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.

The practice has steadily expanded its base and workload and now enjoys involvement in a very wide variety of projects and sectors. 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.

Our original base and Romsey office is led by Gareth Jenkins and Peter Barnett assisted by a team of Associates. 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 and Steve Robinson. In 2013 we opened an office in central Southampton, which is run by Phil Amey.

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…

2019 RICS Awards Commercial

Gambledown Farm

2019 RICS Tourism & Leisure

Gambledown Farm

2018 RICS (Wales) Infrastructure

Llandudno Lifeboat Station

2018 RICS (South East) Community Benefit

Selsey 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