Architects Website Design Prices
Fixed prices for architecture practice websites built around the work. A custom-designed website for an architecture practice starts from £2,400, a site with an admin dashboard for adding projects yourself from £3,900, and managed hosting from £20 a month. Here is what those prices buy for a practice and what moves the quote.
What an Architecture Practice Website Costs, and Why Images Matter
Our prices are the same for every sector, because the engineering behind an architecture practice's website is no different from any other business's. Where architects differ is in what the site carries: more photography and drawings than words, a project index that has to stay fast, services mapped to the RIBA stages, planning guidance and a consultation route. All of that fits within the starting price, including the image handling that keeps a portfolio quick on a phone.
The starting price covers a site of up to around ten pages, designed from scratch around your photography and hand-coded so that images are served at the right size for every screen. The website with an admin dashboard adds a secure area where you add, reorder and retire projects, publish journal posts and update the team yourself, for practices that complete several projects a year. A wordmark or logo is quoted alongside, and the figure is fixed before we begin.
Architects Website Design Packages
Startup Website
- For architects: project case studies with large photography and drawings, RIBA-stage services and a consultation form
- Custom website design created around your brand and business goals, not a template
- Hand-built with modern technology (Next.js / React) for speed and security
- Mobile-friendly, fast-loading and search engine friendly from day one
- Contact forms, maps, galleries and the features a new business needs
- Deployed to cloud hosting or delivered via a Git repository
- Payment terms: 50% deposit, remaining 50% on completion
Website + Admin Dashboard
- For architects: add, reorder and retire projects yourself, upload photography and publish journal posts and awards
- Everything included in the Startup Website package
- Secure admin dashboard so you can update your own content
- Postgres database for your content, listings, bookings or members
- Ideal for blogs, directories, booking systems, SaaS marketing sites and member areas
- Deployed to cloud hosting or delivered via a Git repository
- Payment terms: 50% deposit, remaining 50% on completion
Optional Extras
Both can be added to either website package, or left out entirely. Hosting is only needed if you would like us to run the site for you, and logo design only if you do not already have a brand.
Managed Cloud Hosting
- Serves a photography-heavy site fast on every device, with quick changes when a project completes or a team member joins
- Your website hosted in the cloud and completely managed by us
- Keeps your site fast and secure without you lifting a finger
- Quick updates to your website whenever you need them
- Optional: host it yourself and we hand over the complete code
Logo & Brand Design
- Usually a typographic wordmark that sits quietly on drawings, title blocks, site boards and the website itself
- Logo design with the files you need for web, print and social media
- Colour palette and typography that carry through to the website
- Designed by the same team that designs your site, so everything matches
- Ask for a combined website and branding quotation
Three Typical Architects Website Projects
New practice with its first projects
A founder setting up alone: home, three to five case studies with photography or visuals and drawings, services mapped to the RIBA stages, a studio page with ARB registration and a consultation form.
Established practice replacing a template portfolio
A practice of five leaving a portfolio subscription: eight to ten pages, a filterable project index, case studies rebuilt with properly sized photography, planning guides, awards and press, and redirects from every old address.
Busy practice with a project dashboard
A practice completing several buildings a year that wants to add and reorder projects, upload photography, publish a journal and update the team itself, with an admin dashboard and consultation requests stored securely.
What the Starting Price Includes for Architects
- A custom design built around your photography and drawings, approved as mockups before any code is written.
- Up to around ten pages, typically home, a project index, case studies, services and process, planning guides, studio and contact.
- Image handling that serves every photograph at the right size for each screen, so a portfolio page stays fast on a phone.
- A consultation request form with project type, location and budget band, tested so every enquiry reaches you.
- ARB, RIBA and BIID details displayed to each body's rules, plus the search engine foundations for local and project-type searches.
- Launch to managed cloud hosting from £20 a month, sized for an image-heavy site, or the complete code handed over.
What Changes the Price of an Architecture Practice Website
- The number of projects and the volume of photography: five case studies need less work than forty with thirty images each.
- An admin dashboard for adding, reordering and retiring projects and publishing a journal yourself, which moves the project to the from £3,900 package.
