DI-STIL is the consultancy vehicle for Andy Puncher, an Architect and Design Director with over 20 years’ experience working closely with Developers and Investment Funds delivering medium to large scale projects across London and the Southeast. 

Andy has extensive experience working with funders, clients, architects and local authorities across all sectors, including residential, co-living, student housing, mixed use, and science and technology focussed projects. This experience  has afforded him a unique insight into the viable design and delivery of projects of all scales, from listed building retro-fits to city wide masterplans. 

Through DI-STIL Andy works with client teams as a consultant Design Director to interrogate site opportunities, develop briefs, input into, challenge and advocate design responses throughout the planning process, to ultimately ensure that all opportunities are explored, and maximum commercial, contextual and social value is delivered. 

Although often seen as being mutually exclusive, commercial, contextual, and social value need to be symbiotically linked to deliver the buildings, place making, diversity of uses and levels of affordability our cities and our society need. 

High quality place making and design is central to achieving this symbiosis. More than ever, we need to look beyond pattern books and spreadsheets to develop site specific forensically responsive buildings which can more closely respond to the opportunities each site and brief can deliver. In doing so we can sustainably offer an intensification and densification to raise profitability sufficiently to facilitate the required investment to achieve this. 

By investing more thought into developing and challenging briefs and design responses at the outset, and throughout the evolution of projects, clearer narratives can be distilled. This results in more focussed contextual architectural solutions which ease planning processes and ultimately deliver higher social and economic returns.

Following his selection by the Architects’ Journal as one of the winners of the ’40 under 40’ competition, Andy Puncher co-founded pH+ Architects in 2005, maximising site values through the delivery of complex contextually and socially focussed planning consents.  

Over 18 years, pH+ developed a reputation as one of the leading commercial architectural practices in the UK which was recognised through their selection as Housing Architect of the Year and a collection of British Homes, Housing Design and RIBA awards.

Since pH+, Andy has become the design lead on large scale life science and mixed-use schemes as client side Design Director for Lateral and Fabrix. He is also the UK Development Director for Australian Investment Fund, Solido Capital, leading on the acquisition and planning delivery of developments in the UK.

Alongside these roles, Andy is a member of the Haringey, GLA Bishopsgate and Tower Hamlets Quality Review Panels which he also Chairs. 

A focus on contextual high quality place making has been recognised through a number of industry awards which include:

2000:  AJ Small Projects and Blueprint Award:  Winner: Bradbury Street Market Stalls (Hawkins/Brown)

2005: 40 under 40: Exhibition and Publication

2016: London Design Award: Winner: The Milkshake Tree (pH+)

2018: BD AYA Housing Architect of the year : Winner (pH+)

Haringey Design Award  : Winner : Pinnacle N10 (pH+) 

2019: Planning Awards : Placemaking : Winner :  Hackney Wick and Fish Island  (pH+)

2020: British Homes Award : Homebuilder and Small Development of the year : Winner : Old Ford Road (pH+)

2021: Haringey Design Award : Excellent Homes : Winner : Archway Road (pH+) 

British Homes Award : Development of the Year : Winner : Archway Road (pH+)

Housing Design Award : Completed Project Winner: Old Ford Road (pH+)

2023: RIBA Award : Winner: Waterfield (pH+)