Design Methodology

Eric Parry leads our creative design process with a team of skilled and enthusiastic architects and assistants. Depending on the scale of the project a senior architect will manage the internal team and the coordination with the broader design team and client.

For a major urban project this would be a director supported by an associate director and associate with teams of architects to focus on various elements of the project.

We are all familiar with the work stages through which a project should smoothly progress. We are accepting of the need for rigor in completing accurately and fully these stages whilst ensuring our intent and flare is concentrated, not diluted.

When the going is less predictable, as can be the case with planning and external influences, we are able to negotiate to best affect a positive outcome.

An example of our working methodology is seen in the process and selected images (opposite) for the 7 & 8 St James’s Square project and the corner elevation treatment on Duke of York Street.

Our testing through drawing and 3D modelling is then continued through to full size mock ups so that quality control of components can be observed.

Here the reference to Lutyens’ own office in No.7 is expressed in the projecting open limestone framework above a monument carving by Stephen Cox (completed in South India).