We are a practice of architects, researchers and strategists who work in public to create spatial, environmental and social change.
Selected Projects
Selected Projects
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A new reception and link building for Wroughton Academies, a school in Gorleston, Great Yarmouth.
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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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An exhibition about stepping across sectors and beyond traditional architectural practice to build new forms of publicness, with Public Practice and Alison Crawshaw.
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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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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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Delivering the first phase of DK-CM’s masterplan, bringing a number of redundant or underused buildings back into use.
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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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A new square in the centre of old Southall as part of the Southall Great Streets scheme.
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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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A masterplan for the expansion and consolidation of Harrow Arts Centre.
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Action plan exploring how the industrial areas of Barking & Dagenham can be used to enrich the borough’s creative enterprises.
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A competiton entry for a new Nature and Wellbeing Centre situated within Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve, Kent.
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Both a practical guide for the householder and an exploration of the limits of legislation.
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A project which creates a new civic space in-between Fullwell Cross Library & Leisure Centre.
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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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A proposal to extend & refurbish a suburban church in the Metropolitan Green Belt.
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A supportive infrastructure for London’s delivery rider community which creates public realm benefits for all on the Inner Ring.
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Artists’ Arcadia is a strategy that places creative practice at the heart of the Thames Gateway’s plotland communities.
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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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A crowdsourced video campaign getting to the heart of Outer London – #OLidentity
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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.
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A public realm strategy for Pudding Mill, one of the new neighbourhoods proposed around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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A new flower shop pavilion and park for a High Street, as part of series of improvements to Barkingside Town Centre.
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Proposal for a new civic and commercial Market House in the heart of Romford town centre.
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A new public space forming a frontage to Saint Anselm’s Catholic Church, Southall.
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King’s Cross Urban Actions Field Guide for the London Festival of Architecture 2012.
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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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A speculative proposal for the public realm of Mayfair in collaboration with Pablo Bronstein.
