Contact
Tell us about the house.
Ideally with the location, the year it was built and what bothers you about it. We reply within two working days — including when the reply is that we have no capacity just now.
Inquiry
A few photographs and, if you have one, an old floor plan help more than a long description. Whether we can take the project on, we say early and plainly.
The office
Address
Wheeler Kesteven Architects LLP26 Commercial Street, third floorPortland, ME 04101, United StatesStaircase B, bell at the top. Ten minutes on foot from the ferry terminal along the waterfront; parking in the yard by arrangement.
On the finished website, tapping the map opens the visitor's own maps app. This demo deliberately loads nothing from third parties.
How Awelior would approach this project
Wheeler Kesteven Architects is invented — the way it is built is not. None of this is work delivered for a client. It is the shape we would give such a project — with the same depth, but without a client who would have to answer for it.
Where it starts
Wheeler Kesteven Architects work on housing and on existing buildings, across all nine work stages. Anyone commissioning them either has a plot or a house that should stay — and in both cases rarely knows what an architect actually does. So the site has to do two things at once: show work and explain scope.
Decisions
Projects on their own page, not as an endless gallery
The home page carries a selection; the full gallery sits one level down. That leaves room for the text about how the practice works — the first thing to disappear on a pure image page.
Work stages written out
“Work stages 1 to 9” tells a client nothing. So the services page sets them out as a sequence of steps, with expandable questions covering exactly the points that always come up in a first meeting.
A quiet archetype, but muted color
The same restrained archetype as the law firm, with a different palette and a motif built from plan, elevation and section. Two businesses share the attitude and part company in the imagery.
Deliberately left outNo named client quotes and no price range. A fee depends on construction cost and scope; a number on the website would either be wrong or so hedged that it says nothing.
What is in it
- Pages
- 5
- Content blocks
- 22
- Languages
- 4
Five pages, in all four languages. Navigation, the gallery with its enlarged view and the expandable questions all respond. Indicated only: every project image — schematic drawings stand in for photographs, because an invented practice has no real buildings.
How it would go on
Project pages instead of captions
Each project with its own page: brief, existing fabric, intervention, figures, photographer and clearance. That is the real scope of work for an architecture practice.
Image rights
Architectural photography is licensed. Using it means usage rights, credits, and an archive that still proves both a few years later.
Applications
The news list attracts graduates. Behind it belongs a route by which portfolios actually arrive, without a mailbox failing on a file size.
Something like this for your business?
This demo took a few days. Your real site gets your content, your brand and your inquiry flow.
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