Our Services
DSDHA's architecture is always evolving: for us each project is a bespoke response to a unique brief, which develops through dialogue with our clients, stakeholders and collaborators as well as with the ultimate users of our designs.
Our projects span from macro-scaled urban strategies and infrastructure studies through to highly acclaimed individual crafted buildings, which celebrate the act of making and materiality within architecture. These projects have evolved through a unique design methodology that deploys tactics developed across 15 years of parallel research in academia and on the ground.
Known for our high-profile urban strategies, landscapes and innovative buildings, often in complex and sensitive environments, as well as widely-acclaimed research, DSDHA have been recognised with 20 RIBA Awards to date, shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize, and twice nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The studio is heavily involved in education, currently teaching at a number of institutions, including the University of Navarra in Spain and the RCA and LSA in London.
Our projects span from macro-scaled urban strategies and infrastructure studies through to highly acclaimed individual crafted buildings, which celebrate the act of making and materiality within architecture. These projects have evolved through a unique design methodology that deploys tactics developed across 15 years of parallel research in academia and on the ground.
Known for our high-profile urban strategies, landscapes and innovative buildings, often in complex and sensitive environments, as well as widely-acclaimed research, DSDHA have been recognised with 20 RIBA Awards to date, shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize, and twice nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The studio is heavily involved in education, currently teaching at a number of institutions, including the University of Navarra in Spain and the RCA and LSA in London.
People
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Deborah Saunt
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David Hills
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Tom Greenall
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Martin Pearson
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Isabel Moreira
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Lee McKinley
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Aga Szedzianis
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Anne Wynne
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Michael Breen
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Michael O'Hanlon
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Sanket Ghatalia
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David Grant
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Kyle Gudsell
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Nicole Abernethy
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Chris Storie
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Drew Yates
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Jason Sam
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Jack Moreton
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Seyi Brown
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Agnieszka Kolacinska
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Guy Mills
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James Mackenzie
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Fern Roberts
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Shaw Ian Labrianidis-Kenny
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Iara Silva
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Dan Teigan
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Daria Szmucer
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Shutian Zhou
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Carlos Huerta Fernandez
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Jack Parker
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Jonathan Law
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Rachel Leong
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Ben Child
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Mae Ghali
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Oli Gabe
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Enzo Vellin
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Connor Curley
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Wenchi Fang
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Biying Wang
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Olivia Pemberton
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Blair Kern
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Mohammed Amin Akalay
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Jieyi Lu
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Francis Cheung
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Sue Yan
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Beyyinah Ahmed
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Laura Noble
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Reece Oliver
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Jayne Mclver
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Hodan Buhari
Collaborators
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Jane Withers
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Brompton Design District
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Today Bread
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M-L-XL
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Global Generation
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Edmund de Waal
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Leroy Street Studio
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Martin Richman
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Wirtz International
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Studio Engleback
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FKA Architecture + Interiors
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London First
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Transport for London
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Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
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Studio Nathan Coley
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LDA Design
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Anthony Thresh
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Inconserca
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Polytechnic University of Valencia
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Turley
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Atelier Ten
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AKTII
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Studio Dekka
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Adam Khan Architects
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Duggan Morris Architects
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Hayhurst & Co.
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dRMM Architects
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Project Orange
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Becky Cocks
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Bompass and Parr
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Sir John Soane's Museum
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Channel 4
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FFLO
Awards
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National Youth Theatre
- Dezeen Awards 2023 - Shortlisted
- RIBA National Award 2023 - Shortlisted
- RIBA London Award 2023 - Winner
- London Planning Awards 2022 - Winner
- AJ Retrofit Awards 2022 - Winner
- MacEwen Award 2022 - Shortlisted
- ArchDaily 2022 Building of the Year Award - Nominated
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Exchange Square
- AIA UK Excellence in Design Awards 2024 - Shortlisted
- Pro Landscaper Sustainability and Biodiversity Awards 2023 - Winner
- New London Awards 2023 - Shortlisted
- Dezeen Awards 2023 - Longlisted
- WCCA City Building of the Year Award 2023 - Winner
- [d]arc awards 2022 Spaces High Budget - Winner
- RIBA London Award 2023 - Shortlisted
- BALI National Landscape Awards 2022 - Grand Award Winner
- Surface Design Awards 2023 - Finalist
- The Pineapples 2022 - Shortlisted
- Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2021
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Norton Folgate
- London Construction Awards 2024- Shortlisted
