Our ServicesClarity, confidence, and momentum in project delivery.
Crux Design Studio is a design led consultancy creating intelligent, high performing environments that deliver measurable business value. We integrate strategy, architecture, interiors, technology, and engineering from the outset, shaping clarity early so complexity, cost, and risk are reduced. The result is work that is visually distinctive, operationally robust, and commercially effective, giving our clients confidence, pride, and lasting return on investment.
What Sets Us ApartOur services are built around a disciplined methodology aligned to the RIBA Plan of Work. We focus on what matters most at each stage, so projects progress smoothly, responsibilities remain clear, and design intent is carried through from strategy to site.
Strategic from the Start
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We begin by deepening our understanding of how your teams work. Then, we align design with your ambition, operational needs, and long-term direction.
Scalable Teams with Sector Expertise
Specialists in Innovation Workplaces
Technology-Led Delivery
Design-Led. Client-First. Always.
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We design secure, agile, and people-focused workplaces that enable innovation. Our experience spans engineering R&D centres, game development studios, cloud-based businesses, and hybrid headquarters.
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Our REVIT modelling and coordination workflows ensure seamless collaboration, accuracy, and delivery confidence across every stage.
Global Design Frameworks
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We assemble the right mix of specialists across design, engineering, compliance, and infrastructure to deliver fully integrated workplace environments.
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We adapt to your timeline and priorities without pressure. Unlike design-and-build firms, we protect the integrity of the design from the start - ensuring clarity, alignment, and a smoother delivery. Many design-and-build teams partner with us to lead the complex early stages so they can focus on execution.
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We develop workplace playbooks or guidelines that promote consistency, speed, and quality across locations, making approvals easier and outcomes more predictable.
Our Methodology
A clear structure that supports confident decision making and consistent delivery. A clear structure that supports confident decision making and consistent delivery.
Strategy
We establish clarity before design begins. Business objectives, building selection, operational needs, budget, and programme are aligned into a clear brief that removes ambiguity early.
Delivery Oversight
Design Development
Technical Documentation
We translate strategy into coordinated design solutions. Spatial planning, experience, and technical considerations are resolved together, ensuring designs are ambitious, realistic, and ready to progress.
We define what is required for pricing and delivery. Design intent is clearly documented and coordinated so procurement is accurate and downstream risk is reduced.
We provide continuity as projects move into construction. Through review, advice, and client support, we help ensure decisions made early are carried through delivery.
What Clients Value
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“I’ve realised our work is much about people as it is about design. We’re here to help uncover your unique interior style; to give you the confidence to be braver and bolder with your design decisions. Together, we can create a space that truly reflects your brand and who you are as a business.”
- Heather Saunders, Founder | Principle
Architecture & Interior DesignStage 3 design delivery with oversight through construction.
Crux Design Studio is a design led consultancy creating intelligent, high performing environments that deliver measurable business value. We integrate strategy, architecture, interiors, technology, and engineering from the outset, shaping clarity early so complexity, cost, and risk are reduced.
Crux provides architecture and interior design services through RIBA Stage 3. From Stage 4 onwards, we remain closely involved as design guardian and client advocate. Our strength lies in assembling and integrating the right specialist partners for each project - spanning engineering, cost, technology, branding, and delivery - ensuring informed decisions, clear communication, and a coherent design vision from concept through to completion.
ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR DESIGN
Crux delivers architecture and interior design services through RIBA Stage 3, providing the clarity and coordination needed to move confidently into delivery.
We develop well resolved, build ready designs that balance ambition with realism. By aligning brief, budget, and technical considerations early, we provide a clear platform for procurement and construction.
From Stage 4 onwards, Crux remains involved as design oversight and client champion. We support the client through procurement, construction, and handover by reviewing proposals, responding to design queries, and advising on design intent as the project progresses.
A key part of our value lies in how we assemble project teams. Crux brings together trusted specialist partners tailored to each project, including engineering, cost, technology, building code, furniture, content, branding, and delivery expertise. Partners are selected for the stage, scale, and context of the work, ensuring the right input at the right time. Specialist partners are typically appointed directly by the client or as part of the wider consultant team.
