Our Practice
At Exterior Architecture, our ability to co-ordinate and innovate allows us to take an active role in ensuring the design process is both rigorous and collaborative across the disciplines and with local communities. It is our strong design ethos that allows us to create inspiring design by distributing our teams skills in the most effective way possible. We see the public realm of any project as an opportunity to bring people together, ensuring that our projects are innovative, aesthetically strong and mutually beneficial to the plants, animals and people that reside in these varied landscapes.
Our practice is based on the principles of being good listeners, great communicators and excellent designers. We operate an ‘open-door’ approach, embracing the opportunity to co-design with, and learn from other sectors. We quickly develop and retain strong communication channels with other consultants, local communities, councils and stakeholders, and strongly believe in the power of an integrated approach, where problems are easier solved together as a wider design team.
For us, work is the new play, and we feel lucky enough to experience this as an ExA family. We love what we do, and are excited about our industry, with our close-knit team fostering a collective conscious to create award-winning, high-quality results. We support one another, ensuring the health and well-being of our staff, whilst adopting progressive initiatives that support our local community, charities and organisations. We are firm believers that those who love their job never work a day in their lives and seek to create a friendly and nurturing environment that allows our staff to excel.
Awards
Shortlist: Housing Design Awards (Built Category) – Crusader Works 2023
Shortlist: Pineapple Awards (Creative Retrofit) – Crusader Works 2023
Winner: WAFX Award: Project Holloway, 2022
Winner: Housing Design Awards, Build with Nature: Kampus, 2022
Winner: Housing Design Awards, Winner of Winners: Kampus, 2022
Shortlist: Landscape Institute Awards: Excellence in Landscape Design - Kampus, 2022
Winner: OxPROP FEST Awards: Best Commercial Development, Harwell Zeus, 2022
Winner: RIBA London Award: 245 Hammersmith, 2022
Winner: RIBA London Award: Royal Wharf Primary School, 2022
Shortlist: The Pineapples Future Place Award: One Waterloo, 2022
Winner: Property Awards: Placemaking Award, Kampus, 2022
Winner: NW Residential Property Awards: Apartment Development of the Year, Kampus, 2022
Winner: Prolandscaper Podium Awards: Commercial, 245 Hammersmith, 2021
Winner: Hammersmith Society Nancye Goulden Award: 245 Hammermith, 2021
Winner: Pineapple Awards: Community Engagement, Nicholsons Quarter, Maidenhead, 2021
Winner: National Social Value Awards: Social Value Innovation, 245 Hammersmith, 2021
Winner: Pineapple Awards: Place in Progress, Kampus, Manchester, 2020
Winner: Meridian Water Placemaking with Purpose competition with Assael and AECOM, 2020
Winner: Construction Project of the Year: 245 Hammersmith, 2020
Finalist: ‘Home of 2030’ Competition, for Homes England and MoBIE, 2020
Finalist: The ‘Low Line’ Competition, 2019
Winner: Chelsea Flower Show, Silver Medal: Manchester Garden, 2019
Winner: Planned Project of the Year: “Office of the Year”, AGORA Budapest, 2017
Winner: Community Space of the Year: “Office of the Year”, AGORA Budapest, 2017
Winner: ENR Global Best Projects, Residential/Hospitality: Kaplankaya Wellness Resort, 2017
Winner : Jetty at Battersea Power Station with Alex de Rijke of dRMM, 2015
Winner: Chelsea Garden Show, Various awards: London, UK, 2003 – 2012
First Prize : New Waterfront Competition, Beirut, Lebanon, 2011
First Prize : Krankenhaus Nord (North Hospital) Competition, Vienna, Austria, 2009
Winner : Granville New Homes - Building for Life Award, 2007
First Prize: The New Zealand Garden - Savill Gardens, The Crown Estate, UK, 2007
Winner: Planning Awards, Best Conceptual Project: Grahame Park - London, 2005
Winner: Housing Design Awards: Bermondsey Spa Masterplan, 2005
Finalist: New Zealand War Memorial, Hyde Park Corner, London, UK, 2004
Kampus, Manchester
245 Hammersmith Road, London
Crusader Works, Manchester
One Waterloo, London
