Practice

Design philosophy

Our work is driven by a desire to enhance the human experience. We make buildings that are not just objects in the landscape, but of the landscape, respecting their natural and cultural context.

Research

Every project starts with the site: its climate, its history, and the streets and people around it.

Collaboration

We design with clients, engineers and builders in the room, not after they have left it.

Restraint

The best move is often the one we do not make. We add only what the building needs to be itself.

2015
Founded
200+
Projects completed
38
People in the studio

People

Who you'll work with

ML

Mara Lindgren

Founding partner

Trained in Stockholm and Zurich. Leads the residential and cultural work.

DO

Daniel Okoro

Partner

Joined in 2017 from a large commercial practice; leads the workplace and tower projects.

IC

Inês Carvalho

Director, Lisbon

Opened the Lisbon studio in 2021 and runs the renovation work across southern Europe.

TW

Tom Whitfield

Director, London

Technical lead. If a detail can be built, Tom has usually drawn it three ways first.

Studios

Three cities, one studio

New York

48 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012

London

14 Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DP

Lisbon

Rua da Rosa 121, 1200-385

Want to join the studio?

We hire a few people a year, usually after they have written to us about a building they like. Say which one.

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