About the practice

Since its inception in 1996, Jamie Fobert Architects has established a reputation for innovative and inspiring architectural design for projects ranging from individual houses to high-quality retail and significant public buildings for the arts. The practice has demonstrated a consistent approach to resolving client ambitions and site complexities into a tactile architecture of volume, material and light. In their residential projects, ranging from urban sites to a farmhouses and coastal residences, the practice has successfully balanced sensitivity to context with contemporary design concerns. Since winning the RIBA House of the Year Award in 2003 for Anderson House, the practice has been shortlisted a further three times, for Kander House, Luker House and Levring House. Retail clients include Selfridges, Versace, Givenchy, Galeries Lafayette and LVMH. The practice has won five major public commissions for cultural organisations: Kettle’s Yard Gallery; Charleston; Tate St Ives; the National Portrait Gallery; and the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Two of these, Tate St Ives and the National Portrait Gallery, were shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize. Jamie Fobert Architects is currently a team of 22 based in Shoreditch, London.