The Big Idea

We believe great design and placemaking starts with a careful understanding of the brief, context and typology, which we distil into an underlying ‘Big Idea’ an all-encompassing generator from which the rest of the design stems.

Memorable Places

Our Big Ideas provide compelling project narratives which continue through all stages of our rigorous design process. Combined with regular internal design reviews, this ensures all projects have a strong narrative and rationale, securing support from key stakeholders and creating highly desirable and memorable places.

Better by Design

Seeking innovative design solutions is an integral part of our methodology, this, alongside our ‘Big Idea‘ driven design process and an holistic design approach underpins the social and commercial value we create.

Our innovation is focused across the three key design strands which we believe underpin optimal solutions; People & Place, Commercial Intelligence and Buildability.

Phoenix Works, Manchester

People & Place

The potential of great design to tangibly improve people’s quality of life underpins our work. Our people focused, placemaking-led approach ensures that we create desirable places with strong local identity, which foster neighbourliness and build strong healthy communities.

Commercial Intelligence

We understand that embedding a highly-efficient commercial diagram within all our projects from day one is fundamental to ensuring viability. This, combined with our commitment to R&D and innovation, helps to deliver the social and economic value of the spaces and places we create.

Buildability

We enjoy the process of crafting and making; all our projects are designed to be built from the outset and there is no separation between concept and technical design. Clear technical strategies are embedded in our projects from the initial sketch through to completion.

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