Whether your aim is to create a high quality and sustainable environment to live, teach or work in, or simply to maximise the value of your property, place : architecture can provide the skills and expertise needed to conceive and realise your project.

An architect's contribution to a building extends far beyond form and aesthetics. Involved at an early stage, we can help you formulate your brief, carry out site appraisals and feasibility studies, and develop creative and innovative solutions tailored to your needs and the environment, both now and in the future.

Making places is integral to architecturual design. Good urban design also needs to take account of wider issues such as economic, environmental and social sustainability. Through a process of appraisal, design and consultation, solutions can be synthesised, developed and tested.

Working with a team of specialists, local government and agencies, place : architecture offers town planning, urban design and masterplanning services which encompass all these issues to create long term and sustainable solutions, with outputs including urban design development plans, and spatial masterplans for existing and new settlements.

Proper control of your project from the outset is essential. We can manage your project from concept to reality, controlling time, cost and quality.

Starting with feasibility study to examine a range of solutions and test the viability of each, we can than help you assemble an integrated project team and guide the project, ensuring that targets are set and monitored from inception to handover.

As well as examining planning and design solutions, we can also advise on the quality of materials and components specified, measured throughout the life of the building for both cost and environmental impact.