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.

Awards

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  1. National Youth Theatre

    1. Dezeen Awards 2023 - Shortlisted
    2. RIBA National Award 2023 - Shortlisted
    3. RIBA London Award 2023 - Winner
    4. London Planning Awards 2022 - Winner
    5. AJ Retrofit Awards 2022 - Winner
    6. MacEwen Award 2022 - Shortlisted
    7. ArchDaily 2022 Building of the Year Award - Nominated
  2. Exchange Square

    1. AIA UK Excellence in Design Awards 2024 - Shortlisted
    2. Pro Landscaper Sustainability and Biodiversity Awards 2023 - Winner
    3. New London Awards 2023 - Shortlisted
    4. Dezeen Awards 2023 - Longlisted
    5. WCCA City Building of the Year Award 2023 - Winner
    6. [d]arc awards 2022 Spaces High Budget - Winner
    7. RIBA London Award 2023 - Shortlisted
    8. BALI National Landscape Awards 2022 - Grand Award Winner
    9. Surface Design Awards 2023 - Finalist
    10. The Pineapples 2022 - Shortlisted
    11. Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2021
  3. Norton Folgate

    1. London Construction Awards 2024- Shortlisted
    2. Community Initiative of the Year - BCI Awards 2024 - Shortlisted
  4. The Hickman

    1. London Planning Awards 2022 - Winner
    2. AJ Retrofit Awards 2021 - Shortlisted
  5. Central Somers Town

    1. Building Awards - Delivering Social Value 2020, Winner
    2. National Urban Design Awards 2019, Finalist
    3. London Planning Awards 2018, Winner
    4. NLA Awards 2017, Finalist
  6. The Mansion, Marylebone Lane

    1. UK Property Awards 2019: Best Architecture Multiple Residence London - Winner
  7. Smithson Plaza

    1. London Planning Awards 2019, Finalist
    2. AJ Retrofit Awards 2019, Shortlisted
    3. World Architecture Festival 2017, Shortlisted
    4. RA Summer Exhibition 2017
  8. West End Public Realm

    1. Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2019
    2. NLA Awards 2017:Best Public Space - Winner
    3. Planning Awards 2017 - Highly Commended
    4. The London Planning Awards 2017 - Finalist
  9. Piccadilly

    1. World Architecture Festival 2018, Finalist
    2. London Planning Awards 2018/2019, Shortlisted
  10. Greenwich Community Building

    1. Constructing Excellence SECBE Awards 2018, Finalist
  11. Abell & Cleland

    1. RIBA Award 2018, Winner
    2. Housing Design Awards 2018, Finalist
    3. London Planning Awards 2018, Winner
    4. London Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2017, Winner
    5. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012
  12. Alex Monroe Workshop

    1. RIBA Award 2018, Winner
    2. NLA Award 2018, Finalist
    3. London Planning Awards 2018, Highly Commended
    4. WAF 2017, Highly Commended
    5. AJ Architecture Awards 2017, Finalist
  13. Corner House

    1. Camden Awards 2017, Finalist
    2. British Construction Industry Awards 2017, Finalist
    3. RIBA London Award 2016, Winner
    4. RIBA National Award 2016, Winner
    5. NLA Award 2016, Winner: Best Built Housing Scheme
    6. RA Summer Exhibition 2014
  14. Covert House

    1. RIBA London Award 2016, Winner
    2. RIBA House of the Year Award 2016, Finalist
  15. Davenies School

    1. RIBA Regional Award 2016, Winner
    2. RIBA National Award 2016, Winner
  16. Alex Monroe Studio

    1. Architecture Today Awards 2022, Winner
    2. WAF Wood Excellence Prize 2014, Winner
    3. RIBA London Award 2014, Winner
    4. Surface Awards 2014, Winner
  17. South Molton Street Building

    1. People Choice Award 2017, Finalist
    2. Surface Design Award 2014, Winner - Best Retail Exterior Surface
    3. RA Summer Exhibition 2010, Winner
  18. Olympic Village Building

    1. RA Summer Exhibition 2012
  19. Suffolk House

    1. Housing Innovation Award 2016, Winner
    2. National Housing Award 2015, Winner: Best Small Development
    3. RA Summer Exhibition 2013
  20. DSDHA Kennington Lane Studio

    1. BD Masterplanning & Public Realm AYA 2016, Highly Commended
    2. BD Architect of the Year 2010, Winner
    3. BD Education Architect of the Year 2010, Winner
    4. AR Emerging Architecture Awards 2008, Finalist
  21. Christ's College

