Monthly news updates on live projects, ongoing research and what others are saying.
Apr 2024Playful Elegance
Our project for Stephen Friedman Gallery on Cork St has been covered by international magazine Wallpaper*. The article follows the opening of the 60th Venice Biennale in which three of the gallery’s roster participated: Jeffrey Gibson, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA and Leilah Babirye. Architecture editor Ellie Stathaki describes the new flagship showroom as ‘infused with subtly playful elegance’. Read the full review in Wallpaper*. For more information visit the project's webpage.
Mar 2024Eva Rothschild Gate
Artist Eva Rothschild RA has designed the main entrance gates to our new quad for New College, Oxford. The design is based on a shifting linear perspective of a mountain path and will be unveiled next month. To see more of Eva’s work please visit the artist's website and to find out more about our New College project please visit our website.
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Feb 2024Markets into Planning
'An important step forward in Birmingham's transformation as an international city', says Project Lead Colin Murphy of Lendlease about Birmingham Smithfield, which has now been resubmitted for planning. The new market halls designed in collaboration with Eastside Projects is the centrepiece of a £1.9 billion mixed use quarter commissioned by Birmingham Council. Conceived as a city in miniature, the market building rehouses the food market which has existed at Smithfield for over 800 years and includes a dining hall, restaurant, and event spaces. Find out more about the scheme at The Architects' Journal website.
Jan 2024Czech Shortlist
We are delighted to be shortlisted in an international design competition to revitalise the Breda Department Store in Opava, Czech Republic, a significant heritage-listed building designed by renowned Czech architect Leopold Bauer in the 1920s. Together with our collaborators Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, we are one of five teams selected to develop a proposal for its re-use. More details about the competition can be found here.
Dec 2023S.M.A.K. Shortlist
David Kohn Architects has been shortlisted in an international design competition to reimagine S.M.A.K., one of Belgium's leading museums of contemporary art. Together with our collaborators noAarchitecten and Aslı Çiçek, we are one of five teams selected from a longlist of 53 entries, to bid for the €90M project. More details of the competition announcement here.
Nov 2023Manser Medal 2023
We are delighted to be the recipient of the 2023 Manser Medal, the Architects' Journal's House of the Year Award. The practice worked with the clients Suzanne and Peter Redstone over 12 years to convert five buildings on their farm in Devon into residential use. The last, Cowshed, repurposed a 50 year old agricultural barn as a home, artist's studio and office. The award judges reflected, ‘an exemplar of the best of retrofit,’ ‘brilliant not just as a reuse project but as a regeneration of a site. It’s so interwoven and integrated with the context,’ ‘sustainability at a whole different level.' Read more on the Architects' Journal's website here.
Oct 2023Stephen Friedman Gallery
We have completed a new gallery on Cork Street for Stephen Friedman. The 10,000sqft project includes exhibition spaces, offices for 40 staff, a library, archive, meeting rooms and project spaces. A publicly accessible courtyard garden designed by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan includes a kiosk we designed in collaborating with artist David Shrigley. The gallery opened on 6th October with an exhibition by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA. Read Aran Kakar's review in Artsy. Image: Yinka Shonibare, ‘Feeling Free Like a Bird’, 2023.
Sep 2023Hollein Calling
David Kohn Architects is participating in the exhibition, 'Hollein Calling: Architectural Dialogues' at the Architekturzentrum Wien. The exhibition 'explores the Hollein phenomenon from a contemporary perspective, re-evaluating his work and its relevance to the current discourse through a dialogue with a younger generation of architects.'
The exhibition runs from 21.09.23 to 12.02.24. For more details visit the AzW website. The catalogue, which includes an interview with David Kohn is available from Park Books website. Image: Model of Retti Candle Shop, Vienna, 1996 courtesy of AzW.
Aug 2023Modern Art Oxford
We are thrilled to have won an invited competition to redesign the ground and lower floors of Modern Art Oxford (MAO). One of the UK’s leading contemporary art spaces, MAO has an international reputation for innovative and ambitious programming. It is housed in the former City Brewery and many of the building’s historic features survive within the gallery’s characterful spaces. We will be sharing our initial ideas at an evening workshop on 14th September. Visit MAO's website for more details.
Jul 2023Cowshed nominated for AR New into Old Awards
We are delighted that the Cowshed has been shortlisted for The Architecture Review New into Old Awards 2023.
The Cowshed is a new home and studio for artist Suzanne Blank Redstone and her husband Peter Redstone. The Redstone's originally built the cowshed in the 70s to house their herd of Jersey cattle. Fifteen years ago they began converting their farm, with David Kohn Architects masterplanning the site to create a co-housing community with five new homes converted from former agricultural buildings. The Cowshed is the last house to complete, creating a future-proof home for the couple with Suzanne’s studio at the centre.