLD sees architecture as a powerful nexus to fuse social & environmentally conscious projects with capital-driven projects, spatializing an outcome that leverages the best attributes of each. We seek out organisations that aim to bring about a cultural shift for a more sustainable world, starting at a neighbourhood scale, and with this innovative initiative create a powerful USP for the capital-driven party involved. Through our unique set of skills in synthesising research, spatial intelligence, and bringing together the right people we help both parties to find a win-win outcome. At Studio 8FOLD we value collaboration, initiative, and offer synthesis through spatial intelligence.
Studio Egret West
Studio Egret West was established in November 2004 by Christophe Egret and David West with a shared vision: to offer strategy with architectural specificity; and specificity within an overall strategy.
Studio Egret West brings surprise and delight to place making. Architecture is too often seen in isolation from its urban context. Planning is too often seen as soulless, unspecific proposals that gather dust on shelves.
We believe that the way forward is the osmosis between planning and architecture. Studio Egret West is just this. We follow no formula and no recipe. Not just architecture by architects and not just planning by planners.
50/50 Architecture/Urban Design with the public realm prioritised as the foundation of sustainable communities.
Sybarite
Sybarite is a global architectural and design studio leading the evolving world of experiential culture in retail and hospitality.
A meeting of minds, Torquil McIntosh and Simon Mitchell set out with a shared expansive creative vision for luxury retail in 2002. Now, 21 years later, the London-based studio has achieved some 2,800 projects to date globally. Projects range from micro to macro – be it a perfume bottle, a retail roll out, a department store or a mixed-use masterplan, among which includes Marni global flagship stores, Ferrari Ready-To-Wear flagship stores, the Moët & Chandon Champagne Bar at Harrods (LVMH), and mostly renowned SKP and SKP-S in Beijing, Xi’an, Chengdu, with more in the pipeline to be disclosed in the future.
The most recent project that launched in January 2023 was SKP Chengdu, this has led the way for a new blueprint in mixed-use retail and hospitality for the future.
The studio is built on a culture that celebrates collaboration, develops creativity, and strives for innovation. Embracing 360-degree approach to all areas of design and architecture and everything that holistically bolts on in-between is what motivates the team of 90+ architects, interior designers, visualisers, graphic designers, branders, product designers and marketeers.
WeChat: @Sybarite
The Furniture Practice
We are an international furniture specialist.
For over 25 years we have worked with leading businesses, architects and designers, and project teams to deliver complex projects anywhere in the world.
With offices in the UK, Europe and the US, we provide consultancy, procurement, delivery and installation, and post-project support to clients across a range of sectors, including workplace, co-working, build to rent, hospitality, education and home working.
tp bennett
tp bennett is a multi-disciplinary design practice of 350 staff focussing on architecture, interiors and planning in the UK and internationally. tp bennett is headquartered in London with Manchester and Leeds offices serving the North of England.
We are part of a global network, which includes 30 affiliate offices across EMEA, Americas and APAC region.
Wright & Wright
Wright & Wright was formed in 1994 by Sandy and Clare Wright, and has grown steadily since then. Stephen Smith joined the practice in 2005 and became a partner in 2011. We limit our portfolio in order that the partners are involved in every project – they discuss each project, and often work together on them.
We are committed to producing high-quality buildings. This requires persistence at each stage of the project. It begins with an understanding of our clients’ aspirations and continues via supporting them throughout the life of a project and beyond. We hope the fact that clients repeatedly commission us is evidence of our good work.
