02•2026
02•2026
Horatio’s Garden
Horatio’s Garden
EBBA have been selected to design the latest Horatio’s Garden in North Yorkshire, a significant new chapter for an extraordinary national charity. Horatio’s Garden creates beautifully designed, fully accessible gardens within NHS spinal injury centres across the UK, offering patients and their families restorative spaces that support rehabilitation, social connection and emotional wellbeing. These gardens are not just landscapes; they are places of refuge, dignity and hope during some of life’s most challenging moments.
Our ambition has been to design a space that feels deeply rooted in North Yorkshire, one that resonates with its landscapes, light and material character while also providing an uplifting, welcoming environment for patients, visitors and staff.
The design draws inspiration from the rugged beauty of the North: its moorlands, drystone walls and the rocky landscape. We are interested in working with materials that feel authentic to this context through the use of stone, timber and metalworks, helping to celebrate their inherent qualities rather than overworking them. There is a deliberate robustness to the palette, acknowledging the toughness of the regional landscape, balanced by softer planted elements that introduce seasonal change, colour and movement.
An economy of means underpins the architectural language of the project. We are exploring simple methods of assembly and honest construction techniques that allow materials to express themselves clearly. Rather than relying on complexity, the design seeks clarity and restraint through carefully considered junctions, modular components and repeatable elements that create coherence across the site. This approach not only supports buildability and long-term maintenance but also reinforces a sense of calm and legibility within the garden.
A key theme throughout the design is the interplay between heavy and light elements. Solid stone walls and grounded structures anchor the garden, offering shelter and enclosure, while lighter canopies, screens and planted layers introduce permeability and openness. This dialogue between weight and delicacy mirrors the surrounding landscape and creates varied spatial experiences. Within the landscape are intimate corners for quiet reflection, generous communal areas for gathering, and accessible pathways that gently guide movement through the site.
Accessibility is central to every decision. The garden is carefully planned to ensure that patients with spinal injuries can move independently and comfortably throughout. Level thresholds, generous turning circles, tactile planting and thoughtfully positioned seating all contribute to a space that empowers rather than restricts. Sensory planting, seasonal interest and views to nature are woven throughout, supporting both physical rehabilitation and mental wellbeing.
Collaboration has been fundamental to the project’s development. Working closely with Studio Pollyanna and Arup, we are bringing together expertise in landscape, engineering and placemaking to ensure that the garden is not only beautiful but technically rigorous and sustainable. This integrated approach enables us to consider environmental performance, structural clarity and long-term resilience alongside the experiential qualities of the space.
As the project moves toward construction, we look forward to seeing the garden take shape on site in Spring. More than a design exercise, this is a commitment to creating a meaningful, lasting environmenta and a place that supports recovery, fosters connection and enriches daily life for those who need it most.
Title: Horatio’s Garden
Location: Houghton Festival
Year: 2025-present
Client: Horatio’s Garden
Type: Cultural, Public
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ALL PROJECTS Gallery
ALL PROJECTS Gallery
ALL PROJECTS is a new gallery without disciplinary borders. Rather than presenting finished objects in isolation, the gallery foregrounds process, exchange and collaboration. The space has been established as a platform for practitioners working in art, fashion, architecture and design to be in dialogue, generating projects that emerge from shared ideas and diverse practices.
The gallery operates as both exhibition and shared space. A site where ideas are developed in public view, where the making is as meaningful as the final work.
Closely aligned with EBBA’s interests in cultural spaces, the design of the gallery has been envisioned as a place that can adapt as the programming changes. A large galvanised entrance also connects with the idea of connection by opening up entirely to the street. The project has brought together collaborators in the creation of a new space to support culture in London, including a series of events with brands and institutions including Tenderbooks, Space Talk and the Architecture Foundation.
Title: ALL PROJECTS Gallery
Location: London
Year: 2026
Type: Cultural
Status: Concept
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08•2024
Housing, Germany
Housing, Germany
EBBA in collaboration with Cairn and sophie & hans have gained planning approval for an innovative, community-led residential scheme in Rosshaupten, Germany. The project, designed to meet the needs of the town’s evolving population, will feature two timber-framed buildings housing a community hall, care home, accessible apartments, medical practice and affordable housing.
Stretching from the town church to agricultural fields, the proposal respects the local architectural vernacular characterised by two long buildings recalling the traditional farmhouses of Rosshaupten which feature deep plots, street-facing gables and semi-public yards. The two proposed buildings will frame a sequence of public spaces, starting with a civic square defined by the relationship between the church and the gable of the long building; and moving inward, a courtyard space which provides access to the community hall, clinic, and residential apartments, leading to an expansive garden that serves as a semi- private space including gardens at the rear designed for people with Dementia Reflecting the tradition of timber architecture in the town, EC-SH’s structures embrace humble materials familiar to the community, adapted for contemporary use and with environmental considerations in mind. The buildings will feature exposed timber frames and timber upper floors, sitting on a masonry ground level finished in warm coloured render, and large roofs with red tiles and beams. The boarded facades with balconies and shutters add depth and variation. The thermal envelope is separated from the frame on the upper floors, making unconditioned, shared spaces of wide decks, stairs and the winter garden where residents can enjoy sweeping views of the town, countryside and a horizon of mountains.
