A selection of details from site, looking at the materials and pieces of work that are often most interesting before the building is complete.

On existing buildings, new work rarely arrives as a perfectly standard component. Stone has to be selected, cut and tooled to sit convincingly beside existing masonry; copings and chimney dressings need to follow established profiles; and roof junctions are shaped around structures that have already moved and changed over many decades.

Our design for a new garden extension to a Victorian villa in Edinburgh’s Grange Conservation Area is now approaching completion.

The project replaces a later addition affected by damp and rot, reorganising the ground floor to work better for family life and opening the house more directly towards the garden. The first photograph is from before construction work began.

A few photographs from the earlier stages of construction across several of our projects, showing the structures and assemblies behind the finished architecture.

In our refurbishment work, opening up floors, ceilings and wall linings is often the first opportunity to properly understand how a building has been put together. Stone and brick walls, historic timber joists, previous openings and later alterations are gradually exposed, often revealing relationships that could not be fully understood from the initial survey.