Pilbrow and Partners
Area of Expertise: Architecture and urban design
Pilbrow and Partners are a 65-strong architecture and urban design studio working internationally on a range of innovative approaches to ultra-low carbon design. Their work is grounded in a passion for the city and a commitment to create places that enrich, delight, and inspire and seeks to do more with less, drawing on specialist in-house environmental analytical capabilities to deliver new performance benchmarks.
Award-winning projects include Edge London Bridge, a 28-storey office currently under construction next to the Shard: the building will be London’s most energy-efficient multi-tenant office building when complete in 2026 and The Kensington Building, which was recognised by the British Council of Offices’ Refurbished/Recycled Building of the Year in London 2023. Pilbrow's experience encompasses masterplanning, residential, hospitality, heritage, cultural, research, and clinical sectors.
Phone +44 (0) 203 696 7000
Address 2-5 St John’s Square, London, EC1M 4DE
Website www.pilbrowandpartners.com
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Tell us about your practice? What do you stand for?
Pilbrow and Partners are an architecture and urban design studio working internationally on a range of innovative approaches to ultra-low carbon design. Our work is grounded in a passion for the city and a commitment to create places that enrich, delight and inspire.
What differentiate you from other architects? / How do you describe your approach to the design?
Our work seeks to do more with less, drawing on in-house environmental analytical capabilities to support our design work and to deliver new performance benchmarks.
What projects are you currently working on?
We’re on site with a new office for Dutch developers Edge Technology in London Bridge that will be the UK’s most energy efficient tall building when it is complete in 2026 (EUI 57kW/m2/annum inclusive of tenant loads). The building pioneers a hybrid timber and concrete superstructure that will be another UK first at 28 storeys.
Why do clients come to you? What kind of clients do you work with?
We’ve been privileged to work for an incredible range of clients from David Gilmour for whom we have just completed a private house in Hove, to Soho Theatre for whom we are converting the Grade II* EMD Walthamstow cinema to a space for live comedy performance. On larger projects, we have enjoyed long working relationships, and repeat commissions, from clients including Imperial College London, the Berkeley Group and Land Securities U+I. I think they like our positivity, energy and passion.
What have been the highlights for you in the past year?
We won an interesting competition to design the centre of the Vauxhall and Nine Elms tall building cluster at Vauxhall Square. We’re proposing six buildings framing a new public park which will deliver a development relevant to, and connected with, the local community at Vauxhall.
What is your special focus for Cityscape Global 2024?
Over the last year, we have established relationships with Diriyah Company and hugely enjoyed helping to deliver their vision for sustainable design grounded in Nadji vernacular architecture. We have also enjoyed working in the region with Damac, Eagle Hills, Jameel Group and GFH Partners. We are keen to deepen these links and find like-minded organisations with vision and ambition.
Is there anything exciting on the horizon?
We’re starting work on a major life sciences campus for Landsec in Cambridge. The commission builds on our experience working at the Francis Crick Institute and for Imperial College London at White City and North Acton. The buildings mark the advent of a new generation of spaces for research that draw on the full potential of AI in design and operation.
