Working with us

We transform public places, enabling them to thrive through unlocking the challenges and opportunities of the future. 

Our Experience

We have spent the past 30 years helping to drive social, cultural, and economic regeneration across the North. Our work is rooted in partnerships with the public sector and charitable organisations, with a strong track record in collaboratively shaping the transformation of historic buildings and projects.

We work on new buildings, and refurbishments and have established an excellent portfolio of repurposing Listed Buildings.

We are especially proud of working with communities, civic activists, social enterprises, artists, makers and academics.

We are regularly involved in helping to facilitate challenging projects and offering added value that goes beyond the client-consultant relationship. We like to be considered as partners to the projects.

Our Ethos

We value a collaborative working ethos with our clients, end-users and all other stakeholders. We practice a user-centered approach to design, helping us to focus on creating social value through each design project.

To keep up with the fast pace of change we integrate research and development into our practice.

This helps us to embrace the potential of new technologies and to better understand the future that we are designing for. To allow us to focus on what matters we prefer to work within two hours travel from our office in Leeds enabling us to have a close relationship with our clients. Since 2012 we have worked a 5-day week in 4 days to help to facilitate a better balance between work and home.