- Community Initiative of the Year - BCI Awards 2024 - Shortlisted
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The Hickman
- London Planning Awards 2022 - Winner
- AJ Retrofit Awards 2021 - Shortlisted
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Central Somers Town
- Building Awards - Delivering Social Value 2020, Winner
- National Urban Design Awards 2019, Finalist
- London Planning Awards 2018, Winner
- NLA Awards 2017, Finalist
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The Mansion, Marylebone Lane
- UK Property Awards 2019: Best Architecture Multiple Residence London - Winner
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Smithson Plaza
- London Planning Awards 2019, Finalist
- AJ Retrofit Awards 2019, Shortlisted
- World Architecture Festival 2017, Shortlisted
- RA Summer Exhibition 2017
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West End Public Realm
- Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2019
- NLA Awards 2017:Best Public Space - Winner
- Planning Awards 2017 - Highly Commended
- The London Planning Awards 2017 - Finalist
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Piccadilly
- World Architecture Festival 2018, Finalist
- London Planning Awards 2018/2019, Shortlisted
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Link Primary School
- NLA Award 2018, Winner
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Greenwich Community Building
- Constructing Excellence SECBE Awards 2018, Finalist
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Abell & Cleland
- RIBA Award 2018, Winner
- Housing Design Awards 2018, Finalist
- London Planning Awards 2018, Winner
- London Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2017, Winner
- Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012
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Alex Monroe Workshop
- RIBA Award 2018, Winner
- NLA Award 2018, Finalist
- London Planning Awards 2018, Highly Commended
- WAF 2017, Highly Commended
- AJ Architecture Awards 2017, Finalist
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Corner House
- Camden Awards 2017, Finalist
- British Construction Industry Awards 2017, Finalist
- RIBA London Award 2016, Winner
- RIBA National Award 2016, Winner
- NLA Award 2016, Winner: Best Built Housing Scheme
- RA Summer Exhibition 2014
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Covert House
- RIBA London Award 2016, Winner
- RIBA House of the Year Award 2016, Finalist
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Davenies School
- RIBA Regional Award 2016, Winner
- RIBA National Award 2016, Winner
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Alex Monroe Studio
- Architecture Today Awards 2022, Winner
- WAF Wood Excellence Prize 2014, Winner
- RIBA London Award 2014, Winner
- Surface Awards 2014, Winner
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South Molton Street Building
- People Choice Award 2017, Finalist
- Surface Design Award 2014, Winner - Best Retail Exterior Surface
- RA Summer Exhibition 2010, Winner
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Olympic Village Building
- RA Summer Exhibition 2012
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Suffolk House
- Housing Innovation Award 2016, Winner
- National Housing Award 2015, Winner: Best Small Development
- RA Summer Exhibition 2013
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DSDHA Kennington Lane Studio
- BD Masterplanning & Public Realm AYA 2016, Highly Commended
- BD Architect of the Year 2010, Winner
- BD Education Architect of the Year 2010, Winner
- AR Emerging Architecture Awards 2008, Finalist
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Christ's College
- European Union Mies van der Rohe Award 2011, Finalist
- Stirling Prize 2010, Finalist
- RIBA Awards 2010, Winner
- Brick Awards 2010, Supreme Winner
- Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award for the Best New Global Design 2012, Finalist
- Guildford Design Awards 2009, Highly Commended
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Pond Meadow School
- RIBA National Award 2009, Winner
- Brick Award 2009, Supreme Winner
- Guildford Design Awards 2009, Highly Commended
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Silver Building
- RA Summer Exhibition 2008
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St. Anne's Sure Start, Colchester
- European Union Mies van der Rohe Award 2009, Nominated
- RIBA National Awards 2008, Winner
- Colchester 2020/RIBA New Contemporary Buildings, Joint Winner
- Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award for the Best New Global Design 2009
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The Moller Centre
- RIBA Award 2009, Winner
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Potters' Fields Park Pavilions, London
- AR Emerging Architecture Award 2008, Honourable Mention
- RA Summer Exhibition 2007
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Canon Popham Fundation Unit
- RIBA Award 2008, Winner
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Paradise Park
- British Council for School Environments Award 2008, Winner
- British Construction Industry Awards 2007, Winner
- Sure Start Building of the Year Award 2006, Winner
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Hoyle Early Years
- Civic Trust 2006, Commended
- RIBA Award 2004, Winner
- British Construction Industry Awards 2004, Winner: Small Building Project
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John Perry Nursery
- American Institute of Architects Award / UK Award 2006, Winner
- RIBA Awards 2006, Winner
- British Construction Industry Awards 2006, Winner
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Hales Street House/ Studio
- RIBA Awards 2006, Winner
Clients
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Aitch Group
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Alex Monroe
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Almacantar
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Appley Properties Ltd.
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BC Partners
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BGO
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Beam
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Berkeley Homes
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Berlin Senate Department for Urban Design
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Bosideng
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British Land
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Bury LEA / CABE
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Christ's College
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Church Commissioners for England
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Churchill College, Cambridge
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Citrus Group
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City & General
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Clivedale
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Confidential
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Cosmetics à la Carte
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DSDHA
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Davenies School
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Derwent London
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Diocese of Sheffield and Hallam
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Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism
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Edmund de Waal
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Emmaus Primary School
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Firs Hill Community Primary School
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Friends of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
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GLA/ World Squares For All
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Geneva Management Group
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Gloucestershire County Council
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Great Portland Estates plc
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Grosvenor Britain & Ireland
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HAB Oakus
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Heart of London Business Alliance
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Henry Moore Foundation
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Hermès
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Hoyle Early Years Centre
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Jones, Jones, Jones & Jones Ltd.
