David Kohn Architects have published 'Stages' - a unique collection of twelve autonomous and lavishly illustrated publications varying in size, scope and subject matter offer insights into the studio’s output since its founding in 2007. Each section, distinct in form and content, presents an aspect of the studio’s design process from a different analytical, artistic, critical or editorial point of view. Published by König Books it is available at all good bookshops and the AA Bookshop.
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David Kohn spoke at a symposium with former Brussels Master Architect Kristiaan Borret at New College Oxford where David Kohn Architects designed the Gradel Quadrangles. Organised by the Embassy of Belgium, the idea was to learn from the Belgian Bouwmeester approach to urban regeneration and embed good placemaking and design in Oxford. You can watch a video of Kristiaan explaining how they deliver architectural competitions in Brussels here.
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Grand Designs House of the Year 2025 is showing on Wednesday evenings hosted by Kevin McCloud. Having won House of the Year for Red House in 2022, David chaired the 2025 jury with Livia Wang, Gill Lambert and Amalia Skoufoglou to decide the winner. Tune into Channel 4 to listen to the commentary and insights from the judges.
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Architect Bie Plevoets describes how the "delicate intervention gives the ruin" of the Hasselt convent "a new identity" - it is "no longer a mere romantic fragment, but a distinct architectural space that once again takes its place as the heart of the beguinage." She describes how the "tower re-establishes the beguinage as a vertical marker in the city’s skyline, signalling the presence of the university. Yet it does so not as an act of domination, but as a gentle, friendly gesture – an invitation to the city and its inhabitants." Read the full article in Architecture Today.
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