Arts + Culture
Jersey Arts Building
St Helier Waterfront
Residential + Dwellings
Modern Mansion
St Brelade, Jersey
Residential + Dwellings
Beachside Apartments
Jersey
Residential + Dwellings
Penarth Road Apartments
Cardiff
Residential + Dwellings
St Brelades Apartments
Jersey
Education + School
Les Quennevais Secondary School
Concept Design, Jersey
Socrates Architects are an award-winning and celebrated design-led Jersey architects studio.
Our aspirations are unique: Creativity, imagination and vision, combined with a realistic commercial approach.
OUR RECENT WORK
We work on a variety of scales, from private residences to commercial and cultural buildings.
Follow the link to see our projects by sector
ABOUT US
Founded in 2010 and established in 2018 by Nicholas Socrates, today we are an award-winning architects studio providing architecture, interior and urban design services from concept to completion.
We operate in Jersey, London and Nationwide.
Find out more about us
WHAT WE DO
We aim to design the best buildings, places, and spaces. A central part of this is providing the complete design of buildings across a range of sectors. We develop conceptual designs through to the final details, before going on site to oversee construction. We protect the continuity of the design concept and build quality.
RIBA Stage 0
STRATEGIC
BRIEF
Stage 0 Outcome: Identify Client Brief and other core project requirements
RIBA Stage 1
FEASIBILITY
STUDY
Stage 1 Outcome: Feasibility Study, Options, Site Appraisal, (Survey).
RIBA Stage 2
CONCEPT
DESIGN
Stage 2 Outcome: Concept drawings, Pre-Application Advice.
RIBA Stage 3
DEVELOPED
DESIGN
Stage 3 Outcome: Detailed Design, Design Coordination, Planning Application
RIBA Stage 4
TECHNICAL
DESIGN
Stage 4 Outcome: Planning Conditions, Technical Design, Building Control submission, Tender
RIBA Stage 5
CONSTRUCTION
ON-SITE
Stage 5 Outcome: Construction Information, Contract Administration, Oversee Project On Site
We simplify the RIBA Work Stages sequentially
EXPERTISE
The practice has expertise in designing and delivering projects detailed with precision and excellence.
Our designs are informed by their physical and cultural context.
We aspire to create design-led architecture that is both contemporary and rooted in context.
We strive to create beautiful, simple buildings through a dialogue with our clients, end-users, and collaborators.
We design and deliver projects detailed with precision and excellence.
LATEST NEWS
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Socrates Architects reveals visionary scheme for Jersey’s Steam Clock site
It is widely regarded as a neglected blot on the landscape, but now Socrates Architects has come up with a scheme he says w...
03 March, 2019 -
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WALESONLINE: CARDIFF BAY BEACH AND LIDO REGENERATION
Cardiff Bay is known the world over for the waterfront development that transformed an abandoned docks into a thriving tour...
05 March, 2018 -
NEW CIVIL ENGINEER: UTOPIAN CITY IN THE SKY, BRISTOL
Cities are about people. Our population must be central to our thought processes when planning our future cities. By the ye...
05 March, 2016 -
CALL FOR A COMPETITION TO FIND DESIGNER OF NEW LES QUENNEVAIS SCHOOL – JEP ARTICLE
A PUBLIC architecture competition should be held to give Island firms the chance to design the new Les Quennevais School bu...
05 March, 2016 -
THE LONDONIST: IS THIS WHAT THE FUTURE OF LONDON LOOKS LIKE?
It’s London but not as we know it. This artist’s impressions of a future London was a shortlisted winner of a c...
05 March, 2016 -
SHORTLISTED: LIGHT EMITTING CONCRETE FOR DESIGNBOOM’s LED COMPETITION & SELECTION FOR GWANGJU’s INTERNATIONAL DESIGN BIENNALE
Delighted to announce our LED lighting innovation ‘Light Emitting Concrete‘ has been shortlisted for DESIGNBOOM...
16 September, 2015
