A Return to Firminy: Kristian Hyde in RIBA Journal

Get an insight into the soul of our studio as Director Kristian Hyde is published in the RIBA Journal with his reflective essay 'Postcard from Firminy, France'. The piece retraces a journey made twenty-five years ago, returning to Le Corbusier’s Saint-Pierre church. First visited on a youthful pilgrimage with co-director and life partner Kay Hyde. Both architectural and human in spirit, the article explores time, memory, and the quiet endurance of buildings that continue to speak long after their authors are gone.

ObjectsKristian Hyde3 October 2025architecture, oxford, Quatrefoil House

2025 Homes & Gardens Design Awards Winner

Our team has just returned from London after receiving the Best Sustainability Project award for Edge House at the 2025 Homes and Gardens Design Awards. The recognition celebrates our commitment to creating homes that unite environmental performance with timeless design. Edge House stands as a quiet statement on how building with structural timber can shape a more sustainable way of living.

ObjectsKristian Hyde26 September 2025architecture, oxford, Quatrefoil House

Concrete Mag

How can materials express memory, resilience, and place? Concrete Quarterly, Volume 59 explores this question through Edge House, where a timber frame superstructure defines the home, light in spirit yet enduring in a coastal climate. This dialogue between timber and concrete reflects a balance of pragmatics and sustainability. We are honoured to see the project featured in such a respected publication.

ObjectsKristian Hyde1 August 2025architecture, oxford, Quatrefoil House

Interior Design - Detail in Oxford

Architecture, at its best, is not just built, it is felt. Discover our obsessions and the quiet power of light and shadow. Explore da Vinci’s chiaroscuro and Tanizaki’s reflections on the unseen. At Quatrefoil House, these timeless ideas shape a world for our client, where detail, depth, and darkness reveal beauty beyond the obvious.

ObjectsKristian Hyde14 April 2025architecture, oxford, Quatrefoil House

Making Architecture at Sintra, Portugal

The design work for our project in Sintra Portugal is now complete. To celebrate this milestone we wanted to share a photo journal, capturing the moments in the making of a magical new home for our clients.

Critical Thinking, NewsKristian Hyde12 July 2023Magazine, Press, drawing, process, architecture

Searching For Secrets

Saule House, one of our latest projects to receive planning is a poetic home of deep symbolic meaning. The project is the result of listening deeply to our clients memories of childhood from a distant Northern Territory.

News, Critical ThinkingKristian Hyde31 January 2023design, making, sport car, ferrari, architecture

Reach Forth - Into the Sun + Rain

In our recent work; a single storey linear home, positioned on a hill overlooking the Irish Sea in West Wales, the site provides a perfect setting for a separate outpost - A Storm Shelter. Here we discuss, philosophy, aesthetic and poetic function.

News, Critical ThinkingKristian Hyde22 October 2022design, making, sport car, ferrari, architecture

A New Project In Sintra Portugal

We’ve been appointed to work on a new luxury residential project in Portugal. Dive in for our latest thoughts on this new project - as we begin a new journey to build a beautiful new generational home for our clients.

Storm Shelter - Feel The Wind

This is a cinema room to nature. A place of contemplation. A place that manifests a pleasurable emotion between exposure, seclusion, comfort and safety - while observing the awesome power of our planet.

News, Sustainable LivingKristian Hyde16 December 2021drawing, new project, architecture

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