The Community Centre will be located at the northern end of the longhouse, and will include a flexible double- height hall designed to feel like a shared house for its small community, with warm materials and exposed structural rhythm. The Care Home with accommodation for assisted living will be directly connected to the community hall and will feature shared spaces, easily navigable hallways, and a common room with a hearth to encourage social interaction. Rooms are arranged in clusters to avoid long corridors and each one has direct garden access with full-height glazing and timber shutters.
The apartments for affordable living will be situated on the upper floors of the longhouse; these homes are accessed from wide, sheltered decks and feature external front doors with east and west sunlight exposure. Finally, the Medical Clinic will be located on the ground floor of the small house, opposite the community hall entrance, with dual-aspect apartments and large balconies above.
The collective’s design prioritises sustainability, with excellent daylight and ventilation in all internal spaces. A key environmental strategy is the exposed frame facade and open terraces. This means less internal air to heat and ventilate, and less material in the facades than a conventional design, as well as a stronger connection to the gardens and landscape. The south-facing garden, designed by landscape architects Wamsler Rohllof Wirtzmüller, will serve as a communal outdoor room with areas for privacy and gathering, incorporating mature trees, community growing beds, and a children’s garden.
Title: Housing Germany
Location: Rosshaupten
Year: 2024-present
Client: Public
Type: Dwelling
Status: Stage 4
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Living with Timber
Living with Timber
This project is an exploration in the appreciation of living and working with timber. Conceived as both a home for EBBA’s Director, Benni Allan, and a testing ground for design ideas, the apartment renovation became a place to realise concepts that are often compromised during conventional design processes.
Imagined as a live-in showspace, the home is designed to evolve around objects. Collected pieces, works by friends and collaborators, and studio experiments are all displayed in a gallery-like setting. The result is a space that encourages ongoing exploration of how we live with and relate to the things we surround ourselves with.
A defining feature of the project is the extensive use of Douglas fir across walls, floors, and joinery. The installation and finishing of the timber served as a material study, investigating how cost-effective resources can be detailed and treated for longevity. This approach is complemented by reclaimed elements, including salvaged mahogany parquet flooring from a previous EBBA project, reintroduced to extend the material’s life.
The plan is organised around a generous open kitchen and living space. A large built-in furniture element conceals the functional kitchen components, addresses the original building’s sharp angle and provides substantial storage hidden behind. This intervention helps preserve the calmness of raw plaster surfaces and the warmth of timber throughout.
A full-height sliding door connects the main bedroom to the kitchen, allowing borrowed light to filter deep into the plan. A study off the corridor doubles as a workshop space, often populated with found materials that form part of future experiments. Completing the home is a collection of bespoke objects including a stacked coffee table that forms part of an ongoing studio collection, and a custom Douglas fir speaker developed in collaboration with Friendly Pressure and Our Department.
A home designed to evolve and change, and a place for experiments to be explored.
Title: Living with Timber
Location: London
Year: 2025
Client: Private
Photographer: Felix Speller
Type: Dwelling
Status: Completed
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GW Door Handle
GW Door Handle
EBBA has designed a bespoke ironmongery series informed by the modernist home of Georgie Wolton, drawing from the quiet precision and clarity of the original levers at Belsize Lane. The project began as a close reading rather than a direct reproduction and an attempt to understand how proportion, weight, and surface combine to produce something both functional and atmospheric.
Developed in close collaboration with Ize, the new series reimagines the original handles while retaining their essential character and refining their geometry and construction. Key qualities of the historic levers are carried forward and recalibrated for modern-day use.
The form of the handle is conceived as a continuous gesture, connecting seamlessly to the door through a subtle fluting that dissolves the distinction between lever and rosette. Rather than treating the backplate as a separate element, the design integrates it as part of a single, coherent assembly. This allows the handle to sit quietly within a range of architectural contexts, reading as both precise and familiar.
The result is a timeless piece of ironmongery suited to old and new settings alike. The handle is defined less by stylistic reference than by proportion, material presence, and the experience of use. As with all of EBBA’s work, the handle is shaped by an economy of means, where reduction serves clarity and every decision is made to support the whole.
Title: Georgie Wolton Handle
Location: Global
Year: 2025
Client: Ize
Photographer: Rikard Kahn
Type: Objects
Status: Completed
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Espresso Bar
Espresso Bar
A contemporary take on the espresso cafe, nestled in to one of London’s iconic tube stations. Imagined as a place that can offer a quick daily dose of coffee, seen as a contemporary form of the modern day pharmacy. The materials and tones bring a warmth and calmness away from the busy street, providing a moment of pause. The simple yet formal elevation on the street is a sharp contrast to the framed stonework of the original building. The backdrop to the bar is a milky screen giving a glimpse into the back of house, a nod to the pharmacy references and places where the product is always on show.
