Inspiring Healthy Places
The Floyd Slaski Story
A diverse team delivering quality, bespoke environments.
We are a group of international Architects and Designers who work collaboratively across the practice, sharing the same ambition – to create healthy, sustainable and progressive environments for our clients and society.
Founded in 1952 by WW2 veterans Michael Floyd, Peter Slaski, William Challen and Anthony Todd, work came in all shapes and sizes from motorway service stations, hospitals, estate regeneration, to one off prestigious projects such as designing the Chinese Embassy building, opposite the RIBA headquarters on Portland Place.
With offices in London and Cornwall the practice has grown organically through repeat business and a reputation for quality sustainable environments.
We continue to evolve and invest in our colleagues’ unique strengths and professional development through continuous research, to enrich our collective knowledge for design.
We advocate for places that foster well-being, recovery, learning and collaboration through considerate design. We want to create better places in society that respond to our evolving need for diversity. Providing inclusive environments for both humans and nature.
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Working with us
We ask the right questions to ensure your environment is an Inspiring Healthy place to live, learn and work.
We are curious and want to get to know you, ensuring we provide a personalised and innovative engagement experience.
We value learning from the past to innovate for the future using evidence-based design solutions.
We know that only through understanding your needs comes great Architecture.
Our immersive design thinking stakeholder engagement techniques help to analyse your brief, bringing you best value to your projects now and in the future.
We are responsive, reflective and creative, we value your requirements and help our clients see the art of the possible, providing tailored, considerate design solutions.
Every project is Director-led, has senior technical and creative input and keen trainee architects.
Our People
Our primary asset is our staff, we work as a collective think tank.
Our colleagues are committed from inception to completion, no matter the scale of work, to designing well-crafted places that enhance mental and physical wellbeing.
Within our practice and beyond we value communication, community, diversity and equal opportunity.
We enjoy maintaining an ethos of sharing both challenges and successes, of airing our thoughts and encouraging others to follow-suit.
Our wealth of knowledge across many sectors flows into what we do and we take inspiration from our collective thinking.
Every staff-member’s experience is important to us, and we are a practice constantly enriched by this diversity.
Our colleagues are highly valued, and and we promote a healthy work life balance.
Considerate Design
Research and Development
Design thinking and evidence-based design is at the forefront of how we work.
Improving your environment to achieve better outcomes for your services is our ambition.
We are continuously learning about global developments in Architecture, sustainability and design which is core to our internal knowledge sharing program.
The leadership are members on the Board of Directors of Architects for Health, a non-profit organisation that advocates for best practice in healthcare design. The Directors regularly attend global lectures and even organise events which bring together world leaders in healthcare design.
This knowledge is applied directly to the schemes we work on. Our colleagues are educated to advise and guide you to make informed decisions towards your new specialist environments, to serve the communities they are designed for.
Sustainability
Commited to achieving Net Zero by 2050.
We see each project as an opportunity to apply sustainable solutions. We believe that integrating these will form state of the art environments without compromise.
Sustainability is no afterthought.
It is at the forefront of everything we design. Whether building less or building smart, we are confident that your space will feel inspiring even when we are recycling.
Floyd Slaski is deeply committed to be sustainably responsible for all our carbon emissions and is dedicated to promoting sustainable practices in our line of work. Therefore, we have put in measures and checkpoints to ensure we reach our goals.
As a practice we have halved our energy consumption by over 50% in the last 5 years. We have paid for carbon reduction projects via Carbon Neutral Britain to offset our scope 2 and 3 omissions in fact, we have exceeded our carbon reduction by 50%.
We are a net-zero practice, ISO9001, 14001 accredited and UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) members, passionate about sustainability and helping our clients achieve net-zero targets. We have Passive Haus accredited expertise in house and experience in meeting outstanding BREEAM targets.
Delivering outstanding healthcare environments
Promoting wellbeing and recovery
Thanks to our award-winning talented colleagues and our clients, our healthcare expertise and portfolio continues to strengthen in acute hospitals, mental health and primary care.
Our experience is varied ranging from large whole site strategic master planning to boutique bespoke refurbishments.
We have highly experienced technical colleagues who have delivered new build and highly complex refurbishment work.
In contrast we have highly experienced Interior Designers with Artistic backgrounds that have an eye for delivering state of the art therapeutic environments.
