Our project for Stephen Friedman Gallery on Cork Street has been covered by international design magazine Wallpaper*. The article follows the opening of the 60th Venice Biennale in which three of the gallery’s artists are participating: Jeffrey Gibson, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA and Leilah Babirye.
 Architecture editor Ellie Stathaki describes the new flagship showroom as ‘infused with subtly playful elegance’. Read the full review in Wallpaper*. For more information visit the project's webpage.

Artist Eva Rothschild RA has designed the main entrance gates to our new quad for New College, Oxford. The design is based on a shifting linear perspective of a mountain path and will be unveiled next month. To see more of Eva’s work please visit the artist's website and to find out more about our New College project please visit our website.
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'An important step forward in Birmingham's transformation as an international city', says Project Lead Colin Murphy of Lendlease about Birmingham Smithfield, which has now been resubmitted for planning. The new market halls designed in collaboration with Eastside Projects is the centrepiece of a £1.9 billion mixed use quarter commissioned by Birmingham Council. Conceived as a city in miniature, the market building rehouses the food market which has existed at Smithfield for over 800 years and includes a dining hall, restaurant, and event spaces. Find out more about the scheme at The Architects' Journal website.

We are delighted to be shortlisted in an international design competition to revitalise the Breda Department Store in Opava, Czech Republic, a significant heritage-listed building designed by renowned Czech architect Leopold Bauer in the 1920s. Together with our collaborators Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, we are one of five teams selected to develop a proposal for its re-use. More details about the competition can be found here.

David Kohn Architects has been shortlisted in an international design competition to reimagine S.M.A.K., one of Belgium's leading museums of contemporary art. Together with our collaborators noAarchitecten and Aslı Çiçek, we are one of five teams selected from a longlist of 53 entries, to bid for the €90M project. More details of the competition announcement here.

We are delighted to be the recipient of the 2023 Manser Medal, the Architects' Journal's House of the Year Award. The practice worked with the clients Suzanne and Peter Redstone over 12 years to convert five buildings on their farm in Devon into residential use. The last, Cowshed, repurposed a 50 year old agricultural barn as a home, artist's studio and office. The award judges reflected, ‘an exemplar of the best of retrofit,’ ‘brilliant not just as a reuse project but as a regeneration of a site. It’s so interwoven and integrated with the context,’ ‘sustainability at a whole different level.' Read more on the Architects' Journal's website here.  

We have completed a new gallery on Cork Street for Stephen Friedman. The 10,000sqft project includes exhibition spaces, offices for 40 staff, a library, archive, meeting rooms and project spaces. A publicly accessible courtyard garden designed by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan includes a kiosk we designed in collaborating with artist David Shrigley. The gallery opened on 6th October with an exhibition by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA. Read Aran Kakar's review in Artsy. Image: Yinka Shonibare, ‘Feeling Free Like a Bird’, 2023.