Title: Espresso Bar
Location: London
Year: 2025
Client: JB’s
Photographer: Genevieve Lutkin
Type: Retail / Bar
Status: Completed
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09•2025
09•2025
New Gallery
New Gallery
EBBA have worked on the design of a new gallery space in Central London, transforming and extending a unique building to provide additional exhibition spaces and a cafe that connects to a mews street at ground level. The project is about improving the circulation and connection to the existing gallery while introducing a series of volumes that help to add well-proportioned spaces for the display of art. A lightweight linking structure helps to connect the new and old, while the solid mass of the building responds to the piece-meal qualities at the rear of the mews.
The subtle yet bold gesture of the new interlocking structure acts as a bridge to the new spaces, connecting visually to different levels of the building. The steel language is a nod to the industrial heritage of the mews and can be seen as a reference to the working nature of this part of London.
Title: New Gallery
Location: London
Year: 2025
Client: Private
Type: Cultural
Status: Concept
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Pulse at Houghton
Pulse at Houghton
Pulse is a new conceptual piece developed by EBBA director Benni Allan for Houghton Festival. Pulse is about capturing and transmitting the resonance of trees and how they respond to their context, drawing on advanced environmental sensors that pick up signals and translate these into a dynamic composition of light and vibrations. The result is an immersive experience completely unique to the site at Houghton Festival, where technology allows for a bridge between human perception and nature.
Visitors find themselves enveloped in a responsive environment where light pulses and soundscapes shift in dialogue with the forest, encouraging a moment of introspection and wonder. Designed to respond to the environment in real time, the installation captures and interprets the connection between trees through an interplay of sound and light, creating a mesmerising, meditative journey that resonates with the festival’s ethos of discovery, creativity and connection.
Pulse will not disappear entirely with the end of the festival. It has been conceived as a permanent fixture at the Houghton site, offering ongoing access to this dialogue between art and nature. Over time, the installation will offer the potential to respond to the changing seasons, weather patterns and tree activity, evolving into a living monument to the forest’s vitality.
Team:
Houghton Festival – Commissioner
Benni Allan – Lead Designer
EBBA – Architects
Kevin Pollard – Sound Design
Our Department – Fabricators
Arup Engineers – Advisory Engineers
Public House – Engineers
Lighthaus Studio – Technical Production
Oliver Ellmers – Lighting Design
Kat Rothery and Katie Dufort – Fabric Seamstress
Abwb.carpentry – Carpentry
Title: Pulse
Location: Houghton Festival
Year: 2025
Client: Houghton
Photography: James Retief, Rikard Kahn
Type: Cultural, Installation
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Basalt House
Basalt House
Basalt House is a thoughtfully conceived renovation and extension of a Victorian terrace in North-West London, designed by EBBA Architects, a London-based studio known for their refined, materially driven architecture. With a strong focus on craft, context, and atmosphere, EBBA’s work often bridges the past and present in subtle, striking ways and Basalt House is a clear expression of that ethos.
The project blends historic character with contemporary interventions, revitalising the home through a bold rear extension in richly textured basalt stone and a loft conversion crowned by an organically shaped skylight. This new architectural language brings natural light deep into the home, with daylight cascading from the loft down through the core of the house, connecting all levels in a gentle, cohesive rhythm.
At the rear, the use of basalt stone adds depth and texture, complemented by an exposed steel lintel that introduces a subtle industrial edge. The juxtaposition of the stone’s soft, earthy tones with the steel’s clean, structural lines creates a calm, grounded atmosphere that feels contemporary yet in harmony with the building’s Victorian origins.
Title: Basalt House
Location: London
Year: 2025
Client: Private
Photographs: Rikard Kahn
Type: Dwelling
Status: Completed
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Tenderbooks Pop-Up
Tenderbooks Pop-Up
EBBA collaborated with Tenderbooks on a pop-up presentation at ALL PROJECTS.
The books where designed to be held by a simple shelf system, aimed to showcase assembly and an economy of means: made from a single piece of standard sheet material.
The gathering of publications by Tenderbooks moved between classroom and studio, archive and image, object and interior. From material entanglements and design exercises to photography, loss, light and the poetics of arrangement, the selection invited us to reconsider how books, spaces and gestures shape the way we see and inhabit the world.
Examples include:
Workbooks 1984-2024 – Nigel Shafran
Work-Leisure – Babak Hashemi-Nezhad
Inventory Works – Max Lamb
Models – Bianca Pedrina
Title: Tenderbooks Pop-Up
Location: London
Year: 2026
Type: Cultural
Status: Concept
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