EPR Architects

EPR Architects has a strong design ethos based on clarity of form, quality of space and understanding of construction. Our clients are drawn from among the UK and Europe’s leading developers, institutions, public bodies and users, with whom we frequently form long-term relationships. Repeat commissions are our most powerful testimonial.

Underlying the continuing success of the practice is the ongoing commitment to the delivery of a highly professional service, characterised by an enthusiasm for quality buildings. Our enthusiasm is based on the contribution we can make to a project rather than its financial value. To fulfil this commitment we are dedicated to fostering talent and skills through investment in people, as well as the resources and technology to support them.

Ecotechdesign

Ecotechdesign, now affiliated with ecotechbuild has been service oriented since the beginning and has developed a green team approach to sustainable design in order to offer the client the best and most appropriate level of expertise from leading consultants in design, engineering and the natural sciences, regardless of project size or type. Using a collaborative strategy, only the necessary team players are assembled for each project in order to run the project efficiently and keep project costs and overhead to a minimum. The current green team:

Eldridge Smerin

Architects Nick Eldridge and Piers Smerin launched Eldridge Smerin in 1998. Their first project, The Lawns, a family house in the Highgate Conservation Area in London for Frances and John Sorrell won awards from the RIBA and Civic Trust, was shortlisted for the prestigious Stirling Prize and cemented their reputation as leaders of the new wave of cutting edge domestic architecture with a series of commissions for new houses on similarly sensitive sites.

Eldridge Smerin

Architects Nick Eldridge and Piers Smerin launched Eldridge Smerin in 1998. Their first project, The Lawns, a family house in the Highgate Conservation Area in London for Frances and John Sorrell won awards from the RIBA and Civic Trust, was shortlisted for the prestigious Stirling Prize and cemented their reputation as leaders of the new wave of cutting edge domestic architecture with a series of commissions for new houses on similarly sensitive sites.

Within a short space of time, the practice also completed a diverse range of other projects including the radical new research and development Headquarters for BT Cellnet/02 at Ealing Studios, the Headquarters for E Oppenheimer and Sons of De Beers, in Hatton Garden, London, an entire floor of the new Birmingham Selfridges, and the interior and landscape of the luxury brands Villa Moda department store for Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah in Kuwait.

Recent projects include the redesign of the Design Council's workspace in Bow Street, London, the Headquarters for a fashion group in Clerkenwell, a Sixth Form Centre for a secondary school near Solihull, the new Business and Intellectual Property Centre at the British Library and an audacious new house on the edge of London's Highgate Cemetery. As well as bespoke houses the practice has also developed a low-cost house building kit as featured in a recent episode of Channel 4's Grand Designs.

In its ten years Eldridge Smerin has built a reputation for producing intelligent and memorable solutions in response to varied clients' briefs and for beautifully detailed buildings and interiors within often tightly constrained budgets. The practice's buildings challenge conventions and their innovative environments lead the way in workspace, retail, educational and residential design. Eldridge Smerin's work has been published widely in the UK and abroad.

Edward Moore

A practice born from varied design backgrounds and a vision for a studio that provides not only a professional service but bespoke architectural solutions.
Driven by a belief in the art of architecture as a global resource, and equally our place within it. We are a studio that promotes collaboration across the board, to achieve a high degree of support for the design, encouraging new insights that can lead to design innovation.
Paring back the brief to see past the conspicuous, we seek to provide inspirational spaces and a connection to nature and the individual.
From the large scale to the small, for public or for private, we are unassuming by nature, acknowledging the non-linearity of the process.
With an open mind and without preconceptions, we approach each project as an opportunity for architecture as a discourse.
Backed by critical thinking and a design methodology that eliminates compromise and crystallizes the brief, no matter how challenging.
Social milieu and place in time is fundamental, prompting innovation that takes its cue from the essence of local culture, while retaining relevance to the wider context of the world.
Driven by curiosity and exploration, yet bearing in mind budgetary constraints, we work with the client to achieve crafted, considered and provocative results.......more

EPR Architects

EPR Architects has a strong design ethos based on clarity of form, quality of space and understanding of construction. Our clients are drawn from among the UK and Europe’s leading developers, institutions, public bodies and users, with whom we frequently form long-term relationships. Repeat commissions are our most powerful testimonial. Underlying the continuing success of the practice is the ongoing commitment to the delivery of a highly professional service, characterised by an enthusiasm for quality buildings. Our enthusiasm is based on the contribution we can make to a project rather than its financial value. To fulfil this commitment we are dedicated to fostering talent and skills through investment in people, as well as the resources and technology to support them. We are committed to maintaining and improving the quality of our architecture, to aim for new levels of excellence, ideas and service. The aim is to create a culture that can produce work which is inspiring for those who are designing it as well as those who will inhabit it. To deliver this service, EPR Architects works in a series of teams. Particular skills reside within the teams, although staff move between them as required by the programme. The Company includes a specialist interiors division, model making shop as well as in-house computer imaging studio

