Studio Weave

Helping the public navigate between the everyday world and the museum where they encounter stories of other worlds. Our British Museum Visitor Welcome Pavilions & Gardens have been submitted to Camden for planning and listed building consent. It’s a Studio Weave and Tom Massey collaboration - Our proposals will transform the relationship of the British Museum to the surrounding streets by allowing visitors into a richly planted open space on the South Forecourt and remodelling the north entrance to better integrate it with Montague Place. The result of these interventions will be a smoother flow of visitors that alleviates the queuing pressure on both entrances. @britishmuseum Thanks to our collaborators: @tommasseyuk @wright_and_wright @alanbaxterltd @webbyates @aecom and the inimitable @daisy_froud

Architecture that soothes: Last summer, we completed this two-storey artist’s retreat as an addition to an existing stone cottage in Devon. The extension replaces a redundant garage and workshop that had fallen into disrepair. The project provides a flexible guest and creative space for the clients’ local family, friends, and artists. The space was required to be separately habitable from the main cottage – and is connected into the surrounding landscape via a restored stone stair which connects its own hallway to a private path along the rear hillside. Photos: @clickclickjim #architecture #archtettura #arquitectura #londonarchitects #detail #design #architecturelovers #house #home #lowcarbon #devon #handmadewithlove #beautiful #renovation #ribaawards #ukarchitecture #archilovers #architecturedesign #archigram #architectureproject #architecturegram #archdaily #architectureinspiration #建筑 #建築 #建築家 #건축물 #architecturephotography #architecturegram #architecturedaily #architecturedetail #architectureproject

It’s a gold medal for the @wateraid @project.giving.back show garden!🏅 We are absolutely delighted with the result and hope our garden inspires visitors to @the_rhs Chelsea Flower Show to be more water-wise and see water as a precious resource that should not be wasted. Almost 1 in 10 people globally do not have clean water close to home and 90% of all climate related disasters are water related. In the UK we are also experiencing more extreme weather with heatwaves, drought and, on the flip side, flash flooding and very heavy downpours. WaterAid do amazing work around the world, working alongside communities to find clean water solutions. Please support this amazing charity 🙏 📷 @alistergthorpe #goldmedal #wateraid #rhschelsea #gardensforgoodcauses

Queue gardens update: I’m delighted to say our Visitor Welcome Programme has received planning permission from Camden Council. Committee members voted unanimously in support of the plans by @studioweave and @tommasseyuk which will transform the visitor arrival @britishmuseum along Great Russell Street and at our north entrance at Montague Place by spring next year. We will remove the temporary white tents and replace them with architecturally designed pavilions and new landscaping drawing inspiration from our collection and a history of horticulture. We will continue to open up the forecourt to visitors and the local community following the ongoing successful trial for this since September 2025, restoring it to a civic space for everyone. It should provide a far more positive experience for visitors that doesn’t focus on crowd control. Instead, there will be new curatorial spaces within the gardens, and I’m hoping they will become a vital piece of public green space in Camden – to be enjoyed by our visitors, school groups and the local community. @wemakecamden @thebedfordestates #britishmuseum #camden #bloomsbury #garden #museum

In collaboration with @aesop , we're exploring what home and hosting means to different people. For this episode, we travelled to the Isle of Wight to spend time with the architect and founding director of @studioweave , Je Ahn. A keen sailor, Je has been spending time in Cowes for many years. In 2020, he began re-making a barn that acts as a foil to his hectic Hackney life. He loves to open this house to guests, who typically stay for a few days, enabling a certain kind of slow, relaxed entertaining, where everyone can settle into each other’s company. Click the link in bio to watch the full film. 🎥 @dividedbyonefilms ✍️ @katejacobsinteriorsnut 📷 @nickballon #ad #aesopfragrance

On site! 🚧🧱 With works well underway at Vestry House Museum, a series of moments from the historic architecture are briefly revealed. Peeling back centuries of brick, wallpaper, plaster, and horsehair we see a record of the building’s layered history. Guided by an attitude of ‘deep reuse’, whether through a painstaking indexing floorboards or the safekeeping of removed bricks for their repurposing, our proposal acknowledges and respects these histories whilst creating a museum suitable for the 21st century. ✨ 01. Conservation of the historic floorboards 02. View from a first floor exhibition space over our proposed extension 03. Refurbishing the new first floor public workspace 04. Reusing the original brickwork 05. The proposed cafe/events space 06. Design and archaeology; revealing historic plaster and wallpaper

For the final film in our series with @aesop , we spend time with the architect and founding director of @studioweave , Je Ahn. In 2020, Je began re-making South Barn, his home just outside Cowes on the Isle of Wight. He enjoys sharing the space with friends, who typically stay for a few days, enabling a certain kind of slow, relaxed entertaining, where everyone can settle into each other’s company. “I really like spending time with people. I find the ‘me time’ concept slightly odd," he says. Click the link in bio to watch the full film. 🎥 @dividedbyonefilms ✍️ @katejacobsinteriorsnut 📷 @nickballon #ad #aesopfragrance

