Southward - Architecture & Design Studio Template
A production-grade website template for architecture, interior design, and creative studios, built to showcase work, establish authority, and convert visitors into clients.
Highlights
True Sanity Visual Editing
Click any element on the live preview to edit directly inside Sanity Studio. Pre-configured with stega encoding, draft-mode cookie handling, and a custom history adapter.
Cinematic interaction design
Full-page scroll choreography powered by GSAP and Lenis, with animated project galleries, a feature reel, custom cursor, and smooth page transitions — built dependency-light for peak performance.
Built to showcase & convert
Tailored for portfolios where visual presentation matters most, designed to present complex projects, build brand authority, and turn prospective clients into qualified inquiries.
Domain-driven document schemas
Pre-built Sanity types for Projects, Materials, Team Members, Awards, Publications, and Site Settings — with modular references, enforced alt text, and page-level SEO fields.
Studio & page-builder included
Six core document schemas, page-builder blocks, a custom Structure Builder, and pre-integrated plugins including Color Picker, Unsplash, Pexels, and Vision.
Complete page set
Home (hero + featured projects), Work Index, Project Detail, About, Services, Contact, and a custom 404 — every template a studio site needs from day one.
SEO, performance & conversion built in
Automated JSON-LD (Organization, WebPage, Breadcrumbs), dynamic Open Graph tags, canonical URLs, auto-generated sitemap.xml, Sanity CDN images, plus a production-ready inquiry form and CTA blocks.
Southward is a production-grade website template designed for architecture firms, interior design studios, and creative practices — or any high-end portfolio site built to showcase work, establish authority, and convert visitors into clients.
It handles the heavy engineering out of the box: Sanity Visual Editing and draft-mode previews wired end-to-end, deployed to Cloudflare Workers by default and adaptable to any Astro-supported SSR backend. It is not a static mockup — it is a live, CMS-backed site your clients can edit in real time.
A live CMS-backed studio site
Every section of Southward is editable through Sanity Studio. Editors click an element on the live preview and change it in place, with draft-mode previews for reviewing work before it ships.
Motion that serves the work
GSAP and Lenis choreograph full-page scrolling, animated project galleries, and smooth page transitions while keeping the JavaScript footprint deliberately small, so the cinematic feel never costs performance.
Structured for how studios actually work
Content is modeled around the domain: projects reference materials, team members, awards, and publications. Page-level SEO fields, enforced image alt text, and modular references keep the site maintainable as the practice grows.
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