what is conservation architecture?

 

Ultimately, conservation architecture is about making the most of inherited assets. It is also the process of attaining that objective. The asset may be your house, or a run down historic area, or a derelict building of no apparent worth at all. How they are restored, or extended, or converted affects their market value and their value as a heritage asset, the one linked inextricably to the other.

 

The past is also a rich source of inspiration for our new design work, not by imitation but by improvisation; like Britten on Purcell or Ralph Vaughan Williams on Tallis. All buildings are of their time whatever their derivation, and all architecture is derivative in one way or other whatever its date.

 

We deplore development that destroys all sense of time and makes one place look just like any other.

 

 

new timeless architecture

repair and restoration

 

 

 

extension, conversion, and enhancement