high-end architects - residential, shop interior, restaurant, hotel, art
Polysmiths is an award-winning high-end residential, retail, restaurant and hotel design high-end architect based in Kentish Town, Camden London, with a mission to create spaces and objects for happier and healthier living. We are a team of high-end architects, interior designers, and craft makers, using design thinking to problem solve for our clients. We engages in high-end residential, retail, restaurant and hotel design and architecture projects in London, Berlin, Sydney, and Hong Kong.
We focus on high-end residential new-build and renovation projects, as well as restaurant and hotel interior design and delivery. We work in London Conservation areas, and are experienced in London’s Listed buildings. We are a full-service architectural design practice. We work on projects from concept design, planning, through to construction and completion.
Have you ever wonder how you can start a new-built house project in London? Where to find an architect for large scale house renovation? A new award-winning architect practice for retail and commercial projects?
CORK HOUSE
1. WE solve problems
Polysmiths is an award-winning residential, retail, restaurant and hotel design architect, with a mission to create spaces and objects for happier and healthier living. We believe sustainable, long-lasting buildings and objects are design problem solved elegantly, for the client, for society, and for posterity.
Cork House was built during the pandemic, on a forgotten backland site, amidst construction material costs and supply challenges. We faced down that challenge by adapting and re-designing.
URBAN COLLECTIVE HOTEL
2. we have integrity of vision
A design must be financially viable, but it also must represent our client’s values, what they stand for, while holding strong view of long-term relationship with the city and its communities.
With the Urban Collective Hotel, Berlin, a rigorous design and construction costing comparison exercise convinced the client and the City Council to retain a disused office building structure in Mitte, retrofit with low-impact construction and high thermal performance, suitable for short stay digital nomads.
THE BLOOMSBURY APARTHOTEL
3. WE ENGAGE STRATEGICALLY
We believe good design is about solving a good problem elegantly. We work with our client to formulate the problems, and we recommend strategy to procure, negotiate, and deliver success.
The Bloomsbury Aparthotel, London was acquired by our art dealer client through our introduction. We also assisted the client in drafting a business plan, and structuring a financial model that transforms a tired Grade II listed Georgian townhouse B&B in Bloomsbury, into a 12-bedroom apart-hotel, with highly insulated rooms, and a new rear garden courtyard.
PRODUCTS
4. WE PAY attention to detail
We believe design thinking is an iterative process of Divergent and Convergent thinking. We apply this across our projects of all scales, balancing opportunity and risks.
We work across all scales, applying the same design thinking to solve problems of all sizes, from new-build house, to bespoke lighting design, and ceramics tableware for hospitality venues.
WALDEN
5. WE TREAT SUSTAINABILITY AS A MATTER OF COURSE
We understand construction is effortful, and inherently energy consuming. Therefore, we think about sustainability in our projects like we think about roofs and windows, they are intrinsically a part of our design.
Walden, Tufnell Park (more to come on this project) is a flood-resilient family basement extension using only light-weight natural materials in its construction, while retaining as much of the existing garden that surrounds the extension, reducing soil removal, and increasing the natural rainwater soak-away area of the site.
ODESSA
6. we COlLABORAte using data & technology
We work regularly with industry leaders in delivering our projects. Our structural engineering collaborators include PRICE & MYERS and THORNTON TOMASETTI.
We achieve our design outcome through rigorous use of digital technology, including 3d modelling on RHINO, AUTOCAD, and REVIT.
We have experience advising other architectural practices and creative businesses on digital transformation for growth and innovation.