Projects
Houses that were already there.
A selection since 2016, published with the clients' consent. Each entry names the task rather than the budget — without the condition of the existing fabric, a figure says very little.
Photo gallery
House T — 1954 subdivision house, story added, insulated, built while occupied
Bardwell barn — three apartments, the timber structure left visible
Waterside house — infill new build, six apartments, client a housing cooperative
Plan and section, House T — survey drawing at 1:50
Two yards, Cape Elizabeth — nineteenth-century house, reordered inside
Attic in Rosemont — two box rooms and a corridor become one apartment
Junction of new build and old fabric — construction detail at 1:20
Stable block, Gorham — former workshop turned into a house
Extension in East Bayside — kitchen and dining space on a 1968 row house
Outlines instead of photographs: this demo shows a made-up business, so there are no real pictures of it. Your own website would show your own shots here.
Who we build with
Want to see a project in detail?
For every job there are drawings, photographs and an honest cost breakdown. We show them at the office where the clients have agreed.
How Awelior would approach this project
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.
Where it starts
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.
Decisions
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.
What is in it
- Pages
- 5
- Content blocks
- 22
- Languages
- 4
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.
How it would go on
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.
Something like this for your business?
This demo took a few days. Your real site gets your content, your brand and your inquiry flow.
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