What Corstorphine & Wright does

Corstorphine & Wright is a privately-held UK architectural practice headquartered in Warwick, operating as Corstorphine & Wright Ltd (Companies House No. 3315371, registered in England & Wales). Founded in the early 1980s, the firm has grown to 300+ professionals organized across 13 UK studios spanning Warwick, Birmingham, London, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Glasgow, Newcastle, Canterbury, Darlington, Fordingbridge, Stourbridge and Tamworth. It was ranked #10 in the AJ100 list of leading UK architectural practices (up from #13 previously).

The firm delivers professional architectural design, planning, interior design, urban design and masterplanning services across 17 specialist sectors including residential, student living, offices, life sciences, healthcare, education, industrial & logistics, retail, leisure, hotels & hospitality, housing, care & senior living, bluelight, defence & MOD, and mixed-use developments. Underlying technical capabilities centre on BIM (Building Information Modelling), BREEAM sustainability assessment methodology, Passivhaus principles, and carbon calculation software, with holdings in ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, RIBA Chartered Practice, CIAT, UDG, and Constructionline credentials. Signature recent projects include the £60M Victoria House life-sciences conversion in London's Knowledge Quarter with Oxford Properties and Pioneer Group, the £7M Rob Burrow Centre for MND with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and the £40M Deansgate South student accommodation in Manchester with Fusion Students.

Revenue is generated through project-based professional fees tied to scope, complexity and sector, with no publicly disclosed pricing. Go-to-market is director-led enterprise field sales: 135 leading UK property PLCs and developers are recorded clients, and 85% of projects over the past three years came from repeat customers. Customer segments are organized vertically across property developers, healthcare providers, life sciences companies, educational institutions, public sector/bluelight, and residential/housing operators. The firm is privately held with no parent company, institutional investors or private equity backing disclosed.

Name

Corstorphine & Wright

Legal name

Corstorphine & Wright Ltd

Website

https://corstorphine-wright.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Interior Design Services (54141)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Urban Planning & Master Planning (BPAHAKAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Building information modelling
• Urban masterplanning services
• Sustainable building design
• Heritage building retrofit

Headquarters

HQ city

Warwick

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices13 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Architectural Design Services: Professional architectural services including design, planning, and project delivery across commercial, residential, healthcare, education, and other sectors. Revenue generated through project-based fees for design work, planning applications, and construction oversight.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Corstorphine & Wright is a UK architectural practice providing professional architectural design, urban masterplanning, and interior design services across 17 sectors including residential, commercial, healthcare, education, life sciences, defence, and student accommodation. Revenue is generated through project-based professional fees for design, planning applications, and construction oversight delivered through 13 UK design studios.

Product overview

Corstorphine & Wright is an award-winning architectural practice offering a comprehensive portfolio of design services across 17 specialist sectors including City Living, Student Living, Mixed Use, Retail, Leisure, Hotels & Hospitality, Offices, Life Sciences, Industrial & Logistics, Housing, Education, Care & Senior Living, Health, Bluelight, Defence & MOD, Urban Design & Masterplanning, and Interior Design. The practice operates as a unified studio network with design studios across the UK, delivering projects from concept through to completion. Key projects include Victoria House (a £60M life sciences conversion), The Rob Burrow Centre for MND (£7M healthcare facility), and Deansgate South (£40M student accommodation). The practice ranks at number 10 in the AJ100 and holds ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Ranked 10th in AJ100 (up from 13th)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Oxford PropertiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOxford Properties partnered with Corstorphine & Wright for the Victoria House conversion project in London's Knowledge Quarter. Corstorphine & Wright designed the conversion of 220,000 sq ft into Grade A state-of-the-art wet lab-enabled life sciences space.
• Pioneer GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPioneer Group collaborated with Corstorphine & Wright and Oxford Properties on the Victoria House life science conversion project, representing a key strategic partnership for delivering complex heritage building transformations.
• Fusion StudentscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFusion Students commissioned Corstorphine & Wright for the Deansgate South student accommodation project in Manchester, a £40M purpose-built student accommodation development targeting BREEAM Excellent.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Pick Everard: Pick Everard is a UK multi-discipline construction consultancy delivering architecture, engineering and project services across sectors that overlap with C&W (healthcare, education, residential, commercial), making it a broader full-service incumbent comparable on scale and client base rather than design specialism.
• BDP (Building Design Partnership): BDP is one of the largest UK-based multidisciplinary architectural and engineering practices, with significantly broader scale than C&W, but directly comparable as a top-tier UK firm serving healthcare, education, life sciences, residential and commercial sectors with integrated design and masterplanning services.

Direct peers

• AHMM (Allford Hall Monaghan Morris): AHMM is a London-headquartered UK architectural practice of similar standing to C&W on the AJ100, with comparable mix of commercial, residential, healthcare, education, and life-sciences projects and a similarly strong track record in master planning and complex urban schemes.
• Wilkinson Eyre: Wilkinson Eyre is a UK architectural practice of comparable size and tier to C&W, similarly delivering complex commercial, cultural, transport and masterplanned developments with strong engineering-design integration and award-winning sector reputation.
• Purcell: Purcell is a UK architectural practice directly comparable to C&W's heritage adaptive reuse specialism (Victoria House, listed-building conversions), with strong overlap in heritage, commercial, education, and public-sector work and similar national studio coverage.
• Sheppard Robson: Sheppard Robson is a UK RIBA-chartered architectural practice comparable to C&W in scale and cross-sector breadth, with significant work in healthcare, life sciences, education and residential design and an established studio network across the UK.
• Allies and Morrison: Allies and Morrison is a UK architectural practice of comparable size and reputation to C&W, similarly ranked in the AJ100, delivering architecture, urban design and masterplanning across higher education, residential, commercial and cultural sectors with a strong national London-and-regions footprint.
• Haworth Tompkins: Haworth Tompkins is a UK RIBA-chartered practice comparable to C&W in scale and sector mix, with deep experience in theatre, cultural, education, residential and healthcare architecture and a strong reputation for sustainable and heritage-sensitive design.
• Scott Brownrigg: Scott Brownrigg is a UK-headquartered international design practice of comparable size to C&W, with directly overlapping sector expertise in healthcare, education, residential, life sciences and commercial real estate and a similar multi-studio UK delivery model.
• Stride Treglown: Stride Treglown is a UK RIBA-chartered architectural practice closely comparable to C&W in scale, sector breadth (healthcare, education, residential, commercial) and AJ100 standing, with a similarly design-led, multi-studio national operating model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cwrightarch
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• Instagraminstagram.com/corstorphinewright

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles21 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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