About the practice

Tonkin Liu is an award-winning architecture studio with a highly acclaimed portfolio of radical houses, large-scale public sculptures and regenerative urban landscapes. Established in 2002 by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu, we are proud to have won 17 RIBA awards, which recognise ‘the best architecture in the UK and around the world’. In 2017, we were named as one of just nine RIBA Practice Role Models. Selected projects include Ness Point house, shortlisted for the RIBA 'House of the Year' prize and featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs; The Singing Ringing Tree, a sculpture named as one of the '21 British Landmarks of the 21st Century'; and RIBA award-winning public realm landscapes such as Kingston Ancient Marketplace, Dover Esplanade, and the Promenade of Light. Our aim is to bring people closer to nature. Each project engages with nature through a refined set of principles ranging from biomimicry, storytelling, adaptability, economy, and integration with elements that nature gives us generously for free: wind, rain, sun, shadows, reflections.