Projects
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A masterplan made with with fala atelier for the Flemish city of Tienen, transforming an urban, vacant hospital site into a new part of the city through adaptive reuse, new housing, and a major new urban park.
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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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Acklam Public Toilets, Westway
Revitalised public toilets in the heart of Portobello Market, part of DK-CM’s Westway Community Street strategy.
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Urban design advice for the London Borough of Bromley to inform new planning guidance.
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A community-led strategy for enhancing public spaces below the Westway elevated carriageway in North Kensington.
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A public document exploring Bristol’s harbour as it is prior to developing a 20-year Place Shaping Strategy for the area.
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A refurbishment of a four storey end-of-terrace building with a fascinating civic history to host the Rebel Business School, a social enterprise piloting free and alternative business education to young entrepreneurs.
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Royal Docks Placemaking Strategy
Placemaking and water activation for London’s only Enterprise Zone.
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Creating new welcome facilities at a remarkable Sussex beach by adapting an existing toilet block.
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Bruce Grove Public Conveniences
Adaptive reuse and extension of a listed and ‘heritage at risk’ public convenience in the heart of Bruce Grove.
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Exploring the needs and ambitions of the Royal Docks business community.
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Developing a collective vision for the Welsh Harp reservoir and surrounding public landscapes.
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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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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.
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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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Working with the local community to develop options for a new Community Hub in this unique Essex village.
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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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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 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 project which creates a new civic space in-between Fullwell Cross Library & Leisure Centre.
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A new park and flower shop pavilion for Barkingside High Street, opening up a 1960s public swimming pool to the public realm.
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A competiton entry for a new Nature and Wellbeing Centre situated within Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve, Kent.
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A new public space forming a frontage to Saint Anselm’s Catholic Church, Southall.
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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 proposal to extend & refurbish a suburban church in the Metropolitan Green Belt.
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Delivering strategic improvements to public spaces and buildings throughout Southall.
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A masterplan for the expansion and consolidation of Harrow Arts Centre.
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A series of films made with local young people captures a diverse and varied portrait of Bruce Grove.
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A speculative project linking community ambition, and the unifying force of growing, to wider strategic change.
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Decarbonising Harrow Arts Centre
Building on our existing masterplan to dramatically improve the energy efficiency of Harrow Arts Centre
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An ambitious Place Plan for a fascinating and challenging ‘plotland’ community on the Essex coast.
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Doctoral research exploring the relationship between English public planning and wider society, with a focus on online discourse and knowledge exchange.
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Listening to the Grand Union Canal
An engagement study which captures the use and perceptions of the canal at Old Oak and Park Royal.
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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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Urban design advice for the London Borough of Bromley to inform new planning guidance.
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A crowdsourced video campaign getting to the heart of Outer London – #OLidentity
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A major new history of the London pub, explored through multiple voices and perspectives and edited by David Knight and Cristina Monteiro.
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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 supportive infrastructure for London’s delivery rider community which creates public realm benefits for all on the Inner Ring.
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A research study into the social and historical context of the industrial areas of Barking & Dagenham through a series of interviews with local creatives, produced by DK-CM, Create London and the New Economics Foundation.
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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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Both a practical guide for the householder and an exploration of the limits of legislation.
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A exhibition exploring the aesthetics and consequences of housing regulation.
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A speculative proposal for the public realm of Mayfair in collaboration with Pablo Bronstein.
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King’s Cross Urban Actions Field Guide for the London Festival of Architecture 2012.
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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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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 new contemplative space for a primary school in Bethnal Green, East London.
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Mapping cultural deprivation and Heritage at Risk to build a strategy for delivering culture in Greater London.
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Signage and lighting to encourage use of Southall Park, designed in collaboration with local schoolchildren.
