26 | 01 | 2012
Regent Street Windows
Duggan Morris Architects, in collaboration with Ferrari S.p.A and Pipers have received an award for the best RIBA/Regent Street Window in the RIBA 2011 Regent Street Windows event for the London Festival of Architecture. The award was presented at a ceremony held at the Regent Street Association Annual Lunch at Sartoria on…
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19 | 01 | 2012
Croydon Schools
Works on the Croydon School Pavilions have completed at Virgo Fidelis and Westwood Language and Arts College for Girls. The projects were developed as a suite of buildings in reaction to a very tight programme and were funded by The Cooking Spaces Project - a fund set up to unite creativity with health and hygiene. The project for Virgo Fidelis places a new freestanding multi-use pavilion within a…
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19 | 01 | 2012
The Old Vinyl Factory, Hayes
Duggan Morris Architects have been commissed in conjunction with a team of architectural practices to develop proposals for a disused industrial site in Hayes. The site was originally the home for the EMI Manufacturing business. A number of existing buildings remain dating back to the 1900s. Duggan Morris Architects are focusing on 2 key buildings on the site which are focused on the creative arts and…
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18 | 01 | 2012
Planning Application -
Richmond Adult Community
College
Duggan Morris Architects has submitted a planning application for the new Arts and Education Wing to the Richmond Adult Community College campus (RACC). The commission was won through an invited competition in October 2011 and consists of a combination of new build and refurbishment components to introduce a new theatre, art and…
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11 | 11 | 2011
Winner - RIBA Manser Medal
3A Hampstead Lane was awarded the Manser Medal at a ceremony held at the RIBA. The RIBA Manser Medal recognises outstanding one-off houses which demonstrate exceptional design. The judges noted that 'the architects have ingeniously reconfigured the house to create flexible, multi-purpose rooms to suit changing lifestyles at the same time as restoring the detailing of the house back to its modernist…
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14 | 09 | 2011
Competition Win - Brentford
A collaboration between Duggan Morris Architects, Karakusevic Carson and Riches Hawley Mikhail have won a competition to design canal-side housing in Brentford, West London for client ISIS, the development arm of British Waterways. The project named Brentford Lock West, is for Phase 1 of a multi-phase regeneration scheme to provide over 500 residential units, along with a variety of commercial and retail…
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24 | 08 | 2011
Awards - 3R Shortlists
Duggan Morris Architects projects have been shortlisted in the prestigious 3R Awards, Hampstead Lane for the Housing (small) category and Maple Place & Fitzroy Street for the Offices category. More than 50 schemes were selected by judges across 13 categories. The rebranded 3R Awards ('Refurb, Rethink, Retrofit') will reward design, construction and engineering excellence that extended the life of…
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23 | 08 | 2011
Open House London - Kings
Grove
Duggan Morris Architects announce that Kings Grove will be part of this year's Open House London on Saturday 17th September, 10am-5pm. This initiative, run by the non-profit organisation Open City, celebrates all that is best about the capital's buildings, place and neighbourhoods. Both directors Joe Morris and Mary Duggan will be on site to talk about the scheme and…
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23 | 08 | 2011
Green Sky Thinking - Open
Practice
Duggan Morris Architects announce that they will be taking part in this year's Green Sky Thinking - Open Practice event. This London-wide programme run by Open-City highlights new thinking and practice that shows how to 'design in' sustainability. Duggan Morris Architects, through a series of displays, exhibition pieces and a presentation of projects both past and present, hope to show you how reinvigorating spaces in our communities can lead to new approaches and innovations towards 'green sky' thinking and design. Our studio will be open on Wednesday 21st September, 4pm-6.30pm. Further details can be found at www.greenskythinking.org.uk
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22 | 08 | 2011
Competition Shortlist
Duggan Morris Architects have been shortlisted in a two stage invited competition, for client ISIS. The project named Brentford Lock West, is for Phase 1 of a multi-phase regeneration scheme to provide over 500 residential units, along with a variety of commercial and retail uses to re-invigorate an industrial site on the fringe of the town centre. Duggan Morris Architects joined forces in a collaborative Stage 1 submission, with Karakusevic Carson Architects and Riches Hawley Mikhail, both multiple award winning practices, to form a dynamic design lead team for this challenging brief and site. From the outset this collaboration of three small, emerging practices, has been working closely to develop a refined approach to the site (and Phase 1 competitions) masterplan, to achieve a genuinely shared…
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01 | 08 | 2011
Curtain Road
