Oak-frame architect profile Reid Architects

Reid Architects combines excellent design skill and creativity with technical, construction and management expertise to deliver inspirational designs for houses. The practice has awards for residential design in both new build and refurbishment. The practice has a particular interest in the use of natural and sustainable materials in its work.

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Reid Architects designs houses.

Reid Architects works nationally on housing of all types and values – but always with design commitment. The practice offers a creative and responsive approach to projects in urban and countryside contexts. These skills have seen Reid Architects overcome constraints to hit the fundamental brief issue of maximising development opportunity for its clients. The practice produces well-presented and articulate justifications of its work that has seen Reid Architects outperform expected limitations and constraints.

By producing excellent design responses in planning applications Reid Architects has a record of success in green belt and conservation areas.

The practice’s work is an exciting mix of traditional and contemporary architecture. Reid Architects believes that its interpretation is a way to combine the underlying social importance of home life and the family whilst working with the wide variety in the way families live now. The building forms make best use of the positive effect advances in building and servicing technologies has had on the country’s living spaces.

Reid Architects believes that oak as a building material embodies all these traditions and aspirations and working with it is always a pleasure. Its visual interest and quality is unequalled and it forms a significant part of the palette of materials the practice relies on. Reid Architects works with the material as an oak-framed structure (as generations have before) and also as a versatile, high-performance facing and cladding material.

With infinite flexibility in surface treatments and in combination with new and old materials it works well with Reid Architects’ experience of contemporary and traditional design and building form. Sealed and lacquered to give a sleek modern interior or placed in the landscape to weather to silver, it is a timeless beauty.

Oak is the best of sustainable materials.

Customers’ comments

“We could not be more pleased with the design and quality of our scheme, which always attracts compliments when shown to anyone. The design is everything we could ever have wished for and more… ”Jeremy and Karen Banks, Alderley Edge

“Reid Architects was able to surpass any expectation we had for the design of the new house.”Owner – Willow House

“This is a crafted gem of a private house, in which every surface, inside and out, has been obsessively designed and tested by a talented architect and a demanding client. The attention to detail exhibited throughout the design is nothing less than exquisite.”Macclesfield Borough Council citation for Willow House

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Reid Architects

Fairbairn
72 Sackville Street
Manchester
M1 3NJ

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