50 Sep19499 London’s Leading Luxury Designers Providing best in class architectural, design, and construction services across the prime residential markets of London’s central boroughs, RJHArchitecture have built a formidable reputation by designing truly luxurious spaces for high-net-worth clients. As 2019’s Architect of the Year, we lift the curtain on the firm and its founder, Richard Hastings, to learn more about their unparalleled success. Operating across Kensington, Chelsea, Westminster City Council and further abroad into Europe and the Middle-East, RJHArchitecture creates outstanding properties for their clients. Working with CEOs, CFOs, entrepreneurs, and high-net worth families, each property is completely unique and incorporates the very best in design and implementation, all whilst ensuring that each space is tailored to the clients’ preferences and parameters. Based in Central London, RJHArchitecture undertake all manner of projects, ranging from listed buildings, to conservation areas, and exceptional mansion blocks. By virtue of the clientele that the firm work with, the team are well-equipped with the knowledge and expertise to handle a wide variety of complexities and necessities. Drawing on their extensive knowledge, the company can assist their clients in navigating the many obstacles that get in the way of undertaking and executing any building and construction works smoothly. With knowledge of all manner of property types, the experience of RJHArchitecture extends to work such as apartment renovations, amalgamations, part and full demolition, double-basement formation, and new-build projects. More than just designing or working on buildings, the firm can also work with modern comforts, such as air conditioning, sustainable technologies, passenger lifts, intelligent home systems, and wellness spaces including saunas, steam-rooms, and swimming facilities. Despite being a young team, staff are incredibly close-knit with weekly workflow meetings and unified long-term goals. The firm as a whole is actively seeking to develop and expand its skillsets, explored further with every project undertaken. As a result, RJHArchitecture now offer in-house lighting design, joinery design, manufacturing drawing production, interior-architectural design, procurement devices, construction management and project management services. The firm’s work in the high-end residential sector is focused on delivering the perfect home for the intended user in every possible aspect. For RJHArchitecture, that means absolutely none of the projects are ever the same, which is incredibly rewarding for both the firm and the client. Whilst there are certainly trends and fashions that some clients may be interested in, the firm adapt and seek to incorporate those trends into their schemes in unique ways. Instead of simply delivering on those fashions and trends in similar ways across every project, the firm allow the client to lead the project with their unique preferences within those trends. That way, each space that is designed and created becomes a bespoke, tailored reflection of the clients personality, totally different from anything else without being reliant on certain fashion trends. Regardless of scale, every project that RJHArchitecture undertake is utterly clientcentric. The core mission of the firm is to ensure that the properties they deliver to clients are absolutely tailored and perfectly aligned with personal preferences and necessary requirements. In order to ensure this level of excruciating detail is achieved every single time, the firm take the time to explore multiple platforms of information presentation including 2D, 3D, visual, digital, physical and verbal presentations. Each and every client is totally unique, and as such, so should their space be. Testing various means of presentation and communication from the early stages of any project can help ensure that the RJHArchitecture’s production is tailored exactly to the clients idea of what their space should look like. Complete clarity, understanding and assurance from both sides is gained at proposal level before work commences, and is vitally important for the outcome of a project. As clients are often incredibly busy with their business work and have extremely limited time, RJHArchitecture utilise several platforms for live-site reporting, sharing of documentation, and ongoing
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