Our Story

“Thank you very much for a first class, friendly and effective service, which met our restricted timescales and met all of our criteria.”
NHS Property Services

Studio Four Architects was founded in 1992 at Tollgate Estates in Romsey by George Rankin and Nick Lockyer, with Mike Brownlow joining in 1993 and Steve Hole in 1995.

The practice has steadily expanded its base and workload and now enjoys a wide variety of projects. Alongside significant healthcare experience, we have completed many projects in other sectors including education, housing, leisure, retail/commercial, domestic, historic, emergency services, church, marine, industrial and community-based schemes.

The Winchester office was opened in 1997 to serve a growing number of clients in the Winchester and M3 corridor area, and is run by Mike Brownlow.

In 2012, Studio Four Specialist Projects was formed to provide services focussed around conservation, specialist architectural projects and building surveying, and is run from the Romsey office by our director Phil Amey.

In 2013 the practice merged with Chris Edmond Associates, based in central Southampton, which is now a division of Studio Four run by our director Gareth Jenkins. Whilst specialising in the residential sector, the office is also involved in community schemes including yacht clubs, golf clubs and churches.

All three offices work closely together to share resources, expertise and training opportunities.

A wide range of architectural services are provided for all project stages.

Planning opportunities and feasibility studies
Brief preparation
Full architectural duties
Design team leadership
Principal Designer duties

Design & Build co-ordination
Project Management
Site inspection
Interior design
Basic landscape design
Maintenance advice

Physical models and 3D modelling
Measured surveys
Dilapidation and/or Condition surveys
Party Wall matters
Listed Building Refurbishment & Development

An award winning company…

2018 RICS (Wales) Infrastructure

Llandudno Lifeboat Station

2018 RICS (South East) Community Benefit

Selsey Lifeboat Station

2018 RICS (South East) Tourism & Leisure

Selsey Lifeboat Station

2018 RICS (Wales) Community Benefit

Llandudno Lifeboat Station

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…with some exciting clients, large and small.

Prestige Apartments

(Residential)

Southern Gas Network

(Commercial)

University of Portsmouth

(Education)

Interserve

(PSCP’s)

Medicx

(Primary Healthcare)

Roughton International Ltd

(Consultants)

URC (Wessex) Trust Ltd

(Community)

Babcock

(MoD)

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See what our clients have to say…

A great project and I must say one of the smoothest led projects in many years of working with the RNLI.

RNLI

I just wanted to express how much I love the design and layout of Room 110 in St Edburga!

University of Winchester

It has been a great team performance and an enjoyable project to work on. Thanks for all your help over the last year or so. It really is appreciated.

Reside Construction

…an example of design freethinking incorporating… to achieve a Cat. 3 High risk post mortem suite for human autopsy without equal nationally

Southampton General Hospital