ARP Anthony Richardson and Partners Ltd provides a comprehensive architectural service for all types of built form. Established over 40 years ago, ARP has long provided services to Housing Associations, Local Authorities, Community Groups, commercial companies and private clients (see client list).

We have particular strengths and skills in the conservation field, repairing ecclesiastical buildings and in the alteration and repair of historic buildings.

We design housing of all types, with particular skills with dealing with difficult and sensitive urban sites, client groups with special needs, rehabilitation and conservation work. Other categorised of work which we undertake include major repairs, acting as employer’s agent, and party wall Awards.

We have experience in the provisions of designs for healthcare facilities and accessible environments.

We have a strong commitment to energy efficient design and accessibility. We retain working links with quantity surveyors, mechanical, electrical and structural engineers, landscape designers and energy specialists and can offer a comprehensive consultant service for projects.

We offer the service of Principal Designer where this is required for works falling under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.

We have registration with Architects Accredited in Building Conservation.

We are design-led and research-orientated. We are critical about what we do. But we have lots of fun as we love the challenge of the craft of building.

We undertake commissions both small and large and specialise in projects that respond creatively to their context.

We work with an interdisciplinary network of makers, builders, and designers leading to innovative collaborations.

We are committed to design, detailing and materiality. Attention to detail has always been our lens, and our love for design and building sites is the engine.

We take the term collaboration seriously. Architecture studios have a social responsibility to the public, a technical responsibility to the structure and an intellectual responsibility

As an architect, I’m passionate about old buildings and helping their owners keep them fit for modern living and modern use. I know what it’s like for small congregations to try to keep up with maintaining their church buildings without forgetting their mission – and I love to be involved with them. I’m also concerned about green issues and one of my new projects is the design and build of a small private chapel in straw‐bale construction with a reciprocal framed roof. I’ve also got a few projects and potential projects in London – all small‐scale extensions for homeowners on a budget.

Setting up on my own at the age when many people retire is a new adventure. I’ve worked with my late husband in our partnership Robert and Anne Netherwood, done an 8‐year stint with him setting up and running the Home Advisory Service in Dodoma Tanzania, and helped him set up the practice again when we returned to the UK. Changing hats, I was ordained in 1991 and spent 16 years looking after three very rural parishes in North Shropshire. I retired from the parishes when Rob was diagnosed with cancer, and helped him set up Greenspace Architects Ltd with Kevin Slack. I worked freelance for Greenspace until 2015, and now I have my own Chartered Practice – working from home

I’ve been very lucky to have Andy Hales helping me as a freelance assistant for three years until April 2019. Andy recently completed his RIBA Part 2 studies at the College of Alternative Technology in Machynlleth and has taught me a great deal about straw bale construction, hemp-crete insulation and other environmentally friendly building techniques.

I’m a member of the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and the Green Register, and I’m on the RIBA Conservation Register. In December 2017 I received accreditation from the RIBA as a Conservation Architect.

As an architect, I’m passionate about old buildings and helping their owners keep them fit for modern living and modern use. I know what it’s like for small congregations to try to keep up with maintaining their church buildings without forgetting their mission – and I love to be involved with them. I’m also concerned about green issues and one of my new projects is the design and build of a small private chapel in straw‐bale construction with a reciprocal framed roof. I’ve also got a few projects and potential projects in London – all small‐scale extensions for homeowners on a budget.

Setting up on my own at the age when many people retire is a new adventure. I’ve worked with my late husband in our partnership Robert and Anne Netherwood, done an 8‐year stint with him setting up and running the Home Advisory Service in Dodoma Tanzania, and helped him set up the practice again when we returned to the UK. Changing hats, I was ordained in 1991 and spent 16 years looking after three very rural parishes in North Shropshire. I retired from the parishes when Rob was diagnosed with cancer, and helped him set up Greenspace Architects Ltd with Kevin Slack. I worked freelance for Greenspace until 2015, and now I have my own Chartered Practice – working from home

I’ve been very lucky to have Andy Hales helping me as a freelance assistant for three years until April 2019. Andy recently completed his RIBA Part 2 studies at the College of Alternative Technology in Machynlleth and has taught me a great deal about straw bale construction, hemp-crete insulation and other environmentally friendly building techniques.