Clients value working with Crux because it feels considered and collaborative. Decisions are informed, communication is clear, and the design vision remains coherent as projects move from concept to completion.
“You will be proud to learn that we’ve received so many glowing comments from our customers (such as Amazon and other top shelf companies) on the design and functionality of our Uxbridge office. The team are thriving there and we’ve been asked many times to showcase the office spaces to prospective tenants looking to move into the Charter Building. Bravo and thanks again for your great vision.”
- Jon Harrison, Intellian
WORKPLACE STRATEGY & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Great workplaces begin with a clear understanding of people, culture, and ambition.
Crux’s workplace strategy and change management service helps organisations define what success looks like before design begins. We work closely with leadership and stakeholders to translate business objectives, ways of working, and future plans into a clear strategic brief.
This foundation allows design to move forward with purpose and ensures change is understood, supported, and embraced.
Workplace Strategy & Change ManagementWe align people, space, and decisions before design begins.
We work with leadership and stakeholders to define a clear vision for success before design begins—aligning business objectives, culture, and future ways of working into a robust strategic brief. This upfront clarity ensures that design decisions are purposeful, change is clearly communicated and supported, and the resulting workplace performs as intended—enhancing experience, enabling performance, and giving organisations confidence as they evolve.
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“I would highly recommend working with Crux. They bring creativity, reliability, and a deep understanding of both design and delivery, ensuring every project meets the highest standards. Whether tackling a complex engineering environment or a refined workplace design, Crux consistently delivers outcomes that are aligned with brand vision and responsive to local context.”
- Frances Chappelow, JLR
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Crux provides workplace strategy and change management that creates clarity early and supports confident delivery. By aligning leadership, defining performance priorities, and guiding decision making, we reduce resistance, accelerate progress, and ensure design solutions are supported through delivery and beyond.
Global Guidelines & PlaybooksConsistency, efficiency, and confidence at portfolio scale.
A well-crafted set of global guidelines ensures your spaces reflect a shared vision, while allowing room for regional flexibility. We work closely with your teams to define the spatial standards, visual language, and design principles that bring your workplace strategy to life across geographies.
GLOBAL GUIDELINES & PLAYBOOKS
For organisations delivering multiple projects, clarity and consistency are powerful enablers.
Crux global guidelines and playbooks capture knowledge and translate it into a clear framework for delivery across regions and partners. They support faster project start up, more reliable pricing, and consistent outcomes, while allowing flexibility for local context.
The result is a system that empowers teams, simplifies decision making, and supports confident growth.
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When we hired Heather and Crux, we knew that she was a smart and stylish designer. However, my anxiety was about Care City’s circumstances and requirements. We didn’t have a large budget, and we also did not want a plush or luxurious office. I need not have worried. Heather was extremely responsive to our brief and priorities, and curious to understand our team, organisation and work as deeply as possible, to create a space right for us. Heather rolled with the process of us changing our mind or simply not knowing the answers she needed, in a way that supported us to learn and build confidence through the process."
- Jon Harrison, Intellian
Crux creates global design guidelines and playbooks that give organisations clarity, consistency, and confidence at portfolio scale. Built to be robust yet flexible, our guidelines allow for local context while simplifying decision-making, empowering teams, and enabling confident, scalable growth.
HOW THE SERVICES WORK TOGETHER
A connected approach from strategy to site.
Workplace strategy establishes a clear foundation. Architecture and interior design translate that clarity into a coordinated Stage 3 design. Global guidelines and playbooks ensure the same principles are applied consistently across a wider portfolio.
Through design oversight and client championing from Stage 4 to 6, Crux provides continuity and confidence as projects move into delivery.
Together, this creates a calmer, more predictable experience for clients and project teams, and a better outcome for the people who use the spaces.
This is how Crux helps organisations move forward with clarity, confidence, and control.
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