About the practice

RIBA Award winning practice Eldridge Smerin was renamed Eldridge London in 2015, with a further sister practice Eldridge Newlyn located in Cornwall to enable the effective delivery of refined high-quality architecture throughout the south of England. Director Nick Eldridge continues to guide projects in both offices working across the UK and abroad. The practice’s reputation has developed through a series of cutting-edge houses including the Stirling Prize nominated ‘The Lawns’ project and the House in Highgate Cemetery. The practice has also completed a number of high profile retail, commercial and cultural projects including interiors for Selfridges Birmingham, Villa Moda Kuwait, O2’s Mobile Applications Development Centre, the Design Council Headquarters, The Business and Intellectual Property Centre and a restaurant at the British Library and the Globe Theatre’s Sackler Studios. With extensive experience delivering contemporary architecture in sensitive contexts the studio has worked on Grade II, II* and Grade I listed properties, numerous conservation areas, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, new houses within the greenbelt and Paragraph 55 permission for ‘exceptional quality or innovative nature of the design’. The practice demonstrates a consistent approach to producing intelligent and unique solutions to specific client briefs and often constrained budgets, with an unerring attention to detail from concept through to completion.