At RoundRobin we believe in good design.

We have ample Listed Building and Conservation Area planning and design expertise. We have recently completed the conversion and full remodel a loft in the Grade II Listed Hoffman Sq, also featured in the New London Architecture Don’t Move Improve! exhibition at the Building Centre. Throughout our design process we have established an excellent relationship with Conservation Officers and planning teams across London boroughs.

We are a RIBA Chartered architectural and engineering practice and we believe in iterative, process driven design with the client at its centre. We are fascinated by the power of design to be inspiring and effective. We enjoy absorbing clients’ needs and ambitions and the process of validating through questions and drawings. We address the ‘wider picture’ meaning the physical environment, neighbourhood as well as the future users of the building. We like to respond to distinctness, connections and how projects may be required to change in time. The success of a building of any type comes with use and time. We enable clients to feel confident that such change will be possible. Our architecture is imaginative from first principles and inclusive in that it grows out of everyday concerns.

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•RoundRobin Story: Collaborative storytelling in which the narrative thread is started by one and then continued successively by others in turn. Round-Robin novels were invented in the 19th century. In modern usage the term refers to friends or family telling stories at a get-together or around a camp fire

•RoundRobin Game: An arrangement of choosing all elements in a group equally in a rational order, usually from the top to the bottom of a list and then starting again at the top of the list in iteration. A simple way of describing it is taking turns

•RoundRobin Quilt: Each person begins a quilt. At the first meeting (or exchange) the pieces are shown and passed. The person receiving adds to the quilt top. At each subsequent meeting, the top gets passed to someone else, for as many rounds are defined by the rules. Ultimately the person who began the top gets it back to finish with quilting and binding

•RoundRobin Letter: A letter that you send to a lot of people, for example at Christmas, telling them what you have done that year 

•RoundRobin Signatures: a document signed by multiple parties in a non-hierarchical circle. The term dates from the 17th century French ruban rond (round ribbon), describing the practice of signatories to petition against authority so that none may be identified as a ringleader. The practice was adopted by mutineers in the Royal Navy.