About Us

Our work strives to enhance our sense of surroundings, identity and relationship to others and the physical spaces we inhabit, whether feral or human-made.

Selected Awards
  • 2004 — Aga Khan Award for Architecture
  • 2009 — Mies van der Rohe Award
  • 2013 — AIA/ALA Library Building Award
  • 2015 — Best Interior, Designers Saturday
  • 2016 — AIA New York Honor Award

Wycliffe College Wards House

Wycliffe College Wards
CONTRACT:
Wycliffe College Wards House – New Boarding House
CLIENT:
Wycliffe College
ARCHITECT:
Buttress
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER:
O’Brien & Price Cheltenham Ltd
CONTRACTOR:
E G Carter & Co
QUANTITY SURVEYOR:
Eric Cole & Partners
CONTRACT VALUE:
£5 Million
COMPLETION DATE:
July, 2017

DESCRIPTION:

A new four storey boarding house on a confined, and prominent site, between mature trees. O’Brien & price provided full Civil and Structural Engineering Services. The construction comprises concrete flat slabs and RC walls and columns on a piled foundation. The inner skin of the external walls and all internal partitions are of metal studwork construction. Close coordination was needed to accommodate the services.