A facade consultancy for developers and municipalities
Beautiful buildings pay for themselves.
New traditional buildings over modern construction, with the business case made before the first stone is laid.
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Places built by others that we show clients to explain each ornament level. None of them is our work.
What we do
Facade consulting
New traditional facades over modern construction, designed for a 100-year life.
Masterplanning
Whole traditional neighbourhoods, from the street network to the character of each building.
Design coding
Design codes that fix a place's traditional character, so that many hands can build one coherent place.
Team assembly
Traditional and classical architects, craftspeople and makers, drawn from the Agora directory.
Cost and value analysis
The financial case for your project, from build-cost estimates by ornament level to the evidence on value.
Rendering
Traditional and classical renderings for architects, and for speculative real-estate projects.
The Ornament Scale
Five levels, from good proportion alone to palace grandeur. A shared language for what a building will look like, and what it will take to build.
Proportional
Proportion alone: a pitched roof, a good rhythm of windows, and paint and colour. The simplest level, and the foundation of every other.
Patterned
Flat ornament, cut or painted in two dimensions: fretwork, patterned trim and decorative paintwork.
Moulded
Ornament in relief: cornices, mouldings, window surrounds and cast details that catch the light.
Sculptural
Columns and the classical orders, carved stone, balustrades and figurative sculpture.
Palatial
Palace-level grandeur: almost too much, and meant to be.
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