Design Approach

Our founding partners understood this alliance, Eric Hall provided stability and direction in terms of serving our clients and their needs while Alan Reiach brought design flair and an acute sense of grounding in a northern culture. We continue to see this collaboration, Reiach and Hall, as the fundamental base of our practice.

Architecture is about creating useful and sustainable spaces and places. We aspire to buildings that uplift and support the human condition. The majority of buildings are simply backdrops to people’s daily lives; only occasionally do buildings merit occupying the foreground. Our ambition is to create buildings that have enduring value. Our aspiration is to realise imaginative and stimulating environments that surpass occupiers’ and visitors’ expectations. Our Wolfson Medical School, for example, is organised around a dramatic central space. This unbriefed space is used by the University for entertaining, conferences, music events and fund raising functions: it has become the civic space for the University.