Bespoke joinery

Residenza B05 is an interior architecture project in which colour is used as a design tooland as a spatial organizing principle. The layout is structured around a central corridor,from which the rooms unfold through a sequence of thresholds and visual transitions thatdefine functions without relying on rigid partitions. The corridor, conceived as the connective spine of the apartment, becomes an inhabitable space in its own right. A large custom-built wardrobe integrates the laundry area, while a burgundy ceiling and softly rounded corners guide movement and ease circulation, transforming a passageway into a lived-in environment. Riccardo Gasperoni Riccardo Gasperoni Caption Caption The living area is conceived as an op... More

 Victorian Loft Conversion and Family Home Retrofit, Hackney This project reconfigures a Victorian terraced house in Hackney, through a compact loft extension and a fabric-first retrofit. Rather than increasing the footprint, the design focuses on improving spatial clarity, thermal performance, and the overall quality of everyday living. The result is a home that feels calm, well-balanced, and quietly efficient. Brotherton-Lock Over time, the house had become fragmented and difficult to use. Bedrooms were distributed across different floors, the bathroom was undersized, storage was limited, and environmental performance was poor, with rooms prone to overheating in summer and heat loss in winter. Previous attempts to improve the... More

Little Birch represents a case study in the bespoke detail. Realising a young family’s dream to achieve the day-to-day calm of resort living adjacent to the daily grind. Resort vibes, domestic ease.Located on the traditional lands of the Kameygal people, city and district views abound as this private home descends and expands into its built oasis.The site presented as a compact urban setting with our challenge to conceal, direct and connect to spaces beyond. The exterior presents to the established streetscape as an intersection of tectonic forms, mass and planes; the simple geometry provides a counterpoint to the neighbourhood’s incoherent mish mash of typologies. Tim Pascoe Tim Pascoe Tim Pascoe Descending from... More

Named after and centred around the century old heritage protected fig tree: Casa Figueira is a home nestled into its surroundings. Quietly secluded at the end of a cul-de-sac in the Sydney harbourside suburb of Rose Bay, the topography of the site eventuates to gun barrel views of the harbour and city beyond. Prue Ruscoe Prue Ruscoe Prue Ruscoe Prue Ruscoe Prue Ruscoe A highly complex design resolution and approvals process relied on a collaborative approach to bring the project to fruition. Working from the base of a planar curved form designed by Luigi Roselli Architects we focussed on tangibility, material and detail. As lead Architect, buckandsimple in company with Interior design team Atelier Alwill and landsc... More

We designed and project managed the extension and refurbishment of this home in South East London, located in the Blackheath Conservation Area. Our scope also included planning, complete interior design, custom joinery design, and selecting key fixtures and fittings.   OPEN ACCESS Originally, the only way to get to the property’s dining room was via a circuitous route through the compact and boxy kitchen. It was a space which felt even tighter due to the fact it only had one small window which didn’t offer much light. The dining room was also doubling up as a playroom and so the family that lives here desperately needed a space that flowed more intuitively, that was filled with more daylight in and that was flexible in i... More

Set at the edge of a watercourse below the Harold Porter Botanical Garden, this modest new timber framed holiday house attempts to make the most of its natural surroundings in an uncomplicated way. Damian Schumann The house is positioned to the northeast of the site, screening off the neighbours and opening up towards the wetland on the western side.  Damian Schumann The long axis is orientated north-south towards a dramatic kloof in the mountains beyond. A large, glazed gable end and a clerestory window in the kitchen make the view part of the inhabitants’ everyday routine. By lifting the building off the ground, vegetation and wildlife is allowed to live right up to and under the building’s edge, while intimat... More

Bringing back the palm trees: an elegant new hotel and public square in the heart of Seville Borgos Pieper has completed a new five-star Radisson Collection hotel and transformed Plaza de la Magdalena in the historic centre of Seville. The LEED Gold project has entirely reinvented two buildings, which together define the western edge of the square: ‘Magdalena’, a former 1960s glass-fronted department store, and ‘Rioja’, a smaller office building bordering Calle Rioja. Magdalena had once been the site of the Hotel Paris, an ornate hotel fronted by palm trees – the fashionable place to be seen at the end of the nineteenth century. The design seeks to restore a some of this lost glamour, creating a stylish new de... More

  Rees Architects designed the extension and refurbishment to this Victorian terrace house in Wanstead, London. We were also responsible for planning, building regulations, and bespoke joinery for the build. This project involved an extension to the rear of the property and updating the décor of the ground floor to create a cohesive space for the owners who love entertaining and welcoming friends and family into their home and garden. The property is in a conservation area so we took this into consideration when proposing updates to the structure and layout, all of which were successfully approved without need for modification to our plan.   Chris Snook   For this extension, we retained as much of the brickwor... More

  Answering a brief calling to create a relaxing retreat for the parents where they can spend time together, our studio set out to use every inch of space purposefully and intentionally. We considered how to maximise everything to its full potential from space, storage, light, views and flow - while also considering materiality, acoustics, and tactility.    Chris Snook   In its current form, the owners loved the open-plan living space of the ground floor, and as it is a narrow house, they didn't want to lose space by adding something else. The staircase is directly connected to the kitchen on the ground floor and as this is the only practical place for it, this posed as an issue for fire regulations. To resolve... More

We were approached in 2018 to create designs for the refurbishment of a double fronted Grade 11 Listed Georgian Crescent House in South London. The brief was to reinterpret the internal layout of the house for a growing creative family. Traditionally the kitchen was located in the ancillary spaces on the lower ground floor, however these had a poorer quality of natural light and a more limited head height. The brief was to bring the kitchen, dining and living spaces up to the principal reception room spaces. Tall floor to ceiling heights, good quality daylight and strong principal views across the crescent and gardens made the upper ground floor spaces much more compatible with modern family living.   Listed building consent was a ch... More

Liqui undertook the shop design and build for Browns Natural Pet Store with the aim of creating an environment more like a retail experience than the usual pet shop design. To this end, there is a focus on custom items throughout, such as the bespoke counter and shelving units, as well as the dog grooming salon interior design. Together with custom manufactured slat walling, subtlety branded crates and bespoke trolley units, it all adds up to the perfect retail design that accentuates the client’s brand while displaying a wide range of merchandise in a way that is commercially effective, visually attractive and uncluttered. Everything was manufactured in the Liqui workshop and constructed from dark stained sustainably sourced Birch p... More

Ahead of The Hut Group’s landmark 1 Million sq. ft. campus development, The Hut Group needed space to cater for their rapid growth, so PENSON came to the rescue with interim offices to supply THG’s (The Hut Group’s) fast-track expansion. PENSON has delivered two high-performing offices for The Hut Group at Airport City Manchester to aid headcount issues for the interim period, with a further office remaining a permanent fixture for THG’s future presence at Media City, Manchester. All three sites house integral THG teams, including Ingenuity programmers based at Manchester’s Media City site, as well as creative and brand teams in 4M and Voyager, based at Airport City Manchester. The sites presented huge oppor... More

This project was a light refurbishment of a 200sqm penthouse apartment in Bermondsey. As a main contractor we were involved in compelte decorating, three bathroom refurbishments, hardwood floor restoration, bespoke joinery, electrical and plumbing installations and more. Client: Private Property size: 4 bedrooms, 2 living spaces, 2 roof terraces, 3 bathrooms,  More