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I have been lucky enough to work as an architect for a good many years. Ten years ago I established my own practice in the heart of Bristol. It is a youthful and diverse practice with four other talented young architects - we work on projects for co-build and community groups, self builders, charities and creative businesses. Working ethically and sustainably is at the heart of our business. We aim to make a difference for those we work with. We also have a lot of fun.

My experience has focused on one-off houses particularly extensions, listed buildings and new build houses in rural settings from small to very large budgets. Before qualifying as an architect, I spent a year and a half living in Chile where I implemented a grass roots project that enabled disadvantaged children to design and build a garden for their own school using recycled bottle bricks. My focus is on delivering buildings that suit and enhance the specific needs of the client and their day to day living habits. I believe design should be functional, attractive, sustainable and cost-effective.

We are a design-oriented, chartered RIBA architectural practice specialising in sustainable residential architecture and conservation. We have extensive experience in the creative adaptation of period houses for contemporary living and we love helping homeowners get more out of their properties.

We are adept at obtaining planning and listed building consent for sensitive sites. Our projects often involve eco-refurbishments and energy upgrade of existing buildings including enhanced insulation, airtightness and MVHR installation. We are certified Passivhaus Designers.

Our office is in Montpelier in central Bristol. We offer all of the RIBA menu of services to suit every project.

Haydn runs a small practice with recent and extensive experience in house extensions and alterations with a background in education and commercial projects.

The practice aims to provide a high quality comprehensive service to a variety of clients from initial feasibility through to detailed design and inspection of construction, working with home owners to improve and enhance their homes and to build new to meet their needs. Partial services are also offered to cover any aspects of the wider design and management of projects.

The practice has a particular interest in energy conscious design and increasingly in sustainable and “Eco” constructions and examination of these issues now forms part of nearly all projects.

We are architects. We design buildings. We also like to use our projects to do good things. Across all projects that we undertake, our philosophy remains the same: to bring our clients and co-workers together through making thoughtful and enjoyable buildings.

The team at Good Thing are young, dedicated and with a range of experience across different project types. We are based just outside Bath and undertake projects nationally and internationally.

Jonathan Hetreed worked for four years on site and in design and build, then at Feilden Clegg for 16 years – 12 years as a partner – on a wide range of environmental projects.

He established his own practice in 1997 to refocus on medium and smaller projects more closely related to clients and occupants, where vitally important environmental design can be closely and pragmatically matched to people’s needs and aspirations. Project experience in recent years has included new and refurbished houses designed to Passivhaus principles together with bespoke community and commercial schemes.

Jonathan believes strongly in designing to first principles, in the delights of place, light and natural materials and in celebrating craftsmanship on site.

Western Design Architects is an award winning architectural practice with a reputation for excellent design, both locally and nationally.

Jonathan Turvey joined Western Design Architects in 2011 having relocated to Dorset from Ireland where he was a Director of an architectural practice.  Jonathan is one of four Directors and is passionate about good design.

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Greenspace Architects Ltd is an eco-architectural practice with extensive experience of producing high quality, low energy and carefully-crafted architecture underpinned by sustainable design principles. Quite simply, we create fantastic places, spaces and buildings that exceed the aspirations of our clients.

Our approach is based on dialogue and collaboration: we listen carefully to you, our client, to establish a strategic brief, bringing our experience to bear to realise the opportunities the brief presents. We encourage you to ‘dream’, to draw-out your true aspirations for your project, then find a way to attain the most important elements for the available funds.

Sicolo Webb Architects is an energetic design-led studio based in Bath. We have extensive experience in the design and delivery of housing, education, institution and arts projects. Some of our projects have been newly built but most of our experience has been gained through working on the transformation and re-use of existing buildings. We enjoy complex challenges and have worked with the constraints of listed buildings, conservation areas, world heritage sites and areas of outstanding natural beauty.

We established Sicolo Webb architects in 2018 to create socially and environmentally responsible architecture and to create buildings that improve and bring joy to the lives of those who use them.

mjwarchitects are an award-winning RIBA chartered architectural practice established in 2000, based in a converted chapel just outside Bath in Somerset. We are ideally located to serve Bath, Bristol, Bruton, Frome and Wells and all surrounding areas in the South and South West.

We have the necessary skills and over 25 years of experience to work on a whole range of projects, but residential projects are our specialty. We have completed over 300 projects and gained a successful reputation for obtaining planning permissions and listed building consents on often difficult and sensitive sites.

Our success is based on our creative and flexible design approach, our ability to gain community support for schemes and our skills in working well with planners. We aim to meet client aspirations through creative, innovative and sustainable design, that exceeds expectations, and is delivered successfully on time and within your budget.

Tom is Creative Director at Orme - an innovative and award-winning architecture practice based in Somerset, offering bespoke design solutions and services to a wide range of domestic and commercial clients across the UK.

Tom has an absolute passion for well-designed bespoke private houses and prides himself on delivering a first class design service.

He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Architects Registration Board. Over the last 15 years he has worked on a wide variety of projects from university halls of residence, multi-million pound mixed-use regeneration projects, through to bespoke community and fitness centres.

More recently Tom has led the design and implementation of award winning passiv-haus standard residential projects.