What We Do …

We craft buildings and places for people, with a particular expertise in making homes and a broad portfolio of community buildings and workplaces.

We are thoughtful, creative and pragmatic. We collaborate with our clients and employ our skills to make buildings that are meaningful and joyful to their users, deliver on their brief, speak to their context whilst announcing their own identity, and display their architectural integrity through meticulous attention to detail.

Mantle offers the full range of architectural services from design to delivery. We also provide related services in urban design – to create a vision for / to help unlock and add value to larger sites – and interior design – to complement and inform a building’s architecture and refine or fundamentally change the way a space is used.

Architecture:

Across a range of scales, uses and situations, we design and deliver individual, joyful and sustainable buildings that embrace their surroundings and lift the human spirit.

Our typical architectural services include:

  • Brief preparation and feasibility studies

  • Concept design

  • Planning applications

  • Listed building applications

  • Construction drawings and specifications

  • Contract administration during construction

  • Site inspections through to completion – passing on the mantle

Urban Design:

We always think beyond our site’s boundaries, but where a vision is required for a residential-led redevelopment or regeneration of larger sites for multiple buildings and mixed-uses, we think strategically.

Our approach is culturally aware; we design neighbourhoods as frameworks for diversity.

We consider and then amplify the unique character of a project’s location to create places that are distinct, meaningful and long-lasting.

Interior Architecture:

We work closely with our clients to understand their needs and aspirations and amplify these through highly crafted interior environments that complement the mantle that envelops them.

These considerations are intrinsic to our architectural proposals, but we can offer a standalone interior architectural service for existing (including listed) buildings.

We strive for a strong and cohesive visual identity, through space planning, lighting, colour and specialist joinery.