high-end architects - residential, shop interior, restaurant, hotel, art

Polysmiths is an award-winning home and hotel design architect based in Kentish Town, Camden north London, with a focus on high-end home renovation and interiors, boutique hotel, restaurant and shop design.

We are a design practice with a mission to create spaces and objects for happier and healthier living. We draw on fashion, contemporary arts, materials and building techniques to design homes and hotels sensitive to its place and time.

Polysmiths is a collaborative team of experienced architects, interior designers, engineers, builders, using design thinking to problem solve for our clients.

We work globally, with projects in London, Berlin, Sydney, and Hong Kong.

We work on high-end architecture and interior projects, and are experienced in London Conservation areas, and London’s Listed Buildings.

We are experienced architects in managing design, client, cost and delivery. Clients expect a supportive and technically competent architect to deliver their projects, and we come highly recommended.

We focus on luxury residential new-build and home renovation projects, as well as restaurant and hotel interior design and delivery. We are a full-service architectural design practice.

Have you ever wonder how you can start a new-built house project in London? Where to find an architect for large home renovation? A new award-winning architect practice for shop interior? A global architect for boutique hotels?

Polysmiths is an award-winning home and hotel design architect based in Camden north London, with a focus on high-end home renovation and interiors, boutique hotel, restaurant and shop design.

Polysmiths has been nominated for various Architecture awards, and have won the AIA UK Design Awards 2023 for best Emerging Practice.

AWARDS/ 15.02.2024

RIBA LONDON AWARDS 2024 - CORK HOUSE

GREAT NEWS! Cork House has been shortlisted for the prestigious RIBA London Awards 2024.

LINK TO THE RIBA LONDON AWARDS SHORTLIST

AWARDS/ 08.02.2024

SURFACE DESIGN AWARDS - CORK HOUSE

Cork House has won the 2024 Surface Design Awards Housing Interior category, with the jury noting, ‘cork was a key component of this project with the judges impressed by how a confident use of this material contributes to the overall environment of the house, acoustically using a material known for its inherent quality as well as how it looks.’

LINK TO THE SURFACE DESIGN SHOW PAGE

FEATURE/ 10.01.2024

THE EVENING STANDARD - WALDEN

Walden is featured on the Evening Standard, as an example of project that turns a home renovation project into a flood-resilient long term solution. According to the Evening Standard, ‘The result is not only beautiful but is full of clever ideas designed to protect it from extreme weather’

LINK TO EVENING STANDARD FEATURE

UPDATES/ 12.12.2023

GRAND DESIGNS - WALDEN

Walden is featured on January 2024 edition of Grand Designs Magazine, calling it a ‘Flood-resilient transformation’.

LINK TO GRAND DESIGNS DIGITAL MAGAZINE

STORY/ 08.12.2023

ARCHITECT’S JOURNAL - WALDEN

AJ has featured Walden, a basement residential renovation project in Tufnell Park, London. It included a positive Client’s testimonial, highlighting our efforts in client collaboration, to achieve high-end design detail that solves problems.

LINK TO ARCHITECT’S JOURNAL

STORY/ 21.11.2023

LEIBAL - WALDEN

Walden project, a basement home renovation project in Tufnell Park, London, is now on Leibal.

LINK TO LEIBAL

Award winning retail luxury architect Polysmiths London

AWARDS/ 15.11.2023

SURFACE DESIGN AWARDS 2024 - THE CORK HOUSE

The Cork house has been nominated as a finalist for the Surface Design Awards 2024, in the Housing Interior category.

LINK TO SURFACE DESIGN AWARDS

STORY/ 18.11.2023

DEZEEN - WALDEN

Our Walden project is now on Dezeen.

LINK TO DEZEEN

New London Architecture award-winning luxury retail architect Polysmiths

AWARDS/ 12.09.2023

NEW LONDON AWARDS 2023 - SHORTLISTED

We’re delighted to announce our project has been shortlisted for the New London Awards 2023, run by New London Architecture, and supported by the Mayor of London.

The New London Awards 2023 recognises the best projects across different sectors in the built environment. It celebrates projects of varying scales across London that are making and will make a positive contribution to their surroundings.

You can contribute to the judging process by voting for us in the People’s Choice Award, an award given to the public’s favourite project.Click below to vote for our project!

LINK
https://bit.ly/NewLondonPeoplesChoice

AWARDS/ 11.09.2023

DEZEEN AWARDS 2023 - LONGLISTED

Our project the Cork House has been longlisted for the Dezeen Awards 2023!

From over 4,800 entries from 94 countries to Dezeen Awards this year, our project is one of 235 architecture projects that are in the running to win an award later this year in the architecture categories.

Shortlist will be revealed in October, with winners announced in November 2023.

LINK

Cork House Dezeen Awards Longlist

INTERVIEW/ 23.07.2023

THE SUNDAY TIMES - THE CORK HOUSE

An interview with the Sunday Times on how the Cork House managed to stay on budget with construction during the pandemics, facing lockdowns, spiraling materials cost, and supply chain logistics nightmares.

LINK

Smart ways to cut the cost of your property renovation (thetimes.co.uk)

STORY/ JULY 2023

GRAND DESIGNS MAGAZINE JULY 2023 - THE CORK HOUSE

The July magazine included an interview about the Cork House.

PRESS RELEASE/ 20.07.2023

SERVICED APARTMENT NEWS - BLOOMSBURY APARTHOTEL

Our Bloomsbury Aparthotel pre-application has been picked up as an exciting new project by the Serviced Apartment News.

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Design plans revealed for Bloomsbury aparthotel (servicedapartmentnews.com)

AWARDS/ 18.05.2023

AIA UK DESIGN AWARDS 2023 - EMERGING PRACTICE

The American Institute of Architects UK Chapter hosted the 2023 Excellence in Design Awards Ceremony at the Barbican on 18 May 2023, with Polysmiths wining the Emerging Practice awards with the Cork House.

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Winners 2023 — AIA UK