Northarc Studio Ltd
Practice no. 7741208
Founded 2011 · Bristol
RIBA Chartered Practice
Housing · Cultural · Adaptive reuse
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Approach
Northarc is a 14-person architecture and interiors practice in Bristol, founded in 2011 by Mara Lindqvist and Tom Okafor.
We work on housing, cultural buildings and adaptive reuse, mostly in the South West, at budgets from £400k to £14m. Our method is unglamorous: measure carefully, keep what works, and add only what a building needs to serve its next fifty years. Drawings are our contract with the people who build them, so ours are precise. The work should feel inevitable. If it draws attention, it earns it.
2026.05.14 · Comment
The new national scheme promises decisions in thirteen weeks. Speed is welcome. But a fast permission for a poor building is still a poor building, and it stands for eighty years. What matters is what gets approved, not how quickly.
2026.03.27 · Notice
Our sample library — 340 bricks, boards, linings and fixings, each logged with source and carbon figure — opens to students and neighbours on the first Friday of each month, 8.30 to 11.00. No booking. Coffee provided.
