We had our photos taken by Marcus Quigley last week. Thanks to Streets of Growth for the loan of their space at Hayloft Point!

December 2023

DAMU has been shortlisted in the AHEAD Europe Awards 2025 in the Spa and Wellness category.

At DAMU, elemental mud caves contrast with a fully immersive zero-gravity flotation pool, bringing a truly unique spa offering to one of the most distinctive boutique hotels in London.

The project was delivered employing a subtle combination of digital fabrication and artisanal hand-applied finishing techniques, balancing cutting edge technologies with a warm and earthy rawness.

October 2025

Photographer David Grandorge and artist Adam Shield joined Brian at TACO! for an Open House Festival presentation on Sunday 21st September. They discussed the architecture and history of the Thamesmead Estate and the ideas and inspirations behind the design of the TACO! space.

September 2025

Manalo & White received the Norah Dunphy Gold Medal for Architecture in a special ceremony on the opening day of the National Eisteddfod, held this year in Wrecsam.

The medal is awarded in honour of Norah Dunphy, the first woman in Britain to gain a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, and recognises an architectural project of high quality and design standard that demonstrates excellence in architecture and a commitment to environmental sustainability, considering materials, building performance, decarbonisation, and end-of-life recycling.

Selectors Sarah Featherstone and Gavin Harris described Nyth as “a thoughtful and imaginative reworking of a Grade II listed church, balancing respect for the building’s historic character with a clear understanding of contemporary cultural value. A poetic, practical, and progressive transformation.”

August 2025

Aoibhín and Lauren are interviewed in this month’s Architecture Today Materials Library feature, giving a tour of our purpose-built and expansive display and layout area.

“Part of its aim is to welcome clients and visitors into an exciting ‘behind the scenes’ space, that is both multifunctional and experiential. Special events we host here often have their own cocktails and playlists, so the space not only serves the practical ‘day-to-day’ needs of the office, but also its joyful ‘one-off’ occasions.”

July 2025

Taku, Aoibhín and Brian were proud to receive the Dewi-Prys Thomas Award 2025 at the RSAW Welsh Architecture Awards Ceremony in Cardiff on 22 May.

The Dewi-Prys Thomas Trust promotes excellence in architecture, town planning, civic design, landscape design and other creative disciplines that contribute to the quality of life, identity and regeneration of Wales. Seven projects were entered from all around Wales, including private houses, the restoration and repurposing of historic buildings, town planning schemes, regeneration initiatives and public art installations.

May 2025

Nyth has swept the board at the 2025 RSAW Welsh Architecture Awards, winning Building of the Year as well as Client of the Year and the Sustainability Award.

The jury praised the project’s “intrinsic attitude to inclusivity” and its “refreshing approach to conservation”, describing it as a “sophisticated and at times delightful architectural collage”.

May 2025

iQ Hoxton has won the Education Property Awards 2025 Interior Design Project of the Year.

In our redesign we focussed on optimising the layout to provide improved social, dining and study spaces, as well as a reconfigured reception which upgrades the staff facilities and creates a playful and approachable street presence.

Our approach aims for a locally rooted, contextual design with materiality and details informed by the building’s relationship with the surrounding neighbourhood. Here we drew from the facades and shopfronts of the local Vietnamese restaurants and cafés established by first-generation immigrants, which run parallel to nearby Hoxton Street’s traditional pubs and pie & mash shops, speaking to the eclecticism and diversity of the area.

Bold colours were used through the curation of sets of ceramic objects similar to those found in the Vietnamese restaurants. Recycled plastic rattan forms the feature wall behind the reception desk, inspired by the restaurant placemats, while the tiled reception desk with white top and chequered floor references the pie & mash shop interior.

May 2025

Heathlands School Woodland Building is featured in Wallpaper* Magazine’s examination of DeafSpace design principles.

“…the principles of DeafSpace offer a powerful model for creating not just for accessibility but for altogether better design. Developed within the Deaf community, DeafSpace reimagines architecture with an acute awareness of sensory and social experience. In many cases, inclusivity in architecture is left as an afterthought in the design process; a culture of compliance usually leads to bureaucratic box-ticking – a far cry from creating anything that is loving or, dare we say, aesthetically pleasing. In contrast to this, DeafSpace aims to weave in a visceral human-focused approach that informs form, function, and aesthetics from the very beginning.”

April 2025

Lauren’s article Retrofitting PBSA for a New Generation published in Architecture Yearbook 2025.

“With ingenuity, empathy, contextual understanding and material intelligence, it is possible, not to mention rewarding, to activate and energise rejected spaces, and adapt legacy PBSA to meet the needs, and enrich the lives, of the student generation of today - and tomorrow.”

March 2025

The latest phase of the Mandrake Hotel, the immersive and theatrical CoOc private members club and DAMU spa, are open this month.

February 2025