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Digital twins → Building smarter, more sustainable futures

Digital twin visualisation showing a sustainable home transitioning from 3D architectural model to photoreal render, reflecting how RISE Design Studio uses digital technology to design low-energy buildings with precision and clarity.

In architecture and construction, precision has always mattered. Yet as the scale of development intensifies – from housing targets to infrastructure expansion – the need for clarity, coordination, and foresight has never been greater.

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How to Design a Paragraph 84 Home in the English Countryside

Single-storey contemporary countryside home beside a lake, featuring dusty pink precast concrete walls, zinc roof, and full-height glazing reflecting in the water, designed for sustainability and harmony with nature.

Every great home begins as an act of belief To design and build a Paragraph 84 home is to take a leap of faith. Faith in your vision. Faith in the process. And faith in the power of design to move people – and planning officers – beyond what they thought possible. A low-energy Paragra …

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Listening, Learning, and Leading Together: Reflections from This Week’s Brent Agents Forum

A contemporary red-brick infill home on Hazel Road in Kensal Green, designed by RISE Design Studio. The Red Arches House features arched windows, zinc roofing, solar panels, and a contextual form that complements its surroundings while showcasing sustainable urban living.

This week we joined fellow architects, planners, and development officers at the Brent Agents Forum — and it turned out to be one of the most constructive, energising planning discussions we’ve experienced in years.

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Building Regenerative Cities Through Public Housing

Exterior view of a sustainable public housing project by RISE Design Studio featuring low-carbon brickwork, natural timber detailing, and green communal spaces that promote community living and environmental regeneration in London.

In every era, public housing has reflected the spirit of its time - a mirror of how society defines progress. Today, that reflection must be sharper than ever. As cities expand and populations rise, the real challenge isn’t how many homes we can build, but how we build them.

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Big Roof Park Pavillion

A timber-clad tennis pavilion and café designed by RISE Design Studio, featuring a striking cantilevered roof that provides shade and shelter beside clay tennis courts in a landscaped park setting — showcasing sustainable, community-focused architecture in North London

At RISE Design Studio, we take our roofs seriously — perhaps a little too seriously. Our latest Pavilion proves that when it comes to shelter, bigger really can be better.

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CarbonLite, Clearly: How AECB’s Standards Help Us Design Low-Energy Buildings That Actually Work

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What is CarbonLite? CarbonLite is the AECB’s practical framework for creating buildings that are genuinely low-energy, comfortable and healthy. It takes Passivhaus thinking (modelling with PHPP, focus on fabric, ventilation and airtightness) and packages it into standards that UK desi …

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My Queen’s Park: A Community of Quiet Trailblazers

Interior of Queen’s Park House by RISE Design Studio, featuring an open-plan kitchen and dining area with exposed brick walls, natural timber cabinetry, a polished concrete floor, and large skylights that flood the space with natural light, blending sustainable design with timeless craftsmanship.

When Domus Nova came calling to explore the people and places shaping Queen’s Park, we were honoured to be featured alongside some of the neighbourhood’s most inspiring voices. Their piece, My Queen’s Park: The Trailblazers at the Heart of the Neighbourhood’s Soul, captured the unique …

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Hopefield Avenue, Queen's Park - Arches, Light and Living with Nature

Interior of a Queen’s Park Victorian home reimagined by West London architects RISE Design Studio, featuring arched glazing, a lightwell, and garden views that bring biophilic design into the heart of the living space.

Victorian terraces in Queen’s Park carry a quiet dignity. At Hopefield Avenue, our proposal reimagines one such home with respect and invention, accentuating existing character while introducing architectural gestures that look to the future. Rear garden view of Victorian terrace in Q …

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Sutton Churches Tennis Clubhouse – A Pavilion for Sport and Community

Exterior view of Sutton Churches Tennis Clubhouse designed by RISE Design Studio, showing the timber pavilion with a dramatic roof canopy and shaded terrace. Players and visitors gather outside, reflecting the clubhouse’s role as both a sporting venue and a community hub in Sutton.

Every so often, a project arrives that is more than a building. At Sutton Churches Tennis Club, the new clubhouse is conceived as a striking pavilion — an ambitious piece of architecture that redefines how a community experiences sport, spectatorship, and togetherness. This is not onl …

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Sustainable Architects in London | RISE Design Studio

EnerPHit home designed by sustainable architects in London

Building a Greener Future, One Project at a Time London is a city of heritage and ambition. A place where Georgian terraces, industrial warehouses, and post-war housing estates sit side by side with new towers and cultural landmarks. But in the face of the climate emergency, one quest …

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