Morris+Company

What Morris+Company does

Morris+Company is a privately held, B-Corp certified architecture and design practice headquartered in London at 15 Norton Folgate, with a regional office in Copenhagen, operating under Morris-Company Ltd. Founded in 2004 as Duggan Morris Architects and subsequently rebranded, the firm delivers comprehensive architectural services across masterplanning, new-build, retrofit, interiors, and refurbishment for residential, commercial, workplace, education, healthcare, hospitality, and mission-critical sectors. Its underlying methodology is anchored in circular-economy principles and a retention-first retrofit approach that retains 90%+ of existing building fabric to minimise embodied carbon while targeting top-tier certifications such as WELL Platinum, BREEAM Outstanding, and NABERS 5*. Notable proprietary concepts include the Grow-Rise low-rise housing model and a design-for-disassembly framework.

Revenue is generated through professional services fees structured across RIBA work stages, with project values ranging from small social-housing and education schemes to large mixed-use and commercial developments in the hundreds of millions of pounds. The go-to-market combines enterprise direct engagement with repeat developer and investor clients (British Land, Derwent London, Stanhope, Ballymore, Lendlease, Knight Dragon, PegasusLife), invited and open international design competitions (joint first place in Bergen, first prize in Munich HUF4), and local-authority tendering for housing and education. Projects are sourced in the UK and across Europe, with active portfolios in London, Brussels, Munich, and Bergen.

The firm competes as a mid-tier design-led challenger to larger practices, monetising deep relationships with sustainability-focused commercial landlords and public-sector clients while expanding through consortium-style competition submissions and vertical diversification into life sciences and data centres. Customer concentration is naturally project-based; reliance on a small set of anchor enterprise relationships (e.g., multiple British Land and Derwent London mandates) coexists with a long tail of social-housing, education, charity, and local-authority work that diversifies the pipeline.

Name

Morris+Company

Legal name

Morris-Company Ltd.

Website

https://morrisand.company

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Morris+Company is a B-Corp certified London and Copenhagen architecture practice delivering retrofit, housing, workplace, education, and mission-critical design for enterprise developers, public-sector clients, and institutional investors, with a proprietary retention-first retrofit methodology targeting top-tier sustainability certifications.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (541310), Landscape Architectural Services (54132), Interior Design Services (54141)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial/Product & Furniture Design (BPAHAKAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community Engagement & Participatory Planning (BPAHAKAO)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Sustainable retrofit design
• Urban masterplanning
• Building refurbishment
• Mixed-use development

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Design Services: Professional architecture services including masterplanning, building design, interiors, and refurbishment projects for residential, commercial, educational, healthcare, and hospitality sectors. Revenue generated through design fees across RIBA work stages.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Morris+Company is a London- and Copenhagen-based architecture and design practice delivering comprehensive architectural services including masterplanning, new-build design, refurbishment, and interiors across residential, commercial, workplace, healthcare, education, hospitality, and mission-critical sectors. The firm specialises in sustainable, retrofit-first, and circular-economy design, serving property developers, investors, local authorities, and institutional clients in the UK and internationally. Projects are delivered through RIBA work stages with a strong emphasis on low-carbon outcomes and community-focused design.

Product overview

Morris+Company is an architecture and design firm offering comprehensive architectural services across multiple sectors including housing, workplace, healthcare, education, masterplanning, tall buildings, interiors, hospitality, and mission critical facilities. The firm operates as a B-Corp certified practice with offices in London and Copenhagen, delivering projects that span retrofit, new-build, and mixed-use developments. The company does not offer a software product platform but rather provides professional architectural services as its primary offering.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture and Design Services Comprehensive professional architectural services including design, masterplanning, refurbishment, interiors, and new-build projects across residential, commercial, workplace, healthcare, education, hospitality, and mixed-use sectors for developers, investors, councils, and institutions.

