International Architecture + Design
Everything nicholas does focuses on design excellence.
This results in people-centred built environments which people love to be in and brings wide-ranging success to our developer clients. We inject passion, creativity and insight into projects – while listening intently and placing the client first.
For it to be great, architecture must:
· be founded in integrity
· function in an exemplary manner.
The locus of our work is the city, and our designs are:
· environmentally and socially regenerative
· transformative, catalysts for positive change.
Our delivery:
· is both holistic and economically focused
· provides a great value proposition for the stakeholders.
Master Planning & Urban Design
We plan and design communities and cities, creating vibrant, legible, and adaptable spaces for people, business, learning, faith, and leisure.
We curate urban environments which inspire, and draw people together. Our place-shaping resonates with joy and purpose.
Architecture
We design exceptional buildings and spaces for exceptional people.
Our work embodies both tradition and technology. While every project is unique and its resolution bespoke, we always strive for an architecture which enriches both the physical and social realms.
Design Management & Lead Consultancy
We manage the design process from beginning to end, from inception to occupancy. We can engage all the necessary consultants, or manage them on your behalf, to ensure that the project is delivered efficiently, and with all the right controls in place.
Construction Stage Services
We monitor and follow projects through all stages, including construction, to ensure quality, safety and the maintenance of design integrity. We share in your vision and work closely with all stakeholders to realise and deliver success.
GCC and MENA focus
nicholas is based in the Gulf and delivers projects across the Kingdoms of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, the GCC, North Africa, the Indian subcontinent and internationally.
We understand our clients and their markets.
We are dynamic, accessible and highly responsive.
Always a team approach
nicholas is a team of exceptionally talented architects, designers and building specialists who draw on a wealth of international and large-project experience.
Design is our passion, and we live and breathe to make buildings which inspire, are of high creative value, perform with integrity, and function brilliantly. We deliver by firstly listening and then tailoring a response developed from specifics as well as from – more broadly – culture, place, and shared experience.
Transformational value
The city and its context, community aspirations, and the current imperatives to adapt and reinvent are all tools which we harness for social, environmental, and economic regeneration, and to effect positive change.
To make a real difference, we know that architecture must be transformative. We harness the power of design to build better communities and to enhance the the natural world. This is the transformational value which we bring to projects.
Economic sense
Being both “international” and “local” we are able to balance aspirations with economics. While our standards are international, our presence on the ground means that we know the market conditions, code requirements and the best ways to build things.
Your business case informs us, and we employ techniques such as modularisation, standardisation, and management of process to achieve economies of scale, drive the value proposition and ensure success. This is the economic sense which we bring to projects.
