Est. 2009
New York · London · Tokyo
We Build
What Lasts.
Cement & Copper is a strategic consulting and architecture practice. We work at the intersection of raw material and refined vision — designing structures and strategies that outlast trends.
Tension
Creates
Beauty.
Founded in 2009, Cement & Copper operates at the intersection of strategic consulting and architectural practice. We believe that the most enduring work emerges from productive friction — between material and concept, between client vision and physical constraint.
Our practice spans master planning, corporate strategy, interior architecture, and organizational design — unified by a commitment to work that outlasts the moment of its making.
Our ApproachServices &
Disciplines
Five disciplines. One philosophy. We do not separate thinking from making — our consulting practice and our building practice inform each other at every stage of engagement.
We design structures where every spatial decision reflects organizational strategy. From headquarters that communicate authority to campuses that accelerate collaboration, our buildings are instruments of competitive advantage.
Drawing on spatial thinking, we redesign organizational structures, reporting hierarchies, and operational workflows. We treat your company as a building — identifying load-bearing elements and points of structural failure.
Our interior practice operates at the intersection of material culture and behavioral science. We design environments that attract talent, retain clients, and embody the brand without resorting to decoration.
We partner with developers and municipalities on projects of civic scale — mixed-use blocks, cultural institutions, and public realm interventions that generate economic value while building social capital.
Material selection is not aesthetic preference — it is a statement of values, durability, and cost philosophy. We advise clients on material strategies that balance longevity, sourcing ethics, and expressive intent.
Case Studies
Meridian Tower
Corporate Headquarters
A 42-story headquarters that encodes the client's organizational hierarchy into its spatial logic. The building's mass steps back as it rises, creating a vertical narrative of authority and openness.
Vantage Plaza
Urban Mixed-Use Development
A six-block mixed-use development anchoring a post-industrial district. Raw concrete podium with copper-clad towers. 40% affordable housing integrated without visual segregation.
Stratum Studio
Creative Campus
A creative campus for a global media company. Exposed concrete structure with copper pipe infrastructure as aesthetic system. Designed to accelerate cross-disciplinary collision.
Bastion Cultural Centre
Public Institution
A cultural institution built into a former industrial site. The existing concrete shell was retained and augmented — new copper insertions marking the threshold between old and new.
Forge Residences
Luxury Residential
Twelve residential towers organized around a shared ground plane. Concrete and copper cladding system that weathers differently over time — the building designed to improve with age.
Projects
We do not decorate.
We do not trend.
We build with the material that is honest.
We design for the client who will still be here in 30 years.
Cement holds. Copper ages well.
So should your strategy.
Marcus Veld
Founding Principal
Trained at the AA London. 22 years building structures that outlast their brief.
Sora Tanaka
Partner, Strategy
Former McKinsey. Applies organizational theory to spatial problems with uncommon precision.
Elise Moreau
Partner, Interiors
Paris-born. Obsessed with the moment material meets light. 15 years of interior practice.
Dario Conti
Director, Urban
Urban designer and planner. Believes cities are the most complex buildings ever attempted.
Diagnose
We spend the first engagement understanding what is actually wrong — not what the client thinks is wrong.
Design
Strategy and architecture developed simultaneously. The building is the argument made physical.
Deliver
We remain engaged through construction and occupancy. The work is not done until it is inhabited.
Start A
Project.
We take on a limited number of projects each year. If you are building something that should outlast you, we want to hear about it.