Spring 2025 Newsletter
— 20 May 2025
With spring in full swing, the studio is alive with design and activity—from detailed concept work to exciting progress on site.
At William Green Architects, we’re developing a diverse mix of projects, from reimagined country homes and urban refurbishments to new commercial spaces. Across all our work, careful detailing continues to shape and elevate every design.
Read on to discover the latest projects on the drawing board and on site this season, or contact us below to kick off the discussion for your next project.
On the drawing board
The studio has been busy creating and developing concepts for a variety of projects.
In London we have continued taking on the challenge of remodelling, refurbishing, and extending a Victorian terrace house in Fulham SW6. Transforming the house from rented flats into a single-family town house. The challenge, as always is to create light filled, flowing space and to achieve this we have enjoyed modelling the house and the proposals to compare different approaches.
Continuing our close collaboration with interior designers, we have developed concept designs and created a cohesive proposal for a full house remodel and refurbishment for a detached country house near Ludlow. The scheme carefully balances fabric, function and visual upgrades with consideration for reuse and refurbishment of the existing dwelling. Maximising the potential of the original detached family home.
To add to the emerging mix of commercial projects, we have also been working on various schemes for proposed dental practices looking to provide imaginative, functional and comfortable accommodation within which to deliver high standards of patient care.
On site
We continue to provide contract administration services for the full refurbishment and extension of a large listed country home near Berkhamsted. Going to site and watching design concepts coming together is a privilege we enjoy as the project progresses through RIBA Stage 5 onsite. In the associated photo you can begin to see the aligning views through the house.
Phase 1 works have started on a project in Minchinhampton that has involved working closely with interior designers, these include internal refurbishment works to attic rooms, ensuite facilities and a new kitchen. Phase 2 works look to increase the size of the property providing a large dining room and family snug.
We balance these projects along with several other exciting projects onsite and feel it’s important that we provide Contract Administration and Lead Designer services to ensure our clients investment in Design is delivered onsite by the variety of Main Contractors we enjoy working with.
Project Showcase - Cotswold Farmhouse
Cotswold Farmhouse is in the Cotswolds village of Little Compton in Warwickshire. Our clients have owned the property for generations and they approached us to develop existing designs for a new farmhouse. The original house was practically destroyed after a devastating fire. They wanted their new farmhouse to match the traditional character of its predecessor but with distinctly modern elements, including our designs for a strikingly modern garden room.
Thoughts - Architectural Detail
Architectural detailing always matters, being transformational by providing a level of design that helps convey a design language. Good design detailing conveys a message of understanding for what it takes to create a deeply considered space. How does the floor connect to the wall, the floor run through an opening, or the balustrading work with the stair tread, for example? These connections are moments in the design, time to understand the materials and their innate language, which influences how the connections can be designed. The skill is referencing this back to the context of the overall design intent and forever linking them.