Example site for an entirely fictional business — not a real company.
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Judith Wheeler and Sebastian Kesteven founded the practice in 2011, after both had spent years in larger offices — she in planning applications, he on site. Bringing those two sides together under one roof is not a coincidence; it is the reason the practice exists. Whoever writes the application should know what becomes of it on the building site.
Every project has one named contact who stays with it from the survey through to the final inspection years later. That is less efficient than handing work stages to whoever happens to be free, but it avoids the handovers where knowledge reliably goes missing.
The consultants for structure, building physics and services are appointed by the client directly. We coordinate them but keep the contracts apart — which spares everyone the question of who owes what to whom if something goes wrong.
Judith Wheeler
Architect, partner
Design, planning applications
Sebastian Kesteven
Architect, partner
Site supervision, tendering, cost control
Ayla Demir
Architect
Construction drawings, surveys
Callum Hargreaves
Architectural technician
Measuring, plans and sections
Rebecca Marsh
Office manager
Contracts, fees, scheduling
Tom Fielding
Intern, MA Architecture
Model making, visualization, surveys
8 July
After seven months and two rounds of queries, the permit has come through. Building starts in September with the house occupied — the ground floor stays habitable throughout, and that governs the sequence rather than the other way round.
19 May
Judith Wheeler speaks in the Casco Bay Design Forum series about three projects where the clients ended up happier with less floor area than the brief they originally wanted to commission.
2 April
Three apartments under the old roof, the timber structure left exposed. Construction ran three weeks over, because one more sill plate had to be replaced than the survey had suggested.
11 February
One position, available now, part time welcome. Whoever joins us looks after a project across all work stages rather than a single slice of it.
Wheeler Kesteven Architects is invented — the way it is built is not. None of this is work delivered for a client. It is the shape we would give such a project — with the same depth, but without a client who would have to answer for it.
Wheeler Kesteven Architects work on housing and on existing buildings, across all nine work stages. Anyone commissioning them either has a plot or a house that should stay — and in both cases rarely knows what an architect actually does. So the site has to do two things at once: show work and explain scope.
Projects on their own page, not as an endless gallery
The home page carries a selection; the full gallery sits one level down. That leaves room for the text about how the practice works — the first thing to disappear on a pure image page.
Work stages written out
“Work stages 1 to 9” tells a client nothing. So the services page sets them out as a sequence of steps, with expandable questions covering exactly the points that always come up in a first meeting.
A quiet archetype, but muted color
The same restrained archetype as the law firm, with a different palette and a motif built from plan, elevation and section. Two businesses share the attitude and part company in the imagery.
Deliberately left outNo named client quotes and no price range. A fee depends on construction cost and scope; a number on the website would either be wrong or so hedged that it says nothing.
Five pages, in all four languages. Navigation, the gallery with its enlarged view and the expandable questions all respond. Indicated only: every project image — schematic drawings stand in for photographs, because an invented practice has no real buildings.
Project pages instead of captions
Each project with its own page: brief, existing fabric, intervention, figures, photographer and clearance. That is the real scope of work for an architecture practice.
Image rights
Architectural photography is licensed. Using it means usage rights, credits, and an archive that still proves both a few years later.
Applications
The news list attracts graduates. Behind it belongs a route by which portfolios actually arrive, without a mailbox failing on a file size.
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