Socrates Architects | Jersey, C.I. | Creative Vision | Commercial Sense
Socrates Architects are an award-winning and celebrated creative design-led Jersey architects practice. We operate in Jersey, London, and Nationally.
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Arts + Culture

Jersey Arts Building

St Helier Waterfront

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Residential + Dwellings

Park Estate

St Brelade, Jersey

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Residential + Dwellings

Modern Mansion

St Brelade, Jersey

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Residential + Dwellings

Beachside Apartments

Jersey

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Residential + Dwellings

Peterborough House

St Brelade, Jersey

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Residential + Dwellings

Penarth Road Apartments

Cardiff

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Residential + Dwellings

St Brelades Apartments

Jersey

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Education + School

Les Quennevais Secondary School

Concept Design, Jersey

WE ARE A DIFFERENT KIND OF ARCHITECTS PRACTICE

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.

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  • Residential + Dwellings
  • Business Space + Commercial
  • Education + Schools
  • Hospitality + Retail
  • Masterplanning + Urban Design
  • Sport + Recreation
  • Arts + Culture
  • Transportation + Infrastructure
  • Ecceslisastical
  • Research + Development
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LATEST NEWS

NEWS

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June 11, 2019

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March 19, 2019

It is widely regarded as a neglected blot on the landscape, but now Socrates Architects has come up with a scheme he says would revitalise the site of the Steam Clock and transform...

March 3, 2019

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January 30, 2019

Cardiff Bay is known the world over for the waterfront development that transformed an abandoned docks into a thriving tourist destination. But can you imagine how it would look w...

March 5, 2018

Cities are about people. Our population must be central to our thought processes when planning our future cities. By the year 2085 the world’s population is predicted rise to be ...

March 5, 2016

A PUBLIC architecture competition should be held to give Island firms the chance to design the new Les Quennevais School building, says an Islander who practices in the UK. Nick So...

March 5, 2016

It’s London but not as we know it. This artist’s impressions of a future London was a shortlisted winner of a competition launched by estate agent Cluttons and property...

March 5, 2016

Delighted to announce our LED lighting innovation ‘Light Emitting Concrete‘ has been shortlisted for DESIGNBOOM’s ‘Happy LED Life’ competition and it ...

September 16, 2015

CITY IN THE SKY VISIONARY PROJECT SHORTLISTED FOR ESTATES GAZETTE’S TNBT COMPETITION The Next Big Thing is a new international competition launched by Estates Gazette, in ass...

July 22, 2015

We have been selected to appear in The Architects Journal (AJ) ‘The Architecture Tomorrow Gallery’ for our project Park Bridge in the Bridges category at MIPIM UK ...

June 25, 2015

Cardiff’s Customs House Street residential tower featured in CPS Homes’ Cwtch Magazine; “So much of Cardiff would today be unrecognisable to a resident from 1985 ...

June 25, 2015

Shortlisted design for the Barry Community Water Activity Centre Our design for a water activity centre located in Barry Marina, South Wales was shortlisted and then finally came...

April 24, 2015

The Billion Oyster Pavilion An installation on Governor’s Island for Summer 2015, that will become a Permanent Contribution to NY Harbour as Oyster Reef. FIGMENT’s City of Drea...

March 25, 2015

It has been six months since the last consultation on proposals for a new Welsh medium primary school for Grangetown and Butetown. To say it has been a long process is an understat...

December 2, 2014

One Cardiff Architects dream of how Cardiff Bay’s skyline could be transformed Nicholas Socrates has come up with an idea of what could fill the empty space next to the Sene...

November 30, 2014

Bridge proposal to link St Helier waterfront, Jersey OVER the years the Waterfront has attracted a wide range of novel designs – some quirky, some daring, some unfeasible. Bu...

November 29, 2014

Socrates Associates’ Cardiff Bay tower proposal situated on a small parcel of undeveloped land next to the Richard Rogers’ Welsh Assembly ‘Senedd’ building in Cardiff Bay. ...

November 23, 2014

Park Bridge Development for St Helier’s Waterfront; The park bridge is both a crossing and a place – A sloping park rises up, on both sides, to bridge the main esplanade r...

November 1, 2014

Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s New Art Gallery and Depository was shortlisted for the A+Awards in 2013.  ...

September 15, 2014

This is a short clip from my animation Abstract Articulation of Architectural Space it was shortlisted for the CINE CITY FILM AWARD 2013....

September 14, 2014

Antwerp trip with Hyung Kang In-Tune Architects and Raghu Ramesh from Studio Context....

September 14, 2014

Painting ‘Steel Breeze’ shortlisted for the prestigious Threadneedle prize at Mall Galleries, London in 2011....

September 13, 2014

Nicholas Socrates’ painting ‘Sand Mandala’ 4x4ft. oil paint and sand on canvas sold for £8,000 following my 2008 solo-show in London. Nicholas Socrates’ pa...

September 13, 2014

Photographs from Yammuna Bridge taken whilst working in Agra and North Kachpura on a slum upgrading scheme....

September 13, 2014

North Kachpura and Yumuna Bridge, Agra, India Short clip montage of some footage filmed whilst working in Agra as part of a slum upgrading scheme....

September 12, 2014

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September 11, 2014

High Rise Building Research Document from Nicholas Socrates Here is a research document of exemplary high-rise buildings...

September 11, 2014

THE BARCELONA MODELV from Nicholas Socrates What makes Barcelona such an exemplar city and is it justified? This article is about the history, growth, international development an...

September 11, 2014

Here is the fly through presentation for the TATE Bristol proposal on the Whapping Wharf site on Bristol Harbour-side adjacent to the M-Shed....

September 10, 2014

Montage experiment made from several of my abstract drawings....

September 9, 2014

Articulating Abstract Art into Architectural Space. Using one of my paintings ‘Steel Breeze’ I transformed it into a spacial experience....

September 8, 2014

Opening Night: Group Exhibition, Brighton. 2007....

September 4, 2014

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ABOUT US

Founded 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.

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WHAT WE DO

We strive to design the best buildings, places, and spaces. We design conceptual ideas 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

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Stage 0 Outcome: Identify Client Brief and other core project requirements

RIBA Stage 1
FEASIBILITY
STUDY

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Stage 1 Outcome: Feasibility Study, Options, Site Appraisal, (Survey).

RIBA Stage 2
CONCEPT
DESIGN

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Stage 2 Outcome: Concept drawings, Pre-Application Advice.

RIBA Stage 3
DEVELOPED
DESIGN

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Stage 3 Outcome:  Detailed Design, Design Coordination, Planning Application

RIBA Stage 4
TECHNICAL
DESIGN

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Stage 4 Outcome: Planning Conditions, Technical Design, Building Control submission, Tender

RIBA Stage 5
CONSTRUCTION
ON-SITE

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Stage 5 Outcome:  Construction Information, Contract Administration, Oversee Project On Site

We simplify the RIBA Work Stages sequentially

EXPERTISE

Founded in 2018 by Nicholas Socrates, today we are an award-winning architects studio providing architecture, interior and urban design services from concept to completion.

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We design and deliver projects detailed with precision and excellence.

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