Architecture & Landscape Design
Urquhart & Hunt
Urquhart & Hunt is a Somerset-based landscape design studio dedicated to nature, with an impeccable design and fulfilment process. As first-time exhibitors at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022, they won a gold medal and Best in Show for their A Rewilding Britain Landscape, portraying the flourishing biodiversity of a beaver habitat.
We were appointed to support their Chelsea installation and have been retained to work with them on an ongoing basis, promoting their work for the Roman Villa at The Newt in Somerset, amongst other projects.
NIKJOO
Architecture and interiors practice NIKJOO specialises in bringing new life to unpromising, urban sites. Their sustainability led ‘don’t move, improve!’ ethos sees them transforming unloved, period homes into light-filled, contemporary spaces that are sympathetic to local context, yet playful and non-traditional.
Trove, in Whitechapel (pictured above) is one such example: a post-war, terraced house that they have given new life, in collaboration with design-led developer and client, Flawk.
Anupama
Kundoo
Esteemed architect Anupama Kundoo works to empower local communities to build affordable, practical, resilient, high-design dwellings for themselves.
In 2012, she gained global attention by bringing a team of Indian craftsman to the Venice Architecture Biennale to construct a replica of her acclaimed Wall House. At the 2016 Biennale, she showcased a ferrocement housing unit, a material with which she has been experimenting for the last decade, as she thinks if offers the best solution to affordable housing globally.
2020-21 saw her first solo exhibition at the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, accompanied by the publication of the first monograph on her work. Wallpaper• magazine invited her to design the limited edition cover of their April issue to celebrate these achievements.
We are working to promote Anupama’s thinking and skills internationally, generating exhibition opportunities for her in the UK and introducing her to key partners such as the Serpentine Gallery pavilion team and the LSE Cities unit.
In order to draw attention to her 2016 Venice Biennale presentation, we set up an exhibition to show the 3 housing typologies and a 1:1 scale installation of her Easy WC at Roca London Gallery and organised a panel discussion on the theme of disaster relief housing. BBC presenter Maxwell Hutchinson, Professor of architecture and humanitarian aid David Sanderson and AD Publisher Helen Castle spoke with her to a full house.
Coverage Highlights
Architecture Today
Designboom
Dezeen
Icon
The Spectator
Wallpaper
Cube
Haus
Property pioneer Cube Haus was set up to disrupt the existing London housing market, delivering high design value homes at reasonable prices that can be configured to fit small and awkward urban sites.
Helping clients realise the value of unused back gardens, derelict garages, empty rooftops and dilapidated workshops/light Industrial buildings to create energy-efficient, modular homes, the company now has a number of schemes in pre-planning and planning by architects Carl Turner, Faye Toogood, Skene Catling de la Pena and Adjaye Associates.
We achieved widespread coverage across trade and consumer press for Cube Haus and introduced them to like-minded developers for collaborative opportunities, creating a Disruptive Developers group to lobby government for more opportunities to build small residential units on tight urban sites, to address the capital’s housing shortage.
Caring Wood
Caring Wood is is an extensive country home for three generations of the same family, incorporating formal, communal and private spaces. Set in 84 acres in Kent, its brief was twofold: to embody the spirit of the English country house and estate in a design that would embrace its context and landscape; and to provide a sustainable home for life, both in the sense of carbon neutrality and in terms of a flexible design that can accommodate an entire family and evolve with them, potential being extended for future generations.
The significant scale of the project encouraged James Macdonald Wright (of Macdonald Wright Architects) to invite Niall Maxwell (of Rural Office for Architecture) to collaborate on the realisation of Caring Wood.
Theresa worked with them to raise awareness of the project which won a RIBA Regional Award, a RIBA Regional Sustainability Award and RIBA House of the Year.
Living Architecture
Living Architecture invites established and emerging, world-class architects to build houses around the UK. The houses are available to rent for holidays by the general public.
The inspiration for Living Architecture came from a desire for people to be able to experience what it is like to live, eat and sleep in a space designed by an outstanding architectural practice. Working with the business from its 2009 launch through 2012, we created media campaigns for MVRDV’s Balancing Barn (pictured); The Shingle House by Nord Architecture; The Dune House by Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects; The Long House by Hopkins Architects; and A Room for London, by David Kohn Architects and Fiona Banner.
Our work yielded a vast range of national and international press coverage and the houses have been fully booked year round.