OMMX OMMX innovate in complex settings where traditional approaches fall short. We create spaces that we can all relate to and that help us relate to one another.

We aren’t only interested in how a neighbourhood looks and feels, but who and what it stands for. OMMX build, draw and write about architecture. We believe that architecture gives form to our collective desire to understand and express who we all are. It can construct intimate portraits of different communities, from individuals and families, to companies, landscapes, cities and nations. OMMX is c

ommitted to this biographical process, to creating spaces that we can relate to and that help us relate to one another. We have served a broad mix of private, social and public sector institutions, working on housing, private residences, galleries, offices, public spaces, festivals, exhibitions and shops. Selected clients include the V&A, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Design Museum, English Heritage, the Wellcome Collection, the British Library, Clerkenwell Design Week, Naked House and Marian Goodman Gallery. We have been nominated for the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the Lisbon Triennale Début Award and are included on the AJ’s 40 under 40 “a showcase of architecture’s brightest up-and-coming talent”. We have had recent successes in competitions organised by the American Institute of Architects, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the National Infrastructure Commission and the British Council. We were shortlisted to represent the UK at the Venice Biennale in two of the last three national competitions. Our work has been published widely and we regularly contribute to architectural critique and discourse at institutions across Europe, recently participating in the Architecture Foundation event Introducing New Housing—“a presentation of the best architects and most progressive developers working in the UK today”—and at the Building Centre panel discussion Rethinking The Way We Live.

We’ve been appointed to rehabilitate St Mary in the Castle, Hastings. Working with St Mary In The Castle Drivers Group w...
03/10/2025

We’ve been appointed to rehabilitate St Mary in the Castle, Hastings. Working with St Mary In The Castle Drivers Group we hope to inject new life into this historic setting. Tomorrow, there’s a community workshop to shape its future. This will be held at Stade Hall between 12-4pm. If you’re local to Hastings, please do drop by, we’d love to hear from you 🙇‍♂️

We're late posting, but here’s something a bit different … Working with Gort Scott, we were unanimously granted planning...
17/03/2025

We're late posting, but here’s something a bit different … Working with Gort Scott, we were unanimously granted planning permission for 326 affordable homes and 10 townhouses in Silvertown, Newham! Our two city blocks will form the new town centre and one half of a high street, in a wider £3.5bn masterplan to develop one of London’s largest brownfield sites.

The development is challenging due to its proximity to City Airport, the consequent restrictions on building height, the required number and density of housing due to acute shortages, the presence of underground sewers, and the growing economic, social, and environmental crises. This placed enormous pressure on the masterplan and these two city blocks to deliver in every sense.

Due to the need for a single point of responsibility, insurance, and also BIM model, our involvement has come to a close with planning, as intended.

A huge thank you to Gort Scott and client Lendlease, who invited us on this journey with them. There are normally so many bureaucratic obstacles that block small offices like ours from working at scale in the UK. However, both Gort Scott and Lendlease worked tirelessly to overcome these to ensure that we could be involved wherever possible. We cannot thank them enough. It was incredible to witness and more importantly be a part of. We normally have to write a dozen manifestos and 100-page method statements just to put up some shelves 😅

Wishing everyone on the team the very best in realising the project!

It was lovely to have our work featured in the ‘Culture’ issue of Architects Journal this month.We talked about how we a...
14/03/2025

It was lovely to have our work featured in the ‘Culture’ issue of Architects Journal this month.

We talked about how we are helping the V&A eliminate waste in their temporary exhibitions programme by designing a system to allow The Great Mughals to transform into an exhibition on Marie Antoinette, despite their wildly different content and subject matter. Our R&D is looking to up reuse at the V&A from about 15% to 90-95% without visitors’ noticing. Thus, enabling the V&A to continue to stage shows with very distinct identities, but now doing so sustainably.

There are so many moving cogs and strict display requirements when exhibiting priceless cultural artefacts from across the globe, and so we knew we had to go beyond a singular approach that explored modularity or material innovation. Instead, our focus was to create a system that could do both by reinventing the wall. The system is quick to (re)assemble and can be disassembled down to a module, as well as individual components. It is durable and versatile, and can be easily reclothed in different materials, reused and repaired. It can conceal structural reinforcement and electrical cables with plenty of tolerance so that these too can be reused, rather than being cut to length and then binned. Finally, it can easily integrate existing V&A stock and salvage from previous shows and beyond.

The system was developed collaboratively with build contractor setWorks within the V&A’s standard budget and project programme for exhibitions. We wholeheartedly believe that designing sustainably needn’t cost more, it just requires a different approach and mindset from business as usual.

Please get in touch if you’d like to learn more, or if you'd like to talk to us about how we can apply this learning to different contexts and sectors.

26/02/2025

We were approached by Westminster council to do our Young PMs workshop with children from King Solomon Academy.

Together we explored their experience growing up next to Paddington basin, the surrounding transport and hospital infrastructure, and the recent masterplan.

