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2022
Red House on TV
David Kohn Architects' Red House will feature in the first episode of 'Grand Designs: House of the Year' at 9pm this Wednesday 16th November on Channel 4. Over four episodes, the houses long-listed for the RIBA House of the Year Award 2022 will be presented by Kevin McCloud with the eventual winner presented on 7th December. Watch the series here. The programme can be viewed internationally using a VPN.
RIBA Rising Star
Congratulations to our colleague Jennifer Dyne, "practice lynchpin and project architect extraordinaire", for being shortlisted as a RIBA 2022 Rising Star. The award highlights the next generation of talent who have excelled in the field. As an Associate, Jennifer drives design excellence in the practice and has been instrumental in the delivery of residential projects including the Red House in Dorset, longlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2022.
Lucie Rie at MIMA
David Kohn Architects has designed the exhibition 'Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery' which opened last week at the Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). Rie is among the most celebrated potters of the C20th and this exhibition brings together 100 of her works, offering a rare opportunity to experience her ground-breaking practice. Find out more about the show here.
'Courageous' Hamburg
David Kohn Architects gained 4th place out of a shortlist of 11 international practices in an invited competition organised by the City of Hamburg to design the centrepiece of a major urban regeneration project. The jury praised our proposal 'Altona Gateway' as 'a courageous design idea' and our approach to building conservation was singled out. Visit the project webpage for more information. Render ©Picture Plane.
2019
Pablo Bronstein & DKA
DKA is collaborating with artist Pablo Bronstein on an installation at Ickworth House in Suffolk for the National Trust. The classical house is renowned for its central rotunda which is undergoing a major refurbishment. Taking inspiration from the design of the original house, the project will gather fragments of classical architecture to create a new temporary façade. For more information, visit the National Trust website here.
OAT 2019
DKA is participating in the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019 which opens 26th September at the Norwegian National Museum of Architecture. Ten years after DKA was a finalist in the Arts Council England's competition to design the 'Arts Space of the Future,' we asked the original team to consider whether the carbon-neutral proposal was still fit for purpose. The round table discussion between DKA, engineer Jane Wernick, sustainability expert Nick Cramp, artist Pablo Bronstein and graphic designer Mark El-khatib can be heard on our website here.
DKA Senior Hires
DKA welcomes three new colleagues to the senior team: Philip Dring joins with a wealth of construction-delivery experience to oversee live projects; Marine Mérindol joins from leading the growth of Magnum Photos Agency in Asia to lead new business acquisition; Elizabeth Rabineau joins following a career in arts management that includes roles at Tate, Christie's and the National Gallery to become practice manager.
DKA @ AA
David Kohn is returning to teaching, leading a Diploma Unit with Bushra Mohamed at the Architectural Association. The unit will play a central role in the research of the practice, addressing contemporary issues such as the climate crisis, public space and the language of architecture. This year's research will be based in Birmingham and in collaboration with Gavin Wade and Celine Condorelli of local artist-run multiverse, Eastside Projects. Visit the AA website for more information.
2017
DKA celebrates ten years of practice in 2017
We would like to thank our clients, collaborators and colleagues for all their energy and support. We look forward to working together on more exciting projects over the next decade. Happy New Year from all of us.
We are recruiting
We have recently won new commissions including a museum refurbishment, two new-build commercial buildings and further work on a major art gallery and university building. We are now recruiting for project architects and assistants. Follow this link for more information and please forward to a friend.
Vienna lecture
David will be joining Austrian architect, Hermann Czech and Dutch architect, Job Floris of Monadnock in discussing 'What happened to Postmodernism' at the Vienna Architekturzentrum on 22nd February 2017 as part of a lecture series accompanying the exhibition "At the End: Architecture." Follow this link for more information.
2016
London: Open
David Kohn and Liz Betterton will be giving tours of The White Building and St Ann's Road, Harrow on Saturday 17th September as part of Open House London, the city's largest annual festival of architecture and design. For more information, visit Open House London's The White Building and St Ann's Road web pages.
Ulm: Furniture
DKA has designed the display furniture for the exhibition, 'The Ulm Model' showing at Raven Row gallery from 5th October to 18th December. This will be the first exhibition of the Hochschule für Gestaltung, or Ulm School of Design (1953 to 1968) in the UK. The school pioneered an interdisciplinary and systematic approach to design education – known as the Ulm Model – that was to become universal.
