about us
Drew Architects (Pty) Ltd is a medium-sized, multi-disciplinary, boutique design business with a studio in Parktown North, Johannesburg and in Constantia, Cape Town.
In our former lives we were partners in large commercial firms in the UK and South Africa and have collectively gathered 40+ years of diverse project experience. We have expertise in the following project types: commercial; leisure; hospitality; industrial; educational; sports; retail; aviation; and residential. Our diverse residential experience includes residential estates, multi-storey and multi-unit residential developments to luxury homes and holiday homes. We have delivered a wide range of projects in SA and beyond with contract values of up to R300m.
We are a group of skilled creative thinkers who thrive on delivering innovative, beautiful and environmentally responsible design solutions to meet and exceed our clients diverse needs and expectations.
We are currently working in 4 provinces of South Africa, in Mauritius and in the UK but also have significant experience working in southern, central and west Africa.
In our former lives we were partners in large commercial firms in the UK and South Africa and have collectively gathered 40+ years of diverse project experience. We have expertise in the following project types: commercial; leisure; hospitality; industrial; educational; sports; retail; aviation; and residential. Our diverse residential experience includes residential estates, multi-storey and multi-unit residential developments to luxury homes and holiday homes. We have delivered a wide range of projects in SA and beyond with contract values of up to R300m.
We are a group of skilled creative thinkers who thrive on delivering innovative, beautiful and environmentally responsible design solutions to meet and exceed our clients diverse needs and expectations.
We are currently working in 4 provinces of South Africa, in Mauritius and in the UK but also have significant experience working in southern, central and west Africa.
our values + mission
Mutual respect, trust, integrity and quality are the cornerstones of our business.
We are about adding real, meaningful, measurable value.
If our buildings are not beautiful, functional, don’t inspire, are not thought-provoking or do not resonate with people we have not done our job.
We sincerely believe what we do can bring positive change to the world.
We are fuelled by our passion to make a difference - we love what we do and it shows.
In design we believe one’s greatest investment is timelessness.
We understand and appreciate that what we do is ultimately not about buildings but about people and relationships.
We are creative free thinkers but are also detail-orientated. We are meticulous in our architectural process. Our objective is to deliver solutions which are beautiful and timeless whilst at the same time innovative and pragmatic.
Our architectural approach is rooted in authenticity and context. We believe the success of buildings lies in their relationship with their people, their site, climate and broader context. We endeavour to craft our buildings in order to connect people with their surroundings because we believe connecting people with nature in simple, varied and interesting ways instils a profound sense of wellbeing in the human spirit.
All work that leaves our studio does so with confidence and pride.
We challenge the traditional and outdated paradigm of the large, cumbersome architectural practice.
We have consciously structured our business to offer a perfectly weighted solution of energy, experience and expertise combined with passion and innovation. Our intention is to deliver a personal, professional, peace of mind service to every client.
At Drew Architects we are about exceeding expectations.
We are about adding real, meaningful, measurable value.
If our buildings are not beautiful, functional, don’t inspire, are not thought-provoking or do not resonate with people we have not done our job.
We sincerely believe what we do can bring positive change to the world.
We are fuelled by our passion to make a difference - we love what we do and it shows.
In design we believe one’s greatest investment is timelessness.
We understand and appreciate that what we do is ultimately not about buildings but about people and relationships.
We are creative free thinkers but are also detail-orientated. We are meticulous in our architectural process. Our objective is to deliver solutions which are beautiful and timeless whilst at the same time innovative and pragmatic.
Our architectural approach is rooted in authenticity and context. We believe the success of buildings lies in their relationship with their people, their site, climate and broader context. We endeavour to craft our buildings in order to connect people with their surroundings because we believe connecting people with nature in simple, varied and interesting ways instils a profound sense of wellbeing in the human spirit.
All work that leaves our studio does so with confidence and pride.
We challenge the traditional and outdated paradigm of the large, cumbersome architectural practice.
We have consciously structured our business to offer a perfectly weighted solution of energy, experience and expertise combined with passion and innovation. Our intention is to deliver a personal, professional, peace of mind service to every client.
At Drew Architects we are about exceeding expectations.
company profile
Drew Architects is made up of a group of young, highly trained, experienced and like-minded individuals. We all cut our teeth working our way to the top of large, respected design firms in both South Africa and the United Kingdom prior to founding Drew Architects in 2008.
Drew was created to deliver quality with integrity and excellence with humility.
Our objective is to offer a return to personal relationships and a return to craft but to deliver innovation, contemporary thinking and timeless design. We have not forgotten the value inherent in engaging with a problem with pen and paper but we also leverage the advances made available to us by cutting edge computer software, technology and building materials. We utilise cutting edge 3D modelling and animation software because we understand that buildings are inherently 3-dimensional objects and therefore better conceived, presented, resolved and documented in 3-dimensions.
Andrew Payne is the founder and Managing Director of Drew Architects (Pty) Ltd. Andrew gained experience in several leading firms of architects and was most recently a former partner at one of the largest commercial firms in Southern Africa where he assumed the lead design and project architect role on several diverse residential, leisure and commercial projects with contract values of up to R300m in several different countries. Prior to that Andrew gained valuable international experience as a design architect in a prominent firm of architects based in London, UK. Andrew is head of new business and the creative director.
The balance of leadership in the practice is held with Dale Steele and Andrew Crewe-Brown. Both former partners of their respective practices, Dale Steele is a qualified architect with 15+ years experience and heads design development, presentation and is our resident IT and 3D modelling genius. Andrew Crewe-Brown is a qualified architect with 20+ years experience is a skilled all-rounder, highly capable across design, documentation and construction detail and is our in-house contract law and management guru.
Leadership is supported by candidate architects, architectural technologists as well as architectural interns who we take pride in mentoring throughout their post-graduate architectural studies.
In addition, Drew also shares collaborative relationships with several firms of architects, interior designers, quantity surveyors, engineers, landscape architects and documentation specialists with whom we collaborate on a project by project demand basis.
Drew was created to deliver quality with integrity and excellence with humility.
Our objective is to offer a return to personal relationships and a return to craft but to deliver innovation, contemporary thinking and timeless design. We have not forgotten the value inherent in engaging with a problem with pen and paper but we also leverage the advances made available to us by cutting edge computer software, technology and building materials. We utilise cutting edge 3D modelling and animation software because we understand that buildings are inherently 3-dimensional objects and therefore better conceived, presented, resolved and documented in 3-dimensions.
Andrew Payne is the founder and Managing Director of Drew Architects (Pty) Ltd. Andrew gained experience in several leading firms of architects and was most recently a former partner at one of the largest commercial firms in Southern Africa where he assumed the lead design and project architect role on several diverse residential, leisure and commercial projects with contract values of up to R300m in several different countries. Prior to that Andrew gained valuable international experience as a design architect in a prominent firm of architects based in London, UK. Andrew is head of new business and the creative director.
The balance of leadership in the practice is held with Dale Steele and Andrew Crewe-Brown. Both former partners of their respective practices, Dale Steele is a qualified architect with 15+ years experience and heads design development, presentation and is our resident IT and 3D modelling genius. Andrew Crewe-Brown is a qualified architect with 20+ years experience is a skilled all-rounder, highly capable across design, documentation and construction detail and is our in-house contract law and management guru.
Leadership is supported by candidate architects, architectural technologists as well as architectural interns who we take pride in mentoring throughout their post-graduate architectural studies.
In addition, Drew also shares collaborative relationships with several firms of architects, interior designers, quantity surveyors, engineers, landscape architects and documentation specialists with whom we collaborate on a project by project demand basis.
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