Experienced multi award-winning practice in a broad sector range, with specific expertise of innovatively rejuvenating Listed buildings. Client-focussed approach of open-minded collaboration explores fresh solutions for long-term socially/environmentally sustainable value.
Renato Benedetti formed Benedetti Architects in 2016 following 20 years of award-winning success as McDowell+Benedetti Architects.
We are ‘client-focussed’, putting our energy into an open-minded collaborative approach, exploring disparate possibilities to tease out fresh solutions that add value. Our design expertise covers an unusually wide range of project sectors, types and scales, with one constant – it takes a good client to make a great project.
Clients appreciate our ability to listen, clear thinking and enthusiasm. This has meant we’ve built long-standing relationships with an equally diverse range of public and private sector clients over several projects.
Our 2021 sensitive, bold £34m redesign & expansion of BAFTA’s Listed Piccadilly HQ, with 10 awards to date, is of similar complexity & scale to our recent competition win to redesign the RIBA headquarters at 66 Portland Place. We’re honoured by the responsibility to help restore this iconic institution to holistic, inclusive, sustainable relevance.
Our approach has resulted in winning many prestigious national/international awards and competitions and having our work published widely in the UK and abroad, in articles, books, on radio and TV.
Renato Benedetti’s public profile includes roles on Design Review Panels in London for Southwark, Richmond/Wandsworth, Lewisham, and as a Design Council CABE national Built Environment Expert. He’s also an RIBA client advisor and competition judge, is on the Architecture Club committee and was a founding committee member of the London Festival of Architecture. He lectures and teaches in the UK and abroad.
We are focused on social, environmental, and economically sustainable outcomes. We enjoy collaborating with other architects, artists, craftspeople, and communities to create buildings and places that add value.