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As a design-led practice, we value how much we can learn from the great architecture and public spaces of the past.
With this in mind, the whole team at DSDHA have just spent a full 3 days on a study trip to Rome to sketch, explore and investigate works ranging from St.Peter's to the Villa D'Este, Sant' Ivo to The Pantheon, learning how to tell the difference between Borromini and Bernini, the Renaissance and the Baroque and much else besides!
Deborah Saunt has been invited to be present a lecture on the architecture and urban design work of the studio DSDHA in Biel, Switzerland.
The lecture will focus on our recent projects for the Athletes' Village housing for the London 2012 Olympics, our new South Molton Street Building and the Alex Monroe Studio in the shadow of The Shard.
DSDHA's artwork, 'The Temptation of Twenty' is currently being exhibited as part of the 'With An Apple I will Astonish' exhibition at the Large Glass gallery on Caledonian Road.
Large Glass has asked artists and thinkers to consider the apple, its narratives, meanings, and beauties.
The exhibition will continue until the 12th of January 2013.
DSDHA's design for 275 new homes in Westminster was granted planning permission last night. The two new buildings, with landscaped gardens by Wirtz International will be DSDHA's first completed project for Berkeley Homes.
Deborah Saunt's portrait is featured in an exhibition entitled The Faces of British Architecture by the photographer Tim Soar. Commissioned by Icopal the exhibition will be on display at the Building Centre, London from 09 January to 29 February 2012.
Deborah Saunt has been invited to speak at Everyday Life and Everyday Spaces - a one day event convened by The Regional Council of Skåne and the Swedish Association of Architects.
The event is an annual day of inspiration for architects, planners and designer in Sweden, as well as a ceremony for the Skåne Architectural Prize and Design scholarships.
DSDHA have been shortlisted by ISIS for the first phase of an exciting masterplan for a new residential development alongside the Grand Union Canal in Brentford.
The full masterplan received Outline Planning Permission in March this year. DSDHA are collaborating with Stephen Taylor Architects and Bauman Lyons Architects to form one of three teams competing to design the first cluster of buildings which will define the design standards and quality of this innovative and bespoke neighbourhod.
Two projects by DSDHA have been selected to feature in this year’s prestigious Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.
Westminster Diptych - a print of the Abel House and Cleland House Housing Scheme, and Sketch Variations - Maquettes for a Gateway Housing Scheme, Stratford - a series of study models for our London 2012 scheme for the Athletes' Village - are both on display in the architecture room until the 15th of August 2011.
Visit the RA website for more information
DSDHA have been commissioned to design an installation for the windows of Banana Republic on London’s Regent Street as part of the RIBA’s annual Regent Street Windows Project.
Together with our students from Unit 11 at London Metropolitan University, we have used the opportunity to present our recent research into the Free State of Soho – a study of the future of Soho.
DSDHA has won its largest ever project, a £60 million luxury residential scheme in Westminster. The practice will be drawing up plans for hundreds of apartments for Berkeley Homes on the site of two former Ministry of Justice buildings, known as Abell and Cleland House, on the corner of John Islip Street and Page Street. The buildings' neighbours include the recently refurbished Burberry building, as well as MI5's HQ and the Tate Britain art gallery. The project is due to start construction in 2012.
Construction work on the bespoke jewellery Studio by DSDHA for renowned London designer Alex Monroe has started on site at Snowsfields, London Bridge.
The building will see the addition of three new floors and a roof terrace above a restored existing shopfront, to provide a new sales space and workshops.
Providing the client with a precious ‘container for crafts’, the building will be constructed from sustainable prefabricated timber panels and clad in terracotta.
DSDHA was named the winner of the Richard Feilden Architect of the Year at Architect of the Year Awards 2010 ceremony in London, for its work in the education sector. The practice fought off five other shortlisted firms for Education Architect of the Year, to win the overall prize.
This follows recent efforts in the field including this year's Stirling Prize shortlisted Christ's College in Guildfordand the adjacent Pond Meadow Special Needs School.
Following its recent nomination for the Stirling Prize, DSDHA's Christ's College Secondary School in Guildford has been anounced as one of the nominated projects competing for the European Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van de Rohe Award 2011. The Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in international architecture aims to recognise and commend works of contemporary architecture that are characterised by conceptual, aesthetic and technical excellence.
The RIBA Stirling Prize is given for the RIBA Building of the Year and is presented to the architects of the building which has been the most significant for the evolution of architecture in the past year. The winner will be announced on Saturday 02 October at the Roundhouse, London by Kevin McCloud and will be broadcast live by the BBC's Culture Show.