Here’s one of the activities we did, with ‘geo-tagged’ post it notes to encourage site specific reflections. Hope you enjoy it 🙇‍♂️

OMMX, working with Focus Consultants, won an invited competition to support the Youth Hostels Association fulfil their c...
24/02/2025

OMMX, working with Focus Consultants, won an invited competition to support the Youth Hostels Association fulfil their charitable mission.

We helped establish a vision, strategy and feasibility study for the redevelopment of their estate in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. We identified ways in which they could collaborate with their neighbours and local council to dismantle the economic, physical, and psychological barriers that stop young people from accessing the countryside.

Our recommendations ranged from addressing a lack of knowledge about what’s on offer and how to access it, through to free or subsidised travel, equipment hire and genuinely accessible trails to name but a few! We also explored the financial road map to getting there.

It was a delight working with the team at Focus, as always, in an area so close to home!

We’re spending Valentine’s day reminiscing about the one that got away! 😂 Our shortlisted proposal for the British Museu...
14/02/2025

We’re spending Valentine’s day reminiscing about the one that got away! 😂 Our shortlisted proposal for the British Museum forecourts is called ‘The Garden of Curiosities’ referencing the museum’s origins as a Cabinet of Curiosities.


The Garden of Curiosities is one unifying concept for the pavilion and landscape. It reinstates the historic museum gardens as a landscape of artefact, archaeology and biodiversity. It creates an inspiring and inviting welcome for people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures.


Garden
An outside room of natural wonder and anticipation. The approach to the museum is staged as a garden of archaeology, a prelude to this temple of two million years of human history. It encourages visitors to think about objects outside of the museum context, and to see them in a new light with the changing seasons.

Courtyard Pavilion

An ancient and universal device for tempering climate, the pavilion with its central courtyard offers comfort for staff and visitors. It provides a moment of orientation without causing the confusion of entering and exiting a building just to have bags searched. It can be flexibly programmed, and alongside the kiosks, provides designated interior spaces for consultations, workshops and storage.


Object Trail
Objects in the garden guide and surprise visitors, introducing them to the collection in an immersive and tactile way. These could portray facsimiles of the Western Range whilst it is refurbished, foreground underserved, undertold and challenging stories from quiet corners of the museum, advertise the temporary programme, or feature contemporary commissions. It is the contents page to the collection.


We wish our friends at Studio Weave + co the very best in realising the commission! And a special thank you to visualisers SLAB Marcus Andren, who were wonderful to work with on such a demanding project with a tight turnaround.

Collective Cultures (OMMX, YAA Projects, Atelier ANF, MSOMA Architects) together with J&L Gibbons

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Some personal highlights

1/ Watching the rigour with which JLG and Slab work, painstakingly planting each image and new raised topography, mindful of root systems to protect the latent archaeology. The garden does not wilt away, but represents a confident and bold repositioning of the museum.


2/ Developing a concept that melded architecture and landscape, as a meditation on the very nature of archaeology. It is a celebration of diverse cultures that still live within and alongside archaeology, as opposed to putting it in a box.


3/ Working with the client advisory team of engineers, who helped develop the sustainable construction and environmental strategies, dimensioning every element to enable the reimagining of the temporary pavilion as mine for the future. A pavilion to be cut up and carved into by future generations, and not simply repositioned.

Design Stories is the main permanent gallery and community workshop space for the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft in ...
03/02/2025

Design Stories is the main permanent gallery and community workshop space for the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft in Gothenburg.

Our approach comprised:

1. A sustainable kit of parts. Formed from natural and unfinished materials, the kit can be reconfigured, reused and recycled.

2. Early and sustained engagement with local community groups, including young, physically disabled and neurodivergent people. The flexible display makes room for the results of future community workshops to be shown alongside the permanent collection.

3. The peeling back of unsympathetic alterations to reveal and celebrate the features of the historic building.

Rather than present a fixed idea of history, the design’s flexibility enables the museum to shape its stories hand in hand with contemporary scholarship and the communities that it serves.

A huge thank you to our clients and collaborators: The Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft, Nina Due, Johanna Agerman Ross, Agga Anne Mette Stage, Alex Söder & Satu Streatfield. Photography by Johan Dehlin

The Great Mughals invites you to step inside a Mughal Miniature. Flat and meandering in its construction, the spaces unf...
27/11/2024

The Great Mughals invites you to step inside a Mughal Miniature. Flat and meandering in its construction, the spaces unfold to reveal ethereal delights. Innovative design enables the build’s rapid, total, and inexpensive transformation into the next exhibition, Marie Antoinette. In doing so, we hope to eliminate waste in an intrinsically wasteful industry.

The Great Mughals is now open, we hope you’re able to visit!

Curators: Susan Stronge
Curatorial exhibition assistant: Ananya Sharma
Client team: Adriana Concin, Ruth Connolly, Meg Hogg, Vanessa North, Cate Pennington, Briony Smith, Muriel Bryans, Rachel Flaxman, Emilie Foyer
Lead Designer: OMMX
Graphic Design: Kellenberger-White
Lighting Design: Studio ZNA
Sound Design: Coda to Coda
Exhibition build: setWorks
AV Hardware: Blue Elephant
Graphics: Omni Colour
Project Management: Flemming Associates
Photos: Max Creasy

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