    1. European Union Mies van der Rohe Award 2011, Finalist
    2. Stirling Prize 2010, Finalist
    3. RIBA Awards 2010, Winner
    4. Brick Awards 2010, Supreme Winner
    5. Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award for the Best New Global Design 2012, Finalist
    6. Guildford Design Awards 2009, Highly Commended
  22. Pond Meadow School

    1. RIBA National Award 2009, Winner
    2. Brick Award 2009, Supreme Winner
    3. Guildford Design Awards 2009, Highly Commended
  23. Silver Building

    1. RA Summer Exhibition 2008
  24. St. Anne's Sure Start, Colchester

    1. European Union Mies van der Rohe Award 2009, Nominated
    2. RIBA National Awards 2008, Winner
    3. Colchester 2020/RIBA New Contemporary Buildings, Joint Winner
    4. Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award for the Best New Global Design 2009
  25. The Moller Centre

    1. RIBA Award 2009, Winner
  26. Potters' Fields Park Pavilions, London

    1. AR Emerging Architecture Award 2008, Honourable Mention
    2. RA Summer Exhibition 2007
  27. Canon Popham Fundation Unit

    1. RIBA Award 2008, Winner
  28. Paradise Park

    1. British Council for School Environments Award 2008, Winner
    2. British Construction Industry Awards 2007, Winner
    3. Sure Start Building of the Year Award 2006, Winner
  29. Hoyle Early Years

    1. Civic Trust 2006, Commended
    2. RIBA Award 2004, Winner
    3. British Construction Industry Awards 2004, Winner: Small Building Project
  30. John Perry Nursery

    1. American Institute of Architects Award / UK Award 2006, Winner
    2. RIBA Awards 2006, Winner
    3. British Construction Industry Awards 2006, Winner
  31. Hales Street House/ Studio

    1. RIBA Awards 2006, Winner

Clients

  1. Aitch Group

    1. Empress Works
  2. Alex Monroe

    1. Alex Monroe Studio
    2. Alex Monroe Workshop
  3. Almacantar

    1. Shaftesbury Avenue
  4. Appley Properties Ltd.

    1. South Molton Street Building
  5. BC Partners

  6. BGO

  7. Beam

  8. Berkeley Homes

    1. Abell & Cleland
    2. City Forum
  9. Berlin Senate Department for Urban Design

    1. Berolina Special Needs School
  10. Bosideng

    1. South Molton Street Building
  11. British Land

    1. Exchange Square
    2. Broadgate Public Realm
    3. Norton Folgate
  12. Bury LEA / CABE

    1. Hoyle Early Years Centre
  13. Christ's College

    1. Christ's College
  14. Church Commissioners for England

  15. Churchill College, Cambridge

    1. Møller Centre, Cambridge
  16. Citrus Group

  17. City & General

    1. Silver Building
  18. Clivedale

    1. Marylebone Lane
  19. Confidential

    1. Whitechapel Road
    2. Whitechapel Road
  20. Cosmetics à la Carte

    1. Cosmetics à la Carte Store I & II
  21. DSDHA

    1. Kennington Lane
  22. Davenies School

    1. Davenies School
  23. Derwent London

    1. Corner House
    2. Suffolk House
    3. Corner House
  24. Diocese of Sheffield and Hallam

    1. Canon Popham
    2. Emmaus Primary School
  25. Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism

    1. San Francisco Ruins, Santo Domingo
  26. Edmund de Waal

    1. Edmund de Waal Studio and Gallery II
    2. Edmund de Waal Studio I
    3. 5 Ways of Standing Up
  27. Emmaus Primary School

  28. Firs Hill Community Primary School

  29. Friends of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

    1. Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
  30. GLA/ World Squares For All

    1. Parliament Square
  31. Geneva Management Group

    1. Tottenham Street
  32. Gloucestershire County Council

  33. Great Portland Estates plc

    1. The Hickman, Whitechapel
    2. Whitechapel Road
    3. Whitechapel Road
  34. Grosvenor Britain & Ireland

    1. Cundy Street Quarter
    2. DRAFT - Grosvenor Square
  35. HAB Oakus

    1. HAB Housing
  36. Heart of London Business Alliance

    1. Green Park & Piccadilly Gateway Public Realm
  37. Henry Moore Foundation

  38. Hermès

    1. Hermès, New Bond Street
  39. Hoyle Early Years Centre

  40. Jones, Jones, Jones & Jones Ltd.

  41. Kennedy Wilson Europe

    1. Neal Street
  42. Knight Dragon

    1. Greenwich Community Building
    2. Greenwich Housing & Community Building
    3. Greenwich Housing
    4. Greenwich Housing
  43. LabTech