Many congratulations to @linaghotmeh and Je Ahn @studioweave on being named Architect of the Year @wallpapermag - both of whom are working on transforming @britishmuseum @linaghotmeh_architecture are reimagining our Western Range (slide 1) while Studio Weave are creating our new visitor welcome pavilions along with a garden by @tommasseyuk (slide 2). We love working with all of you on the evolution @britishmuseum and how extraordinary to have two architects out of a global list of three as recipients for this award. @linaghotmeh_architecture #linaghotmeh #linaghotmeh_architecture #jeahn #studioweave #britishmuseum

🌿🧱✌️ Our Jubilee Gardens project in the City of London has recently opened to the public. This pocket garden on Houndsditch, situated between Liverpool Street Station and the City Cluster sits above an active subterranean ukpowernetworks power station and provides a comfortable spaces to chill for humans and non-humans within the Square Mile. The scheme establishes a new benchmark for climate-responsible design in the city, introducing new norms of reducing both embodied and operational resource use. On-site reuse included: dismantling raised platers and relaying site-won bricks and coping stones to create habitats and perches; as well as reconfiguring the limestone paving to provide quieter and more shaded seating areas. The planting scheme led by @tommasseyuk is climate-resilient and tailored to the unique conditions at the foot of the City Cluster: short periods of high-sun exposure and varying degrees of shade are addressed with a diverse and gradiated palette. Soil conditions are maintained with intentionally low-nutrient with crushed aggregate mulch. Water for the garden is harvested on-site from rainfall and passively irrigates from attenuated storage. 📸 @lorenzozandri

Wallpaper Architect of the Year 2026 !! ⭐️We have long admired the work of Lina Ghotmeh and Marina Tabassum, for the care and clarity with which their architecture engages the world. It is therefore a real honour that Je, our Founding Director, has been named Architect of the Year at the 2026 Wallpaper* Design Awards, alongside @linaghotmeh and @marinatabassum . Thanks @wallpapermag for the recognition! At Studio Weave we’ve been working towards a more humane and engaging architecture for some time, and we are proud of the contributions we have made – we are still learning, we know there’s a lot more to do! The past year has been busy at SW, marked by some significant commissions and the completion of Woolwich Market Pavilion, South Barn, and the Avanade Intelligent Garden at Chelsea Flower Show. Each has required patience and a great deal of collaboration with the whole project team. The studio is defined by the people in it, and we’re grateful to work together as a talented and committed group. Looking ahead to 2026, we will deliver some projects which we hold very close, including at the British Museum and Vestry House Museum. Together, they continue our commitment to architecture as a civic act—one that seeks public dignity, shared generosity, and lasting usefulness. The world is a difficult place at the moment, but we’ve got some optimism for the year ahead! 🙌

Our Wallpaper* Architect of the Year 2026 goes to Je Ahn of @studioweave , and when asked about a building that made him smile, he reflects on a place rooted in comfort, craft and human-centred design. For Ahn, the building that holds a special place in his imagination is Can Lis in Mallorca, designed in 1971 by Danish architect Jørn Utzon. Ahn stayed there during an artist residency in 2014 and was struck by its relaxed, organic nature. Built after Utzon’s departure from the Sydney Opera House, Can Lis is crafted from traditional local materials and shaped by everyday rituals: its layout responds to the landscape near Portopetro, its walls are simple and hand-made, and its details reflect Utzon’s life and habits. Unlike highly controlled structures, Ahn admires how Utzon worked with his builder, making decisions on site and allowing the building to emerge alongside its construction. The result feels made rather than designed, with a sense of ease and joy that comes from trust and familiarity with place. The house’s simplicity and informality, do not detract from its comfort; instead, they make it deeply human and welcoming, qualities that resonated with Ahn long after his stay. In his own work, Ahn carries forward this belief in flexibility, comfort and emotional resonance, valuing architecture that is adaptable, tied to context and capable of bringing a smile to those who inhabit it. Can Lis, with its serene presence and handcrafted sensibility, remains for him a joyful reminder of how architecture can be anchored in life as much as in design. See more at the link in bio and in the February issue of Wallpaper*, on newsstands now.⁠ 📷: @clickclickjim , Studio Weave and @lorenzozandri 🖊: Je Ahn, with contributions from Ellie Stathaki #WallpaperDesignAwards2026

Midden Studio is a zinc-clad artist’s retreat on Scotland’s west coast, set on a historic midden wall, slowly becoming part of the landscape 🎨🏔️ Perched on the edge of Britain, Midden Studio is a surreal atavistic building that reveals its secrets slowly. Inspired by local vernacular and rugged granite forms, the studio quietly blends in while revealing subtle surreal details including a floating cantilever and twin gables, with an innovative embossed zinc system, developed in collaboration with VM. The simple structure was designed with Webb Yates for the logistical demands of its remote coastal location and to withstand a 1000 year storm. #scotland #zinc #studio #artiststudio #argyll @webbyates @vmzincuk