Morris+Company

Ethos

Making architecture is an adventure better done in company.

Morris+Company is a company of architects. We are listeners, makers, curators, narrators, experimenters and innovators. We are bold activists and obsessive fabricators. And we are connected by our love of making buildings.

Our work is the product of craft and humanity. The skill of making buildings may be specialist but human experience is universal, and it is from that experience that our architecture grows. People love, live, work, are born and die in our buildings; we bring them into being and leave them to become themselves.

Our buildings are the result of rich and constructive discourse with our clients. Our methodology is inquisitive, explorative and powerful, and gives us new perspectives on a brief. The communicative, iterative nature of traditional model-making is as fundamental to our process as the possibilities offered by newer technologies.

Morris+Company was born in 2018, and is an evolution of Duggan Morris Architects. The same restive creative spirit, developed over twelve years as Duggan Morris, is the foundation of our renewed practice, but our reassembly as Morris+Company has brought a broader field of vision and more collegiate way of working.

Our home is London, and much of our work is in the United Kingdom, but our worldview is wide and the company – currently a family of around 50 members – diverse. Our base in Copenhagen acts as test-bed for a more deeply collaborative approach, as well as a doorway into a new design territory. We are co-founders of Londonon, a research programme which advocates design learning through global co-operation.

Awards

RIBA National Award Winner 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2010 RIBA Regional Award Winner 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011 RIBA Regional Awards Special Prize Winner 2015 Architect of the Year Award Winner 2013 Stephen Lawrence Prize Winner 2012 Manser Medal Winner 2011 Stirling Midlist 2015 Mies van der Rohe Award nomination 2015, 2012 Building Construction Industry Awards Winner 2014 Brick Award Winner 2016, 2015, 2013, 2010 Housing Design Award Winner 2016 AIA UK Charter Award Winner 2016, 2015 Building Better Healthcare Winner 2014, 2009 Wood Awards Winner 2014

Website

https://morrisand.company

Project sectors

One-off Homes
Refurbishment and Extensions
Retirement Living
Office Base Build
Office Fit-out
Retail Interiors
Bars, Cafes & Restaurants
Gyms & Sports Facilities
Schools, Colleges and Universities
Community Centres
Libraries
Housing Scheme (20+)
Galleries and Museums
Theatres & Performing Arts
Temporary Installations
Heritage & Religious Buildings
Public Spaces
Urban Design
Sheds, Cabins & Outhouses
Studios and Workshops
Guesthouses & Hotels
Student Housing
Private Rented Schemes
Healthcare
Mixed Use-developments

Specialist skills

Sustainable Design
Thermal Retrofit
Refurbishment
Masterplanning

Services offered

Full architectural service, Feasibility, Concept design, Masterplanning

Budget

Minimum GBP500,000
Maximum no max

Alfriston School
Brentford Lock West
Energy Hub
Hampstead Lane
Kings Grove
Old Bearhurst
Ortus-The Home of Maudsley Learning
R7, Kings Cross
Richmond Adult Community College
The Loom

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Alfriston School

Alfriston School is a secondary-age day and boarding school for girls, catering for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. The new pool building, sits discreetly at the rear of the site, facing directly onto the greenbelt land.

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Brentford Lock West

A multi-award winning £7M project, Block G is a low cost (1,972 per m2) mixed tenure housing consisting of 45 residential units fronting onto the canal-side and split over two plots.

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Energy Hub

New energy centre, cafe and nursery.

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Hampstead Lane

In winter 2008 Duggan Morris Architects were invited to develop proposals for the refurbishment of a house in Highgate Village on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath. The building is a late 20th Century Modernist building, designed in the Brutalist style, by a well known local architect. The clients for the refurbishment are themselves also highly successful Architects, working on national and global stages for separate well known practices, but with too little time to develop the designs for the project themselves. The tri-part involvement of several generations of architects...