Project location: London

Osier Way

Osier Way forms a key milestone in Waltham Forest’s Leyton Vision masterplan, a regeneration scheme transforming industrial land west of Leyton Orient’s football ground into a vibrant, mixed-use community. Developed in collaboration with residents and local businesses, the project delivers 197 apartments alongside light industrial and retail spaces — supporting a flexible, modern urban neighbourhood.

Comprising five blocks from 6 to 13 storeys, the development was designed to maximise light, views and ventilation through variation in massing, orientation, and material treatment. Subtle differences in façade tonality and architectural expression allow each building to read individually while forming a cohesive family of objects in conversation — enhancing identity while reducing visual bulk at street level.

Leon House

Leon House, developed by Pocket Living in SE7 Charlton, offers 51 compact, high-quality one-bedroom homes aimed at first-time buyers. Designed by Gibson Thornley, the scheme comprises two five-storey pavilion blocks framing a central landscaped courtyard. This layout breaks down building scale, encourages community interaction, and delivers generous communal spaces amid a modest footprint.

Clad in a traditional 1930s ribbon-brick palette, the façade echoes neighbouring interwar semi-detached homes. Precast stone-like detailing marks stair cores and entrances, creating vertical accents and reinforcing the building’s civic presence in a low-rise suburban context

Bulls Barn

Bulls Barn is a substantial new-build family home in Ditchling, within the South Downs National Park, set against panoramic views of Ditchling Beacon. Designed by Selencky /// Parsons, the house comprises three distinct volumes featuring Komproment red clay tiles atop carved flint bases. These masses are interconnected by glass-wrapped circulation spaces that maximise natural light and visual connection to the landscape. Full recladding, internal reconfiguration, and the addition of a 70 m2 annexe (housing a gym and studio) transform the original 1960s structure into a sustainable, contextually rooted architectural statement.

Built with triple-glazed window packs, ground-source heat pumps, MVHR systems, and photovoltaic arrays, the project combines high-performance mechanics with traditional materials. Flint and clay tiles reference regional craftsmanship, while the home’s environmental strategy ensures longevity and a reduced carbon footprint.

Colville Estate

The Colville Estate in Hackney is one of London’s most ambitious and socially driven estate renewal programmes. Developed over multiple phases since 2009 and master planned by Karakusevic Carson Architects, the project replaces 438 homes with 925 new ones – delivering more than 100 additional council homes – while integrating civic spaces, commercial uses, and a generous public-realm strategy.

Rooted in deep community collaboration, the estate’s transformation is characterised by medium-rise, tenure-blind housing that reconnects the once inward-looking site to its urban context. A reintroduced network of public streets and green corridors links Regent’s Canal to Shoreditch Park, while new building forms – varying in height, typology, and architectural language – foster a strong place-specific identity.

At the heart of the development’s architectural language is the façade treatment: robust, expressive brickwork that reflects Hackney’s historic fabric while supporting a contemporary civic presence. The latest completed phases, including Phase 2A & 2B, showcase finely textured facades built with Petersen bricks across a highly coordinated palette.

250 City Road

Located between Angel and Old Street, 250 City Road is a major regeneration scheme that transforms a former low-density business park into a high-density, low-energy residential community. The masterplan – anchored by two elegant residential towers of 42 and 36 storeys – delivers a mixed-use environment that blends living, working, and leisure, while completing the planned cluster of tall buildings along City Road. Framed by landscaped courtyards and a central park, the Berkley Homes development balances density with green space, while promoting walkability and connectivity to surrounding neighbourhoods.

The design draws on Islington’s vernacular materiality, with high-quality Petersen brickwork establishing a textured, grounded base for the glazed tower forms above. The brick podium integrates restaurants, shops, and cafes at street level, supporting a vibrant public realm and contributing to the architectural hierarchy across the site. Internally, apartments are designed for privacy, daylight access, and city views, while the building massing supports passive environmental strategies to reduce energy consumption and improve comfort.

Cubitt House

Cubitt House, part of the 240 Blackriars Road development in Bankside, London, is a bold complement to the adjacent 20-storey glass tower. Designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM), the 6-storey brick-clad residential building presents a striking contrast – its deep black, handcrafted masonry brings texture and gravitas to a pivotal riverside corner.

Clad in Roben Faro Black clinker bricks, Cubitt House is sculpted with inset loggias, terraces, and garden spaces that respond to modern urban living. The dark brick façade is layered over a precast concrete base, creating a robust structural narrative that harmonises with the building’s expressive carving and articulation.

