London-based studio Templeton Ford joins the Wallpaper* Architects’ Listing 2026, our round-up of thrilling rising structure studios from around the globe.
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Who: Templeton Ford
Templeton Ford is an structure and design studio based in 2025 by André and Jessica Templeton Ford. The follow designs distinctive properties and buildings which are rooted of their panorama, historical past and tradition. Their work attracts on vernacular structure and craft traditions. The workforce get pleasure from engaged on tasks that really feel inseparable from their setting: buildings that might solely ever have been constructed the place they’re.
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‘We’re fascinated with structure that reveals itself steadily: buildings whose qualities emerge and evolve by each day use,’ they clarify. The duo desires to create structure that’s memorable, rewarding to inhabit and deeply related to its place.
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Apart from their curiosity in place and materiality – working significantly with timber, brick, stone and lime that climate and age to create distinctive patinas, Templeton Ford additionally desires its buildings to be expressive and joyful, and to create locations with a definite sense of character that enliven on a regular basis life. This usually ends in work that appears surprising, but completely pure in its setting – as if it had at all times been there. ‘We’re impressed by the custom of the Gesamtkunstwerk – the concept that structure, interiors, panorama, furnishings and craft may be conceived as components of a coherent complete.’
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What: Clay Rise
Clay Rise is a three-bedroom dwelling in West Sussex accomplished in 2024 that balances heritage and up to date architectural expression by utilizing conventional Sussex brick and a particular curved sloping roofline. The home is constructed from a prefabricated panelised timber body system and is embedded deep into the positioning to determine a split-level association. This has the twin impact of making a deeper slope to the rear, making a dramatic curved kind.
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The constructing is oriented to optimise photo voltaic acquire and shading, with a deep south-facing window permitting low winter solar to penetrate, whereas limiting summer time overheating. Efficient cross-ventilation is achieved by way of operable east-west openings, and a central stair atrium acts as a thermal chimney, drawing heat air upward to keep up consolation year-round. An air-source warmth pump gives environment friendly heating and sizzling water, complemented by excessive ranges of insulation and double-glazing.
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Why: Architects Listing 2026
When the Wallpaper* Architects’ Listing was conceived in 2000, it was constructed as our bespoke worldwide index of rising architectural expertise. Now in its twenty fifth version, our annual itemizing of promising practices from throughout the globe (now comprising over 500 alumni) champions the perfect and most promising younger studios – a snapshot of expertise showcasing inspiring work from all corners of the Earth with an emphasis on the residential realm.
This 12 months’s anniversary survey contains 30 younger studios (one for every of the 30 years of Wallpaper*), from Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Ghana, Greece, France, Ivory Coast, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, India, Morocco, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, the USA, and Vietnam. Welcome to the promise, concepts and thrilling structure of the Wallpaper* Architects’ Listing 2026.
