About us

We are a design-led, RIBA Chartered architecture practice who specialise in creating beautiful, bespoke design solutions. We are skilled in gaining the best value results for our clients and making the most of any given brief, site and budget. We always take the time needed to fully understand our client's particular requirements. We then create beautiful, light filled spaces which are tailor made for the client.

We provide a full range of services from feasibility studies, initial sketches and models through detailed design development to planning and building regulations applications. We can also provide advice on tendering and contract selection and carry out building contract administration.

Your project will be lead and run by one of our two partners Justine and James, from initial briefing to completion. We founded the practice in 2010 following a decade working for various larger architect firms in a number of sectors including healthcare, social housing, commercial buildings and education.

Justine Owen in an architect and urban designer. She has over 20 years of experience in the construction industry. She studied for her Masters degree in Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University and has a keen interest in the role of buildings in the life of the street and city. Justine has been an external examiner on Oxford Brookes University’s final professional exam for architects. She enjoys hand drawing and sketching and creates many of the three dimensional drawings to communicate the practices design ideas to the client and Planners. Her design is characterised by the attention paid to how people use and perceive spaces. Traditional materials and detailing often forms part of her work. New materials or more common materials used in unique applications also feature in her buildings. She strives for clean, calm and carefully articulated architecture.

James Mackenzie is an architect and designer. He has over 25 years experience in the construction industry and has worked in Oxford for the past 19 years. His particular areas of interest are in sustainability and energy efficient design. His architectural approach involves finding the most elegant design response for the situation - creating a single solution which satisfy multiple needs. He enjoys designing the detail of buildings, how the materials actually come together and how this can reinforce the overall design concept. Also of great importance is the relationship of the building with the context and exterior spaces.