About us
What we do
MBA specialise in architecture and spatial design for new build and adaptive re-use, often in city centres, historic places and areas of natural beauty.
MBA buildings are designed around the activities they clothe, in order to:
- dignify everyday life,
- connect to nature,
- promote health and wellbeing,
- welcome, be easy to navigate, inclusive, comfortable and touch-kind,
- relate to their setting: topography, landscape and the city.
Where Design meets Conservation
MBA is a design practice that understands conservation. Designs that:
- respect and understand what is already here,
- manage transformative change by careful intervention,
- retain long term value in its deepest sense.
Who we do it for
Property owning institutions and companies seeking to optimise long term value including:
- Universities
- Colleges
- Schools
- Religious institutions
- Charities
- Estates and Companies;
Developers looking to get the best out of difficult and challenging sites;
Private individuals, for whom we design one-off houses,
Special projects and small works include sculpture, minor works to public buildings and townscapes.
Collaboration
MBA also collaborate with other practices, acting as conservation architects on major projects affecting high value heritage assets.
Awards
- Oxford Preservation Trust Award 2019 – New Buildings
- BALI Landscape Award 2014
- Future Wimbledon, Urban Design Ideas Competition 2014
- Sussex Heritage Trust Award 2010
- Environmental Award, Bristol Civic Society 2005
- Alteration and Conversion, Waverley Design Awards 2003
- Business and Community Partnership, Best of Business Awards 2001
- Innovation in Public Garden Design, Metropolitan Public Gardens Association 2000
- Excellence in Housing – under 50 units Highly Commended, Brick Design Awards 1996
- Enhancement of the Character of Oxford Highly Commended, Oxford Civic Trust 1996