I’m a member of the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and the Green Register, and I’m on the RIBA Conservation Register. In December 2017 I received accreditation from the RIBA as a Conservation Architect.

The ARPL philosophy is to produce buildings to the highest design standards in close consultation with our clients.

Our design is both innovative and sympathetic to the immediate and the broader environment in which they are constructed with an emphasis on sustainability. Each project embraces the unique nature of the client’s needs and the site.

From our base in Ayr the practice carries out projects over a wide geographical area from the Orkneys and the Western Isles to Ireland. Our project experience covers the fields of housing, churches, schools, commercial projects, private houses, community and arts buildings. We have developed particular expertise in contemporary sustainable design, specialist conservation works and design for historically sensitive environments.

Our work has received wide recognition through numerous design and environmental awards presented over the years for our new build and conservation works. Regular success in design competitions adds to the practice portfolio.

While you are here, please visit our project gallery where you can see many of the projects we have worked on and some case studies.

Arrol Architects have now been operating for some forty years and throughout that time, our ethos has always been about quality, sustainability and delivery. We believe we have always developed very good working relationships with our clients by obtaining a clear understanding from the outset of the client’s wishes and needs and by careful analysis and attention to detail, produced results that are not only sustainable, but also economically viable and delivered within the required timescales.

Working within the historic environment has always been our core business, not only in terms of conserving buildings, but also producing high quality new build design.

Care of the environment is also high on our agenda and we strive with all our projects to come up with sustainable solutions, not solely in terms of maintaining the health and wellbeing of people by the careful selection of natural recyclable products, but also providing economic benefit by incorporating renewable energies thus reducing the carbon footprint.

We operate a studio culture where the whole team works well together in sharing problems, coming up with solutions, developing ideas and innovative design. We actively encourage staff to develop their knowledge and experience and hold regular CPD events in the office.

All our projects are carefully managed within the office to ensure a quality product is delivered. We are ISO 9001: 2015 accredited.

An international architectural charity and NGO which aims to improve health, livelihood and resilience to disasters in the countries it works. Projects include the development of better housing, safe school buildings and effective clinics and hospitals, for example.

Article 25 has more than 85 projects in 34 countries, making it the largest architectural NGO in the world. Its projects are delivered with in-country partners to ensure that local knowledge and relationships are maximised, and that projects are sustainable even after our involvement has ended.

The name derives from Article 25 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states that everyone has the right to adequate and dignified shelter.

The ACA is not a regulatory body, but provides an independent voice for and support to architectural practices that promotes and enables high standards in practice, within the membership. Membership is free and open to registered architects practicing on their own either alone or in partnership or as a Director of a company whose business consists wholly or mainly of an Architects’ practice or an allied field.

The principal purpose of the ACA is to represent and support architects in their resolve to provide excellence in practice. The Association lobbies and consults with Government and major industry bodies, arranges events and provides other services in support of this goal.

The ACA was founded in 1973 by former presidents of the RIBA. It has stood firm for quality in architecture and reliability of service in private practice ever since and was created at a time when there was no organisation in existence, dedicated specifically to the interests of private practitioners.

The original dedication still holds true and the maintenance of a collective voice on important and topical matters related to the role and standing of consultant architects remains the single most important benefit offered to ACA members today.

The ACA believes that it is vitally important that those who choose to practise architecture have an effective voice to represent their interests whether through the press, parliament or in the eyes of the public.

If you are an architect interested in having an effective voice and prompt representation on issues that affect you and your practice, ACA is uniquely positioned to work on your behalf.