Valentine Place

Located in London’s SE1, Valentine Place mixed-use development comprises high-end specification offices, ground-floor retail and private residential units. Designed by Broadway Malyan, the project transforms a former warehouse site into a contemporary and contextually rich scheme, reactivating a prominent location within Southwark’s urban grain.

The Architectural character is defined by its crafted façades, which feature a bespoke blend of Petersen D46 and D97 bricks. A defining feature is the corbelled brickwork – a technique where each course is offset to project slightly from the course below. This creates a staggered, textural rhythm across elevations, producing varying depths of shadow that shift throughout the day. The result is tactile, visually engaging skin that references both traditional masonry craft and modern architectural composition. This corbelling technique, also seen in projects like Medina House, helps lend mass and sculptural quality to otherwise flat façades.

Internally, the high-quality material palette continues, supporting the development of commercial function and residential comfort, while externally, the street-facing elevations deliver a strong civic presence.

The Rye Apartments

Rye Apartments is a ten-unit sustainable development located ona prominent corner site opposite Peckam Rye Park in London. Designed with a clear focus on contextual sensitivity and performance, the two-block scheme blends seamlessly into its red-brick surroundings while asserting a contemporary, sculptural identity. Clad in the Petersen C48 Cover Tile, the buildings reinterperet familiar materials through a refined, modern architecturak language that responds to site constraints, privacy needs, and environmental priorities.

Driven, by sustainable design principles, the project utilises a Cross-Laminated-Timber (CLT) structure – sequestering over 227 tons of carbon – and features passive design strategies, solar control glazing, and heat recovering systemsm all within a super airtight envelope. The result is a calm, tractile living environment that integrates minimal palettes and celebrates natural light and craftsmanship.

Turnmill

Located at a prominent junction in the Clerkenwell Green Conservation Area, Turnmill, is a new-build office and retail development designed by Piercy & Co for Derwent London, delivering over 70,500 sq ft of high-specificatino workspace and ground level restaurants. Reaplcing a structurally compromised 19th century stable, the scheme enhances both the urban fabric and public realm with a bold yet contextually sensitive design.

The sweeping curved façade, inspired by Barbara Hepworth’s Curved Form (Delphi), responds to pedestrian movement around the site – particularly in light of the adjacent Farringdon Crossrail station. The building draws from Clerkenwell’s industrial heritage, using Petersen Kolumba bricks in three bespoke shades to create a horizontal rhythm and robust material identity. Deep chamfered window reveals, and recessed joints animate the brickwork, while custom specials and detailing articulate its distinctive form.

Internally, brickwork continues into a double-height entrance space, transitioning to a refined material palette of concrete, plaster, and brass. Curved walls and bespoke joinery echo the exterior language. The building also integrates a low-energy design strategy, including ground-source heat pumps, openable windoews, and displacement ventilation.

Sir Ludwig Guttman Medical Centre

The Sir Ludwig Guttman Health and Wellbeing Centre in Stratford is a landmark civic building and a key Olympic legacy project. Originally designed as the Athletes’ Polyclinic for the 2012 Games, it now delivers over 3,800 m2 of NHS primary care alongside 1,500 m2 of community facilities.

Designed by Penoyre & Prasad, the building responds to its taller residential surroundings with a strong sculptural form and refined material palette. A recessed colonnade lined with gold, silver and bronze shopfronts references its Olympic heritage, while a pure white brick façade establishes a monolithic civic presence. Sharp faceted corners and set-back glazing define a building that is both highly contextual and distinctly contemporary.

Newport Street Gallery

Newport Street Gallery, designed by Caruso St John Architects for artist Damien Hirst, is a landmark of contemporary British architecture and the winner of the 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize. Located in Vauxhall, London, the gallery reimagines a terrace of former Victorian industrial buildings, flanked by two bold new additions – including a striking saw-tooth roof – into a seamless, poetic composition of old and new.

The gallery houses six exhibition spaces and functions as a public venue for Hirst’s private art collection. Caruso St John’s design juxtaposes tactile materiality with crafted precision, bringing conservation and innovation. Externally, a robust façade unites five buildings into a continuous urban gesture – internally, highly detailed bespoke white brick cylinders define stairwells and create sculptural circulation spaces of exceptional quality. The building is celebrated for its craftsmanship, intimacy and richly layered spatial experience.

Volcano House

Coate Street, also known as “Volcano House ”, is a striking residential development in Shoreditch, London, designed by Urban Mesh as their personal home. The building reinterprets the dark facades of its urban context through a bold and contemporary lens. The façade features a refined composition of textures, tones and finishes – delivering a dynamic visual effect that shifts with light and perspective. The designs leverage innovative brick detailing to create a home that feels both contextual and completely unique.