Monthly news updates on live projects, ongoing research and what others are saying.
Nov 2018RIBA Rising Star
DKA Senior Architect, Hannah Constantine, has been named one of the RIBA Journal's 2018 'Rising Stars'. Hannah is currently project architect for the new quad at New College, Oxford. New College Domestic Bursar, Gez Wells, commented that Hannah is 'determined enough to stand her ground on a construction site, and delicate enough to traverse the tightrope of client and professional team needs'. Read more on the RIBA Journal's website.
Oct 2018V&A Photography Centre
The new Photography Centre at the Victoria & Albert Museum, designed by DKA, opens this Friday 12th October. The project more than doubles the space given to the photography collection and is the practice’s largest museum project to date. completed project has been featured in the Observer, The Financial Times
Sep 2018Hasselt Competition Win
DKA, in collaboration with Bovenbouw Architectuur, has won an international design competition to remodel an 18th-century beguinage in Hasselt, Belgium. The project will create a new public space and home for the University of Hasselt’s architecture faculty. David will be presenting the scheme at an Open Day on Sunday 9th September, when the site will be open to the public and plans and a model of the new scheme on display.
Read more about the project here.
Aug 2018Prototypes & Experiments exhibition
DKA is part of the Aram Gallery's latest exhibition, 'Architecture Prototypes & Experiments', which is showing at the Covent Garden gallery from 2nd August until 1st September 2018.
The exhibition looks at the architectural process, displaying works by a selection of practices to demonstrate how physical models are used to develop designs.
A working model of our New College Oxford scheme is being shown. This 1:50 model allowed us to see parallels between the making of the model and the making of the building.
Visit the Aram Gallery website for more information.
Jul 2018Post Modern Legacies
In the first of a series of talks at the Soane Museum, Charles Holland will interview David on the topic of ‘Postmodern Legacies’. The interview will investigate the legacy of postmodernism in British Architecture, how it continues to divide architects’ opinions and its influence on our cities as well as our relationship with the architectural past. The event marks the current Soane Museum exhibition: ‘The Return of the Past: Postmodernism in British Architecture’.
The interview will take place on the 7th July, 3pm-4pm. Click to book tickets.
Lützowufer Berlin, image Forbes MassieJun 2018We are hiring
Following a major competition win for a housing scheme in Berlin and gaining planning permission for a new campus for New College, Oxford, we are currently hiring for a German-speaking senior architect and two technically proficient Part 2 architectural assistants. Please visit our recruitment web page for more details. Deadline for applications is 13th July. To find out more about the Berlin and Oxford projects, please follow this link.
May 2018RA Summer Exhibition
DKA is delighted to have work included in the Royal Academy 250th Summer Exhibition. Three architectural models have been selected by the curatorial team led by Grayson Perry RA. The models are of new buildings proposed for the Greenwich Design District and a housing scheme in Berlin. The exhibition opens on 12th June. For further information or to purchase tickets, please visit the RA website. To find out more about the projects visit our webpage for Greenwich and read about the Berlin Housing scheme in the Architects' Journal.
Apr 2018Drawing Matter
Sketches of DKA’s 2013 proposal for a Gateway to Hounslow have been selected as drawings of the week on Drawing Matter. Visit the Drawing Matter website to view the sketches and read David’s essay on how he uses sketching to aid the design process.
Mar 2018Beguinage Rebirth
DKA, in collaboration with Antwerp-based Bovenbouw Architecten, is shortlisted in a Vlaams Bouwmeester Open Call competition to revitalise the 18th-century beguinage at the centre of Hasselt. Formerly the home of renowned art and architecture centre, Z33, the site will house a mix of cultural and educational uses around a newly constituted public space. For more information visit the Bouwmeester website.
Feb 2018Devon Completion
A courtyard house in Devon designed by DKA for furniture designers Pinch, is nearing completion. The house incorporates a cob barn that was formerly the first organic ice cream factory in the UK. Partly buried in a hillside, the new build elements are clad in local red stone.