urban design /neighborhood design/ public realm / civic space / place vision + strategy / green + blue infrastructure / landscape architecture / wayfinding

We support our clients and communities to create coherent, comfortable, playful, beautiful, resilient sustainable places for people and nature

Urban Design

Landscape Architecture

Place Strategy

We provide all aspects of urban and landscape support from spatial strategies and place visioning to detailed design for feasibility, funding, engagement, planning and construction.

We work across a wide variety of sectors, settings and scales including housing, public parks, squares and streets, health and social care settings from independent living to hospices, and all scales of education facilities spanning university campuses, to community spaces including sports and leisure, play.

Heritage

Selected Work

 

Parks + Play

Civic

 

Mixed use + Residential

AREAStudio

Our Approach


We understand that clients want good ideas, delivered with robust attention to detail and budgets, and meticulously coordinated with project partners.   We work closely with our clients, professional colleagues and other stakeholders to reveal and enhance the unique value and potential of each site.



 
 

AREAstudio

Our daughter studio specialising in planning and design services for

private residential projects

Selected projects by location

 

Our Clients

AREA has established enduring relationships with many of our clients; consultants, development consortia and local authorities, who come back to us when quality of place is central to their development vision. Clients include:

  • Abellio Greater Anglia

  • AHMM architects

  • ARUP associates

  • Basildon Borough Council

  • Charterhouse Investments

  • Chelmsford City Council

  • The Churchmanor Estate

  • East Suffolk Council

  • East Thames Housing

  • Essex Housing

  • Essex Wildlife Trust

  • First Base

  • Friends of North Lodge Park

  • Notting Hill Genesis

  • Grosvenor Estate

  • Haverstock

  • Hill Partnerships

  • Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice

  • L&Q Housing

  • Land Securities

  • London Borough of Islington

  • London Borough of Merton

  • London Borough of Southwark

  • London Borough of Waltham Forest

  • Pollard Thomas Edwards

  • Quadrant Construction

  • St Joseph’s College

  • Tower Hamlets Homes

Winner - RIBA East Midlands Award 2019 - Brackley Town Hall

Winner - Civic Trust Award 2014 - Livity School Lambeth

Winner - Housing Design Awards 2016 -The Scene Walthamstow

Contact us.

Please get in touch to discuss how AREA can support your development vision.  We are always happy to hear about new projects of all types and scales.  

If we are not able to help you directly we will try to put you in touch with someone who can from our network of professional friends and colleagues in planning, design and construction.

If you are a talented landscape architect or architect with excellent technical and design skills interested in working with us, please send your CV and selected work examples to: office@area-la.com

AREA landscape architects Ltd. Blackhouse Studio Pin Mill Ipswich IP9 1JN

01473 781994

office@area-la.com

Registered in England Company 5842316