OSCR Architects — Est. 1989
We design buildings that outlast their critics.
A studio of one hundred and twenty architects, designers and researchers. Thirty-seven years of work that answers first to the street, and only then to the sky.
The Studio
OSCR practises slowly. We take on fewer commissions than our size allows, argue each one to the millimetre, and sign nothing we would not walk past in fifty years.
Selected Works
Ten signatures,
one handwriting.
A cross-section of the last decade — towers, halls, houses and one dockland that is learning to be a neighbourhood.
01 / 10
Completed
Meridian Tower
London — 2023
02 / 10
Completed
Aria Centre for Performance
Singapore — 2021
03 / 10
Completed
Vertex Pavilion
Dubai — 2022
04 / 10
Completed
Strandhus Retreat
Norway — 2023
05 / 10
Completed
Tecton Court
New York — 2022
06 / 10
In Construction
Portside
Lisbon — 2032The Studio Film
Thirty-seven years,
four minutes.
Shot across six sites on three continents during 2025–26: the buildings, the workshops, and the hands. Loop with sound off, as the studio prefers it.
By the Numbers
Expertise
Four disciplines,
one table.
Every commission, whatever its scale, is served by the same partners and the same standards. The disciplines exist to deepen the bench, not to divide it.
Architecture
Buildings from pavilion to tower — competition, concept, planning and delivery, led by a principal from first sketch to final snag.
02Interiors
Rooms designed as continuations of the architecture — furniture, joinery and light developed in-house and prototyped in our own workshop.
03Masterplanning & Urban Design
Districts and docklands planned on decades-long timetables — frameworks that survive elections, markets and our own involvement.
04Research & Computation
An in-house group measuring what intuition cannot — daylight, embodied carbon, wind, crowd flow — and publishing what it learns.
Press
“The quietest firm in architecture — and, increasingly, the most trusted.”
The People
Four founders,
a hundred and twenty hands.
OSCR is the initials of its founders — Osei, Sterling, Chen and Renard. They still review every drawing the studio issues.
Journal
What we are
thinking about.
The quiet case for fewer buildings
The greenest building, the proverb says, is the one already standing. The second greenest is the one nobody needed to demolish for a headline.
Material honesty in a carbon-constrained age
Concrete can lie — or it can be cast against a boathouse that sailed for sixty years. Notes on patina, maintenance and the ethics of finish.
Notes from Portside: a masterplan on the water’s timetable
Eleven years, three phases, one tide. What building a district slowly teaches you that building it quickly never will.
Commissions 2027
Bring us a site, a city block,
or an ambition.
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The studio accepts a limited number of commissions each year. Inquiries are answered personally, within two working days.