Creativity can unlock previously unrecognised opportunities.

This can involve inventive spatial analysis that generates additional areas within a fixed envelope, or ingenious solutions for challenging and complex sites. The creative re-use of our existing buildings is one of the most important challenges we face today.

Bristol Cathedral Choir School

Bristol Cathedral Choir School

The school needed more teaching space but the only site available was located between the Cathedral and the road. By rearranging some existing space and demolishing some redundant structures, the space was found for four new classrooms. The key to success was a contemporary solution that would satisfy the Church Commissioners, the School Governors and the Public.

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Colston’s Primary School

Now renamed Cotham Park School – This site was in the perfect location to add much needed capacity to the existing school. Several feasibility studies had shown that the site could not accommodate the brief. We reviewed the possibilities and with a clever split-level solution generated all the facilities required.

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Thornbury Castle Spa

The Castle has been operating as a hotel for over thirty years but needed more facilities to meet the market expectations. All the Castle grounds were considered too sensitive for development. So, we invented a prefabricated spa that could be dropped between the walls that was acceptable to all parties.

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Hotel Barcelona

Hotel Barcelona

One of our most successful interventions is the restaurant at this hotel in Exeter. Part of the conversion of this redundant eye hospital into a boutique hotel this contemporary extension was an uncompromising response to the site.

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