Edgley Design

Edgley Design is a young, creative award winning RIBA Chartered architectural practice based in Hoxton, East London, set up by Jake Edgley in 2004.Our wide range of experience includes residential new build and refurbishment, property development and urban masterplanning. Jake has previously worked for practices including Foster & Partners and Squires on masterplanning, mixed use and commercial office projects, and residential schemes. He also has a wide range of experience in property developmentPractice Director: Jake Edgley BA(hons) AAdip ARB RIBA

EGM Architecten

EGM Architecten is a large and versatile agency that is a platform for conceiving individual architecture. We are an agency that reflects and challenges the strengths of our employees.
EGM’s goal is to tangibly contribute to a top quality environment. We make optimal use of the tools of motivated talent, the support of a professional organisation, and the steering of partners with vision.

Erik Giudice Architects

EGA_Erik Giudice Architects is a multidisciplinary office based in Paris and Stockholm. Erik Giudice and his team have built up international recognition through winning competition entries and built projects in a wide range of scales and programs: from cultural centers, sport facilities to large urban projects. EGA has the capacity to undertake complex and large projects and works with a network of highly qualified specialists in all related fields. Regardless of scale or location the office always fuels all its energy into the project, combining passion, pragmatism and commitment.

Ernst Giselbrecht

Ernst Giselbrecht, born 1951 in Dornbirn, Austria, can be considered one of the new leading figures of the Graz school. He has replaced the formal expressivism, which was the early trademark of this movement, that quickly gained international acclaim, with a more rational architectural language. A factual design, autonomy and readability of the structural parts as well as an unpretentious use of contemporary technology define Giselbrecht's work. The materials are used sparingly in accordance with the requirememnts of the location and the function of the building. The results are highly different buildings with diverse functions: educational and residential buildings, offices and workshops, as well as health and administrative buildings. The architect has also designed exhibitions, and has himself been the subject of numerous exhibitions. The website offers a selection of 24 buildings and projects whose aesthetic effects and construction are examined in detail.

Eriksen Skajaa Arkitekter

Arild Eriksen was born in 1973 in Bergen, Norway. He received his Master from Bergen School of Architecture in 2004. He worked at Griff Arkitektur from 2005 to 2006, and has been working at Kristin Jarmund Architects since 2006. His work at Kristin Jarmund Architects includes Sogn Arena, Gjerdrum Secondary School, University of Bergen Dentist Faculty and Hus 21 at Tjuvholmen, Oslo. He also worked half a year at Lund Hagem in 2008. He is running his own small record label Sound Fiction. Also check out his photo blog.

Joakim Skajaa was born in Kristiansand, Norway in 1978. He received his Master from Bergen School of Architecture in 2004. He started working at Lund & Partnere and later Sundt Arkitekter in Bergen as a student. He then worked at Saunders and Wilhelmsen Architects from 2003-2004 and at Boyarsky Murphy Architects in London from 2004-2006. He has also worked with Marco Casagrande and Sami Rintala . He has been working at MMW Architects since 2006. Joakim Skajaa has been a tutor and visiting critic at the AHO (Oslo School of Architecture) since 2006.

Eriksen Skajaa Arkitekter is collaborating with Certified Passive House Designer and Dipl.Ing Karin Anton.

Enota

Enota was founded in 1998 by Aljoša Dekleva, Dean Lah and Milan Tomac with the ambition to create contemporary and critical architectural practice of an open type based on collective approach to development of architectural and urban solutions. Over the years Enota has been constantly developing and from the beginnings it has served as creative platform for more than fifty architects. Since 2002 Enota’s partner architects are Dean Lah and Milan Tomac.

Enota’s team of architects focuses on research driven design of the environment where contemporary social organisations, new technologies and arts are interwoven. Enota’s solutions are always the result of research, reinterpretation and development of social, organizational and design algorithms that derive from nature and strong binding of the buildings with the environment that surrounds them.

