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"This practice has spent the past 40 years working out how best to incorporate sustainability into its designs. The result is a philosophy of developing "long-life, loose fit, low energy" buildings...The firm is also committed to social sustainability. Most of its projects have a benefit for those people in society who need it most...But charity, as we know, begins at home, and the judges commented that Ted Cullinan has 'always had a great ethos in terms of employment practices'."
Architectural Practice of the Year
Building Awards 2010

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Ted Cullinan set up Edward Cullinan Architects in 1965. We practice as a co-operative giving us an unusual flexibility to respond effectively to our client's demands.

We are based in Islington, North London where we work in a single studio to maximise inter-project understanding and to facilitate the easy adjustment of the project teams as their needs ebb and flow.

We have worked with many different clients, producing very different solutions within commercial, cultural, housing, health, primary and secondary education sectors, in the University sector and in Urban Regeneration and Masterplanning.

To each of these projects we bring our common interests:

  • A positive response to the historical and physical context.
  • An understanding of the importance of good public spaces.
  • A belief that consultation and participation by the users forms an essential part of an effective design process.
  • An appropriate degree of flexibility to allow for changing patterns of use and the continually developing needs of technology.
  • A continually developing focus on energy conservation and sustainability.
  • An enjoyment in the construction of the buildings as an integral part of their architecture.
  • A commitment to lean thinking and the Egan agenda in pursuit of better value for the client and the user.