Aug 2023

Modern 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. 

New York Times

Furniture designers Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon of PINCH talk to writer Ellie Pithers of the New York Times Style Magazine about their family home in rural Devon designed by David Kohn Architects. The Ice Cream Factory was the first of a number of agricultural buildings converted into homes on Middle Rocombe Farm for Suzanne & Peter Redstone, of which the Cowshed (see below) was the last to be completed. Read the full NY Times story here and visit the project webpage here.

Cowshed Awards

We are delighted that the Cowshed has been commended in The Architecture Review New into Old Awards 2023 and longlisted in the RIBA House of the Year 2023 Awards. The Cowshed is a new home and studio for artist Suzanne Blank Redstone and her husband Peter Redstone. Originally built as a cowshed in the 70s to house their herd of Jersey cattle, we converted this former agricultural building into a future-proof home for the couple with Suzanne’s studio at the centre. View the project webpage here.

Brick Awards

The Red House has been shortlisted for the annual Brick Awards which celebrates exemplary clay brick architecture. The Red House, like its namesake, uses brick abundantly, with a variety of different bonds, corbels, arches, and specials. The brickwork pattern is also not just decorative but denotes the plan arrangement within – where stretcher bond panels express the functional spaces behind; whilst soldier bond is used to express curved bays and conceal movement joints. Read more about the RIBA House of the Year 2022, here.

RA Summer Exhibition

This year’s Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy features a grotesque carved by stonemason Fergus Wessel, and conceived in collaboration with artist Monster Chetwynd and David Kohn. The pangolin, selected by this year’s curator Peter Barber, is one of 24 gargoyles and grotesques that are to be installed on the Gradel Quadrangles project for New College, Oxford. The exhibition is open for another two weeks, closing on 21st August. For more information visit the RA website. For more information about the project, visit its webpage here.