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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Bristol Harbour Place Shaping Strategy
A comprehensive 20-year strategy for Bristol’s harbour – 27 hectares of waterspace and associated places and landscapes.
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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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A community-led strategy for enhancing public spaces below the Westway elevated carriageway in North Kensington.
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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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Papworth Everard Village Design Guide
Place-specific design guidance developed in collaboration with village residents and using an innovative ‘fanzine’ approach.
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Picturing the future Royal Docks neighbourhoods and building upon our placemaking work for London’s only Enterprise Zone.
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Built environment skilling for young creatives in the London boroughs of Brent, Ealing and Hammersmith & Fulham.
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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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Developing a collective vision for the Welsh Harp reservoir and surrounding public landscapes.
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Exemplar access to the Grand Union Canal, for the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation.
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Exploring the needs and ambitions of the Royal Docks business community.
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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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A new contemplative space for a primary school in Bethnal Green, East London.
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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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A speculative project linking community ambition, and the unifying force of growing, to wider strategic change.
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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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Caldecote Village Design Guide
Place-specific design guidance developed in collaboration with village residents using an innovative ‘fanzine’ approach.
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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 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 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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A new reception and link building for Wroughton Academies, a school in Gorleston, Great Yarmouth.
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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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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 masterplan for the expansion and consolidation of Harrow Arts Centre.
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Urban design advice for the London Borough of Bromley to inform new planning guidance.
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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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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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Action plan exploring how the industrial areas of Barking & Dagenham can be used to enrich the borough’s creative enterprises.
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Signage and lighting to encourage use of Southall Park, designed in collaboration with local schoolchildren.
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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 park and flower shop pavilion for Barkingside High Street, opening up a 1960s public swimming pool to the public realm.
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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.
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An ambitious Place Plan for a fascinating and challenging ‘plotland’ community on the Essex coast.
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Urban design advice for the London Borough of Bromley to inform new planning guidance.
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A exhibition exploring the aesthetics and consequences of housing regulation.