BDP is different. Our unique position as a collective with experts spanning the spectrum of the built environment gives us a special status and capability in the design world. We are place makers who work at every scale; from bespoke light sculptures to entirely new cities. We are passionate about the role of design to improve everyday life.

We respond to the demands of this dynamic and ever-changing planet with cross discipline design thinking which spans all of life’s activities. Our union with Nippon Koei creates a global architecture, engineering and design practice which fuses placemaking and user-centred design with large scale infrastructure skills.

Our vision is to be the world’s leading integrated architecture, engineering and design firm, delivering world class solutions which enhance the communities they serve.

Barry Stow is an Architect experienced in the conservation and development of Listed buildings and historic townscapes.

Recent projects include a major conservation and repair programme at Tadworth Court, Surrey; masonry repair works at University College School, Hampstead; the conservation and development of Slyfield Farmhouse, Surrey, and South Ormsby Hall in Lincolnshire; advising the Strelka Institute, Moscow, on the development of Zaryadye Park, adjacent to Red Square and the Kremlin World Heritage Site; advising on the conservation of Listed buildings at Harrow School; masonry conservation work at Wiston House, Sussex; an assessment of the proposed Liverpool Waters docklands World Heritage Site; the repair of Westminster Abbey Chapter House and of defence outworks at Dover Castle, both for Historic England, and the reconstruction of the Leptis Magna Ruins in the Royal Park at Windsor Great Park, for the Crown Estate. He is the Inspecting Architect to 6 London churches.

We repair and adapt historic buildings, survey and prepare conservation strategies for churches, listed buildings, historic sites, townscapes, Scheduled Ancient Monuments and World Heritage Sites.

Barry Stow is a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association. Barry Stow is also a consultant to Marcus Beale Architects.

Bates Zambelli Chartered Architects make high quality, innovative, thought-provoking buildings. We offer urban, interior and landscape design as well architecture. Our continued involvement in university teaching and research and our extensive experience in practice enable us to approach design in a rounded, informed and considered manner. Key to that approach, we believe, is a close and sustained dialogue with each client, a dialogue that we look to begin at the earliest stage of a project and seek to continue long after completion.

Bates Zambelli Chartered Architects, is the central part of Bates Zambelli Limited, a company that offers many professional building procurement services under the trading styles of BZ Consulting and BZ Conservation. These include planning consultancy, historic building conservation and repair, development advice, party wall negotiations and health and safety CDM co-ordination. The breadth of services we offer not only provide the convenience and economies of a one stop shop for our clients but their multiple perspectives can enable us to find procurement solutions that may not otherwise be apparent.

Bates Zambelli Chartered Architects incorporated in 2000, arising from the Practice STS Bates Architects founded in 1991. Sherry Bates and Alessandro Zambelli are its sole and founding directors. Both Sherry and Alessandro are registered with the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

BZ Conservation - BZ Conservation is the dedicated historic buildings division of Bates Zambelli Limited, a firm of Chartered Architects incorporated in 2000 and arising from STS Bates Architects, a practice founded in 1991. Sherry Bates and Alessandro Zambelli are the sole and founding directors of Bates Zambelli Limited. Sherry is an inspecting architect for the Oxford and St Albans dioceses. He is also an associate member of the Ecclesiastical Architect's and Surveyors Association (EASA).

As a practice, Bates Zambelli is interested in architecture as a cultural endeavour as much as a profession. Both principals have a background in teaching architecture at university and are interested in the history and theory of the subject. We remain engaged in current debates relating to architectural theory and practice. Although the design of new buildings lies at the core of what we do, it is our architectural position that building conservation skills are vital to the architect in the UK today, as so much new building involves historic buildings or sites adjacent to them. Moreover historic buildings and building techniques have much to teach us that is relevant to new design work.

ctd architects are an established and well respected North Staffordshire design-led architectural practice, offering an experienced and multidisciplinary approach to building design and refurbishment. The practice is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Chartered Practice Scheme.

