Nicholas Elias.
Foster + Partners. Apple HQ. Your home.
Nick is a RIBA-registered architect and a RIBA Silver Medal winner — the highest student honour in UK architecture. Before founding Nick Elias Architects he was Associate at Haptic and a senior designer at Foster + Partners.
Nick has led design on projects most London builders only read about: Apple HQ California, HS2 Euston, the Oslo Government Quarter, Istanbul New Airport, museum and cultural fit-outs, and a portfolio of London townhouses, terrace renovations and new builds. On every 2VP project Nick handles RIBA Plan of Work Stages 0–4 and 2VP delivers Stages 5–7 on site.
Senior designer · Apple HQ California, HS2 Euston, Istanbul New Airport.
Associate · Oslo Government Quarter, residential, cultural projects.
UK architecture's top student honour. Awarded for design excellence.
Founder · London. The practice 2VP collaborates with and recommends.
UK architecture’s highest student honour — awarded to your designer.
The RIBA Silver Medal is awarded to the most outstanding design work submitted in any year. Nick won it before founding Nick Elias Architects. Every 2VP client gets that level of design thinking — fees included in the build contract.
Six service types. One architect we collaborate with.
01Loft design & buildFrom £55k+
RIBA design included in contract. Dormer, mansard, L-shape or hip-to-gable — designed and built as one package.
Discuss this →02Extension design & buildFrom £70k+
Rear, side-return, wrap-around. Nick Elias designs to planning approval; 2VP builds on the same contract.
Discuss this →03Interior designMost requestedFrom £40k+
Full interior concept, material specification, joinery drawings, and procurement — delivered alongside the build.
Discuss this →04Kitchen designFrom £28k+
Bespoke kitchen design and specification. Any supplier. 2VP fits.
Discuss this →05New build design & buildFrom £400k+
One-off family homes and developer schemes. RIBA Stage 0–6. One contract.
Discuss this →06Office & commercialFrom £90/ft²+
Office interiors, dividers, reception areas, retail fit-out — workplace design from Nick Elias.
Discuss this →Six RIBA stages.
One team the whole way.
Written brief, site survey, feasibility confirmation, fee agreement.
3D concept, material palette, planning strategy, preliminary cost plan.
Planning application submitted. Pre-app meetings where needed. Party-wall notices served.
Full technical package: structural, MEP, Building Regulations drawings, specification.
2VP on site. Daily 5pm report. Stage payments on milestones. No trade juggling.
Snagging sign-off, O&M manual, 12-month workmanship warranty on second-fix fittings, and the optional 10-year HomePro guarantee if you have asked us to set it up.
Real finished projects.
Designed by Nick. Built by 2VP.
A working archive of designed-and-built schemes across London. Every photo is a real 2VP project — no stock images, no renders pretending to be real.
Photography · Rachel Ferriman (Amott Road) · Finbarr Fallon (46 Chester Square). Concept renders by Nick Elias Architects.
Three projects in detail.
Designed by Nick, built by 2VP.
Across London. Studio in Fulham.
Three ways to engage.
30 minutes with Nick or Vladimir. We assess the project, advise on planning strategy, and tell you if we're the right fit.
Book a callDesign fees are included in the build contract as a single line item. No separate invoice. Covers RIBA Stage 2–6 plus all applications and engineer coordination.
Get my price in 60 secondsFor clients who want Nick Elias Architects to design and gain planning, but use their own builder. Stage fees charged at RIBA Stage 2, 3, and 4.
Request a design briefThe home you actually want, finished on the date in the contract — and you watch every day of it happen from your phone.
You answer 3 questions. We do the drawings, planning, party wall, trades and snagging.
- 10% to mobilise, then weekly against work already done — with 5% held past handover: 2.5% released at practical completion and 2.5% at the end of the 12-month defects period
- £550 survey fee credited in full against your contract
- Every variation priced and signed before a penny is spent
No email needed to see your range. Quotes hold for 21 days, then materials re-price.
We are not the cheapest. If price is the only factor, we may not be the right fit — and that is fine.
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