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7/6/21
In practice portrait by Timothy Soar’s captures Chris Dyson and his interest in the impact of the pandemic on transport
Chris is working on a project to encourage cycling as a safe and secure way to move around the city: "We all make our own choices about getting to work, much as we did before the lockd...
31/3/21
Chris Dyson Architects featured in Vogue Magazine blog by Jo Rodgers
'The agent for the property warned us that its historical listing and conservation zone would mean some hoop jumping, even to do things like update the plumbing, or change the color of the front do...
8/2/21
OUR AWARD WINNING PROJECT IS FOR SALE
CDA were invited to prepare a scheme for the extension and complete renovation of this former brewery cooperage in Central London, built in the early 1900s. Click the link to enjoy exploring each ...
4/12/20
Mayor approves Bishopsgate Goodsyard Masterplan
The Mayor of London has approved Hammerson and Ballymore’s plans to transform the Bishopsgate Goodsyard site into an exemplary mixed-use urban quarter that will help drive the recovery and growth o...
16/11/20
Artists in Residence, People, Building, Places
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16/10/20
Chris Dyson talks about the importance of cycling in a recovering city
“Our group came together not only because we are all keen cyclists but because we care about our environment. Those who design and build our city have an important role in helping to shape a hea...
16/10/20
Our project the old pump house is for sale
For sale on The Modern House Chris Dyson Architects have developed a beautiful renovation scheme for the neglected building, transforming the grand Edwardian industrial proportions into an entirel...
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CDA in the Royal Academy Summer Show, Chris is cycling to Monaco.
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16/6/20
Our Italian project is taking shape
29/5/20
AVR London creates video of our crystal palace park cafe
We are so pleased to receive this amazing video of our project at Crystal Palace Park made by AVR London based in Shad Thames, London. Head over to our Instagram account here to view it with the...
28/5/20
Chris Dyson wins photo competition
Chris wins Architecture Club's Photography Competition! Looking Out: The World Outside - Chris Dyson 'Chris' image illustrates the challenges of communicating 3-dimensional space on a 2-dimensi...
1/5/20
An insight into Chris Dyson’s work from home life
We were set up for this and are managing quite well as a team, but I worry that some of the younger members of the office have lost their ‘buddies’/mentors and may feel a little less connected and ...
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Senior Associate Maria Louise Talks With LFA
Architecture Masters at Home
16/4/20
Crystal palace park cafe featured in the plan
"We are thrilled to have been chosen to design this key social amenity in the heart of Crystal Palace Park. I am delighted that the café is already proving to be such a popular destination with the...
16/4/20
Crystal palace park cafe features in World Architecture News
"The new building’s orientation is perpendicular to the park’s central axis, located at a key point that allows, for the first time, an accessible-for-all connection between the central axis and th...
16/4/20
COVID-19 update
To all our clients, colleagues & friends, Like you, we at Chris Dyson Architects have been following the rapid developments of the COVID-19 pandemic closely. We are committed as a nationa...
10/3/20
Aucoot: meet the architects feature
Follow this link to read this beautiful Aucoot case study, featuring our recently completed project at Durham Row.
20/2/20
Crystal palace wins surface design awards 2020
We are thrilled to have been awarded the Surface Design Award 2020 for Sustainable Surface Exterior for our project Crystal Palace Park Cafe!
20/2/20
Crystal Palace features in Architecture Magazine
Crystal palace features in architecture magazine
20/2/20
11 Spitalfields features in Luxury London
Eleven Spitalfields features in Luxury London Magazine. See our lovely full spread on pages 22-23. You can also read through the magazine at this link.
3/1/20
Crystal palace cafe praised in Riba Journal
‘We looked at ceramic and metal options. Given the setting and amount of foliage, we felt that timber was the most sympathetic and would bed in the best,’ says CDA partner Matthew Witts. These ...
3/1/20
Sekforde features on Archello
See more pictures of our lovely pub restoration on this feature on Archello.
2/1/20
Safron Walden as case study on Barbour product search
Our Safron Walden project was used as a case study 'Chris Dyson Architects were commissioned to transform the 1960s house from being drab and box-like into a fresh and contemporary looking home. ...
2/1/20
Crystal palace cafe featured in architecture today
Our lovely Crystal Palace Cafe has been featured on the Architecture Today Website Funded by the Mayor of London, the project forms part of a package of upgrades and conservation works proposed fo...
2/1/20
Albion Works gate are complete
Our bespoke gates are finally installed! 'BANDAGE THE KNIFE, NOT THE WOUND' references the artist Broomberg & Chanarin's ongoing series of photographic 'visual exchange' - to read more about t...
6/11/19
Crystal Palace cafe featured in BDonline
Chris Dyson Architects has completed a new café in south London’s Crystal Palace Park that references recreation space’s famous grade I-listed dinosaur statues. The two-storey lakeside building is wrapped in half-round cedar shingles, t...
21/10/19
Lunch and learn with Chris Dyson
Join us for lunch and a talk An afternoon for architecture and interior enthusiasts, join us at Benk + Bo on the 9th November for a day of lunching and learning in collaboration with the Modern Ho...
18/10/19
We are fifteen!
Fifteen Years of Chris Dyson Architects We have grown! From two people in a garret on the top floor of our old house in Princelet Street to this wonderful building where again I live above the ...
26/7/19
Bishopsgate Goodsyard plans lodged
We have worked alongside Faulkner Browns Architects, Buckley Gray Yeoman and Spacehub on Bishopsgate Goodsyard, which has now been submitted. It also provides 1.4m sq ft of workspace in five build...
26/7/19
Bishopsgate Goodsyard featured in Homes & Property
"We are excited to bring forward these revisions to our plans, which promote a more sensitive scale of development for this strategically important site. Our revised proposals will generate thousan...
