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What If Everything You Thought About Low-Energy Homes Was Wrong?

At RISE, we don’t just design buildings. We design beginnings - to a slower life, a warmer space, a clearer purpose.

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The Digital Age Has a Dirty Secret. It’s Time to Clean It Up.

Data runs the world. Every click, every stream, every AI prompt - behind it all sits a data centre, humming away, burning through energy, keeping the internet alive. But here’s the catch: data centres are massive energy guzzlers. They’re responsible for around 1% of global electricity …

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The 1930s Semi: A Quiet Powerhouse of British Architecture

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You’ve seen them. Lining the quiet streets of London’s outer zones, with their pitched roofs, proud bays, and an air of quiet endurance. The 1930s semi-detached home isn’t flashy. It doesn’t shout. But give it a little attention, and it speaks volumes.

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Why Choose a Chartered Architect?

Architect and Director Sean Ronnie Hill showing the Virtual Reality goggles to a client of their new build sustainable home

Anyone can call themselves a designer, and plenty of people can produce a set of drawings. "Architect", though, is a protected title in the UK: it can only be used by someone registered with the Architects Registration Board, which means accredited training, examined competence and a …

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Herbert Paradise: A Home That Leads with Purpose

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At RISE Design Studio, we believe homes should be more than shelter. They should inspire. They should nurture. And they should quietly - but powerfully - lead the way to a better future.

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INDOI ghar está en camino: Construyendo un hogar para la artesanía, la cultura y la comunidad en Poblenou

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Poblenou está cambiando. Una vez más.

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Not Quite Passivhaus? Not Quite Enough.

View of a sustainable timber-clad extension to a traditional stone cottage, demonstrating certified Passivhaus principles with large triple-glazed windows, airtight detailing, and low-energy design in a rural English setting.

☉ The Illusion of Almost In today’s built environment, there’s a growing trend to dress up underperformance. Phrases like “inspired by Passivhaus” or “Passivhaus principles applied” may sound like progress. But they are often just that – sound. Hollow echoes of a standard that only de …

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Old bones, new life: retrofitting a Bathurst Mews house to EnerPHit

Cutaway visualisation of a three-storey pink-brick mews house showing every level: a basement gym and study, a timber-floored living room and kitchen, a bedroom and pink bathroom above, a planted roof terrace, a rooflight and solar panel on the pitched roof, and a winding timber stair. RISE Design Studio.

Behind the grand stuccoed avenues of Bayswater sits one of London's quieter corners: Bathurst Mews. A cobbled street once home to horses and hay carts, it is now a pocket of heritage houses where ivy climbs the brick and life goes on behind pastel-painted doors.

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Building a Paragraph 84 Home in the English Countryside

Contemporary low-energy countryside home beside a reflective natural pond at golden hour, featuring timber cladding, expansive glazing, and a calm wetland landscape designed in harmony with the surrounding English woodland.

Where architecture meets the land There are parts of the English countryside that still slow time down. You feel it walking a worn footpath between hedgerows older than the houses in the nearby villages, or standing at the edge of a field at dusk when everything goes quiet. The land h …

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Designing with Purpose and Permanence: A Conversation with Paul de Zwart of Another Country

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Sean Ronnie Hill (SRH): Paul, thanks so much for joining us. At RISE Design Studio, we’ve long admired Another Country for your thoughtful, craft-driven approach to sustainable furniture. Your work feels deeply aligned with how we approach architecture – slow, purposeful, and grounded …

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