Cameronwebster’s Glasgow studio is a pleasant place to be. The usual paraphernalia of flat screens and trilling telephones take their places in a lofty room arranged around a pool of natural light in the form of a courtyard. This room – or, more accurately, volume – is so full of daylight and long views that it is a surprise to discover that its site was previously a tenement backland, and that much of it remains a basement. These rather dreary things are now recalled only by the sensuously earthy tiles in the cloakrooms and one’s arrival down a staircase (one that seems sculpted out of oak); remarkably, and from unpromising circumstances, cameronwebster have conjured up a series of spaces where life and work can be enjoyed in what seems a special relationship to the changing sun and the sky.

As is always the case, the seeming inevitability of the spatial organisation, the abundant daylight and the effortless sense of style that pervades this place, as well as all the other examples of their work, are not easily achieved. One might mention three aspects. [continues...]