Established in 1988 in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, we have operated from our offices in Leek since 1999 and currently employ 14 people, headed up by four partners, Chris Hesketh, Martin Mason, Patrick Redmond and Karl Lawton.

The four directors all take a hands-on approach in the design and management of projects across a wide range of sectors, with particular specialist skills and experience in medical healthcare, historic building conservation, regeneration and housing, and community architecture.

Carden & Godfrey Architects was established in 1946, with projects centred on post-war reconstruction, and we continue to specialise in all aspects of conservation and historic building work, including sensitive alterations and extensions in traditional and contemporary design and new buildings including on historically sensitive sites. We are passionate about good design, high quality detailing and finding sustainable, bespoke solutions to keeping existing and historic buildings in good repair and use.

We are based in Central London and work primarily in London and the Home Counties as well as in Beverley.

We are a RIBA Chartered Practice and several members of our team are Architects Accredited in Building Conservation (AABC).

In all our projects we try to nurture a studio-based approach to sharing work and discussing new designs in an open forum. This is a valuable way of exchanging and developing ideas and experience and sharpens our focus on good architecture and building conservation as products of well-informed design and co-operation across the board.

Caroe & Partners was founded in 1884 by W.D.Caröe. Caröe (1857-1938) was a major figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement; he was architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners from 1895 until his death and was architect to numerous ecclesiastical buildings including St Davids and Durham Cathedrals, and Tewkesbury and Romsey Abbeys.

Caröe was not only an architect of striking originality and pioneer of building conservation, but also a distinguished designer of furniture, embroidery, metalwork and sculpture.

The rich legacy of the work of W.D. Caröe has never been of greater relevance. The revival of interest in architecture of the Edwardian period and of the 1920s and 1930s has provoked a re-evaluation of the work of those architects, like Caröe, who stood apart from the International Modern Movement to produce 'traditional' architecture.

Castria offers an integrated architecture and engineering service through a truly collaborative design process and our creative business culture. Our talented team of architects, engineers, surveyors and designers apply their technical expertise and imaginative problem-solving skills to a wide range of sectors and scale of projects.

For all projects we aim to provide an excellent service and value for our clients. We want to contribute to great placemaking, to be instrumental in reducing impact on the natural environment and in sustaining the historic environment.

OUR SERVICES - We are professionals in managing and delivering design, leveraging on knowledge from a variety of disciplines to customise a project particularly to the demands of our clients.

ARCHITECTURE

We deliver the aspirations of our clients from feasibility study to concept design, from detailed design to interior architecture. We do this by listening carefully and researching the project brief, prioritising the client’s objectives, providing inspiration and understanding the budget.

The team always work closely with the client to evolve, and deliver design excellence throughout planning, procurement, and the construction phases of a project.

We offer a full architectural design, Principal Designer, Interior Architecture and contract administration services in sectors spanning hospitality, civic, cultural, residential, defence, education, commercial, and industrial.

ENGINEERING

Our engineering team is highly experienced across a wide range of sectors including commercial, residential, civic, industrial, and education but with specific specialist expertise in the defence sector and in marine structural, environmental, and civil engineering. We provide flood risk services as part of our core offer.

We strive for cost effective solutions for all our projects, but also those which best meet the project objectives. We work with the wider team to achieve excellent outcomes for interventions in the more sensitive historic and natural environments to maintain their values and to minimise impact. Where innovation is needed, we provide expertise and guidance on appropriate strategies and the management of risk.

The engineering team can be augmented to cover Building Services, specialist survey and access activities for a reassuringly comprehensive and integrated design team offer.

HERITAGE

Castria is expert in managing change in the historic environment, with specialists across the disciplines in strategic heritage management, conservation practice and conservation engineering. We are knowledgeable in methods of conservation and repair, adept at the creative and sustainable adaptation of heritage properties and in introducing new build structures and interventions sensitively within the historic environment.

