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We practice architecture
and landscape architecture because we love designing and good design
is important to us. People and place are at the heart of what we
do. We take pleasure in ensuring that our designs reflect the distinctiveness
of a place, of a client and of a client’s needs. Whether we
are designing a building or a landscape we look to design in context,
both historical and visual, seeing design as the management of change
in that what is created changes places and changes relationships;
relationships that need to be managed in the interest of a creating
a harmonious and sustainable entity.
We believe in the importance of detail and as a practice have
always taken a ‘hands on’ approach – often literally
– to what we do. We enjoy working at both the broad, landscape
scale bringing together a range of disciplines and at the intimate
scale of a small building, an extension or a restoration where
the quality of the whole is so strongly affected by the quality
of the detail.
Because we want to conserve the character and
cultural distinctiveness of places, whether a landscape or a townscape,
we have been much involved in promoting, undertaking and implementing
countryside and urban character assessment and management plans
for a wide range of projects including landed estates, historic
parks and gardens, university campuses and the public realm of
towns and cities.
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