Duggan Morris Archtiects have submitted a planning application for a 20,000sqft commercial development for a site in the heart of Shoreditch, East London. The project retains a three storey brick building fronting onto Curtain Road, crowned by a 3 storey lightweight contemporary extension designed to complement the street morphology and embracing the changes in height and indents in the street pattern.…
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31 | 07 | 2011
Mansel House
Duggan Morris Architects have commenced planning consultation with the London Borough of Merton to create 25,000sqft of contemporary office space delivered as part of the Low Carbon Workplace initiative, and in partnership with Threadneedle and Stanhope. The project requires the retention and substantial remodelling of a 1960's concrete and steel frame building located close to the centre of Wimbledon,…
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30 | 07 | 2011
Awards - Kings Grove
Kings Grove has been shortlisted for the 2011 Brick Awards 'Best Housing Development (1-5 Units)' category. The Awards, celebrating 34 years in the industry, recognise excellence in design and construction using brick as a predominant building material. The winners will be announced on 2nd November 2011. Visit http://www.brick.org.uk/brick-awards/2011-awards/
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29 | 07 | 2011
Awards - 3A Hampstead Lane
3A Hampstead Lane has been long listed for the RIBA Manser Medal. The RIBA Manser Medal shortlist is announced at the Stirling Dinner and presented at a separate event. The objective of the RIBA Manser Medal has always been to encourage innovation in house design, to show how social and technological ambitions can be met by intelligent design and to produce exemplars to be taken up by the wider…
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28 | 07 | 2011
Awards - AYA finalist
Duggan Morris Architects have been shortlisted in the One-off House category in the BD Architect of the Year Awards 2011. Our submitted projects for this prestigious award included Hampstead Lane, Fairhazel Gardens and Fitzroy Street. The Awards honour overall achievement in 15 different sectors with a focus on key shifts in the industry expectations. The AYAs are distinguished from other architectural…
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20 | 07 | 2011
Completion - Old Bearhurst
The extensive remodelling of Old Bearhurst in East Sussex has completed on site. The works consisted of a complete overhaul of an existing Oast building as well as the construction of a new annex providing a range of new living spaces including kitchen and dining area, bedrooms, a playroom, a gym, a study and garage. The building is set within agricultural land and defined by an area of outstanding…
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14 | 07 | 2011
New Commission - Fitzrovia
Duggan Morris Architects have been selected by Derwent London to progress proposals to create over 100,000 sqft of office space for a prominent site in central London. The scheme will involve the substantial remodelling and extension of an existing 1950's built concrete frame building, and is one of a number of key sites being developed by Derwent London in the heart of Fitzrovia.
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12 | 07 | 2011
Winner - NLA Awards
Duggan Morris Architects have received an NLA Award in the Retrofitting category for Maple Place & Fitzroy Street. The New London Awards recognise the Capital's best projects across twelve sectors. Two projects by Duggan Morris Architects (3A Hampstead Lane and the project at Fitzroy Street & Maple Place) were shortlisted from over 300 submitted entries by an international jury. Shortlisted…
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03 | 06 | 2011
Royal Academy of Arts Summer
Exhibition & Talk
The Alfriston School model has been selected for inclusion in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Duggan Morris Architects has been Commended Best First Time Exhibitor. The exhibtion runs from 7th June - 15th August. The Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition is the largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world. Duggan Morris Architects were selected by Kate…
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29 | 05 | 2011
New Learning Centre
Duggan Morris Architects has submitted a planning application for a New Learning Centre, on the Maudsley Hospital Campus of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, on Denmark Hill. The client, SLaM NHS Trust Charitable Funds, is a charitable foundation which invests in projects to support world class mental health and well being, support, training and development. The project has been informed and…
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24 | 05 | 2011
Awards - RIBA 2011
Duggan Morris Architects projects at 3A Hampstead Lane and 1 Maple Place/12 Fitzroy Street both received coveted RIBA Awards, at a ceremony at the V&A on 19th May 2011. 3A Hampstead Lane is a renovation of a 1950's Brutalist building for an Architect client in Highgate Village, whilst the project at 1 Maple Place/12 Fitzroy Street is a sensitive refurbishment of two conjoined office buildings for…
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23 | 04 | 2011
Awards - RIBA shortlists
Hampstead Lane, Kings Grove and Fitzroy Street have all been shortlisted for the RIBA Awards 2011. Judging is ongoing, and the results will be announced at the RIBA London Awards ceremony on 19th May at the V&A. Both Kings Grove and Hampstead Lane are one off commissions for private clients (one new build, one a refurbishment of a brutalist gem), but both with exacting expectations matched by…
