K&K Studio — architecture and interior design, Paddington, London
K&K Studio
Architecture · Interiors · London

An architecture and interior design studio in Paddington, London.

We take projects from feasibility through to completion on site.

The counter run and oak display wall at Koncept Coffee & Wine, a café fit-out by K&K Studio
The studio

Osman is an architect and Selçuk is a civil engineer. We run planning, technical design, interiors and construction coordination ourselves, so the drawings you approve are the drawings the site builds from. We stay on the job until it is finished.

Selected work
What we do

Five disciplines, one team.

Planning
Feasibility, pre-application advice and the drawings and statements a planning application needs.
Architecture
Concept design through to a coordinated technical package that satisfies building control and can be priced.
Interior Design
Layouts, joinery and fixed furniture drawings, and finish, lighting and sanitaryware schedules.
Construction
Tender information, contractor queries answered during the works, and regular visits to site.
Project Management
Programme, budget tracking, consultant and building control coordination, and one point of contact throughout.
What you receive
How we work

Five stages, in order.

  1. 01 Discovery We visit, measure, and set out what is possible on the site and the budget.
  2. 02 Concept Design Options in plan and section, reviewed with you until one is agreed.
  3. 03 Technical Design Construction drawings, details and specifications, coordinated with structure and services.
  4. 04 Construction We stay involved on site, answer queries and check the work against the drawings.
  5. 05 Completion Snagging, handover information, and the drawings kept as built.
Facts

Facts

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Projects delivered
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Planning approvals
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Fit-outs trading
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Typical programme
Client words
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Contact

Tell us about the building.

Send the address, what you want to do and roughly when. We will tell you what is involved and what it is likely to cost to find out.

[CONFIRM: street address]
Paddington, London [CONFIRM: postcode]
[CONFIRM: email]
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Work

Residential and commercial projects, run end to end.

Each entry lists what was built, where, and when. Photography is being produced; the blocks below show what each image will be.

The full length of the counter at Urban Baristas, Fleet Place, with the menu boards behind

Urban Baristas — Fleet Place

Commercial Fleet Place, London [CONFIRM: year]
The red-tiled counter, plywood shelving and menu board at Koncept Coffee & Wine

Koncept Coffee & Wine

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WIDE — establishing · 4:3

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[CONFIRM: Residential / Commercial] [CONFIRM: location] [CONFIRM: year]
WIDE — establishing · 4:3

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Project

Urban Baristas — Fleet Place

Type
Commercial — café fit-out
Location
Fleet Place, London
Area
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Programme
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Completed
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The completed café: counter, display case and the stair to the upper seating at Urban Baristas, Fleet Place
The brief

[CONFIRM: two or three sentences on what the client needed — the building, the use, and the outcome they asked for]

Constraint → Decision

Constraint

[CONFIRM: the real problem the site or the brief imposed]

Decision

[CONFIRM: the specific decision made in response, and how it was detailed]

Fluted white counter front meeting the birch plywood plinth
Fluted counter front over birch plywood
Exposed birch plywood laminations at the edge of a table top
Birch plywood table edge, exposed laminations
Track lighting and services run below the soffit of the upper seating volume
Track lighting and services below the mezzanine soffit
Ash chairs and plywood tables at the full-height glazing onto Fleet Place
Window seating: ash chairs, plywood tops, black steel bases
The painted graphic wall above the banquette in the seating area
Banquette below the painted graphic wall
Before → After

Before and after

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AFTER · 3:2
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Credits

Architecture and interiors: K&K Studio
Contractor: [CONFIRM]
Structural engineer: [CONFIRM]
Photography: YUCL

Next project — Koncept
Project

Koncept Coffee & Wine

Type
Commercial — café and wine bar fit-out
Location
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Area
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Programme
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Completed
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The completed café at Koncept Coffee and Wine: loose seating in the foreground, red-tiled service counter and oak retail shelving beyond
The brief

[CONFIRM: two or three sentences on what the client needed — the unit, the coffee and wine offer, and the outcome they asked for]

Constraint → Decision

Constraint

[CONFIRM: the real problem the unit or the brief imposed]

Decision

[CONFIRM: the specific decision made in response, and how it was detailed]

The service counter at Koncept Coffee and Wine seen square on, with the painted wall graphic above and oak retail shelving to the left
Red glazed tile counter front, stainless steel worktop, painted wall graphic above
The full length of the counter at Koncept Coffee and Wine, with the illuminated pick-up sign overhead
Counter run set against the oak display wall; suspended lightbox at the pick-up point
Freestanding oak cabinet between two doorways at Koncept Coffee and Wine, with an antiqued brass panel above it
Oak cabinet between the door linings; antiqued brass panel over the head
Credits

Architecture and interiors: K&K Studio
Contractor: [CONFIRM]
Photography: YUCL

Next project — Urban Baristas
Services

What you receive at each stage.

Scope is agreed in writing before we start. You can take one discipline or all five.

01

Planning

Establishing what the local authority is likely to accept before money is spent on design.

  • Measured survey and existing plans, sections and elevations
  • Feasibility study setting out what the site can take
  • Pre-application advice where it is worth having
  • Householder, full or change of use application, submitted and tracked
  • Design and access statement and supporting documents where required
02

Architecture

Drawings made to be built from, not to be admired.

  • Concept plans and sections, with options where a decision is genuinely open
  • General arrangement drawings at construction scale
  • Construction details for junctions, thresholds and openings
  • Building regulations package and submission
  • Coordination with structural, mechanical and electrical input
03

Interior Design

The inside resolved to the same level of detail as the shell.

  • Layouts tested against how the space is actually used
  • Joinery and fixed furniture drawings for a maker to work from
  • Finishes, lighting and sanitaryware schedules
  • Samples and specification information for pricing
  • Kitchen and bathroom setting-out, coordinated with services
04

Construction

We stay on the job while it is being built.

  • Tender package and comparison of contractor prices
  • Site visits at agreed intervals, with written notes
  • Contractor queries answered while the work is in front of them
  • Checking what is built against what was drawn
  • Snagging list and handover information
05

Project Management

One point of contact from the first meeting to handover.

  • Programme, with the dates that decisions are needed
  • Cost tracked against the agreed budget, and told to you when it moves
  • Coordination of consultants, building control and party wall surveyors
  • Applications, approvals and certificates kept in one place
  • A single written record of what was agreed and when
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Studio

An architect and a civil engineer, working on the same drawings.

Design and buildability get decided at the same table. Structure is considered while the plan is still moving, not bolted on after the client has approved it.

PORTRAIT — studio · 3:4

Osman

Architect · Co-founder

[CONFIRM: qualification, registration and background — where trained, previous practices, types of project led]

PORTRAIT — studio · 3:4

Selçuk

Civil Engineer · Co-founder

[CONFIRM: qualification, registration and background — where trained, previous practices, types of project led]

How the studio works

We keep the number of live projects low so that the two of us are on each one. The person who drew the detail is the person who answers the contractor's question about it.

Work is done from the studio in Paddington. We visit the building early, and we go back during construction. If something we drew turns out to be wrong on site, we say so and redraw it.

We are honest about cost and programme at the point it matters, which is before you commit, not after. Where we do not know something yet, we say that too.

Start a conversation
Contact

Tell us about the building.

Send the address, what you want to do and roughly when. We will tell you what is involved and what it is likely to cost to find out.

Studio

[CONFIRM: street address]
Paddington, London [CONFIRM: postcode]
[CONFIRM: email]
[CONFIRM: phone]

Hours

[CONFIRM: studio hours]

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