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Common Ground Workshop is a London-based architectural studio which harnesses creative energy through evolving collaborations that put clients, end users and communities at the heart of the project.

18/08/2026

Nebula (London City Island) is a hospitality, retail and workspace interior within the raw industrial shell of the Hope building.
Working with the existing structure and infrastructure, we introduced a series of carefully placed material interventions: walnut joinery, terrazzo, teal corrugated panels and reeded glass, set against exposed services, concrete and dark brick.
The scheme creates warmth against the existing industrial character - we sought to incorporate new layers of texture and materiality rather than a complete reset.
Designed to move between morning coffee, informal workspace, grocery and evening drinks, we were appointed to give the ground floor a new identity and a renewed place in the everyday life of the island.

15/07/2026

We are on site at Silvertown; and out new cafe/ brunch restaurant, Huddy’s, is taking shape.
The first brunch café to open in one of London’s most anticipated new developments and it’s looking exactly as it should. Warm, tactile, grounded in the history of the docklands.
Rich earthy floors. Solid timber in varying stains. Steel accents at the bar. Curtains softening the street edge. A glazing strategy that pulls natural light deep into the plan.
The render shows where we started. The site photo shows where we are. Can’t wait to show you the finished space.

Designed for our client Little Hudson - Silvertown, East London.

06/07/2026

We recently revisited our newly completed restaurant ‘Gracie’s’ on Hampstead High Street and it’s great to see that the space is a real success in operation. It’s one that gave us a real challenge, and that’s often where the best work happens.

Common Ground Workshop worked closely with our client ‘Culinary Grace’, taking a compact, awkward footprint over two levels and turning its spatial limitations into prime strengths. The space is small but
enjoys beautiful, dappled light from both sides, pulled in through Crittall windows, filtered through plane trees outside, never quite the same twice.

Inside, every material has been carefully chosen to be touched, not just looked at, and to complement the customer’s spatial experience. Outside, Hampstead moves fast. Inside, everything slows down. That contrast was the brief: a small space that feels generous, calm without feeling precious, and offers the quality of space you’d expect of this prime Hampstead location.

Well worth a visit if you’re in the area...

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15/06/2026

We are very pleased to share our newly completed restaurant ‘Gracie’s’ on Hampstead High Street, for our leading hospitality client Culinary Grace.
There’s a moment when a space stops feeling designed and starts feeling like somewhere you just want to be. That’s what we were chasing at Gracie’s.
Warm plaster walls. Morning light through crittall windows. The smell of good coffee. A vase of wildflowers on a table that’s just been set. Natural w**e on oak shelves. A rear courtyard catching the afternoon sun. A sense of style and contemporary interpretation of the traditional boutique.
Our client Culinary Grace wanted a place that felt generous and could instantly resonate with the local community - not despite its size, but because of how carefully every inch was considered.
We think they’ve got it.
Welcome to Gracie’s, Hampstead High Street.

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01/06/2026

Our three houses on Capel Road, Enfield have started on site.
Following receipt of planning permission last year for three houses on a former car park, it’s fantastic to see this one coming out of the ground at pace. The planning programme was intense, and we completed a full redesign and submission within four weeks, achieving full planning first time around. The council cited it as a benchmark scheme for the borough, which was a great result for the client and the team.
The brick walls and structure are now going up and it’s starting to look exactly as it should. More to come as it progresses.

18/05/2026

Designed for sunset spritzes, with the Wembley arch framed from every position.
We’re pleased to share our design for a luxury rooftop bar for our operator client Field Vision Bars on a High-Risk Building opposite Wembley Stadium. Taken through Stage 4 Technical Design - BSR strategy locked, Gateway 2 navigated, fire strategy and golden thread running cleanly - before the building was sold and the rooftop didn’t come with the sale.
Not every project crosses the finish line. We still love this one.
What it taught us:
Circulation on a mixed-use HRB is one problem, not two
A luxury feel is possible through modular construction
Year-round comfort is what turns a rooftop into a destination
Working on amenity space within a tall residential building? Link in bio.
Architecture by Operator Opposite

11/05/2026

How do you turn a sports facility into a hospitality-driven urban destination?
We’ve been exploring how padel, wellness and hospitality are beginning to overlap into a new kind of hybrid active leisure environment.
This feasibility study for The Collective House explores a modular padel and wellness concept designed to be adapted across multiple urban sites throughout London - combining sport, social space, wellness and hospitality into a commercially flexible destination model.
Alongside the courts, the proposal integrates café and lounge spaces, wellness facilities, yoga studios, retail and landscaped terraces to create a more experience-led environment focused on community, dwell time and long-term viability.
An interesting sector to watch as active leisure continues to evolve beyond standalone sports facilities.

30/04/2026

Our proposal for luxury Pilates operator Ten Health & Fitness was actually a space that had previously been written off.
- Small and awkward ground floor footprint.
- Very high ceilings.
- A mezzanine cutting through the volume with extensive back-of-house space.
It didn’t fit a typical brief.
We developed a strategy that reframed how the space could be used - bringing operators back into the conversation, including Ten Health & Fitness.
The result is a calm, pared-back pilates and wellbeing studio where there hadn’t been a viable use before.
Not every project starts with design.
Some start with unlocking the problem.

25/03/2026

Director Jack Pannell was recently interviewed by Richard Waite for the Architects’ Journal Housing on the Edge feature, exploring how architects are navigating grey belt and Paragraph 84 opportunities within the National Planning Policy Framework.
Traditionally Paragraph 84 has been associated with large, expressive houses, whereas Whistler’s Forstal is proposed on a highly constrained site outside the village envelope, with limited precedent and a high policy bar, suggesting is a more refined reading.
Rather than relying on scale or spectacle, the scheme focuses on precision, environmental performance and landscape integration, developed in collaboration with .uk Studio, the client and planners as a single, coherent strategy.
In doing so, it meets the ‘exceptional’ test in a way that feels more grounded, repeatable and policy-aligned.
As the AJ piece highlights, this opens up a broader conversation:
how carefully considered, evidence-led design can support development in sensitive edge-of-settlement locations, without relying on excess.
are East London architects specialising in complex planning applications, including Paragraph 84, grey belt and constrained urban and rural sites. Big thanks to for the fantastic visual.

18/03/2026

We’re excited to share our reimagining of a duplex apartment within an award-winning contemporary block in Hackney.
This project explores a calm and considers interior language, where clean, precise detailing is paired with a rich, tactile material palette. Natural textures, soft tonal variation and carefully integrated joinery combine to create a space that feels both minimal and warm.
Working at the intersection of architecture and interior design, our approach is to strip back the unnecessary and focus on clarity, proportion and material quality, crafting spaces that are quietly expressive and built to last.

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53 Old Bethnal Green Road
London
E26QA

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://commongroundworkshop.co.uk/

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