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Konishi Gaffney Architects is an award winning practice led by Kieran Gaffney, a Scottish architect, and Makiko Konishi, a Japanese designer.
APPROACH
We apply creative problem solving skills to all scales of architecture and design and aim to provide innovative design solutions that are well executed and appropriate. We are committed to sustainability and have an approach to architecture that seeks to challenge preconceptions of function while having respect for place and tradition.
We believe that an artistic and sensitive collaboration with the client is the best way to achieve the great solutions that we aspire to. We focus on simple things like light and orientation to the sun; on movement and function; on connections between inside and out; and on materials and their emotional impact.
We create buildings that are sensible and modest but also beautiful and atmospheric; buildings that embody a sense of Japanese wabi sabi.
PROJECTS
We self-built our own house in Edinburgh in 2008 and set up Konishi Gaffney Architects, winning awards for our first two finished projects.
We continue to work on new houses, extensions and alterations all over the UK including in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling and the Scottish Borders. We have just received planning permission for an innovative house in Northern Ireland and are in discussions about a new house in Tokyo.
We are also working on non-domestic projects. We have completed a feasibility study and are working on the design of a new Kindergarten. In August 2011 we won a national architecture competition organised by the Glasgow Institute of Architects to design a "blueprint for the survival and growth of rural communities".
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Kieran Gaffney is a Chartered Architect, a member of the RIAS and RIBA and is regulated by the Architects Registration Board