  44. Lanbury London

  45. Lendlease

  46. London Borough of Barking & Dagenham

    1. John Perry Nursery & Children's Centre
    2. London Riverside Wayfinding
    3. William Bellamy Primary School
  47. London Borough of Camden

    1. Central Somers Town
    2. West End Public Realm
  48. London Borough of Lambeth

    1. Stockwell Urban Vision
    2. Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
    3. Loughborough Junction
  49. London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames

  50. London Borough of Southwark

    1. Tustin Estate
  51. Lothbury Investment Management

  52. Marcol Group

    1. Wardour Street
    2. Priory House
    3. Savoy Court
  53. More London Ltd

    1. Potters Fields Park Pavilions
  54. Morgan Capital

  55. Natasha Daintry/Egg

    1. Egg Gallery
  56. National Youth Theatre

    1. National Youth Theatre
  57. Ocean Reef Resorts Limited

    1. Nevis Island Beach Hotel and Resort
  58. Olympic Delivery Authority

    1. Vesta House, Olympic Village
  59. Portsmouth City Council

  60. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

  61. Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust

    1. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
  62. Potters’ Field Park Pavilions

  63. Private Client

    1. Hales Street House / Studio
    2. Palace Green
    3. Plovers Hill Orangery
    4. Stud Farm
  64. Quintain

    1. White Horse Square
    2. Greenwich Housing & Community Building
    3. Greenwich Housing
  65. Reef Group

  66. Regal London

  67. Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster

  68. Royal Albert Hall

    1. Royal Albert Hall Public Realm
  69. Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

    1. Royal Albert Hall Public Realm
  70. SMBL

    1. British Library Extension
  71. Sebre

  72. South Kensington Estates

  73. Southbank Employers Group

    1. Waterloo City Square
  74. Stanhope

  75. Stockwell Partnership

    1. Stockwell Urban Vision
  76. SureStart & Islington Green Space

    1. Paradise Park Children's Centre
  77. SureStart Colchester

    1. St Anne's SureStart Centre
  78. Surrey County Council

    1. Christ's College
    2. Pond Meadow School
  79. TFL

    1. Stockwell Urban Vision
  80. TLC Group

    1. Holland Park Hotel
  81. The Athenaeum

  82. The British Library

    1. British Library Extension
  83. The Crown Estate

    1. Piccadilly
  84. The Diocese of Westminster

  85. The Guinness Partnership

  86. The Hurlingham School

  87. The Portman Estate

  88. The Puzzle Centre

  89. The Seven Dials Trust

  90. Tishman Speyer

    1. Smithson Plaza
  91. Urban Splash

  92. Vauxhall One

  93. Wakefield Metropolitan District Council

    1. Tickle Cock Bridge
  94. Westminster City Council

    1. South Molton Street Public Realm
    2. Westminster Cathedral Piazza
  95. Westminster Real Estate

  96. YardNine

  97. York Museums Trust/ Beam

Publications

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  1. Wallpaper*, September 2018

    1. A fashion shoot featuring The Smithson Plaza.
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  2. 100 Houses 100 Years by the Twentieth Century Society

    1. 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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  3. Inform, June 2017

    1. “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.”
    2. Catherine Slessor, AJ 244, May 2017
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  4. BD Online, June 2017

    1. "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. "
    2. Michael Collins
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  5. Wohnrevue, September 2016

    1. Covert House featured on Wohnrevue magazine
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  6. Architectural Record, September 2016

    1. Corner House is featured in Architectural Record's editorial on 21st Century housing.
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  7. AJ on Corner House, February 2016

    1. The AJ publishes an extensive building study on DSDHA and Derwent London's Corner House in Fitzrovia.
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  8. Best of Detail 2016. Building For Children

    1. 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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  9. Landscape Journal, Spring 2015

    1. 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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  10. The AJ, April 2015

    1. 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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  11. AJ, May 2013

    1. DSDHA designed the new Bosideng Shop on South Molton Street and was featured in AJ.
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  12. RIBA Journal, Jan 2007

    1. This edition of the RIBA Journal included an article on the St Anne's SureStart Center.
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