An archive of our monthly newsletters
Apr 2025Gradel Quads Press
"With its Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford, David Kohn Architects has created a striking, sinuous addition that teases and plays innovatively with materials, building techniques and architectural forms" Rob Wilson, Architect's Journal 20.03.25
The completion of the £55M Gradel Quadrangles has been widely covered in the press:
Architect’s Journal
RIBA Journal
Building Design
Wallpaper*
Metropolis
Visit our website page for further project details.
Mar 2025SMAK in A+
"There must be few missions more complex than the project for the new S.M.A.K." writes Pieter T’Jonck in the current Belgian architecture magazine A+ about our ongoing work to expand the museum in Ghent. Won in collaboration with NoA Architecten and Asli Ciçek through an international design competition in 2024, our proposal includes retaining all materials on site to be repurposed - likely to be one of the largest circular construction cultural projects in Europe. Read more about Issue 311, "Circular Plans," at the A+ website here.
Feb 2025Hamburg Synagogue
David Kohn Architects has been selected to take part in a major international design competition for the reconstruction of the Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg, which was destroyed by the Nazis in 1938. In collaboration with Hoehler+Partners and Wirtz Landscape a proposal for this challenging project will be submitted next month. This builds on our mixed-use campus designs such as New College, Oxford and our work in Germany. Photo: the team visiting Hamburg in January.
Jan 2025Paris Showcase
Happy new year! Wishing all our clients, collaborators and friends a successful start to 2025. To kick off, our work will be showcased in an exhibition at the British Ambassador's residence in Paris from 22-23 January. Scale models and drawings of our Gradel Quadrangles project for New College Oxford will be on display during the event. If you would like to attend please RSVP here. For more details about New College please visit our project webpage.
Dec 2024Season's Greetings
Wishing our clients, collaborators, colleagues, and friends the very best for the holiday season. Thank you for helping to make 2024 another successful year. In our December newsletter we reflect on the highlights of the past 12 months and share a glimpse of what’s ahead in 2025. View here. To subscribe to future monthly updates, please follow this link.
Image: recently completed Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford, set to go to press in spring 2025. Photo Max Creasy.
Nov 2024Monthly update
Oct 2024New Website Features
Graphic designer James Goggin of Practise and programmer Radovan Scasascia of Studio Scasascia have updated the website they created for us in 2015. Now you can search projects by collaborator, country and a host of other search terms.
Sep 2024Scotland's Best
David is chair of this year’s RIAS Andrew Doolan Award jury, an annual prize celebrating Scotland's best building. The shortlist was announced in the Architect's Journal. Listen to David speaking to Stephen Jardine on BBC Radio Scotland about the judging process. The winner will be announced at V&A Dundee on 21st November.
Aug 2024Oxford Preservation Trust Annual Lecture
David Kohn will give this year's Oxford Preservation Trust's annual RIBA Lecture at 5.30pm 10th September in the new auditorium we have designed for New College, Oxford. Entitled, 'Towards a Scenographic Architecture', David will discuss picturesque planning, curved quads and contemporary gargoyles. For more information on the event and to book free tickets, please follow this link. Tickets will be available from 22nd August. To learn more about the project please visit our website.
Jul 2024MAO On Site
Construction works are progressing at Modern Art Oxford. The £2M project will transform the ground floor to create a new entrance, community gallery and education space. The lower ground floor will become a new café designed by artist Emma Hart. The gallery is due to reopen in October with an exhibition by Cuban artist Belkis Ayón (1967 – 1999). Visit the Modern Art Oxford website for more information.