Deborah Saunt David Hills Architects

DSDHA is a London-based architecture, urban design and spatial research studio.

DSDHA
Practice information
Key architects	Deborah Saunt, David Hills
Location	London

Practice

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

Education

• 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

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

1. "The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2017 - Visualisers: Architects". Evening Standard . Retrieved 5 July 2019.
2. "RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist 2010". Dezeen. 21 July 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
3. "EUMiesAward". www.miesarch.com. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
4. "How can a building alter behaviour?". BBC News. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
5. "EUMiesAward". miesarch.com. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
6. "EUMiesAward". miesarch.com. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
7. Jessel, Ella (4 February 2020). "DSDHA's expansion of National Youth Theatre approved". The Architects’ Journal. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
8. Kucharek, Jan-Carlos. "Edmund de Waal studio, London". www.ribaj.com. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
9. "Alex Monroe Workshop, Tower Bridge". RIBA Journal . 15 May 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
10. "Mayfair flatiron: South Molton Street by DSDHA". The Architects’ Journal. 23 May 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
11. Pearman, Hugh. "Free spirits". www.ribaj.com. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
12. Pearman, Hugh. "Free spirits". www.ribaj.com. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
13. "London Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2017: high-tech designs, luxe interiors and eco-friendly features scoop top prizes".
14. "Corner House by DSDHA". www.architecturalrecord.com. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
15. "SUFFOLK HOUSE WINS BEST SMALL DEVELOPMENT AT THE NATIONAL HOUSING AWARDS!". Archived from the original on 25 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
16. "Awards". Archived from the original on 25 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
17. "DSDHA draws up plans to transform Tottenham Court Road". The Architects’ Journal. 5 June 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
18. "Her Majesty The Queen officially opens the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Steps at the Royal Albert Hall". Royal Albert Hall. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
19. "The City Of London Is Getting This Brand New Public Park". Londonist. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
20. Hill, Dave (16 July 2019). "Creating Cundy Street Quarter: Deborah Saunt, spatial strategist". OnLondon. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
21. "Adam Khan, DSDHA and Duggan Morris scoop £40m Somers Town overhaul". The Architects’ Journal. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
22. Stathaki, Ellie (7 June 2018). "The Smithsons' Economist Plaza renovation by DSDHA is revealed". Wallpaper . Retrieved 4 July 2019.
23. Turnbull, Jessie. "The business of research". www.ribaj.com. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
24. "The London Salon: Cultural Infrastructure". The London School of Architecture. 3 December 2017. Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
25. "Research". dsdha.co.uk. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
26. "Re-imagining Albertopolis". dsdha.co.uk. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
27. "The Beautiful Everyday Journey". royalcommission1851. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
28. "Deborah Saunt". Yale Architecture. Retrieved 20 January 2021.

External links

• www.dsdha.co.uk