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Notes from the studio on materials, light, renovation and the slow craft of building well.
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Materials
Why we keep coming back to lime plaster
It breathes, it ages beautifully and it makes daylight look softer. A short love letter to the oldest finish in the studio.
Designing for light before layout
How a sun study on day one shapes every room that follows.
Read more →Inside the Lake Pavilion
Concrete, larch and a house lifted a metre above the flood line.
Read more →What a feasibility study really tells you
The four weeks that save clients the most money on any project.
Read more →Timber that gets better with time
Thermo-treated larch, oiled oak and the case for letting wood grey.
Read more →Renovating a listed apartment in Paris
Working with the conservation office rather than against it.
Read more →Why our studio stays small
Twenty-four people, two cities and a partner on every project.
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