Image: 4300 Space units for residential buildings, Students: Bernd Meurer and Willi Ramstein: Instructor: Herbert Ohl, 1961, Industrialised Building, Photo by Roland Fürst, Courtesy HfG Archiv / Ulmer Museum
Vienna: Beginnings
DKA's project, Carrer Avinyó, is included in the exhibition "In the End: Architecture" at the Architecturzentrum Wien, Vienna's architecture museum, from 6th October to 20th March 2017. The exhibition charts crises in architecture since 1959 and explores how contemporary projects are once again defying predictions and establishing critical new beginnings.
Image: Zaha Hadid, Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein (D) © Margherita Spiluttini / Az W Sammlung
Berlin: Festival
New Quad for New College has been shortlisted for the Future Education Award at the World Architecture Festival 2016. Winners will be announced at the festival, the world's largest gathering of architects, in Berlin from 16th to 18th November. David will also be judging the World Interior of the Year Award and giving a talk on designing spaces for art with Berlin-based architect Jan Liebe of Nord Studio on 16th November.
Rome: Scholarship
DKA's Morgan Lewis has won the 2016 British School at Rome Scholarship. He will be studying the painted interiors of C8th B.C. Etruscan tombs while resident at the School between January and March 2017.
2015
Happy New Year
Wishing you a happy 2016 from all at David Kohn Architects.
Projects in 2016
DKA's first education projects - the refurbishment of Rosemead School in south London and a new quad for New College Oxford - are progressing towards planning; houses in Devon and Buckinghamshire (pictured) are starting on site; and a prototype for an innovative inner-city housing scheme is due to be unveiled.
Domus 997
The new quad for New College, Oxford, is published in Domus: "David Kohn’s new interpretation of the quad is a three-way spatial conversation between institution, city and nature."
A Fox in the Garden
Sanderson House is one of the Architects' Journal's 'Buildings of 2015', shortlisted for New London Architecture's 'Don't Move Improve' Awards and has contributed to DKA's shortlisting for World Interior News' 'Interior Design Practice of the Year', recognising "the design practice that demonstrates devotion to elevating the art of interior design."
Lectures on Nature
As part of his visiting professorship at KU Leuven in Ghent, David is curating a series of lectures about nature in the city. The first is on 17th February 2016 when Eva Pfannes and Sylvain Hartenberg of Ooze will present their Kings Cross Ponds (pictured) and other projects.
Unfeasible Ideals
David Kohn's five short stories about Unfeasible Ideals - Facsimile Buildings, Mirrored Buildings, Phantom Buildings, Chimeric Buildings and Cannibal Buildings - were published on the occasion of a group exhibition at Walter Knoll in London including work by Adamo Faiden, Go Hasegawa, Wim Goes and Grafton Architects.
Iakov Chernikhov Prize
David Kohn Architects has been nominated for the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize. The goals of the prize are "the stimulation of creative architectural work aimed at solving current social and cultural problems on the basis of humanistic principles in the art of architecture." (pictured, detail of Suprematist Composition, Iakov Chernikhov, 1922).
New College
DKA has won an invited competition to design a new quad for New College, Oxford. The £25M project will provide student accommodation for the college and new facilities for the adjacent New College School on a site a short walk from the city centre. For more information visit our website.
New Colleagues
Following major wins in education and arts competitions, DKA is recruiting for the following positions:
Senior Architect/Associate, 7+ years post Part III;
Project Architect, 3+ years post Part III;
Pt I and Pt II Architectural Assistants.
Deadline for applications is 24th July 2015. Visit our website for more details or forward to a friend - see below.
New Office
We have moved to Bedford House, 125–133 Camden High Street, London NW1 7JR. The new office provides bigger and better spaces for working, meeting and model-making. Do come and visit.
New Website
Graphic designer James Goggin of Practise and web designer Radovan Scasascia of Studio Scasascia have completed a new website for DKA. The brief was to maintain the original graphic identity designed by Goggin in 2006 while highlighting the relationship between ongoing research and live projects. Projects can now be cross-referenced with the relevant research and vice-versa allowing visitors to appreciate how acquiring new knowledge drives innovation within the practice.