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22 | 04 | 2011
Regent Street Shopfronts
RIBA London is coordinating a series of window installation projects with the Regent Street Association and media partner ELLE Decoration. Duggan Morris Architects are collaborating with Ferrari S.p.A and Pipers to develop a window display focusing on the theme 'Cities of Tomorrow'. The concept is to take components of the Ferrari engine and display them as a ‘city fragment’ out of scale…
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22 | 04 | 2011
The Cooking Spaces Project
Duggan Morris Architects has obtained planning permission to develop proposals for of a number of secondary schools in Croydon. The Cooking Spaces Project is part of a wider government focus to promote health and well-being and to expand the experience of cooking beyond the Key Stage 3 statutory requirements.The programme is looking to encourage a ‘seed to plate’ approach to the teaching…
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21 | 04 | 2011
De Beauvoir Cresent
Duggan Morris Architects are currently engaged in the detailed design of two new mixed used buildings located in De Beauvoir Crescent, Hackney, sharing a key vantage point along the Regent’s Canal. The scheme will provide over 76 residential units accommodating private, shared and affordable housing. In detail, the buildings are seen as fraternal, sharing a single palette but developed to express internal typologies and structural idiosyncrasies. Works have commenced on site, and piling is well underway, with an expected completion in late 2012.
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18 | 03 | 2011
New Project - The Billings
Duggan Morris Architects has commenced the design development of 24,000sqft of contemporary refurbished office space in Guildford. The project is being partnered by Stanhope, Threadneedle and the Low Carbon Workplace.
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09 | 03 | 2011
New Commission - Restaurant
DMA are developing concepts for a restaurant located in East London. The proposals take reference from the local history including old printing workshops and paper making.
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09 | 02 | 2011
Awards - AJ Small Projects
The Clifton staircase has been shortlisted for an AJ Small Projects Award. Winners will be announced on 9th February.
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08 | 02 | 2011
New Commission -
Stationmasters House
DMA have commenced concept proposals for the refurbishment of a listed disused stationmasters house in south east london. The building will facilitate a range of activities such as temporary exhibitions, workshops and community activities.
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01 | 02 | 2011
New Commission - Mansel House
Duggan Morris Architects have been selected through a compeititive bid and interview process to procure designs for 12,000sqft of contemporary refurbished office space in the heart of Wimbledon. The project is being partnered by Stanhope, Threadneedle and the Low Carbon Workplace.
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22 | 12 | 2010
Pre-Planning Application - New
Learning Centre
Designs for a world class new learning centre, on the campus of the South London and Maudsley campus have been submitted to Southwark as part of the pre-application consultation process. DMA has been engaged on this project for over a year and half, with an extensive programme of consultation to community members and action groups, end users, facility managers, IT…
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10 | 12 | 2010
Completion - Fitzroy Street
Works for Fitzroy Phase 2, for Derwent London, have reached completion. The project creates over 20,000 sqft of contemporary office space in the heart of London's Fitzrovia. The project contains bespoke signage, wayfinding and lighting all designed by Duggan Morris Architects. A major feature of the project was the forming of new punctured openings into the ground floor slab connecting the lower levels…
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03 | 12 | 2010
Awards - Frobisher House
Frobisher House won the award for the Best Housing Development for 1 to 5 units at the The Brick Award ceremony held at The Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel, London held on Wednesday 3rd November. The Awards recognise excellence in design and construction using brick from 100's of entries submitted each year. The judges liked the straight-forward response to a tight urban site, commenting that the…
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02 | 12 | 2010
Planning Permission -
Grinstead Road
Duggan Morris Architects has won planning permission for a mixed use development in South East London. The 20,000sqm project contains 200 residential units, 11 commercial units and a large mixed-use café and cycle storage pavilion. The scheme will create new cycle and pedestrian routes through the existing railway arches on the western fringe of the plot and open up the development to the surrounding area. Finished in a range of bricks, the project ranges in height from 1 to 12 storeys and features both one and three-bedroom flats as well as larger four bedroom houses. A phased construction programme is forecast to commence in 2011.
