ABOUT US
FCBStudios was founded to move architecture forward. That’s why, for over 40 years, we've been pushing boundaries in sustainable, democratic, and socially responsible design.
By grounding everything we do in research and constantly seeking out fresh perspectives, we balance beauty and functionality in every space we create. We understand the challenges our clients face and offer practical, commercially viable solutions that work, both today and long into the future.
DESIGN
Our architecture faces the challenges of a changing world. We design with empathy for the human condition, with science for sustainable outcomes, and with art for crafting beautiful places. We pioneer imaginative and inclusive ways to create exceptional buildings.
Ours is a rigorous process. We enjoy the ‘making’ of buildings: crafting light, space and form to create memorable and functioning places. We continually explore materials and believe strongly in creative collaboration. We work with wider stakeholders and communities as participants to produce designs that are owned and loved.
We believe that together we can facilitate change in society. Giving places identity and connecting communities.
What FCBStudios has espoused is a moral and ethical attitude to environmental concerns, a willingness to experiment, matching the contemporary to context, and a commitment to a practice organisation that is based on the atelier, not the pyramid.Paul Finch, Programme Director of the World Architecture Festival
OUR SERVICES
We are problem solvers. We provide architectural and urban design services for all RIBA work stages.
We develop close relationships with our clients, based on listening and collaboration, in pursuit of realising the buildings that meet and surpass their needs.
We offer the following professional services:
* Architectural Design
* Masterplanning
* Principal Designer
* Physical modelmaking
* BIM Coordination roles
* BIM Management roles
* Client-side monitoring roles post novation
* Research
* Conservation
* Sustainability
* Passivhaus Designers
* Interior Design
CLIMATE
To reduce carbon emissions, our industry needs to change the way it designs and builds. We work across disciplines, collaborating with research and campaigning groups to advocate regenerative design practices and apply our knowledge to our work. We aim to ask the right questions to enable discussion to take place, raise awareness and share knowledge across the industry to meet this shift.
SOCIAL VALUE
The practice’s founding principle is that the creation of architecture is a collaborative and social act, enrichened and informed by the community and context surrounding where we practice.
RESEARCH
Our research supports and informs our architecture. Through explorations of environment, materials and social issues we are inventive and find new unexpected solutions, as well as learning from projects in use.
We are connected to academia and pioneering research groups through our research.
OUR AWARDS
1
RIBA STIRLING PRIZE
2
RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlists
65
RIBA AWARDS
34
CIVIC TRUST AWARDS
28
SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS