My Queen’s Park: A Community of Quiet Trailblazers
by Sean Hill on Sep 19, 2025
When Domus Nova came calling to explore the people and places shaping Queen’s Park, we were honoured to be featured alongside some of the neighbourhood’s most inspiring voices. Their piece, My Queen’s Park: The Trailblazers at the Heart of the Neighbourhood’s Soul, captured the unique …
Hopefield Avenue, Queen's Park - Arches, Light and Living with Nature
by Sean Hill on Sep 16, 2025
Victorian terraces in Queen’s Park carry a quiet dignity. At Hopefield Avenue, our proposal reimagines one such home with respect and invention, accentuating existing character while introducing architectural gestures that look to the future. Rear garden view of Victorian terrace in Q …
Sutton Churches Tennis Clubhouse – A Pavilion for Sport and Community
by Imran Jahn on Sep 15, 2025
Every so often, a project arrives that is more than a building. At Sutton Churches Tennis Club, the new clubhouse is conceived as a striking pavilion — an ambitious piece of architecture that redefines how a community experiences sport, spectatorship, and togetherness. This is not onl …
Why Walkable Cities Are the Future We Can’t Ignore
by Sean Hill on Sep 11, 2025
Urbanisation is accelerating at a pace that will reshape the world. Within just a few decades, humanity will add the equivalent of multiple new global capitals to the map. The question that matters is not whether we will build, but what kind of cities we will choose to create.
Crafting with Earth
by Sean Hill on Sep 9, 2025
Sean Ronnie Hill in Conversation with Adam Weismann of Clayworks
A Different Kind of Map: The Architecture of Notting Hill
by Sean Hill on Sep 8, 2025
Notting Hill isn’t just a postcode.
How to Design a Modern Tennis Clubhouse: Inside RISE’s New Pavilion for Sutton Churches
by Imran Jahn on Sep 2, 2025
Design in Motion Every clubhouse begins as a conversation. Before drawings, before models, before SketchUp or Archicad builds, there’s a moment where a club expresses what it wants to become. At Sutton Churches Tennis Club, that conversation started with a simple question.
Rebuilding Our Future by Returning to the Ground Beneath Us
by Sean Hill on Sep 2, 2025
Every so often in architecture, an old idea taps you on the shoulder and reminds you that the future doesn’t always lie ahead. Sometimes it lies below our feet. At RISE, we often say that progress doesn’t mean adding complexity. Progress means rediscovering what already works, then el …
A Museum for a Living Visionary
by Sean Hill on Sep 2, 2025
Designing a museum for David Hockney is not an act of preservation. It’s an act of faith in the creative spirit. Hockney keeps reinventing himself, and any building that houses his work must breathe with the same restless curiosity. At RISE, we imagine this museum not as a monument, b …
Sustainable Architects in London | RISE Design Studio
by Sean Hill on Aug 29, 2025
Building a Greener Future, One Project at a Time London is a city of heritage and ambition. A place where Georgian terraces, industrial warehouses, and post-war housing estates sit side by side with new towers and cultural landmarks. But in the face of the climate emergency, one quest …
