Featured — Essay
A house should know how to wait
Notes from a year of revisits, and what House on the Sound has taught us about designing for the second decade of a home, not the first photograph.
Mikkel AldynMay 202612 min read
Journal
Field notes and slow essays.
We publish when we have something to say, not on a schedule. Below are the more recent dispatches from the studio: essays, project diaries, and small notes from the workshop.
The archive
Materials — March 2026
On limestone, twenty years on
A short field report from three of our earliest projects, and what the patina of soft stone has done to the way we draw thresholds today.
Sara Lindqvist · 8 min read
Projects — February 2026
The pavilion as a slow instrument
Why the Møller Pavilion was designed around one window, one bench, and one chimney, and what that taught us about programmes built for attention.
Mikkel Aldyn · 10 min read
Sustainability — January 2026
Embodied carbon, in plain language
A working glossary for clients who want to ask better questions about the carbon cost of the building we are designing together.
Pedro Cabral · 6 min read
Method — November 2025
Drawing the second floor before the first
A method we borrowed from a furniture maker in Porto, and how it has changed the way we plan vertical circulation in townhouses.
Sara Lindqvist · 7 min read
Interiors — October 2025
A room is also a piece of furniture
On joinery, scale, and the moment we stopped drawing rooms and pieces as separate disciplines.
Sara Lindqvist · 9 min read
Studio — September 2025
Notes from the Lisbon office
Five years in Alfama, and a few small things the city has insisted we learn about courtyards, shade, and the colour white.
Pedro Cabral · 5 min read