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21 | 10 | 2010
Planning Application - Curtain
Road
DMA has submitted a planning application for a commercial property on Curtain Road, Shoreditch.The building mediates between two differing facade typologies within direct adjacency introducing a non hierarchical grid of window and wall using precast portals and masonry in monochromatic tones. The project proposes over 19,000sqft of contemporary office space into this…
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11 | 10 | 2010
New Commission - Fitzroy Road
DMA has been selected through competitive interview, to progress proposals for the complete remodelling of a substantial Victorian property in Primrose Hill. The property is currently arranged as a series of tenanted units, and the intention is to return this imposing property to it's original guise as a family dwelling.
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10 | 10 | 2010
Completion - Maple Place
Works have completed for Phase 1 of a project to refurbish two existing conjoined office buildings for developer Derwent London. This phase sees the completion of works to a 1930's built red brick warehouse building of over 12,000sqft, located in the heart of Fitzrovia and set within a mews. Phase 2 is due for completion in late October 2010.
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20 | 09 | 2010
New Commission - The Cooking
Spaces Project
DMA has been appointed to progress design proposals for several secondary schools though out the London Borough of Croydon. The projects are part of a government initiative which seeks to progress the integration of food, health and well being into education. Projects range from new build to refurbishments and include new food rooms, cafes and allotments gardens.…
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09 | 09 | 2010
Awards - AYA
Duggan Morris Architects has been shortlisted for Building Design's Architect of the Year Awards in the 'One off House Architect of the Year' category. The selection was based on a selection of projects - Kings Grove (Peckham), Frobisher House (Bushey) and Old Bearhurst (East Sussex). The winners will be announced on Thursday 4th November at the InterContinental Hotel, Park Lane. Visit…
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06 | 09 | 2010
Awards - Frobisher House
Frobisher House has been shortlisted for the Brick Awards 'Best Housing Development (1-5 Units)' category. The Awards recognise excellence in design and construction using brick as a predominant building material and has been established since 1977. The winners will be announced on 3th November. Visit www.brick.org.uk/awards/ 2010 for more information.
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03 | 09 | 2010
Planning Application -
Grinstead Road
Duggan Morris Architects has submitted proposals to Lewisham Planning authority for a mixed use regeneration scheme for an industrial site in Deptford. The scheme encompases 170 residential units and 20,000sqft of commercial space. The scheme is conceived as a series of tributary blocks which encourage movement via the historic canal route and between Deptford Park…
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31 | 08 | 2010
Promotion - Pete Grove
Pete Grove has been promoted to position of Associate Director. Pete has been working for Duggan Morris Architects since 2006 and has been instrumental in developing a number of complex masterplanning schemes.
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30 | 07 | 2010
Completion - Hampstead Lane
Works have completed for the renovation of a modernist building, located in the heart of Highgate. Built in the 1960's as a self build project by an academic architect couple, the project has focussed on understanding the original design intent through extensive research of historic documents, photographs and original construction drawings, thus introducing sensitive interventions. The building is…
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22 | 06 | 2010
New Commission - Regent Street
Duggan Morris Architects has been selected by The Crown Estates via a competitive selection process to develop proposals for new mixed use and retail scheme fronting onto Regent Street.
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26 | 05 | 2010
Completion - Kings Grove
Works to Kings Grove, a new build house in the heart of Peckham have completed. The project places a simple two storey brick structure onto a backland site, adjoined by the rear gardens of ten neighbouring properties. The building position, frames two newly formed courtyards, which are planted with ornamental trees. Photographs of the project will be uploaded soon.
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20 | 05 | 2010
RIBA Award - Yew Tree Lodge
Yew Tree Lodge, a sheltered housing scheme located in Hillingdon, NW London has received an RIBA regional Award. The RIBA awards form, arguably, the most rigorously judged awards programme in the world, with every one of the 400 plus entries visited. RIBA Awards are given for buildings that have high architectural standards and make a substantial contribution to the local environment, and have been…
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18 | 05 | 2010
New Commission - New Learning
Centre
Duggan Morris Architects have been commissioned to design a new learning centre on the site of the South London and Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill. The appointment has been preceded by an extensive immersion programme which involved developing vision statements in conjunction with key stakeholders. This immersion process has culminated in the development of a…
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11 | 05 | 2010
Awards - Barmeston Road
Barmeston Road has been shortlisted for a Housing Design Award. The Awards are sponsored by the Communities for Local Government, RIBA, CABE and Design for London amongst others, and aim to promote excellence within the housing sector. The results will be announced in July.
