WILLIAM TOZER Associates is an award-winning practice of British architects headquartered in London, with a track record of completed projects in the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand. The practice understands architecture as compositions of abstract sculptural form and space, and discrete functional 'furnishings' at various scales. Each project curates and reframes the context and history of its site, and captures the open-endedness of the processes of design, demolition, and construction. [read more]
WILLIAM TOZER Associates has completed residential and commercial projects of a large range of types and sizes. We have worked on multi-unit housing and completed many projects for terraced, semi-detached, and detached houses—as well as cabins, studios, and outbuildings. Our broad commercial experience includes offices, restaurants, bars, breweries, cafes, bakeries, shops, and hair salons. [browse projects]
The design of Monument House references the Müller and Moller Houses by Adolf Loos, who famously proclaimed, ‘Only a small part of architecture belongs to the realm of art: the tomb and the monument’. Most functional elements of the interior of Monument House are visually disguised as sculptural volumes and planes. Concealing doors, storage, and entire rooms, these art-like elements radiate from a central staircase, itself a sculptural composition of arrayed planes; visual signifiers of its function hidden. Where large portions of Loos’s interiors are decorated functional elements, and his exteriors are stark sculptural compositions of rectangles, it is conversely the historic exterior of Monument House that is a decoratedfunctional building. A top-floor balcony, and light-well spaces that project out from the new basement level, echo the balconies of the two Loos houses. Wall cut-outs, the central rooflight, and inlaid glass floor panels similarly reference elements of both precedents.[read more]
The work of William Tozer Associates has received a number of prestigious awards and has been featured in numerous magazines, journals, and books.
‘Artistic endeavour’ ‘carefully detailed’ Architecture Today ‘a fantastic space’ The Times ‘its airy interior trump[s] all the others in London’ Monocle
‘inspiring use of light and reflection throughout’ Elle Decoration 'unpretentious design' Grand Designs ‘the most dynamic and exciting space’ Channel 4
Since our founding in 2002 we have worked with more than 200 clients on the design of their homes and businesses. Our commercial clients include BBH advertising, Camden Town Brewery, Fernandez & Wells, Kaffeine, Lantana, and Transport for London. [read more]
‘Thank you for your work, ideas and patience . . . We’re delighted . . . and enjoyed working with you’. ‘Really impressed with the attention to detail’
‘Could not be happier with the work done . . . and the quality of the design’. ‘Delighted with the house . . . It’s been a wonderful experience’.
Our studio is located in The Record Hall, central London, near Farringdon and Chancery Lane stations. If you are interested in commissioning us for a project, please email, phone, or submit the online form with as little or as much information as you would like to provide us. If you proceed, your project will be assigned an experienced team, a regular client liaison at each stage—and will receive the design input of our whole studio. If you are looking for employment, please send us a short CV and we will be in touch if we have a suitable opening. [read more]
RIBA chartered practice | NZIA practice Unit 311 The Record Hall 16-16a Baldwins Gardens London EC1N 7RJ +44 (0) 20 7404 0675 enquiries@williamtozerassociates.com