Morris+Company (dk)

Making architecture is an adventure better done in company.

Morris+Company is a company of architects. We are listeners, makers, curators, narrators, experimenters and innovators. We are bold activists and obsessive fabricators. And we are connected by our love of making buildings.

Our work is the product of craft and humanity. The skill of making buildings may be specialist but human experience is universal, and it is from that experience that our architecture grows. People love, live, work, are born and die in our buildings; we bring them into being and leave them to become themselves.

Our buildings are the result of rich and constructive discourse with our clients. Our methodology is inquisitive, explorative and powerful, and gives us new perspectives on a brief. The communicative, iterative nature of traditional model-making is as fundamental to our process as the possibilities offered by newer technologies.

Morris+Company was born in 2018, and is an evolution of Duggan Morris Architects. The same restive creative spirit, developed over twelve years as Duggan Morris, is the foundation of our renewed practice, but our reassembly as Morris+Company has brought a broader field of vision and more collegiate way of working.

Our home is London, and much of our work is in the United Kingdom, but our worldview is wide and the company – currently a family of around 50 members – diverse. Our base in Copenhagen acts as test-bed for a more deeply collaborative approach, as well as a doorway into a new design territory. We are co-founders of Londonon, a research programme which advocates design learning through global co-operation.

'Office Architect of the Year'-2023 Morris+Company are proud winners of the Office AYA Awards this Summer.

Drone footage-July 2023 During construction

Life at Mare Street Our doors are open to the community; hosting events, exhibitions, lectures and more

A circular approach Design for Disassembly

Post-occupancy visit. July 2023 "The café has been such a success and in such demand that it has had to be reconfigured to be larger and allow for a larger queuing area, and is not twice the size."

Roundtable Event: Circular Biodiversity Held at our Featherstone rooftop pavilion; featuring 400sqft of planting, and 100% biodiversity net gain

Camden nearing completion-Summer 2023

EDIT, our sister company A hyper seasonal, low impact public facing restaurant has taken residence in a connecting space to our own events space at ground level creates a rich environment for collaboration.

The People’s Pavilion 2023 public exhibition, February 2023 The exhibition showcased seven fantastic designs from young East Londoners, 14-18 years of age. Each design has been created by a collaborative team of 3-4 young people in each. The exhibition was displayed for a month in our street-facing window display on Mare Street.

The inspiration behind The Featherstone Building Joe Morris speak about how we referenced the industrial history of Old Street through the design features on the façade, including the scalloped Juliette balconies and the contrasting brickwork. This is one of a series of videos created with Derwent

Featherstone Building Works on site

The third lot of the Southwark Council Framework that we have been accepted onto is for large workplace projects (commercial & industrial). "Our interest in the working life of our buildings – how they are loved, lived and worked in – presents us with a very particular challenge when we are commissioned to create a new workplace." David Storring, Director

We are proud to be among a selection of great practices on 3 lots of the Southwark Council Framework, including Education, Social Care and Community projects. "Our work in this sector considers each project as a local catalyst for change that will bring diverse groups of people together, in the very best and the very worst of times, for wellness, learning and culture." Keir Regan-Alexander, Director

We are thrilled to have been selected as a member of the Southwark Council Housing framework team. "In this time more than ever we all appreciate the importance of everyone having an affordable place to call home which supports a healthy life and is integral to our local community and environment." Miranda MacLaren, Director

Joe’s lecture- 'METHODS of Design and Collaboration during Crisis' as part of the Architecture Foundation’s 100 day studio event. "Collaboration isn’t a one size fits all jacket, it is a unisex onesie made of ethically sourced and organic recycled spandex, where arms can be legs, and there is no back or front. It’s malleable, flexible, and can accommodate all shapes and sizes."

MoCo is supporting RetroFirst Introducing RetroFirst: a new AJ campaign championing reuse in the built environment

Our Future Workplaces David Storrring writes about how in a few short weeks, the enforced quarantine and rapid adoption of remote-working has already revolutionised the culture of our workplaces.

The Power of Remote Collectivism Our new mode of working is certainly not ‘business as usual’ and neither will it be. We have entered an unprecedented period of uncertainty and no one will be immune from the socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 as we adapt to new ways of working and making. Read more click here.

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Architecture in Schools at Sandringham School 2019 Design Brief: A Smarter City. A city that includes, builds and celebrates places where people can be inspired by their surroundings to learn, work, create and to develop personal, mental, physical and social skills.

Architecture in Schools Programme 4 volunteers from our studio are taking part in Open City's 'Architecture in Schools' programme. Open City aims to open young people's eyes to the power of the built environment to inspire, engage and raise aspirations.

Morris+Company proud to be named 'Office Architect of the Year 2019' by BD