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04 | 01 | 2010
New Commission -
Bexhill-on-Sea
Duggan Morris Architects has been commissioned by Rother District Council to design a £220,000 scheme for a series of new seafront structures for the East Sussex resort of Bexhill-on-Sea, following a hard fought RIBA competition attracting 148 entries. The final judging process took place over a two day period in the De La Warr Pavilion, and was believed to have…
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03 | 12 | 2009
Completion - Clifton Hill
Works to Clifton Hill have been completed. A new solid staircase is the key new intervention in the building. The stair is conceived as a coiled timber shaving, a continuous looping form connecting five levels of a substantial Victorian villa in St John's Wood. The project also features a new basement level, extensive landscaping to the front and rear and a full renovation of the building facades.
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02 | 12 | 2009
Awards - Yew Tree Lodge
Yew Tree Lodge has received 3 industry awards including a CABE ‘Building for Life silver Standard’, Building Better Healthcare Awards 2009 - Best Residential Care Design, British Homes Award 2009 - Affordable Housing Development of the Year. Yew Tree Lodge was also shortlisted for the Housing Design Awards 2009. Building for Life chairman, Wayne Hemmingway, said “Building for Life is…
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01 | 12 | 2009
Award - The Architecture
Review, Awards for Emerging
Architecture 2009
Barmeston Road has been commended in the Architectural Review Emerging Architects awards. Awards are given for excellence across a very broad spectrum of design and they are judged by a distinguished international jury.
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26 | 11 | 2009
Competition Shortlist -
Bexhill-on-Sea
Duggan Morris Architects presented proposals for a number of shelters and a kiosk to a panel of judges, during the second stage of a two stage RIBA competition.
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06 | 11 | 2009
Planning approval - Alfriston
School Swimming Pool
Planning approval has been secured for a new swimming pool and gym facility at a special needs school in Buckinghamshire. The scheme sits on the edge of a green belt, and was voted for unanimously at committee. Duggan Morris Architects have been instructed to develop the scheme to construction stage, with site commencement forecast in 2010.
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13 | 10 | 2009
Award - BD Young Architect of
the Year 2009
Duggan Morris Architects were runner up in the Building Design Young Architect of the Year Award 2009. The jury consisted of Sarah Ichioka - Director of the Architecture Foundation, Ivan Harbour - Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, Crispin Kelly - Director of Baylight Properties and Charles Saumarez Smith - Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts.
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13 | 10 | 2009
Award - BD Architect of the
Year Award 2009
Duggan Morris Architects were runner up in this years BD Architect of the Year Award for the Social and/or Private Housing Architects of the Year (1 to 25 units) category. The awards recognise a body of work rather than a single building.
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17 | 09 | 2009
Competition Winner -
Waterworks, Sefton
Duggan Morris Architects has been announced as the winner in an open international competition to design a canoe and kayak shelter in Sefton, Liverpool. The scheme is intended to track a significant programme of regeneration along the Leeds-Liverpool canal, acting as a catalyst for regeneration and renewal.
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30 | 07 | 2009
Completion - Frobisher House,
Bushey
Works have completed for the construction of a new build, 3 bedroom house for a private client in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Photographs of the completed building will be uploaded soon.
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24 | 04 | 2009
Planning Approval - Luxmore
Gardens
Planning approval has been secured for an innovative housing scheme, to provide 11 one and two bedroom residential units located on land adjacent a large secluded public park. The planning committee unanimously elected to support the scheme due to its high architectural integrity in responding to the unique site setting and context.
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23 | 04 | 2009
Exhibition - Des Res, NLA
Duggan Morris Architects has six schemes included within NLA's largest exhibition to date at the Building Centre, Store Street. The Des Res exhibition is the centre piece of a programme of events running until 14th June, exploring the future of London's housing and to encourage discussion between policy-makers, planners, developers, designers and clients.
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24 | 02 | 2009
Collaboration - Form 5
Duggan Morris Architects have collaborated with 4 other young emerging practices to promote the benefits of young practices within the education sector. So far, the collective has gained support from an number of industry design champions and collaborations with the Sorrell Foundation and Open House are developing. Our journey can be followed on www.form5.co.uk
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