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Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —

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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, and 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 clearly 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.

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

CONTACT

studio@5thstudio.co.uk

5th Studio are Recruiting - Opportunities for Part 2 & 1 Designers.

Please send CVs and portfolios to:

recruitment@5thstudio.co.uk

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