Bespoke living, defined by clarity
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Wannsee Residence · Lakeside, 2024
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The practice
Every project begins with reading the site and the brief honestly — the light, the slope, the way a family actually moves through a day. We design fewer houses than we are asked to so that none of them is hurried.
A principal leads every commission from first sketch to final site visit. Budgets are honest from the first conversation, and the drawings are resolved before the ground is ever broken.
What the work is built on
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Nothing on the drawing is there by default. Every line earns its place.
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Detailed to the millimetre and made by trades we have worked with for years.
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Built so the house still feels right twenty years on — calm, not fashionable.
From site to final detail
Ground-up, site-specific houses drawn for your light, your slope, and the way you live.
Joinery, light, and material at close range — interiors detailed as carefully as the shell.
Heritage adaptation and reuse that respect what stands and add only what is needed.
“We founded Aldridge on the belief that residential design should feel timeless, calm, and deeply personal.”
Clare Aldridge — Founding Principal, AIBC
Services
New houses designed from the ground for a single site and a single family.
Whole-home interiors, joinery, and lighting drawn to the same standard as the building.
Sensitive adaptation of character homes, including permits and board reviews.
More room without moving — extensions tied cleanly into the existing structure.
Before you buy or build — what a site allows, and what it will quietly cost.
Furnishing and finishing a completed home, down to the last considered object.
Why Aldridge
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Benefit 01
You work with the person who designs your house — not a junior handed the file. The hand that draws it is the hand on site.
Benefit 02
The number we give you at the start is the number at the end. We price the whole brief before drawings begin, so nothing arrives as a surprise.
Benefit 03
Decisions are made on paper, where they're cheap to change — not on site, where they're not. It's why our projects finish calmly and on time.
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We design for permanence, not for a photoshoot. Calm proportion and honest material age slowly — the house earns its keep for a lifetime, not a season.
Trusted by developers, builders & homeowners
A register of recent work
In their words
“They talked us out of demolishing and into something far better. Five years on it's the only house on the block that still belongs there.”
“Clare drew our budget before she drew the house. Nothing was a surprise, and the principal we met on day one was there at the final walkthrough.”
“We came for an addition and left with a way of living we didn't know to ask for. The detailing is the kind you only notice because everything simply works.”
We take a limited number of commissions a year. Send us the site and what you hope to make of it, and we'll reply within two working days.
studio@aldridge.archi
+1 (604) 555-0177
312 — 1 East Cordova, Vancouver BC
