Thomas de Cruz Architects/Designers is a progressive, young London-based practice producing sensitive contemporary architecture with an emphasis on imaginative interiors and creative lighting.

Thomas de Cruz Architects/Designers has a workload encompassing a diverse range of projects including medical centres, commercial developments, offices, one-off restaurants and high quality domestic design for private clients.
The Practice's sensitive contemporary architecture combines the inspired use of traditional and modern materials and imaginative natural and artificial lighting to create stunning yet practical interiors. Where necessary, this appoach successfully integrates contemporary design into existing buildings, often Grade II Listed or in Conservation Areas, which has resulted in the Practice's excellent track record in obtaining planning approval for creative schemes, often on difficult or sensitive sites with severe planning constraints.
In it's domestic work, Thomas de Cruz Architects/Designers draws on the Mediterranean response to climate for inspiration, connecting the building to its surroundings with folding doors, canopies and decks, blurring the divisions between internal and external to create serene but inspiring spaces flooded with natural light. In the city, older properties with dark, cellular layouts are liberated by the approach, with natural light penetrating into the core of the existing building and outward looking spaces drawing in views of the surrounding trees and sky, an experience so often missing from traditional urban living.

Peter Thomas de Cruz graduated from Nottingham University in 1984. After a short time in the United States Peter moved to London  where he joined the competition winning shopping centre team at RHWL . After a spell at Building Design Partnership Peter moved to Austin-Smith:Lord,  working on major interior projects for corporate clients such as Ford and Binder Hamyln. 
Peter later joined ORMS to work on high-tech business park developments before leaving in 1990. After working on his own Peter formed Thomas de Cruz Architects/Designers Ltd in 1995.

harles graduated from Oxford Brooks University, after which he joined Gareth Hunt Associates working on housing in Milton Keynes. Charles moved to YRM where he worked on large hospital projects. Later, at Tripos Architects Charles oversaw the refurbishment of the Bank of England.
Before becoming an Associate of the Practice, Charles completed a number of private houses in the UK, Saudi Arabia and France.

John Lewis is a graduate of Portsmouth School of Architecture. John spent his formative years in the Hampshire office of Derek Lovejoy and Partners before setting up his own practice. John has overseen a number of large flat developments, sport clubs and schools as well private houses. In 1996 John won the 'The Self-Build House Design of the Year Award'.
John now runs the Thomas de Cruz Bournemouth office.

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