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Kennedy Wilson Europe
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Knight Dragon
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LabTech
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Lanbury London
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Lendlease
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Link Leisure
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London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
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London Borough of Camden
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London Borough of Lambeth
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London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames
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London Borough of Southwark
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Lothbury Investment Management
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Marcol Group
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More London Ltd
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Morgan Capital
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Natasha Daintry/Egg
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National Youth Theatre
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Ocean Reef Resorts Limited
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Olympic Delivery Authority
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Portsmouth City Council
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Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
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Potters’ Field Park Pavilions
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Private Client
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Quintain
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Reef Group
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Regal London
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster
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Royal Albert Hall
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Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
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SMBL
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Sebre
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South Kensington Estates
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Southbank Employers Group
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Stanhope
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Stockwell Partnership
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SureStart & Islington Green Space
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SureStart Colchester
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Surrey County Council
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TFL
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TLC Group
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The Athenaeum
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The British Library
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The Crown Estate
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The Diocese of Westminster
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The Guinness Partnership
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The Hurlingham School
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The Link Primary School
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The Portman Estate
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The Puzzle Centre
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The Seven Dials Trust
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Tishman Speyer
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Urban Splash
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Vauxhall One
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Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
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Westminster City Council
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Westminster Real Estate
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YardNine
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York Museums Trust/ Beam
Publications
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Wallpaper*, September 2018
- A fashion shoot featuring The Smithson Plaza.
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Davenies School Featured in 100 Projects UK CLT
- We are delighted that our project for Davenies School in Buckinghamshire has been featured in 100 Projects UK CLT.
- This book is a study of 100 of the most significant buildings constructed from CLT in the United Kingdom over the past 15 years. Authors Andrew Waugh and Anthony Thistleton of Waugh Thistleton Architects have contacted a wide range of individuals and businesses to interview them about their experiences building in CLT to help inform this publication.
- The book is available to download here http://thnkwood.co/wgpokI.
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Abell and Cleland featured on Architecture Today, February 2018
- "DSDHA aims for super-density with contextual sympathy in a pair of central London residential buildings" writes Chris Forges about our recently delivered Abell & Cleland scheme in Westminster.
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100 Houses 100 Years by the Twentieth Century Society
- Corner House features in this great book documenting Britain's architectural heritage from 1914 to 2014. Through one building per year over the century, the book shows the wide range of designs that emerged and how housing styles were adapted to suit urban life.
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Inform, June 2017
- “The deliberately rough materiality hints at a di erent world of creativity and artistry setting up a new kind of dialogue with the surrounding urban bricolage. Responding to the city’s historic kinesis and how it is wrought and changed over time, DSDHA enjoys capitalising on London’s inherent quality of ‘dynamic instability’ through the exploration of scale, material and juxtaposition. Snowsfields embodied a similar dynamic, with the new stories of studios stacked above a ground-floor shop.”
- Catherine Slessor, AJ 244, May 2017
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BD Online, June 2017
- "Wilkinson Eyre arguably produced […] a beautifully intricate services drawing of Battersea Power Station where ingenuity and compromise can be seen amid the ghost infrastructure of London’s residential market. […] This is complemented by a similar study of the Economist building by DSDHA where the ‘original’ and ‘executive’ architects’ design intent is both subverted and celebrated. "
- Michael Collins
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Wohnrevue, September 2016
- Covert House featured on Wohnrevue magazine
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Architectural Record, September 2016
- Corner House is featured in Architectural Record's editorial on 21st Century housing.
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AJ on Corner House, February 2016
- The AJ publishes an extensive building study on DSDHA and Derwent London's Corner House in Fitzrovia.
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Best of Detail 2016. Building For Children
- DSDHA's Christ College in Guilford is one of the educational projects featured in the latest issue of 'Best of Detail'.
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Landscape Journal, Spring 2015
- Paul Wheeler's article 'Thinking along new lines' looks at the work of DSDHA's diploma students at CASS, who have concentrated on the introduction of HS2 in the landscape, thinking of it as an opportunity rather than a problem.
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The AJ, April 2015
- The AJ dedicates the cover and nine pages in its Building Study to Covert House; and Ellis Woodman finds anything but a bunker in this semi-underground concrete cottage.
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AJ, May 2013
- DSDHA designed the new Bosideng Shop on South Molton Street and was featured in AJ.
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RIBA Journal, Jan 2007
- This edition of the RIBA Journal included an article on the St Anne's SureStart Center.
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