Enric Miralles

Spanish architect and designer, born in Barcelona. Enric Miralles trained at ETSAB (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona) until 1974.
From 1973-83 Enric Miralles collaborated with Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñon and in 1985 began the practice of Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós.
In 1990 Enric Miralles set up practice with his wife and partner Benedetta Tagliabue.
Enric Miralles was highly regarded as a very inventive architect. Enric Miralles was defined the enfant terrible of Spanish architecture.
Since 1985 Enric Miralles was a professor at ETSAB (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona). In 1990 he began as Director and Professor of the Master Class at Städelschule of Frankfurt and beginning in 1992 served as the "Kenzo Tange Chair” professor at the GSD of Harvard University.
As an architect of many works, his projects include, the Igualada Cemetery in Spain (1995) and the rehabilitation of Utrecht City Hall in Holland (2000).
Two of his projects currently under construction are The New Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh and The New Headquarters of Gas Natural in Barcelona.Enric Miralles was also active as an interior designer, with projects including The Hipostila shelving system(1989) in collaboration with Lluis Clotet and Oscar Tusquets Blanca for Bd Ediciones de Diseño, Lungomare Bench for Escofet,(2000), Vacante bench for Sellex (1991)., and many other furnishing designs which were not put in production.

Enric Miralles has received numerous awards, including the National Prize of Spanish Architecture 1995, FAD Prize(Fomento Artes Decorativas) 1985 and 2000, The European ITALSTAD (Italy) 1991. Leone d’Oro Prize at the Biennale di Venezia 1996.Enric Miralles work has been published internationally in the most distinguished reviews, El Croquis N.100 101, Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue 1996-2000. GG. Miralles Tagliabue Time Architecture 1999. Electa, Documenti di Architettutra. Benedetta Tagliabue. Enric Miralles: Opere e Progetti. 1996. In 1999 he was named an Honorary member of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.

Ellerbe Becket

Ellerbe Becket is one of the most respected architecture, interiors and engineering and firms in the world. With a 100-year legacy, Ellerbe Becket has an amazing ability to stay ahead of the ever-changing marketplace. The professionals work for their clients' success in an environment that demands specialty knowledge, collaboration and innovation. In fact,Ellerbe Becket is guided by a simple, yet powerful vision: [SUCCESS] without limits. It's what gets Ellerbe Becket out of bed in the morning and drives to deliver high quality buildings with ingenious solutions to client challenges. Over the years the Ellerbe Becket name has become synonymous with outstanding hospitals and clinics, stadiums and arenas, heating and cooling systems and mission critical facilities.
And Ellerbe Becket extends to higher education, workplace and interiors, and the government and corporate sectors. The design and construction industry is changing constantly. Yesterday's impossibilities are today's standards. In this dynamic environment, Ellerbe Becket leads the way.
Ellerbe Becket enters its second century as one of the world's preeminent firms, offering architecture, interiors and engineering services. The firm's collaborative, studio-based approach has a single-minded focus: producing outstanding buildings that serve their clients' needs and cultural framework.

Formed through a merger between Minnesota-based Ellerbe and California-based Welton Becket & Associates, the inherent strengths of Ellerbe Becket's approach have resulted in its solid reputation as a firm that leads large, complex projects, in areas such as workplace environments, commercial and mixed-use development, healthcare, sports and venue, and higher education. Because Ellerbe Becket professionals carefully consider context—the culture, the city, the market forces, the time, place, and history—as part of their design process, the result is elegant solutions in all 50 United States and more than 20 countries.

Steadfast in the pursuit of innovation through design, through its history Ellerbe Becket has contributed to significant changes in the way buildings serve people, informing and influencing architecture around the globe. As important, the centennial is representative of the firm's real sustainability – its ability to sustain a business, to attract and retain talented employees, to design buildings that endure, and to foster positive change in the community over a century of practice.

Electric Dreams

Electric Dreams is a Stockholm-based architecture/design studio formed by Joel
Degermark and Catharina Frankander in 2006. Joel is a product designer
trained at the Royal College of Art, London and Beckmans School of Design,
Stockholm. Catharina is an architect trained at the Architectural Association,
London, and Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. We specialize in brand environments and products. Our designs are much
about story-telling and themes, a fascination of playful exaggeration. We
like things that are too colourful, too weird, too beautiful, too dark, too many…
Our design is a lot about shifting scales, bringing two familiar things together
to create the unfamiliar, and playing with visual effects.

Elenberg Fraser

Established in 1998, by founding directors Zahava Elenberg + Callum Fraser, Elenberg Fraser is an architecture firm that revolutionises the way architecture is practiced. Combining the creativity of a design studio with the outcome-orientation of a commercial firm, we believe that design-driven and market-driven are not opposed to each other. In fact high design value and commercial success follow on from one another.

We utilise our professional skills to the best of our ability in order to protect the interests of all stakeholders in the built environment. We build within the city as if it is our own, and we are proud of the result and conscious of the effect that our buildings have on both the city around and the inhabitants within. We have an ongoing program of research and development and internal qualitative analysis. We are committed to absolute best practice. Our mission is to carry out ambitious building projects at multiple scales and programmes, with a commitment to innovation, design and sustainability.