Quantifiable outcome

• 90%+ existing building fabric retained in major retrofit projects
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers25 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Gort ScottcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partnership on Hatton Villages masterplan proposing 4,500 new homes in South Warwickshire. Joint submission for major residential development combining Morris+Company's architecture expertise with Gort Scott's planning and urban design capabilities.
• Londonon CollectivecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational design competition submission for Bergen waterfront district re-masterplan. Joint first place awarded to collective including Morris+Company, Haptic Architects, Gort Scott, Turner Works, Elliott Wood, and VILL.
• Mikhail Riches and Karakusevic CarsoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative housing project at Brentford Lock West involving multiple architecture practices working together on brick-built mixed tenure housing development.
• British LandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term client relationship on multiple major projects including 3 Sheldon Square refurbishment, Norton Folgate masterplan, and Canada Water K1 affordable housing development.
• Derwent LondoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRepeat client relationship with Derwent London on multiple workplace projects including Hardwick Street warehouse retrofit and Featherstone Building.
• CobecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration between Cobe and Morris+Company on Royal Street hybrid laboratory and office building project near Houses of Parliament.
• Kirchberger & Wiegner RohdecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational collaboration on Munich HUF4 project with Kirchberger & Wiegner Rohde (Berlin) on architecture and bauchplan (Munich) on landscape design. Won first prize.
• PegasusLifecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with retirement living specialist on multiple projects including Guildford Plaza, Hampstead retirement community, and Wildernesse Estate facilities.
• Lateral (Life Science)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on Camley Street Science & Technology project (280,000 sqft life science facility) providing flexible, high-quality research and development spaces.
• FreehauscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on City of London School major extension and refurbishment (7,040 sqm GIA). Freehaus serves as Interiors and Refurbishment Architect on super team approach.
• a20, VELDcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative team on Brussels ILO redevelopment (100,000 sqm) with a20 as lead design architect alongside Morris+Company and VELD, working with Jaspers-Eyers Architects as executive architect.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Haworth Tompkins: London architecture practice recognised for theatre, cultural, education and residential projects. Comparable on design-led, award-winning approach, RIBA award track record and developer/institutional client mix.
• Heatherwick Studio: London-based design and architecture studio working across buildings, masterplans and public realm. Comparable on design-led positioning, large mixed-use commissions and high-profile developer/institutional clients.
• Wilkinson Eyre: UK architecture practice with significant London commercial, transport and tall-buildings portfolio. Comparable on commercial-office and mixed-use commissions for major developers and on award-winning, design-led delivery.
• dMFK Architects: Mid-size London practice with overlapping sector mix in workplace, residential and adaptive reuse. Comparable on building-scale commissions, mixed-tenure housing and refurbishment work for institutional clients.
• Mikhail Riches: London practice specialising in sustainable housing, Passivhaus and social-residential projects. Directly comparable on sustainability-led design, social-housing schemes (including a documented collaboration with Morris+Company at Brentford Lock West) and award recognition in the housing category.
• Allies and Morrison: Established London architecture practice working across housing, masterplanning, education and commercial sectors. Closely comparable on city-scale residential and mixed-use commissions, public-sector work and a strong competition pedigree in the UK.
• Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM): London-based architecture practice of comparable scale delivering residential, workplace, education and mixed-use projects for major UK developers. Directly comparable on typology (mixed-use, housing, workplace retrofits), client base (large UK developers and institutions) and competition-led project acquisition.

Broad incumbents

• Snøhetta: International architecture, landscape and interior-design practice with strong sustainability credentials. Comparable on landscape-architecture-led masterplanning, sustainability positioning and a track record of international competition wins, but operates at significantly larger scale.
• Foster + Partners: Large global architecture and integrated design practice with extensive UK and international footprint. A broader incumbent that competes for the same large-scale commercial, masterplan and competition briefs Morris+Company targets, but with materially greater scale and a wider service offering.

Emerging players

• Cobe: Copenhagen-based architecture and urban-design practice with a comparable Scandinavian anchor office and a portfolio of large mixed-use and masterplan projects. Directly comparable through a documented co-bid (Royal Street, London) and shared Northern-European design sensibility.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance21 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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