Patel Taylor’s work is probably unique amongst that of London architectural practices for the way in which it integrates architecture, landscape and urban design in a seamless whole. This integration is absolutely fundamental to the practice’s work, where a set of shared values and aspirations pervade its work in all these disciplines.

Patel Taylor’s architecture is concerned with the nature of materials and their proper use rather than a quest for radical form. The practice seeks to create buildings that work well and wear well but which, for all their straightforwardness and directness, also have the richness and resonance that create a sense of delight in their users.

A strong and clearly legible diagram is a quality common not only to Patel Taylor’s buildings, but equally to its work in the field of landscape design, for example at Thames Barrier Park, where architecture and landscape achieve a rare fusion.

This notion of creating a setting for human transactions, not just a series of spaces, pervades Patel Taylor’s urban design strategy, whether the raw material is London’s docklands or a northern industrial town.

At root, Patel Taylor’s work is inter-disciplinary – this is a practice where compartmentalisation is simply unthinkable and that sense of conviction infuses everything that it does.