We believe buildings are like people. They are conceived with joy and born from labour. It is hard to create a building and once it’s made it needs to be looked after.

Buildings evoke emotion too, the best ones make us feel safe, give us purpose and make us feel special. Good buildings become our extended family and we come to love them as our own. We paint them in the fashion of the day or fabricate them with forms, symbols and materials that give them added meaning.

From a beginning in architecture in the 1980’s, Ian’s practice history has involved him in the design and construction management many building projects including commercial buildings, houses, commercial interiors, and the restoration and adaptation of redundant places to new uses.

From these many years in architecture we recognise that buildings are a reflection of when they were made and the lived experience of those alive at the time.

Like people, buildings can lose their way. Some are left neglected and rejected – not used for what they were made for. But buildings have hope because unlike people they never really die. They live on much longer than those that built, designed or used them. These are the buildings that need our help.

We believe our built heritage tells stories that define us. By thinking about buildings as people influenced by culture, we can understand how to help those places grow into the future.

We give life to spaces that will shape our New Heritage.