T: 01752 213460
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Director of Cura Design Robert Bedner will be speaking on the Happy Healthy Home Show with Odile Smith on 14 March 2025 at 4pm about biophilic design and current projects at Cura! Join via the graphic or here: https://lnkd.in/ehHJxVyN
Cura Design are a leading Biophilic Architecture Studio
with over 17 years project experience in the UK and abroad
Front Elevation infill development London UK 2025
Rear Elevation infill development London UK 2025
Cura Design are one of the first architectural practices in the UK to offer biophilic design services and has over 14 years of award winning architectural design and place making. With over 175 completed projects, we are experts at gaining planning approvals for residential and cultural projects in stunning landscapes, including Para 84e and Para 139 residential applications.
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Cura Design are currently accepting enquiries for projects In the UK as well as projects in the Greater Tokyo area of Japan. Please contact our office for further information.
Cura Design are optimistic about the future and believe in solutions born of the heart and implemented through the latest technologies. We endeavour to best serve the natural world not by retreating from it and minimizing our footprint, but by participating more fully as a new regenerative extension of ecology, protecting and enhancing biodiversity through integrating design and architectural technology with nature for our well-being.
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We bring a foundation built from international experience in Oslo, Paris, New York City and London with world leading architecture practices and consultants to all of our projects.
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​The common thread that runs through all our projects are a love of nature, a love of architecture and a love of life.
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Biophilia, this love of living things .....we need to foster that feeling too and we need that, that's what we have to rediscover, it's reverence for living things
so that we can take on this role of being nurturers of Nature and not exploiters that's that's the key lesson we've got to learn.” Dennis McKenna
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Check out Cura Design on the following links:
Listen to Cura Design on the Journal of Biophilic Design.
Could Plymouth UK be part of a global movement that is changing the world?
View Cura Designs Presentation at Future Plymouth 2030. Episode 6 Nature based Solutions (NbS) and Integrating Nature into our Buildings.
Feasibility Studies for a Multi Storey Care Home on the sea.
Cura Design are contributers to the Journal of biophilic Design and offer feasibility studies to new and existing projects.
A House for Life - Studies for a new type of Care Home by Cura Design featured in the Health Issue of Journal of Biophilic Design!
"Union Corner" Community Project by Cura Design is featured in the Workplace Issue of Journal of Biophilic Design!
New House On a River ( World Heritage Site , SSSI, AONB )
Coastal Garden Home in Devon (Conservation Area and AONB)
Coastal Home on a hill in Devon (Conservation Area,AONB )
Hillside courtyard with three houses
Jinshan, Taiwan
Replacement Dwelling Dartmoor National Park (AONB, Conservation Area,SSSI )
Plan of Natural Swimming pool with accomodation London UK
Entrance to Temple
Greater Tokyo Area Japan
Many of our projects include renewable energy systems for heating and power and utilities including air source/ground source/ and water source heat pumps, storage batteries, PV panels, integral pv membranes,thermal hot water panels, green roofs, and rainwater harvesting. We have also completed designs that include passivehaus detailing and fabric first technologies.
Natural Larch ventilation hatch - New Street Project
Custom Door and pull - Seaside flat
Facade seat panel - Union Corner Community Project
Contact Us
Devon Office
Cura Design
170 Rendle St, Stonehouse, Plymouth
Pl1 1TP
T: 01752 213460
07445129165
2017 Abercrombie Award - People of
Plymouth Award for Stiltskin
Childrens Theatre
2011 Abercrombie Award - Best Minor
Development for New Street
Discover if Cura Design are the right practice for your project. Contact our office directy to arrange a face to face meeting or schedule a zoom meeting.
We will listen to your ideas and give you our informed opinion. We will help to form an initial brief with you and provide a clear programme together with a fee proposal for your project.
2017 Abercrombie Award - Best
Community Project for Stiltskin
Childrens Theatre
2011 Abercrombie Award - Best
Community Project for Union Corner
Communtiy Centre
2009 Alan King Award - New Street (High Commendation)
The Abercrombie Award is one of only six architectural awards that are presented once every three years to celebrate Plymouths best buildings and mark excellence in the built environment.