The work we do for visual inspections, Quadrennials and Quinquennials is supplemented with the latest technology supporting our conservation work using 3D point cloud survey data, the use of drones and ground penetrating radar.

MASTERPLANNING

Masterplanning is fundamental to sustainable development, and we place great significance as a team on designs which involve the community in shaping the built environment. We are experienced in integrating urban design principles in all types of development, landscape design-led approaches, experiential design, low carbon strategies, community consultation and more creative engagement practice.

Conservation PD (Planning + Design)

The practice offers comprehensive architect / conservation architect and conservation consultant expertise, which has achieved national awards. We offer full architect / conservation architect services from project inception to completion on site, as well as consultancy services to other practices and their clients. Services include:

HISTORIC BUILDINGS + CONTEXTS

- the repair, re-use and extension of listed buildings;
- sensitive designs in the historic environment (historic settings, conservation areas, designated and undesignated contexts of significance);

INTERIORS + REFURBISHMENT

- the repair and restoration of historic interiors;
- the introduction of contemporary elements in historic interiors that reconcile the historic with the contemporary;
- the remodelling of historic interiors to provide for contemporary re-use, in a manner that does not detract from the special interest of the listed building while providing for contemporary use expectation;
- the design of bespoke fitted furniture in appropriate contemporary or historic styles;

CONSULTANCIES + APPRAISALS

- the research and production of the full range of documents that assist the appraisal and management of the historic environment, such as Options Appraisals, Conservation Plans, Proposals Justification Statements, Assessments of Asset Significance, Design Guidance;
- client advice and negotiations with Statutory Authorities on all matters of Planning Consents (e. g. Planning Permission, Listed Building Consent, Conservation Area Consent), Listed Building Fire Safety and compliance with Approved Documents (Building Regulations Approvals);
- townscape regeneration, buildings at risk and grants;

APPEALS

- the full range of appeals (written representations, informal hearing, public inquiry);

MONUMENTS

- assessments and recommendations.

Cowan Architects is an award-winning practice who specialise in the repair, sensitive alteration and extension of listed and historic buildings.

The practice's heritage team is accredited with the RIBA at SCA level, and with the AABC. The team also advises the National Trust, sit on Chichester DAC to advise the Church of England and support the SPAB.

Cowan Architects is committed to high quality design solutions for historic buildings, and approach each project in a personable manner, with a friendly team who work with their clients to develop projects in a collaborative way. Current projects include historic houses, public institutions and ecclesiastical buildings

We provide Architectural and Interior Design services, Project Management, Heritage Conservation, Building Surveying, Drone Surveying and Costs Consultancy services for a variety of PLC, Institutional, Private and Public clients. Our team hold extensive knowledge and experience.

Our team use their wealth of experience and knowledge to work with a variety of well established brands. We offer expert advice and guidance through our many sectors and services.

We ensure a high standard of service is offered to all our clients with each process slightly tweaked to ensure a smooth project transition.

David Nossiter BA (Hons) Dip Arch RIBA CR FRSA

David read architecture at Plymouth University under Professor Adrian Gale and at The Bartlett, University College London, under Professor Jonathan Hill.

Prior to this, David spent two years at art college, where he developed his drawing skills.

David has over 25 years experience in professional practice. He was elected as an RIBA member and admitted to the architects register in 2001, following seven years in practice working with Proctor and Matthews, Mole and Ellis Williams among others. During this time David worked on a large variety of projects, including The Baltic Arts Centre, Gateshead and innovative housing projects at Greenwich Millennium Village and New Hall, Harlow.

Since qualifying as a registered architect, David has worked with Mole architects on a new studio building for the Department of Architecture at Cambridge University as well as several new build eco and passive houses.

David is an accredited RIBA Conservation Registrant (see Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas).

He received wide acclaim for the conversion of a dilapidated Listed barn into a contemporary dwelling, winning a Sunday Times British Homes Award.

He is actively engaged with issues concerning the built environment on a wider level (see Teaching, Voluntary & Supportive Roles).