Redland House by Bristol Architects Emmett Russell Architects
Rose House by Emmett Russell Architects

Emmett Russell Architects are an award winning architectural practice based in Bristol and working across the South and South West of England and Wales. We are engaged in a broad portfolio of work including projects in housing, urban design, education, heritage, community buildings and bespoke residential projects. We have developed a reputation for producing imaginative and ambitious designs within the constraints of existing buildings and sensitive sites. We aim to respond to the particular context of each site and believe that every project should belong intimately to its place. All our work is framed by the need to address the challenges of the climate emergency.

House in Redland

This project is for a new private house that sits on a triangular site between terrace of gable fronted Victorian houses and a railway embankment in Redland, Bristol. The house uses the unusual site geometry to create a dynamic series of spaces over three storeys. The house’s roof form echoes that of the adjacent terrace.…

Reimagine Ageing

We were the winner of an RIBA competition to re-think retirement housing for a new generation. Based on a site in Bishops Waltham, our project offers the baby boomer generation a new model for home ownership in later life. At its heart, our proposal is about providing a setting for a mutually supportive community, where…

Rose House

The project is a new house on a site in the Kingsdown Conservation Area in Bristol. The site sits in a walled garden adjacent to a Victorian cottage and has views out across Central Bristol. The design has set out to provide a modern family house that is exemplary as a low energy dwelling whilst…

Challender Court

This project was the winner of the RIBA South West Sustainability Award 2018. It is a new build council housing development on a former garage site on the Northern fringe of Bristol. It was part of a larger project undertaken for Bristol City Council for new council homes on infill sites on existing HRA land.…

Cotham House

This new house sits in a Conservation area in a Victorian Suburb of Bristol. Our clients were looking to build an exemplary low energy house in the garden of their original house. The new house aims to minimise embodied energy using an innovative I-stud timber frame with Warmcel recycled newspaper insulation to provide a super-insulated…

Passage Road Housing

This project will provide 16 new low energy homes on the site of a 1950s church in Henbury, Bristol. We have worked with our client, Bristol City Council’s Housing Delivery Team, to ensure that the new development sits comfortably in its leafy context whilst making best use of the available site and meeting the council’s…

Elberton

The site for this project is on the outskirts of Elberton, a small South Gloucestershire village located within Bristol’s Green Belt.  Our clients acquired the brown-field site after a previous planning application had been refused. We were approached as local Bristol architects with specialist expertise in working in sensitive, rural locations. Our proposal took its…

Alwyne Place, Islington

This project set out to reconfigure and extend the lower ground floor of this substantial Islington town house, creating a more united house and garden with internal and external spaces tailored to modern family life. A dark and narrow stair at the front has been relocated to the rear bringing sunlight and views of the…

Constable Road, Lockleaze

This development for Abri Housing Association will provide 74 new homes across a range of tenures including social rent, shared ownership and open market homes. The redevelopment of this site in North Bristol is part of a wider regeneration strategy that has been implemented in the area over the last decade. Bristol Architects Emmett Russell…

9-10 Trim Street, Bath

This is a seven storey Grade 2* former hospital building close to the centre of Bath that was refurbished and adapted to provide eleven apartments. Bristol Architects Emmett Russell Architects were involved in the project from the outset providing architectural services through to project completion and liaised closely with the conservation officer in agreeing a…