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We are a practice of architects, researchers and strategists who work in public to create spatial, environmental and social change.

Selected Projects

Selected Projects


  • Expanding London’s Public Realm

    A design guide to enhance the public value and design quality of London’s expanded public realm.


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  • DK-CM_Harrow Arts Centre_2021

    Harrow Arts Centre Phase 1

    Delivering the first phase of DK-CM’s masterplan by bringing a number of redundant or underused buildings back into use.


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  • Community Green Grid

    A speculative project linking community ambition, and the unifying force of growing, to wider strategic change.



  • East Tilbury Community Hub

    Working with the local community to develop options for a new Community Hub in this unique Essex village.


  • DK-CM_Public-House_2021

    Public House

    A major new book about the London pub, explored through multiple voices and perspectives and edited by David Knight and Cristina Monteiro.


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  • Canal Placemaking Study

    A vision for the Grand Union Canal at Old Oak and Park Royal, capturing its existing qualities and setting out strategies for its improvement and preservation.


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  • Wroughton Academies by DK-CM, 2019, photographed by Neil Perry, Jan 2020

    Wroughton Academies

    A new reception and link building for Wroughton Academies, a school in Gorleston, Great Yarmouth.


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  • New Publics

    An exhibition about stepping across sectors and beyond traditional architectural practice to build new forms of publicness, with Public Practice and Alison Crawshaw.



  • Hemel Garden Communities Spatial Vision

    A spatial vision to guide the future development of Hemel Garden Communities, working with Dacorum Borough Council, St Albans City and District Council, Hertfordshire County Council, Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership and The Crown Estate.



  • Harrow Arts Centre Masterplan

    A masterplan for the expansion and consolidation of Harrow Arts Centre.


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  • 470 Harrow Road by DK-CM

    470 Harrow Road

    A refurbishment of a four storey end-of-terrace building with a fascinating civic history to host a social enterprise piloting free and alternative business education to young entrepreneurs.


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  • Bromley Town Centre

    Urban design advice for the London Borough of Bromley to inform new planning guidance.



  • Erith Lighthouse

    A Thames-side pavilion hosting community events, evening dinners and a daily café whilst rewriting the narrative of Erith’s regeneration.


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  • DK-CM worked with Thurrock Council and Emily Greeves Architects to develop new residential design guidance to form part of the council's Local Plan.

    Thurrock Residential SPD

    A collaboration with Thurrock Council and Emily Greeves Architects to develop new residential design guidance forming part of the council’s Local Plan.


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  • Bruce Grove Public Conveniences

    A project to renovate and extend a listed and ‘heritage at risk’ public conveniences in the heart of Bruce Grove district centre.


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  • Manor House Square by DK-CM, part of Southall Great Streets scheme, 2014

    Manor House Square and Cafe

    A new square in the centre of old Southall as part of the Southall Great Streets scheme.


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  • Ilha das Antas

    An incremental strategy for revitalising a typical ‘ilha’ (island – a low-income housing neighbourhood) on the eastern fringes of Porto, Portugal.


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  • Roding-Made

    Action plan exploring how the industrial areas of Barking & Dagenham can be used to enrich the borough’s creative enterprises.


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  • Sevenoaks Visitor Centre

    A competiton entry for a new Nature and Wellbeing Centre situated within Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve, Kent.


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  • SUB-PLAN

    Both a practical guide for the householder and an exploration of the limits of legislation.


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  • Barkingside Town Square

    A project which creates a new civic space in-between Fullwell Cross Library & Leisure Centre.


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  • Hollingbury

    A courtyard of five houses on a landlocked site on Brighton & Hove’s northern fringes.


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  • Erith Meanwhile

    A strategy proposing impactful, socially-produced meanwhile use projects for Erith.


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  • Book of Copies

    DK-CM’s contribution to San Rocco’s Book of Copies project in 2013, compiling 50 photocopies on the theme of ‘Shop Windows.’


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  • Folk in a Box

    The UK’s smallest performance venue.


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  • Building Rights

    Building Rights aims to become the primary source of planning expertise in the UK.



  • Church in the Forest

    A proposal to extend & refurbish a suburban church in the Metropolitan Green Belt.


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  • DK-CM Rider Gardens proposal to the Greater London Authority

    Rider Gardens

    A supportive infrastructure for London’s delivery rider community which creates public realm benefits for all on the Inner Ring.


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  • Around Barkingside

    A guide to the area’s architecture and heritage.


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  • DK-CM_Artists Arcadia_Proposal to the Greater London Authority

    Artists Arcadia, Basildon

    Artists’ Arcadia is a strategy that places creative practice at the heart of the Thames Gateway’s plotland communities.


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  • Morpeth Road

    Twelve small houses on a former garage site close to Victoria Park in East London.


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  • Manor Parade is a row of 21 shops dating from the 1920s, restored to designs by DK-CM as part of Southall Great Streets Phase 2.

    Southall Great Streets

    Delivering strategic improvements to public spaces and buildings throughout Southall.


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  • South Cambridgeshire Village Design Guides

    Village Design Guidance for two villages in South Cambridgeshire that were facing substantial residential developments.


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  • DK-CM Community Fulfilment Levy, proposal for the Greater London Authority, 2017

    Community Fulfilment Levy

    Gaining public value from the new spaces of distribution.


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  • DK-CM Leeke Street project completed in 2014

    Leeke Street

    A rooftop wireframe structure for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation in King’s Cross, London


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  • Outer London Identity, a speculative proposal by DK-CM put forward to the Greater London Authority in 2017.

    Outer London Identity

    A crowdsourced video campaign getting to the heart of Outer London – #OLidentity


  • Manor Parade is a row of 21 shops dating from the 1920s, restored to designs by DK-CM as part of Southall Great Streets Phase 2.

    Manor Parade Southall

    Manor Parade is a row of 21 shops dating from the 1920s, restored to designs by DK-CM as part of Southall Great Streets Phase 2.


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  • Pudding Mill SPG

    A public realm strategy for Pudding Mill, one of the new neighbourhoods proposed around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.


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  • Virginia Gardens

    A new park and flower shop pavilion for Barkingside High Street, opening up a 1960s public swimming pool to the public realm.


  • DK-CM Romford Market House exterior proposal 2016

    Romford Market House

    Proposal for a new civic and commercial Market House in the heart of Romford town centre.


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  • Southall Market by DK-CM, part of the Southall Great Streets scheme_2014

    Southall Market

    Reconnects Southall market to the High Street via a new pedestrian route.


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  • St Anselm’s Church

    A new public space forming a frontage to Saint Anselm’s Catholic Church, Southall.


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  • Urban Actions Field Guide

    King’s Cross Urban Actions Field Guide for the London Festival of Architecture 2012.


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  • Wastelands of the Lea Valley

    Guide to the Wastelands of the Lea Valley: 12 empty spaces await the London Olympics is a polemical guidebook to the pre-Olympic lower Lea Valley.


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  • The May Fair

    A speculative proposal for the public realm of Mayfair in collaboration with Pablo Bronstein.



  • Jaywick Sands Place Plan

    An ambitious Place Plan for a fascinating and challenging ‘plotland’ community on the Essex coast.



  • Orpington Town Centre

    Urban design advice for the London Borough of Bromley to inform new planning guidance.



  • Ten Houses, Thurrock

    A proposal for ten courtyard houses for a site in South Essex.


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  • The Rule of Regulations

    A exhibition exploring the aesthetics and consequences of housing regulation.


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