Founded in 2005 by Chris Mackenzie, formally of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, and joined by Spencer Back in 2010 from London based Foggo Associates and Bristol's Angus Meek Architects, Designscape's principal architects demonstrate a breadth of experience across commercial and residential projects across London and the UK.
Closely supported by a dedicated team of project architects, each with their own considerable portfolio and areas of interest and expertise, Designscape is a close-knit practice with a collaborative, open culture that allows creativity to flow and projects to run smoothly. Our balanced skill set across the whole practice is supported by a shared ethos and ambition to design elegant architecture with sustainability and longevity in mind.
Closely supported by a dedicated team of project architects, each with their own considerable portfolio and areas of interest and expertise, Designscape is a close-knit practice with a collaborative, open culture that allows creativity to flow and projects to run smoothly. Our balanced skill set across the whole practice is supported by a shared ethos and ambition to design elegant architecture with sustainability and longevity in mind.
Services
We tailor our service to the individual needs of our clients. Whether you need us just to develop concept designs to overcome a particular design problem or design and manage the project from inception through planning approval, detail design, tender and construction through to completion, we can provide a service to suit you.
From residential homes and commercial housing schemes, to art galleries, offices, agricultural and high-tech manufacturing buildings, we have extensive experience of designing architectural solutions for all environments.
The biggest impacts of Climate Change are being felt most by the poorest people in the world - those who have the smallest carbon footprint, the least resilience to deal with the consequences, and who have done the least in the past to create the problem.
The biggest impacts of Climate Change are being felt most by the poorest people in the world - those who have the smallest carbon footprint, the least resilience to deal with the consequences, and who have done the least in the past to create the problem.
Reviews (3)
Mark Raiss
Nov 10, 2020
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We are delighted with how Designscape, and in particular Spencer, guided us in the creation of our new home. We presented him with a challenge to upgrade an existing, but disused, 1930s house, making the best use of the wonderful view to the south, but a difficult plot. He took the original brief, but was not constrained by it - coming up with a very much better solution than we had imagined possible. We have been able to maintain some of the existing structure within the shell of what looks like a new building - hence minimising wastage and the carbon footprint. The result is a thoroughly modern
Heidi Thompson
Aug 02, 2019
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Nathan Ormshaw
Jun 13, 2019
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I find it difficult to find words to praise Spencer and the team highly enough. They really are true professionals by every definition of the word. Spencer listened to my brief and only ever deviated from it in the pursuit for design excellence. Spencer designed an amazing single storey house with flat 'green' Sedum roof, power floated concrete floors with under floor heating throughout and lots of floor to ceiling glass. It is very thermally efficient and requires little in the way of heating. Throughout both the design and build phase Spencer and the team were always on hand to answer any questions
