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Northbank Architects · the studio

A glass room by the river, and nine people who draw.

We moved into the old boat-builder's loft at Riverside Works in 2016. Every model, sketch and argument about windows happens in one long room, and you are welcome in it.

A retro-futurist poster of an architecture studio with a curved glass wall over a city river, long drawing tables and a tall tower model

Since 2009

Lena and Kwame

Founded the practice at a kitchen table in Heaton, with one client and a borrowed plotter.

Who is here

9 people

Six architects, two technologists, and Maud, who runs the office and the plants.

What we have built

140 buildings

Houses, two primary schools, a library and one boathouse, all within 60 miles.

Come to an open studio

First Friday of the month, 5pm · Riverside Works, Newcastle

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