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.
