DIRECTOR, ECO ARCHITECT GEORGE MORGAN

George founded One Point Five Architecture in 2019 as an architecture practice with sustainability central to the design process.

George has 14 years experience at leading architectural practices. These include BD’s Young Architect of the Year 2006, Nord Architecture in Glasgow, and recently ten years at leading London practice Coffey Architects, rising to the position of Associate.

George has led a wide range of projects, from award-winning domestic projects and small public buildings, to large and complex mixed use urban masterplanning and housing projects.

He is a Certified Passivhaus Designer, and is a regular commentator on issues of design, planning and sustainability in the architectural press and public events. Since 2020 George has been co-hosting the Architect’s Journal’s Climate Champions podcast, talking to designers, educators and campaigners about all aspects of sustainable building.

SELECTED PREVIOUS PROJECTS at COFFEY ARCHITECTS

Residential projects George worked on as project architect at Coffey Architects included the Brick by Brick Croydon Smaller Sites Programme, where efficient typologies maximise the capacity of estate infill and garage sites by minimising planning issues like overlooking. These are used in LB Croydon’s Suburban Design Guide as design exemplars.

George also worked on mixed use projects, like 70 homes with artists’ studios and gallery space at London Square Bermondsey, and a combination of designer-maker studio spaces, a council depot, retail, 105 homes and a remodelled 1950s library at Holborn Library & Cockpit Yard brought opportunities to enrich the experience of the place by careful arrangement of activities.

George also worked as project architect on a number of small public buildings like the BFI Reuben Library, and St Patrick’s School Library, which won the 2011 RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize for the best building in the UK under £1m, and in the award winning domestic projects he helped design and deliver. These included working on historic and listed buildings, such as at Strand Aparthotel where the scheme improves the significance of the adjacent Grade I listed Somerset House which was key to winning planning permission to redevelop this highly sensitive heritage site.

Images courtesy of Coffey Architects. Copyright Coffey Architects / Tim Soar