The RIBA Stirling Prize is given for the RIBA Building of the Year and is presented to the architects of the building which has been the most significant for the evolution of architecture in the past year. The winner will be announced on Saturday 02 October at the Roundhouse, London by Kevin McCloud and will be broadcast live by the BBC's Culture Show.
BBC RADIO 4, Wednesday 14 July 11.00-11.30am
Deborah Saunt contributes to Rosie Millard's exploration of whether skyscrapers - once seen as an essential accessory of a go-ahead, ambitious city - are the best way to express pre-eminence and modernity. Other contributors include Renzo Piano, Ken Livingstone, Sir Simon Milton, and Deyan Sudjic.
Deborah Saunt and David Hills have been invited to speak at Affirmative Architecture - a two day symposium convened by Dr Martyn Hook of the Design Research Institute at RMIT University, Melbourne. The event seek to define an emergent trend amongst young architects to re-engage with the ability of architecture "to make life better".
The symposium draws together international & Australian architects and landscape architects who have demonstrated commitment to a social agenda and have made significant contribution to the public realm. Curated as a series of interactive lectures & panel discussions the speakers will describe their predominately built work & real projects that address real problems.
As part of LFA 2010, DSDHA cordially invites you to enjoy high tea amongst an architectural installation exploring the public and private spaces of Mayfair by students at London Metropolitan University and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
On arrival you will be ushered into a tea-room with tables laid with maps, scones, embassy proposals and alternative institutions, books, ideas for new urban routes and rooms, architectural models, maquettes and speculations, and a giant cake of Mayfair.
Head down to Brown Hart Gardens on Saturday 19 June between 11am - 6pm, with afternoon tea served between 3-4pm, and celebrate 300 years of Mayfair.
The event has been kindly supported by Grosvenor, The Wolseley and LandSecurities.
www.brownhartgardens.co.uk/festival_of_architecture_london.htm
DSDHA’s Christs College School for The Diocese of Guildford has received an RIBA Award. Judges praised the building as a “worthy companion to the adjoining special needs school” and now it goes forward for consideration for the Stirling Prize.
"Projects also present a first indication as to the likely contenders for this year's Stirling Prize. My vote would go to DSDHA's Christ's College School in Guildford."
Ellis Woodman Building Design, 20/05/2010
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
DSDHA’S DOUBLE CHEMISTRY LESSON IN GUILDFORD
22 January 2010
By Ellis Woodman
'A year after its opening, DSDHA’s special needs school is joined on the site by the practice’s fantastically impressive Christ’s College secondary school'
Aiming to encourage engagement with the arts, cultural space and public realm in collaboration with Beam, DSDHA completed the temporary transformation of Exhibition Square over a weekend. The general public were invited to enter a giant archway, interact with performers, draw with light and offer their views on public space in York.
Guildford Education Campus, comprising Pond Meadow School and Christ's College, has been named supreme winner of "Building of the Year" at this year's Brick Awards. The Award recognises excellence in design and construction, and is made to the project considered to be the best of the best. The project also received the 2009 Best Education Project.
Deborah Saunt champions the exportability of British architecture in discussion for Channel 4's TV coverage of the Stirling Prize.
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DSDHA's St Anne's Community & SureStart Centre in Colchester has just been awarded an Internation Architecture Award 2009 by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The project was one of only four in the UK, and one of ninety-seven internationally, to receive an award and will be exhibited in Florence during November 2009.
In addition, St Anne's Community & SureStart Centre has been announced as one of the shortlisted projects competing for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architectur - Mies van der Rohe Award 2009. The Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in international architecture aims to recognise and commend works of contemporary architecture that are characterised by conceptual, aesthetic and technical excellence.
DSDHA have been announced as the winner of the Landscape Institute Competition for Cltheroe Town Centre.
Pond Meadow School has been shortlisted in the Learning category of the World Architecture Festival Awards to be judged in Barcelona in November.
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh formally opened Christ’s College Secondary School and Pond Meadow Special Needs School in Guildford today. The Duke was welcomed by pupils, staff and invited guests and given a tour of both Schools.
Pond Meadow School is one of seven projects in the South East region to be awarded one of this year’s RIBA Awards.
DSDHA are featured in the international Wonderland Exhibition in Vienna which is on show until 20 July 2009.
DSDHA has won planning approval from Westminster City Council for the redevelopment of the Hog In The Pound site at the junction of Oxford Street and South Molton Street London, W1.
