About the practice

Macallan Penfold Chartered Architects is an award-winning design-led architectural practice with a recognised commitment to achieving high quality in the built environment. Working for over thirty years, the practice has an established reputation for delivering design excellence and innovation for clients across the public, private and subsidised sectors, including specialist education buildings for art, science and music, sports and community halls, libraries, restaurants, and performing arts facilities. We have a recognised track record in the design of buildings for education, residential and community uses. Our achievements have been consistently rewarded over the years as recipients of multiple local design awards, as well as being shortlisted for the RIBA Downland Prize on three occasions. Our portfolio demonstrates experience and expertise that is borne out of extensive research into the cultural, social and environmental contexts of each project. Such a consistent and rigorous approach produces creative design solutions that are not only intelligent and responsive, each with a distinct identity, but which add real value. Our success has been achieved by gaining a thorough understanding of each individual client’s needs and aspirations, an appreciation of the specific drivers of each project, and a detailed knowledge of each building type.