bere:architects

Award-winning architectural practice based in London, passionately delivering the ultimate in beautiful, comfortable, high-performance and truly sustainable buildings.

bere architects

A complete redesign and build of their website with a strong focus on emphasising their amazing research and leading position within their field. We focussed on finding balance between being visually attractive and offering detailed content that would allow users to journey through the website in different levels of interest.

Discover

Develop a thorough understanding of the project, audience, and objectives to formulate a digital strategy.

Design

Craft a purposeful design to reflect the objectives and indicate the direction for the entire project.

Implement

Bring the design to life in the form of an interactive and functional prototype. Review, refine and optimise.

Develop

Incorporate implementation and technical components into a highly functional system, ready for review.

Deliver

Review, refine, test and prepare final product for deployment. Launch and plan for the future.

Discover

Develop a thorough understanding of the project, audience, and objectives to formulate a digital strategy.

Design

Craft a purposeful design to reflect the objectives and indicate the direction for the entire project.

Implement

Bring the design to life in the form of an interactive and functional prototype. Review, refine and optimise.

Develop

Incorporate implementation and technical components into a highly functional system, ready to review.

Deliver

Review, refine, test and prepare final product for deployment. Launch and plan for the future.

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Justin Bere

Director, Architect

We spent several years trying to find the right web designer to produce our new website. We were looking for a high level of experience, professionalism and innovation while avoiding big commercial web design companies with their large overheads. We wanted to work directly with a senior designer. We didn’t want our work done by junior staff in a big company.

As soon as we were introduced to Mike Zonnevijlle of Somville, we knew that we had found the person we wanted to work with because we recognised a very good designer and also someone with very high technical ability. We know from our own work that high competence in both design and technical matters is quite rare to find in a person. Mike came up with a great design and has continued to work with our feedback to develop the design, responding openly and promptly at all times. He has made the new site work on different viewing formats, has maximised its visibility across the web, and has negotiated with our host company to move our site to the latest generation of cloud server to achieve a faster website, significantly reducing our web-hosting costs at the same time.

It has been a pleasure to work with Mike from start to end of the process. He has made the whole process so very smooth. We are delighted with the results which make the most of the professional photographs we have invested in over the years, while also providing what we think will prove to be an excellent platform for getting across the core message of what we stand for.