The proposed development for Kenmore Property Group and Appley Properties, replaces the existing ‘Hog In The Pound’ pub with a new mixed-use retail, office and residential scheme. Working with the artist Martin Richman to integrate public art into the building, it is clad in profiled teracotta panels which integrate sections of green wall irrigated from harvested rainwater.
Committee chairman Alastair Moss, said: "Every year there are over 100 million shopping trips to the West End. The bold and adventurous design of this building will undoubtedly add further style and elegance to one of the most fashionable streets in London."
We are delighted to be selected as the design team for Waterloo City Square following the final judging session and a public consultation in which 1700 people evaluated the three shortlisted proposals.
Birmingham City Council has selected Catalyst Education to under-take a £2.4 billion drive to rebuild or refurbish all 89 of its secondary schools by 2024.
As well as being one of the architects on Catalyst's team, DSDHA are also overall Design Champion.
This is the biggest school transformation programme in the country under the Government's multi-billion Building Schools for the Future initiative.
Sylvia McNamara, director of transforming education at Birmingham City Council, said: "We have a unique opportunity to create the right learning environment for our secondary age students. "This is one of the biggest projects in the country because of the size of Birmingham and we are proud to be leading the way. We are determined to ensure that teaching and learning drives the building and procurement process."
We are delighted to announce that from a list of more than 430 entries Potters’ Fields Park Pavilions is one of 25 wining projects at this year’s AR Awards for Emerging Architecture. All the prize winners can be seen in the December issue of AR magazine. DSDHA are the only UK practice invited to lecture at the RIBA Trusts's international lecture series in association with the Awards.
Hermès unveils "Silver Forest #36", a new installation by DSDHA and Rebecca Cocks which has transformed the flagship store on New Bond Street, London into forest of silver trees for Christmas. In the 18th Century, this location stood at what was the border of the city and what was originally a forest. To celebrate this, the pavement, store windows and interior have been transformed with thirty-six cast silver birch trees – some reaching 8 meters in height.
The installation will be in place until 5th January 2009.
For coverage of the project, please click on the links below:
As part of the London Festival of Architecture, DSDHA will open their studio in Iliffe Yard as part of the Pullens Yards Open Studios weekend.
Fri 11 July 17.00 - 20.00
Sat 12 July 11.00 - 17.00
Sun 13 July 11.00 - 17.00
The Architects' Journal and the Cathedral have invited Deborah Saunt along with Patrick Lynch, Jamie Fobert, Liza Fior and Sam Jacob to "wrestle with different articles of faith, from boroughs to infrastructure."
Southwark Cathedral, 8 July, 6.30pm
Claire McDonald is presenting work as part of the Pecha Kucha Night at the Haward as part of Psycho Buildings: Artists and Architecture.
The Haward, 25 June, 7pm
Deborah Saunt has been appointed Guest Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne to start in September 2008
Lend Lease and the Olympic Delivery Authority have announced the list of 5 firms which have been appointed to design key parts of the Athletes Village for the London 2012 Olypmic and Paralympic Games. DSDHA are pleased to have been included to design a gateway tower as part of this exciting and prestigious project.
As part of the Architecture Foundation's "Real Architecture" Series of talks, Deborah Saunt discusses the practice's designs for Urban Splash's first family houses for sale in a debate chaired by Nick Johnson of Urban Splash.
Starr Auditorium, Level One, Tate Modern at 19.00
DSDHA has been shortlised in the category for Building Sustainable Communities in the Sustainable Communities Awards shortlist 2007, to be announced on 28 02 08.
In addition both Paradise Park Children’s Centre and William Bellamy Children’s Centre have been shortlisted for the British Council of School Envrionments Awards for Inspiring Design to be announced 12th February.
Work is about to commence on site at Tickle Cock Bridge, to create a new urban space as part of Channel 4’s Castleford Project . Having initiated radical improvements to the derelict underpass, DSDHA have been working in collaboration with the Artist Martin Richman who has been responsible for new lighting and a flock lining to the concrete structure – echoing the location’s more popular name of Tickle Cock Bridge...
DSDHA received the BCI Local Authority Award 2007 for Paradise Park Children's Centre at the BCI Awards Ceremony in London last night.
The judges commented 'It has "wow" factor - an uplifting and influential building.'
The building was also shortlisted for the Best Small Building Award, and the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award.
DSDHA have previously won British Construction Industry Awards for Hoyle Early Years Centre and for John Perry Children's Centre.
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