The practice was founded in 2004 by Northumbrian born architect John Lonsdale and is based in both Amsterdam and Northumberland. Apart from the design of buildings the range of commissions has grown over the last few years from the scale of a table to a spatial planning strategy for Almere Oost in the Netherlands. His work is supported by the Netherlands Architecture Foundation, the Department of Landscape Architecture of the Technical University of Delft, the Dutch Water Authority and Natuurmonumenten.