About the practice

At the age of five, Magnus Ström wanted to be an architect. Growing up in Sweden, he was immersed in a design culture that believed function and beauty are not in competition, that knowing what to remove matters as much as knowing what to keep, and that the natural world belongs inside as much as out. The best buildings, in that tradition, earn their presence rather than perform it. Good architecture should feel inevitable. Not designed, but revealed. The best spaces we have made are the ones where we edited relentlessly until what remained was exactly right. Nothing added for effect, nothing kept out of habit. When it works, you walk into a room and feel it before you can explain it. The result is so particular to its owners and its site that it could not have been built anywhere else for anyone else. We design bespoke private houses, multi-residential developments, and high-end hospitality projects including spas and resorts. Most clients engage a full Architecture and Interior Design Service. Our studios in England and the Turks and Caicos Islands service work across Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. We take on a limited number of the right projects each year, and choose our clients as carefully as they choose us. Working across different planning systems, construction cultures and climates has given us a fluency a domestically focused architect cannot offer. The goal is always the same: a building that improves the life lived inside it.