We are an award winning practice working across a wide range of scales and building types including housing, domestic extensions, industrial buildings, historic building conversions and buildings for leisure and adventure. In every case we develop compelling and elegant design concepts with a focus on creating simple and distinctive building forms that are always specific to their context. Through a close engagement with our clients we ensure that our proposals exactly meet their priorities and requirements.
Ours is a collaborative and inclusive approach with an overarching aim; to create beautiful spaces that will enhance the lives of the occupants.
Managing Director, Neil Taylor joined T.A.P. in 2010 and has overseen the output of the practice since then, winning the RIAS Emerging Architect of the Year Award in 2017. Neil graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2001, with First Class Honors and the Glasgow Institute of Architecture prize. He obtained his professional qualifications at London's South Bank University in 2005 and has been a visiting tutor at Newcastle University since 2016. Based at the Shore area of Leith, Edinburgh, the practice has continuity with that founded by David Taylor in 1975 and is able to draw on the depth of knowledge obtained through forty years of experience.