Strom Architects

Good architecture should feel inevitable, not designed, but revealed. The best spaces we have made are the ones where we relentlessly edited until what remained was exactly right, nothing added for effect, nothing kept out of habit. When it works, you walk into a room and feel it before you can explain it. This accumulative effect is what Magnus refers to as the "je ne sais quoi" of buildings, with the result so particular to its owners and its site that it could not have been built anywhere else for anyone else. Magnus has always gravitated towards the sea and the horizon, and the practice's work reflects that - framing views, connecting inside to out, putting people in direct contact with their environment.

We design bespoke private houses, multi-residential developments, and high-end hospitality projects including spas and resorts. Most of our clients engage a full Architecture and Interior Design Service. Our studios in England and the Turks and Caicos Islands, Caribbean, service work across Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East.

We take on a limited number of the right projects each year. We choose our clients as carefully as they choose us. The relationship has to be built on trust and genuine creative alignment. When it is, the results tend to be something neither party could have arrived at alone.

Working across different planning systems, construction cultures and climates has given the practice a practical fluency that a domestically focused architect cannot offer. We know how projects get built in different parts of the world, and we manage that on behalf of clients.

Every commission gets consistent attention from senior people throughout. Magnus leads design across the practice, Nicky Jones manages operations as Managing Director, and Kyle Barclay leads the Turks and Caicos Islands studio as its co-founder. Hugh Richardson leads technical delivery as Technical Director. Together with our team of architects and associates, we cover every stage from the first conversation to completion. The goal is always the same: a building that improves the life lived inside it.