Making places
We believe that building new homes is about more than designing individual houses and apartments. We are concerned with regeneration, and with making places that become the new centre of a community. We often involve members of the community by organising successful public consultations. In our Dublin project 2,000 local people were involved in the open planning day, with over 5,000 visiting the public exhibition of the draft masterplan. This discussed openly infrastructure and all associated planning issues with key stakeholders. In West Cambridge, our two residential developments create external semi-public spaces and incorporate shared facilities to encourage social interaction.

Diverse sites
We design homes from key worker and affordable housing in Londonıs Docklands and Southwark, to social and speculative housing in Milton Keynes and Dublin, as well as one-off private homes. Medium density urban apartments are a component of the mixed use development surrounding Priory Place in the centre of Coventry, whilst our Coultry housing scheme forms part of our Ballymun masterplan for the regeneration of a 1960s high rise estate. Our social housing is renowned for its humane architectural language. We are concerned to make clear public and private domains that are welcoming and secure with a special emphasis on energy conservation, ease of maintenance, flexibility and value for money.

Housing densities
We have written and lectured extensively on the subject of housing, concentrating particularly on issues of densification and alternatives to high-rise living. Key essays include Housing and the Dilemma of Style, which addressed the 'ideological voidı in which architects found themselves in the aftermath of the Modern Movement. Suburban Syntax argued that 'some of the most pressing issues of urbanism are really suburban onesı. More recently, On the Edge described the regeneration of Ballymun, the run-down high-rise suburb of Dublin.

We have recently completed a study of densities which will form the basis of a future research project.