Dec 2015
Happy New Year
Wishing you a happy 2016 from all at David Kohn Architects.
Projects in 2016
DKA's first education projects - the refurbishment of Rosemead School in south London and a new quad for New College Oxford - are progressing towards planning; houses in Devon and Buckinghamshire (pictured) are starting on site; and a prototype for an innovative inner-city housing scheme is due to be unveiled.
Domus 997
The new quad for New College, Oxford, is published in Domus: "David Kohn’s new interpretation of the quad is a three-way spatial conversation between institution, city and nature."
A Fox in the Garden
Sanderson House is one of the Architects' Journal's 'Buildings of 2015', shortlisted for New London Architecture's 'Don't Move Improve' Awards and has contributed to DKA's shortlisting for World Interior News' 'Interior Design Practice of the Year', recognising "the design practice that demonstrates devotion to elevating the art of interior design."
Lectures on Nature
As part of his visiting professorship at KU Leuven in Ghent, David is curating a series of lectures about nature in the city. The first is on 17th February 2016 when Eva Pfannes and Sylvain Hartenberg of Ooze will present their Kings Cross Ponds (pictured) and other projects.
Unfeasible Ideals
David Kohn's five short stories about Unfeasible Ideals - Facsimile Buildings, Mirrored Buildings, Phantom Buildings, Chimeric Buildings and Cannibal Buildings - were published on the occasion of a group exhibition at Walter Knoll in London including work by Adamo Faiden, Go Hasegawa, Wim Goes and Grafton Architects.
Iakov Chernikhov Prize
David Kohn Architects has been nominated for the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize. The goals of the prize are "the stimulation of creative architectural work aimed at solving current social and cultural problems on the basis of humanistic principles in the art of architecture." (pictured, detail of Suprematist Composition, Iakov Chernikhov, 1922).