New Practice co-founders Becca Thomas and Marc Cairns talk us through their Glasgow- and London-based studio’s ethos, projects and plans for the future
New Practice co-founders Becca Thomas and Marc Cairns lead their architecture business with an emphasis on community, placemaking, kindness and collaboration. Based between Glasgow and London, theirs is a young practice – just four years old – yet it is one with a powerful sense of self, clear goals and flexible mindset, when it comes to using architecture to improve life for its clients.
Driven by this approach, the team have delivered so far a variety of projects, and have many more in the works – places to live, work, learn and play. 'When building our practice we have selected and pitched for projects where our experience in place-based practice and the skills of our diverse team can create collective civic experiences in the built environment.
'In all those cases the clients came to us with a question,' Thomas says. 'They had a location, but no clear brief for the outcome – they wanted to know what we could do with it and asked us to define it operationally and architecturally. They had a time frame, but their understanding and ambition for what could be delivered weren’t clear.
'We've been collaborating with [creative agency] DNCO to get under the skin of the city and introduce their creative team and the wider design team to parts and people of the city that wouldn't be obvious through desk-based research. This has really expanded the thinking on what makes Glasgow distinctive and what the Buchanan Galleries Masterplan can do to complement and support this distinctiveness.
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