Brisco Loran is an architecture practice based in London designing spaces for living, work, and the arts. We work with the public sector, communities, institutions, and individuals to deliver projects ranging from housing to furniture.

The practice is an appointee of the Greater London Authority’s framework for Architecture & Urbanism (A+U) as one of eleven specialist practices selected to offer ‘Small Sites Housing’ design to councils, housing associations, and public sector organisations across the city.

In 2024 Brisco Loran was selected as the winner of Building Design magazine’s prestigious Young Architect of the Year Award.

Thom Brisco, Director

Thom set up practice in 2016 following periods working with Jamie Fobert and Duggan Morris Architects where he gathered experience in the design of both housing and spaces for art. Expanding on this base, he has since worked with homeowners and community-led housing groups to deliver characterful and affordable low-energy homes across the UK.

In addition, he combines practice with teaching, leading a master’s unit at the Kingston School of Art, alongside teaching partner Aoife Donnelly. Thom is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art and University of Sheffield. He is a director at Brisco Loran. 

Pandora Loran, Director

Pandora Loran was born in Bristol and raised in Bath, where she was lucky to soak up the stoney streets of the Georgian city, before undertaking the one-year art foundation course at nearby Wiltshire College. She left the city to study architecture at Kingston School of Art and gathered experience working with Veldwerk Architecten at Antwerp in Belgium.

Graduating with first class honours between the lockdowns of 2020, she undertook the self-build of the practice’s ‘Market Street Studio’ project before joining with Thom as a director of Brisco Loran.

She has since completed a series of projects working with protected historic buildings in London and Bath. Acting as both designer and builder, she has recently delivered the studio’s Costa’s Barbers project in Battersea. Today Pandora combines practice with a hands-on position as the principal maintenance worker at the Kenneth Wood-designed Stanley Picker House in Kingston.

Recent collaborators of the practice include Tiril Berg, Sophie Hazeldine, Samuel Us, Junko Suetake, James Alder & Duncan Blackmore.