Wren: Renovation - 2026
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James Lang - founder, Wren Books
Status:
Completed
Floor area:
2800 m²
Lead Architect:
Jonas
Location:
London, Wembley
Photography:
James Smith
Status:
Completed
Floor area:
210 m²
Lead Architect:
Daniel Weir
Location:
London, Wembley
Photography:
James Doe
The client had been looking for a space for three years. When she found this one — a single-storey commercial unit on a tree-lined street in Stoke Newington — she called us the same afternoon.
She had run her previous bookshop from a converted terraced house for eleven years. It worked, but it was always a compromise: low ceilings, borrowed light, a layout that had grown around the building rather than the books. She wanted, for the first time, a space designed from scratch around the experience of being in a bookshop — and, for the first time, a place where someone could sit with a coffee and not feel they were taking up room that belonged to someone else.
The brief was not a document. It was a conversation about the kind of room she wanted to spend her days in. We wrote it down afterwards and it came to three words: light, books, stay.
"We gave Threshold a feeling, not a brief. What they built was more considered than anything we could have specified ourselves. The most common thing customers say when they walk in is that they didn't want to leave. That was the brief."
James Lang - founder, Wren Books
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"We gave Threshold a feeling, not a brief. What they built was more considered than anything we could have specified ourselves. The most common thing customers say when they walk in is that they didn't want to leave. That was the brief."
James Lang - founder, Wren Books
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The Canopy: New build - 2025
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Mr & Mrs Dane
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"We gave Threshold a feeling, not a brief. What they built was more considered than anything we could have specified ourselves. The most common thing customers say when they walk in is that they didn't want to leave. That was the brief."
James Lang - founder, Wren Books
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Status:
Completed
Floor area:
950 m²
Lead Architect:
Mark & Eraka
Location:
Sydney, Australia
Photography:
Ben Andrews
Status:
Completed
Floor area:
210 m²
Lead Architect:
Daniel Weir
Location:
London, Wembley
Photography:
James Doe
The client had been looking for a space for three years. When she found this one — a single-storey commercial unit on a tree-lined street in Stoke Newington — she called us the same afternoon.
She had run her previous bookshop from a converted terraced house for eleven years. It worked, but it was always a compromise: low ceilings, borrowed light, a layout that had grown around the building rather than the books. She wanted, for the first time, a space designed from scratch around the experience of being in a bookshop — and, for the first time, a place where someone could sit with a coffee and not feel they were taking up room that belonged to someone else.
The brief was not a document. It was a conversation about the kind of room she wanted to spend her days in. We wrote it down afterwards and it came to three words: light, books, stay.
"We gave Threshold a feeling, not a brief. What they built was more considered than anything we could have specified ourselves. The most common thing customers say when they walk in is that they didn't want to leave. That was the brief."
James Lang - founder, Wren Books
Longhouse: Renovation - 2026
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Benjamin Jones
Status:
Completed
Floor area:
500 m²
Lead Architect:
Jonas
Location:
London, Brent Cross
Photography:
James Smith
Status:
Completed
Floor area:
210 m²
Lead Architect:
Daniel Weir
Location:
London, Wembley
Photography:
James Doe
The client had been looking for a space for three years. When she found this one — a single-storey commercial unit on a tree-lined street in Stoke Newington — she called us the same afternoon.
She had run her previous bookshop from a converted terraced house for eleven years. It worked, but it was always a compromise: low ceilings, borrowed light, a layout that had grown around the building rather than the books. She wanted, for the first time, a space designed from scratch around the experience of being in a bookshop — and, for the first time, a place where someone could sit with a coffee and not feel they were taking up room that belonged to someone else.
The brief was not a document. It was a conversation about the kind of room she wanted to spend her days in. We wrote it down afterwards and it came to three words: light, books, stay.
"We gave Threshold a feeling, not a brief. What they built was more considered than anything we could have specified ourselves. The most common thing customers say when they walk in is that they didn't want to leave. That was the brief."
James Lang - founder, Wren Books
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"We gave Threshold a feeling, not a brief. What they built was more considered than anything we could have specified ourselves. The most common thing customers say when they walk in is that they didn't want to leave. That was the brief."
James Lang - founder, Wren Books
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The Flat: Renovation - 2026
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Elara Voss
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"We gave Threshold a feeling, not a brief. What they built was more considered than anything we could have specified ourselves. The most common thing customers say when they walk in is that they didn't want to leave. That was the brief."
James Lang - founder, Wren Books
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Status:
Completed
Floor area:
96 m²
Lead Architect:
Erala & Mark
Location:
London, Wembley
Photography:
James Smith
Status:
Completed
Floor area:
210 m²
Lead Architect:
Daniel Weir
Location:
London, Wembley
Photography:
James Doe
The client had been looking for a space for three years. When she found this one — a single-storey commercial unit on a tree-lined street in Stoke Newington — she called us the same afternoon.
She had run her previous bookshop from a converted terraced house for eleven years. It worked, but it was always a compromise: low ceilings, borrowed light, a layout that had grown around the building rather than the books. She wanted, for the first time, a space designed from scratch around the experience of being in a bookshop — and, for the first time, a place where someone could sit with a coffee and not feel they were taking up room that belonged to someone else.
The brief was not a document. It was a conversation about the kind of room she wanted to spend her days in. We wrote it down afterwards and it came to three words: light, books, stay.
"We gave Threshold a feeling, not a brief. What they built was more considered than anything we could have specified ourselves. The most common thing customers say when they walk in is that they didn't want to leave. That was the brief."
James Lang - founder, Wren Books
Carucome ss: Renovation - 2026
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James & Steph - founders, Carucome SS
Status:
Completed
Floor area:
210 m²
Lead Architect:
Mark
Location:
London, Covent Garden
Photography:
James Smith
Status:
Completed
Floor area:
210 m²
Lead Architect:
Daniel Weir
Location:
London, Wembley
Photography:
James Doe
The client had been looking for a space for three years. When she found this one — a single-storey commercial unit on a tree-lined street in Stoke Newington — she called us the same afternoon.
She had run her previous bookshop from a converted terraced house for eleven years. It worked, but it was always a compromise: low ceilings, borrowed light, a layout that had grown around the building rather than the books. She wanted, for the first time, a space designed from scratch around the experience of being in a bookshop — and, for the first time, a place where someone could sit with a coffee and not feel they were taking up room that belonged to someone else.
The brief was not a document. It was a conversation about the kind of room she wanted to spend her days in. We wrote it down afterwards and it came to three words: light, books, stay.
"We gave Threshold a feeling, not a brief. What they built was more considered than anything we could have specified ourselves. The most common thing customers say when they walk in is that they didn't want to leave. That was the brief."
James Lang - founder, Wren Books
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"We gave Threshold a feeling, not a brief. What they built was more considered than anything we could have specified ourselves. The most common thing customers say when they walk in is that they didn't want to leave. That was the brief."
James Lang - founder, Wren Books
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We are RISBA certified, a registered member of the Institute of Residential Architecture, and an accredited member of the Design & Build Standards Council.
The work has also been recognised beyond its own credentials — Small Practice of the Year at The Fabric Awards, a shortlisting for Residential Project of the Year at the Northern Design Review, further shortlists and longlists at the Blueprint Awards and The Meridian Architecture Prize. None of it changes how we work. It's simply evidence that the way we've chosen to work, works.