Deborah Saunt David Hills Architects
DSDHA is a London-based architecture, urban design and spatial research studio.
| DSDHA | |
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| Practice information | |
| Key architects | Deborah Saunt, David Hills |
| Location | London |
Practice
[edit | edit source]DSDHA (Deborah Saunt David Hills Architects) was established by Deborah Saunt and David Hills.[1] Tom Greenall and Martin Pearson were made directors in 2021. The practice has a variety of projects including arts and culture, education, housing, urban and landscape, and workplaces. The studio had received 20 RIBA Awards, been shortlisted for the 2010 RIBA Stirling Prize,[2] and twice been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.[3]
Selected projects
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- Christ's College, Guildford - shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2010[4] and nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Award[5]
- St Anne's SureStart Centre in Colchester - nominated for the EU Mies Van der Rohe Award[6] in 2009
Arts and culture
- Refurbishment of the Islington home of the National Youth Theatre[7]
Workplaces
- Studio-gallery for artist Edmund de Waal in West Norwood[8]
- Studio and workshop for British jewellery designer Alex Monroe in Bermondsey[9]
- Flat-iron building for Bosideng on South Molton Street[10]
Residential
- A residential block for the Riverside development on the Greenwich Peninsula[11]
- The residential building Vesta House for the Olympic Village,[12] designed for athletes and then converted to affordable housing
- Abell & Cleland in Westminster, which won the Best New Place to Live at the London Planning Awards and the London Evening Standard New Homes Award[13]
- Corner House in Fitzrovia for Derwent London,[14] which won a New London Architecture Award
- Suffolk House for Derwent London, which won the National Housing Award for best small development[15] and a Housing Innovation Award[16]
Urban design and landscape
- Framework for Camden's West End Project to revitalise Tottenham Court Road[17]
- Redesign of the public realm around the Royal Albert Hall[18]
- A new park for the City of London above Liverpool Street Station[19]
- Strategy for the British Library's public realm
- The creation of the Cundy Street Quarter, a new 2.4-acre mixed-tenure neighbourhood between Pimlico, Chelsea and Victoria in Westminster[20]
- Urban scale work includes the regeneration of a 600-home estate for the London Borough of Southwark
- Landscape-led masterplan of Central Somers Town for Camden[21]
- Refurbishment of the Economist Plaza in London, designed by Alison and Peter Smithson[22]
Research and teaching
[edit | edit source]DSDHA carries out funded research into critical urban issues,[23] such as cultural infrastructure[24] and the future of London's urban mobility, as well as embedding a strong element of research into all its projects.[25]
The studio has twice been awarded the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851’s Research Fellowship in the Building Environment, to research the public realm of Albertopolis[26] and active travel in London.[27]
Members of the practice are or have been teaching at the London School of Architecture, the Royal College of Art, the University of Navarra, and Yale School of Architecture.[28]
References
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