In the beginning there were factories. And they weren't working any more. But we thought they were beautiful. We wanted to get them working again. We thought that they’d make good places to live. We thought that we could make them amazing homes, with a bit of imagination and some top notch architecture. Just like other Europeans, we thought people would want to live in our cities, in buildings with a bit of soul.
We wanted inspirational spaces, amazing offices, independent retailers.
We wanted to make places to work that were part of wider communities.
We wanted to create spaces for a new generation to make something good.
We wanted to make going to work as enjoyable as going home.
We’ve been doing it since 1993, first in Manchester and Liverpool, when a history graduate got together with an architect, an interior designer, a chartered surveyor and two builders. Now we’re doing it across the country.
