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Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
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CELEBRATING OUR SUCCESS / Every Christmas our studios come together to celebrate. Last year the studio visited Bloqs a project which we worked with the Enfield Council and social entrepreneurs Bloqs as part of the regeneration of Meridian Water.

5th Studio work across the fields of architecture, urban design, infrastructure and landscape. We collaborate with our clients and commissioners to create beauty and enduring value from complex situations. We apply our spatial intelligence to a broad spectrum — from delivering buildings through to research and strategy. We strive to be visionary, innovative and persuasive. In all our projects we commit to successful outcomes beyond the traditional role of a designer: leading the team, transforming risk into opportunity, raising profile and articulating the objectives of a project. 5th Studio offers bespoke services, tailored to the particular needs of clients and projects — we are a rigorous, can-do organisation ready to take on any challenge.

Our missions are to:

  • Create well-designed, inspiring, and attractive buildings, objects, and places.
  • Foster and enable a more equitable and just society, both through the things we create and the way we work together and with others.
  • Appreciate and make the most of existing environments, including their material value, heritage, cultural and community significance.
  • Preserve and enhance the natural environment and biodiversity.
  • Accelerate the urgent transition to a zero-carbon future, across all our activities.
  • Maintain an open, diverse, energetic, inquisitive, and creative studio environment which fosters the wellbeing of our employees, clients and collaborators and expands opportunities for the communities we work within.
COLLECTIVE PROJECT REVIEWS / Regularly the whole practice comes together as part of collective review sessions, reflecting on both our projects and the practices direction and ambitions.
MENTORING AND TRAINING / 5th Studio believe in helping the next generation of architects. We mentor university students, teach at university, carry out school workshops, attend careers events and host work placements – in addition to having an internal mentoring programme and supporting career development.

5th Studio seem to be profoundly interested in the parts of architecture which Cedric Price was interested in: the parts that you can't see, exactly, but which absolutely change your world. How easy or hard it is to cross a road to get to the riverside, say. Or how far you might have to go to get to work. And 5th Studio seem to willingly tackle immense levels of bureaucracy to achieve that invisible, life-changing game. They seem to even relish the effort it takes, say, to get all kinds of public amenity providers to each take down a single fence to allow some normal residents to reach that riverside. Using these tactics they've instigated complex public realm projects of a type one tends to think impossible today.

Maybe their projects are less wolf in sheep's clothing than sheep in wolves' clothing: ways of introducing a gentler animal into the ruthless field of modern development. Sheep dressed as wolves, in terms of my imperfect analogy, sound awfully vulnerable. But 5th Studio are no sacrificial lambs; they're fighters; they couldn't have done what they have otherwise. Indeed, they've become (like Price before them) used by their peers as ways of illustrating the essential bits of architecture which are, say in the infrastructure, the human experience or technical capacity rather than in what the building looks like.

Kester Rattenbury's foreword to 'Expanding Disciplinary in Architectural Practice' by Tom Holbrook

CREATNG AN EQUITABLE WORKPLACE / 5th Studio strives to create an inclusive, equitable, safe and healthy working environment. We have achieved the Mayor’s Good Work Standard and pay employees a Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.

CONTACT

studio@5thstudio.co.uk

We are keen to receive CVs and short portfolios from Part 1 and Part 2 designers. Please contact us via recruitment@5thstudio.co.uk

We actively encourage qualified applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

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