Seizing opportunity and unlocking potential, with integrity and teamwork.
Are you looking to transform an overgrown patch of land or neglected building into something so much better and so much more valuable? Are you looking for a hands-on partner with the know-how to make something happen?
We never set out to become developers, but perhaps our story was always headed this way.
Everything we were doing as architects had us itching to get involved – forging strong connections with people in the business, getting to grips with how planning decisions were made, and creating places with the future of communities firmly in mind. We’re drawn to opportunity and we’re not afraid of legwork, so putting our own skin in the game came naturally.
It's often when we're cycling around the city that we come across seeds of possibility. We spot a gap between two houses, a crumbling building, or a site that looks unloved. Sometimes we have to be light and quick on our feet. Sometimes it’s all about the slowburn.
Our list of achievements is growing all the time. We’ve bought at auction when we’ve seen interesting potential, transformed a derelict warehouse, and given new life to a forgotten corner of a former Victorian hospital. Short-term ‘meanwhile’ projects excite as much as anything, and we know that the briefest of transformations can make the biggest difference.
We have all the expertise we could wish for, either through our Square Feet colleagues in-house or through a mutually supportive network of agents and consultants that we’ve built up over many years. Each of our projects has brought us new friends, shown us unexpected perspectives, and given us a taste for more.
If developers have a bad name, we're doing our bit to change that. We’ll never shake off the integrity and transparency we stood for when we first started out as young architects. Whatever we’re doing, we want to meet the neighbours, put communities back together, and make our cities the very best they can be.
Every development is a tricky puzzle waiting to be solved, and it's one we can't solve alone. But in good company – with people we trust, people who bring energy and ambition, people who appreciate what we bring to the table – there are so many possibilities.