- Filters by project type, drawing viewers, video and before-and-after comparisons, each quoted on scope.
- Online booking for consultations, or integrations with Houzz, Instagram or your practice management software.
- A wordmark or logo, quoted alongside the website if the practice needs one.
- Copywriting for case studies and guides, if you would rather we drafted them from your notes. Photography is always commissioned separately.
Every website is quoted individually, so the final figure depends on what your architecture practice actually needs. Our website design brief template helps you list those needs so that we can give you an accurate fixed price.
How Our Prices Compare for Architects
Architects are usually sold one of two things. Portfolio platforms and website builders offer a template for a monthly subscription, which is quick and looks acceptable until you notice that hundreds of other studios have the same layout, that your photographs are being resized by someone else's rules and that the fee never stops. Design agencies at the other end produce bespoke sites at agency prices, with agency overheads built into the quote.
A small business website from an agency commonly costs £6,000 to £20,000 or more, while experienced freelancers and small studios typically charge £2,000 to £6,000. Our architecture practice websites start from £2,400, designed and coded in-house with the image handling a portfolio needs, at a fixed price agreed before work starts, and the practice owns the finished site, design and code outright. There is no subscription, and the layout was designed for your photographs rather than everyone's.
For a wider view of the market, read our guide to how much a website costs in the UK and our comparison of custom websites and website builders.
How a Project Runs
- Your requirements. On a call, you tell us about your business, your customers and what the website needs to do, and we give you a fixed quotation.
- Logic and visuals. We plan the site structure and create visual mockups for your approval before anything is built.
- Development. We build the website, keep you updated and give you a realistic completion date.
- Testing and launch. You review the finished site on a test server, we refine it, and then we launch it or hand over the files.
Most websites take three to six weeks from brief to launch, provided the content is ready. Our guide to the website design process explains each stage, and the timescales guide shows what a typical schedule looks like.
What Clients Say About Working With Us
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Architects Website Price Questions
Is £2,400 enough for a photography-heavy architecture website?
For most practices, yes. The starting price covers up to around ten pages, and a project index with several case studies counts as part of that, with the image handling that keeps large photographs fast included. The quote rises if you have dozens of projects to migrate, want filters and drawing viewers, or need an admin dashboard to manage projects yourself, and every figure is fixed before we start.
Does the price include optimising our photographs?
Yes. You supply the photography at full resolution and we handle the rest: each image is stored once and served in the sizes and formats each device needs, with images further down a page loading only as the visitor reaches them. What we do not do is retouch or edit the photographs themselves, which stays with your photographer.
What does the admin dashboard add for an architecture practice?
A secure area where you add a new project, upload its photographs and drawings, write the case study, reorder the index so the strongest work leads, retire older projects, publish journal posts and update the team, all without a designer. It suits practices that complete several projects a year. A new practice with four projects rarely needs it at launch.
Does the price include photography or writing the case studies?
No to photography, which you commission from an architectural photographer, though we will suggest what to brief them for. Case study text is usually best written by the practice, because nobody else knows the brief and the constraints, and we provide a structure for each page so the writing is quick. If you would rather we drafted the case studies from your notes, copywriting is quoted on request.
Are there monthly costs, and how do they compare with a portfolio subscription?
The only ongoing cost is hosting from £20 a month if you host with us, which matters more for an image-heavy site because it is sized to serve large photographs quickly. A portfolio subscription looks cheaper month by month, but it continues indefinitely, the layout is shared with other studios and you cannot take the site with you, whereas ours is a one-off project you own.
Our main prices page and FAQ cover payment terms, hosting and ownership in more detail. For what the website itself should include, see architects website design, or startup architects website design if you are launching a new business.
Guides to Website Costs and Planning
Other Sectors We Work With
Prices are the same whatever you do; the pages below explain what they buy in other sectors.
Get an Exact Quote for Your Architecture Practice Website
Send us your requirements or book a call with our senior software engineer. We will tell you which package fits, what the extras would cost and how long the project will take, and we reply personally with a fixed price.