When your Architect and your QS work from the same brief, nothing gets lost between them.

When your Architect and your QS work from the same brief, nothing gets lost between them.

Most firms split design from costing. The handoff between them is where projects drift. Studio 3B keeps them in the same room. same brief, same conversation, from concept to handover.

Most firms split design from costing. The handoff between them is where projects drift. Studio 3B keeps them in the same room. same brief, same conversation, from concept to handover.

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Footprint

Project Footprint

Where most projects lose the thread.

Where most projects lose the thread.

Here's what breaks down between architect and QS on most projects and what's different when they sit in the same firm.

Here's what breaks down between architect and QS on most projects and what's different when they sit in the same firm.

The Typical Project

An architect designs your vision. A separate QS prices it later. Two people interpret your brief; only one of them is in the room when it's written.

By the time the number arrives, you're attached to a design that wasn't priced. Now you're cutting features instead of making decisions.

Variations stack up because design and cost were never aligned to start with.

Two firms, two contracts, two interpretations of what you asked for.

Studio 3B Closes That Gap

Our principals lead both the architecture and the quantity surveying. The brief is interpreted once, by one team.

The people costing your project have been in every design conversation since day one. Nothing is being translated it's being co-developed.

Cost intelligence sits inside design decisions, not after them. You see trade-offs before you commit.

One firm. One accountability. One set of decisions to defend.

Architecture, quantity surveying, and interiors. One practice.

Architecture, quantity surveying, and interiors. One practice.

Architecture and quantity surveying in the same firm, on the same brief, from day one. Nothing is handed off, briefed twice, or interpreted by a second team. Every design decision is made with full cost visibility not corrected after the fact.

Architecture and quantity surveying in the same firm, on the same brief, from day one. Nothing is handed off, briefed twice, or interpreted by a second team. Every design decision is made with full cost visibility not corrected after the fact.

Architecture

From concept through construction administration. Designed for your brief, your site, and your constraints costed in real time, not after it's drawn.

Spatial planning

Detailing

Plan submissions

Quantity Surveying

Cost management embedded in design from the first conversation. Trade-offs are visible when they matter before decisions are committed, not at tender.

Cost modelling

Bills of quantities

Valuations

Interiors & Brand Architecture

Spaces designed for the people who use them. Same team, same brief, the interior doesn't argue with the architecture.

Brand architecture

Space planning

A process built around your project.

Every project moves through six stages, with architecture and cost management running together throughout.

1

Brief and site

We interpret the brief once, with architects and QS in the room together. Site evaluation and cost parameters are set before any design work begins.

2

Concept

Design options and cost models developed in parallel. You're choosing between informed trade-offs, not reacting to a number that arrived after you'd already committed.

3

Design development

Design refined through consultant coordination. Cost models update with every significant decision. Nothing is committed without visibility on what it costs.

4

Documentation

Architectural drawings and bills of quantities prepared together by the same team. The tender package is internally consistent because it was never split.

5

Construction

On-site administration, monthly valuations, cost control throughout. The team that designed it is the team managing it.

6

Handover

Final inspections, defect rectification, account reconciliation. The project closes against the brief it started with.

Selected Projects

Selected Projects

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Nordine House

Private residence. Architecture and interiors integrated from brief through handover.

BMW Supertech

Automotive workshop and showroom. Operational brief, site constraints, and brand standards resolved together.

90 Corobrik Road

Mixed-use commercial development. Architecture and cost developed in parallel from first sketch.

HQ Sandton

Commercial headquarters. Architecture, interiors, and cost management coordinated across the full project lifecycle.

Good buildings cost less to run.

Site orientation, natural ventilation, energy efficiency, locally sourced materials. Studio 3B works these into the brief from the start. A building that performs well is a better building to own.

Passive ventilation

Day 1

Energy reduction

—30%

Material sourcing

Local

COORDINATION HANDOFFS

Zero

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Architecture, cost management, and interiors from one practice. One brief. One firm. No translation lost.

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