In a world where everything tends towards similarity, Elenberg Fraser projects stand in relief. We eschew the notion of a house style and avoid generalising across projects. Elenberg Fraser’s projects are all conceived in their own right, from their own requirements, each project is newly innovated.

Elenberg Fraser consistently delivers high design value that realise commercial objectives and raises the bar in architecture through innovation.

Elena Manferdini

In 2004 Elena Manferdini founded Atelier Manferdini, a design office that has been highly visible advocate of design excellence and has been recognized internationally for its ability to create imaginative architecture, fashion and object design. Currently the firm is designing a 250,000sft master plan in Macerata (Italy) including 80 apartments, a museum, a public library and an open theater. Atelier Manferdini has been selected to design a 150,000sft residential tower in Guiyang (China) along with other 9 leading design firms from all around the world. Her architectural projects have been exhibited internationally in both architecture and art museums: her work is currently showcased at IIC, in Los Angeles. Two years ago she was invited to design the West Coast Pavilion representing USA at the Beijing Biennale in the Chinese Millennium Museum. This year she is curating the West Coast USA session of the upcoming Beijing Biennale exhibition. Recently the firm has collaborated with numerous industries: MTV, Fiat, Nike, Alessi, Ottaviani, Valentino and FolliFollie are selected examples. In addition to leading her design practice, Elena Manferdini teaches design studios and technology seminars at SCI-Arc.

Enrico Franzolini

1952 Born in Udine.
1972 36th Biennial in Venice.
1978 Personal exhibition at the Galleria Plurima in Udine.
1979 Graduated in architecture in Venice.
1991 First place in the Top Ten competition sponsored by Promosedia in Udine.
1993 Selected for the Piranesi award.
1995 First place in the "Casa dell´Architettura" (Home of architecture) competition in Udine.
1998 Recommendation of honour for the Gold Compass award.

In the industrial design field Enrico Franzolini has worked with companies such as Alias, Cappellini, Crassevig, Knoll International and Pallucco.
Among the exhibitions, "Light-box" in 1993 and "Progetto di un interno per l'arte" (Interior design for art) in 1997 at the Galleria Plurima in Udine are worthy of mention.

Enrico Franzolini website

Easton + Combs

With over 30 years of combined experience at the ownership level, EASTON+COMBS represents a broad range of professional experience at all levels of design and construction. With experience locally, nationally and internationally, the firm has a solid understanding of the process of working in different cultural contexts and adjusting to local conditions in the construction industry as well as the contract procurement process. EASTON+COMBS address each commission in a creative way, which is about problem solving and establishing an opportunity for an accomplished product that will have a lasting value to their clients and users. They have experience in a range of building types; public, private and commercial, large and small. With strong skills in communication, EASTON+COMBS understand the process of design and construction as collaboration with the client and consultants in order to pursue a common goal.
Easton + Combs website

emergent architecture

Founded in 1999 by Tom Wiscombe, EMERGENT is dedicated to research as well as built work at many scales. EMERGENT is a platform for experimentation, dedicated to the transfer of techniques, logics, and sensibilities from biology, complexity science, aerospace engineering, and computation into architecture. EMERGENT’s directive is to move beyond categorical thinking and the stratification of building systems toward a more integrated future. This involves a re-examination of assumed heirarchies and discreetness of systems toward coherent yet heterogeneous organizations. We are interested in how the conflicting features and objectives of structure, mechanical systems, envelope, and lighting can be negotiated in novel ways with novel atmospheric effects.

The work questions the dialectic of excess and efficiency in architecture, in favor of a more complex understanding of both through biological thinking. The recursive process of random mutation and natural selection in nature provides a model for how a dynamic feedback between excesses and efficiencies can create innovation and elegance. This feedback logic is executed in the office using both generative and analytical algorithms as well as hands-on design techniques.

Key to the work is the phenomenon of emergence which offers insight into the way apparently isolated bodies, particles, or systems exhibit group behavior in coherent, but unexpected, patterns. The animated beauty of emergent organizations, such as in swarms or hives, points to a range of real architectural potentials where components are always linked and always exchanging information, and above all, where architectural wholes exceed the sum of their parts.

Biological thinking has led EMERGENT toward the exploration of new methods of systems integration, construction documentation, and fabrication in the field. Recent collaborations with international engineering companies, including Buro Happold and DeSimone Consulting Engineers, have begun to reveal new working methods which establish active feedback loops between engineering and design disciplines, ultimately pointing to a redefinition of AEC territories.

website:http://www.emergentarchitecture.com/hub.php?id=1