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is a design-oriented architecture firm that is committed to excellence in custom architecture and design for

residential, cultural, corporate and academic buildings. We combine rigorous design with construction management

experience - a rare combination that leads to a distinctive design process and end product that are aesthetically and

intellectually rigorous as well as financially informed. Our design values are modern: efficiency, logic, beauty, honest

expression of materials, and clean lines and forms that allow the architecture itself - the space, light, materials, spatial

relationships - and inhabitants to thrive. The result is an architecture that is current but timeless, serene yet warm, and

universally rational while also being uniquely reflective of the values and characters of our clients.

In addition to ground-up work, the firm has expertise in major modern renovations of and additions to important works

of architecture by notable architects including …….

Founded on the belief that design has the power to transform lives and enhance communities, we collaborate with
clients all over the world to create healthy, sustainable places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. More than
2,000 professionals across over 20 ….. offices include some of the brightest minds in architecture, interior design,
branded environments, urban design, and landscape architecture. Clients consistently turn to us for our leadership and
expertise in areas like sustainability, resilience, health and wellness, and mobility.

We examine the site to discover its limitations and possibilities, and then consider these features alongside the
environmental, geographic, cultural, and behavioural context before offering design concepts to our clients. Once a
selection is made, we begin the research, experimentation, and creation. Each member of our diverse architectural team
offers their specialized expertise to collaborate on and cover all the facets of a project, from the concept design stage to
construction supervision.

….. began in 1995, and is a full-service architectural firm skilled in the art and science of designing unique environments
for living, learning, work and recreation. We believe that collaboration between clients and architects, as well as
landscape architects, engineers and artists, can ensure the realization of buildings and landscapes as places of clarity and
beauty. In every project we aim to realize the most thoughtful, sensitive and sustainable design using common sense
and an economy of means.
Our firm is dedicated to providing comprehensive service and achieving optimum results through efficiency and open
communication. Time and budget considerations are incorporated into our design and planning process to produce
creative and cost-effective solutions. Our design graphics, production and presentation capabilities, and our ability to
respond quickly and flexibly throughout the process help ensure successful outcomes for our clients.

…….is a firm of experienced professionals offering comprehensive services in architecture, interior design and all

municipal approvals to residential, commercial, and institutional clients in ……..

The firm maintains a diversified practice. While devoted to small-scale projects it has extensive experience in both

residential and commercial new construction, rehabilitation and landmark restoration. …. has developed expertise in

restaurant approvals, loft conversions, new residential multi family housing, apartment renovation and combinations, as

well as commercial interior renovations.

Emphasis is placed on service to our clients. We are familiar with participating as a team member and providing limited

services on a project. Projects are executed with a commitment to quality designed with a disciplined approach to

project constraints and clients needs. Emphasis is placed on providing the required and appropriate services as

determined by each individual projects needs.

 Opinions on architecture
Architecture vocabulary/ Giving opinions
Choose a kind of architecture to describe or a word to describe some architecture and give your opinions on
that topic or using that word. Does your partner agree with your opinion?
Possible opinions on architecture topics
Abandoned buildings
Alternative materials
An eyesore- something offensive to view
 the old factory has become an eyesore
An infamous building/ A notorious building
Apartment lobbies
Architectural education
Baroque architecture
Bathhouses
Bidding for public infrastructure projects
Brick houses
Brightly-coloured buildings
Brownfield sites- Brownfield land is an Anglo-American term used in urban planning to describe, in Western
Europe, any previously developed land that is not currently in use, whether contaminated or not, or in North
America, more specifically to describe landpreviously used for industrial or commercial purposes with
known or suspected pollution including soil contamination due to hazardous waste.[
Building regulations, e.g. about earthquake protection or appearance
Cobbled streets
Construction industry
Curvilinear buildings
Cycle lanes
Deindustrialisation
Demolishment
Design hotels
Domestic architecture
Double glazing
Elevated expressways
Embassies
Exposed concrete
Fake bricks
Gentrification
Getting on the property ladder- (Most young people can't) get on the property ladder (UK): (Most young
people are unable to) buy a first home, house, or apartment as an investment (UK)
Graffiti
Green architecture
Green spaces in this town/ country
Greenfield sites - Greenfield land is undeveloped land in a city or rural area either used for agriculture or
landscape design, or left to evolve naturally. These areas of land are usually agricultural or amenity
properties being considered for urban development.
Greenfield land can be unfenced open fields, urban lots or restricted closed properties, kept off limits to the
general public by a private or government entity.
Rather than building upon greenfield land, a developer may choose to redevelop brownfield or greyfield
lands, areas that have been developed but left abandoned or underused.

Green belt- A green belt or greenbelt is a policy and land use designation used in land use planning to retain
areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighbouring urban areas. Similar
concepts are greenways or green wedges which have a linear character and may run through an urban area
instead of around it. In essence, a green belt is an invisible line designating a border around a certain area,
preventing development of the area and allowing wildlife to return and be established.
High-rise flats-
Historically important buildings
Indentikit housing estates
Kitsch buildings
Land reclamation- Land reclamation is the idea of getting new land. It is usually done in coastal areas.
Sometimes it is also done in areas like rivers and lakes. Usually, there is a natural process which fills such
areas with sand, dirt and other materials. Land reclamation uses the same process, which is sped up. In
many cases, this is done using dikes.
Loft extensions
Log cabins
Luxury apartments
Minimalism
Mock Tudor- imitates Tudor
Modern rural architecture
Mortgages
National heritage designation
New religious architecture in this town/ country
New towns
Olympic architecture
Open plan living room and kitchens
Outlet malls
Paper screens
Pastiche buildings- mixture of styles
Pedestrian bridges
Pedestrianised streets
Plate glass office buildings- Plate glass is thick glass made in large, flat pieces, which is used especially to
make large windows and doors.
Police boxes
Post-modernism
Power lines
Preserving buildings, e.g. listing Brutalist concrete buildings
Public housing, e.g. council estates
Public spaces in this city/ country, such as town squares
Public toilets
Recent modernist architecture
Redevelopment of whole areas
Reed matting- Reed mats are handmade mats of plaited reed, made throughout most of India and Thailand.
Rental accommodation in this town/ country
Repurposed buildings
Resort architecture
Retro street lighting
Rundown areas/ Slums
Rundown housing- in bad condition
Scandinavian style
Second homes
Semi-detached houses
Shopping centres/ Shopping arcades
Skyscrapers
So-called iconic buildings
Starchitects such as Zaha Hadid
Station architecture
Suburban housing
Sustainability
Terraced houses
Thatched cottages- cover (a roof or a building) with straw or a similar material.
The general public’s taste in architecture
The mansions of rich people
The outskirts of this town
The town hall in this town
Traditional (covered) shopping streets
Traditional architecture
Tropical architecture
University campuses
Villages/ Hamlets
Water features (fountains etc)
Waterfront development
Wooden apartments
World Heritage listings

Adjectives to describe architecture

(Un)affordable
(Un)exceptional
(Un)imaginative
(Un)impressive
(Un)liveable
(Un)popular
Abandoned
Bad taste
Beautiful/ Gorgeous – Hideous
Bland/ Dull
Breath-taking
Cutting edge
Dated – Timeless
Derivative/ Unoriginal – Original
Dilapidated
Disappointing Elegant
Famous – Infamous/ Notorious
Iconic
Important
Impractical
Jaw dropping
Neglected
Overrated – Underrated
Over-the-top
Scandinavian
Spectacular
Stunning
Traditional
Underappreciated
Unique
Wooden