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Since its foundation in 1965, Edward Cullinan Architects have been designing carefully composed, award winning, innovative buildings. We are committed to the idea that a successful building is one which responds thoughtfully and gracefully to our clients' needs and to its local context; and which is built on time and within cost.

We are particularly skilled at working with our clients to anticipate their future needs, developing the brief and the design together.

We have worked with many different clients, producing very different solutions within commercial, cultural, housing, health, primary and secondary education sectors, in the University sector and in Urban Regeneration and Masterplanning.

To each of these projects we bring our common interests:

  • A positive response to the historical and physical context.
  • An understanding of the importance of good public spaces.
  • A belief that consultation and participation by the users forms an essential part of an effective design process.
  • An appropriate degree of flexibility to allow for changing patterns of use and the continually developing needs of technology.
  • A continually developing focus on energy conservation and sustainability.
  • An enjoyment in the construction of the buildings as an integral part of their architecture.
  • A commitment to lean thinking and the Egan agenda in pursuit of better value for the client and the user.

    • We are registered to carry out EcoHomes and Code for Sustainable Homes Assessments on all our projects.

    The protection of our environment is at the heart of our approach to architectural design. ECA has, from its foundation in 1965, sought an architecture in which the environmental design forms a vital part of a holistic approach to building production.

    We collaborate with the best environmental engineers to maintain our commitment to sustainable design.

    An example of this commitment is the re-development of our office in Islington: which will exceed the London Mayor's new target of 20% of energy from renewable sources. Among the green measures are five roof mounted turbines. A single, three metre, horizontal axis turbine will provide 30% of the annual energy consumption for our office and four, two metre vertical axis turbines will provide an enough electricity to power all twelve apartments.

    "The Centre For Mathematical Sciences is a delightful resolution of an equation made up of squares and straight lines, curves and circles, civil architecture and wilful suburbia. It has a feet-on-the-ground, head-in-the-clouds quality that matches and mirrors the exact yet ever questing world of mathematics itself."
    Jonathan Glancey, The Guardian 2003

    "Nothing seems to be too much trouble to ensure our needs are being met; attention to detail has been phenomenal."
    Nick Rampley, Bursar of the Purcell School

    "It has been a stimulating change to work with a team of architects that have shown such dedication to a project."
    Mark Savage, Cowlin Construction

    "The campus (University of London's Docklands Campus, Phase 1) is a beautifully humanised dream which, following the way of most Cullinan buildings, cannot fail to attract those who come to know it. Yes, poetry."
    Professor Patrick Hodgkinson, The Times 2000