Private residences
Penthouses.
A penthouse is a bespoke project inside someone else's building.
Penthouses combine the ambition of a villa with the constraints of a tower. Slabs cannot always be cut, risers are fixed, plant space is shared, and every sheet of stone and every joinery module has to arrive through a service lift with a booking sheet. Design that ignores those facts becomes expensive very late.
We start from the building. Survey, structural and services review, and a logistics plan sit alongside the interior architecture from the beginning, so the design that is frozen is the design that can actually be installed.
From there the work is what our workshops do daily for hospitality: book-matched stone, veneer sequencing, metal detailing, integrated lighting, and the acoustic and climate performance a top-floor residence needs.
How this is delivered
- Designed to be installable
- Every element is sized against the access route before it is manufactured. Nothing arrives that cannot be brought in.
- Hospitality-grade making
- The same workshops that produce guest-room and lobby packages for international hotel operators make the joinery and stone.
- One accountable team
- Structure, services, finish and furniture are not separate contracts arguing at the interface. They are one scope with one programme.
Scope
What we hold on penthouses.
- Interior architecture & spatial change
- Reworking layouts, stairs, double-height volumes and terrace relationships within what the structure permits.
- Structural & services coordination
- Working with the building's engineers on penetrations, loading, risers, plant and any alteration to base-build systems.
- Bespoke manufacture
- Stone, veneer, metalwork, glass and specialist finishes produced and pre-assembled in our workshops before delivery.
- Lighting, AV & climate
- Architectural lighting and control, AV, shading, acoustics and HVAC adjustment coordinated as one technical package.
- Logistics & installation
- Module sizing, lift and crane strategy, protection, sequencing and out-of-hours working agreed with building management.
- Furnishing & completion
- Furniture, art coordination, window treatments, styling, commissioning and handover documentation.
The Método Way
Define · Freeze · Make · Deliver · Close
01
Define
Understand the property, the requirements, the budget and how the home will actually be used.
02
Freeze
Resolve design, materials, engineering, specification and cost before anything is manufactured.
03
Make
Procure and manufacture the approved elements, with samples and benchmarks approved first.
04
Deliver
Coordinate logistics, site works and installation as one sequenced programme.
05
Close
Inspect, resolve and hand over a completed home, with documentation and aftercare.
Questions
Penthouses — common questions
- Can layouts be changed in a penthouse?
- Often, but only within the structural and services limits of the building. We establish those limits during the define stage so design time is not spent on options that will later be refused.
- How is disruption to other residents managed?
- Through the building's own permit process: agreed working hours, protected routes, booked lifts, dust and noise control, and a single point of contact for management.
- Do you deliver duplex and multi-floor penthouses?
- Yes, including internal staircases, double-height joinery and terrace works where the building allows them.
Start
Discuss your residence.
Tell us where the property is, what condition it is in and how you want to use it. We will tell you honestly what it needs.