Public House is an exploration of alternative ideas


The Climate Crisis is a symptom


 Why we want to build


Reuse: Creativity lies in the constraints For the combined past 20 years, we have designed prominent, flashy and complex structures in London, Spain and the Middle East. We've worked on Stirling Prize winners, multi-award winners, Grade 1 listed buildings, buildings over tube tunnels and buildings on top of other buildings. We've worked with the biggest starchitects around.

And, like so many others, disillusionment is setting in. What connects all these projects is the naked profit motive, an existential need to build cheap and sell expensive.

No matter how brilliant the project, how famous the architects, how unique the location - this profit motive has become so fundamental, it crushes all other intentions.

It is a symptom of a bigger problem. A problem with an economic model that depends on extraction and growth at the expense of people and planet. A problem with a short-sighted political system that cannot promote the rights of future generations. A problem with a society that sees buildings - and housing in particular - as a commodity to be traded for profit.

So before we drown in the doom and the gloom of our late-capitalist, post-colonial world: Public House is an experiment and an exploration of alternative worlds that we can create.