17/7/19
Albion works shortlisted for AJ Retrofit Awards 2019
Delighted to be part of the finalists with our, recently completed, Albion Works. 'The yearly AJ Retrofit Awards programme is one of the most highly regarded in UK architecture and celebrates the ...
20/6/19
Crystal palace park café officially open
Our cafe was officially open on Monday, by deputy mayor for planning, regeneration and skills Jules Pipe CBE, and Councillor Peter Morgan. Mr Pipe, said: “I am really pleased to see this new café ...
10/6/19
The Modern House interviews Chris Dyson on Cooperage
Historic architectural conservation “It’s that which I try to find in a project, a sort of inner calm which allows people to feel rested and rewarded for being in the space. It’s a quality that ta...
22/5/19
CDA takes part in HD5K
Hayes Davidson 5K Run We participated in a five-kilometre race in London's Hyde Park, raising £60,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association, alongside other UK-based practices. Check the fu...
20/5/19
We made it into the RA summer exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2019 We are extremely happy that two of our physical models have been selected for this year's Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. See below a previ...
9/4/19
Chris Dyson on Peter Wylie
Peter Wylie's 'News and Views' features Chris Dyson Chris and Sarah Dyson had a gallery, and it was through one of their many interesting exhibitions that I met them. It was a fantastically intere...
9/4/19
Chris Dyson – London Festival of Architecture
LFA 2019 Theme: Boundaries In this essay, Chris shares his thoughts on London Festival of Architecture's 2019 theme of boundaries. "Like so much of central London, Spitalfields is a palimpsest ...
26/3/19
CDA features in Ugly House to Lovely House with George Clarke
Back on Thursday nights at 8PM on Channel 4 Watch episode number 4 to see our project come to life.
26/3/19
Albion Works features in World Architecture News
Ultra-smooth concrete contrasts rough-cast ceilings created using sandblasted Douglas fir. Read the full feature here.
26/3/19
Albion Works features in Domus
The design experiment is challenging and far from simple: transforming service facilities into apartment buildings while respecting the privacy of neighbouring properties. Read the rest of the f...
18/3/19
Albion Works shortlisted for an Riba London 2019 award
See the full list here.
27/2/19
Albion works features on Archello
Check our feature on Archello here.
21/2/19
The cooperage named one of the best London apartments for rent
The Cooperage features in The Spaces' top apartments to rent in London. Read the whole list here.
14/2/19
Historic England features our Whites Row project
Faulkner Residence (Whites Row property) featured in Historic England. Historic England and the conservation department at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets were very supportive of the approach ...
8/2/19
Albion works features in wallpaper
Chris Dyson transforms neglected east London workshop into modern loft apartments. 'This project is simultaneously contemporary and rooted in the 19th century'. [caption id="attachmen...
8/2/19
Chris Dyson in conversation with my Modern House
My Modern House: Architect Chris Dyson on restoring listed buildings at his Huguenot House in Spitalfields [caption id="attachment_1095" align="alignnone" width="564"] Chris Dyson in conversation ...
7/11/18
Gasworks named as a finalist in the surface design awards
CDA's Gasworks has been named as a finalist in the 2019 Surface Design Awards. Link below to see 2019 finalists: 2019 finalists.
15/10/18
Chris Dyson features in Architecture Today magazine
Chris Dyson has contributed to the October 2018 additional of Architecture Today Magazine. Click link below to view: Architecture Today.
5/10/18
The Orangery features in BD magazine CPD 19
Link to article: here
21/8/18
Bishopsgate Goodsyard undergoes radical redesign
We are continuing work on the 4.2ha City Fringe Masterplan in Shoreditch. Read the full article on Architects' Journal.
6/8/18
The Sekforde shortlisted for the brick awards refurbishment category
25/7/18
The RIBA awards process means we all need to be sustainability experts
A very interesting coverage and mention of our project Sekforde, as winner of the RIBA Sustainability Award. 'The emphasis of this year’s regional sustainability winners is on simple and smart pas...
14/6/18
Sekforde features in BBC
Sekforde was named one of the 7 Architectural Wonders by BBC's Natalie Bushe. Check the article and the other honoured architectural projects here. 'The owner has the community at heart and a p...
25/5/18
The Sekforde wins RIBA London awards
We are thrilled to announce that our project, The Sekforde, won two Awards this month: RIBA London Award & RIBA London Sustainability Award. You can read the judges summary of the project, her...
23/4/18
The Sekforde features in Archdaily
CDA's design for The Sekforde has been featured on Archdaily, click here to view the feature on the Archdaily website. The project was completed in December and has since been shortlisted for the ...
27/3/18
Sekforde and Gasworks shortlisted in RIBA Regional Awards
CDA are delighted to announce that The Sekforde and Gasworks have been shortlisted for the RIBA Regional awards. This is the first time that CDA have had two separate projects shortlisted in the s...
8/2/18
CDA’s Cooperage features in Hiscox article
CDA's Clerkenwell Cooperage has featured in an article for Hiscox by Dominic Lutyens. The author, a London based arts journalist who also writes regular columns for The Guardian, Elle Decoration a...
29/1/18
CDA Office Party Opening
Our Office renovation has finished, and we had to celebrate!
17/1/18
Chris Dyson interviewed in building design article
Chris Dyson has been interviewed in the latest edition of Building Design, on the theme of his greatest inspiration as an architect. In the interview, Chris goes into detail about Louis Kahn's Phi...
9/1/18
CDA take part in bowwow haus London
Chris Dyson Architects are taking part in BowWow Haus London, the first ever public auction of artistic dog kennels in Britain. The event is organised by the charity Blue Cross for Pets who are ...
4/12/17
CDA accepted as members of East End Trades Guild
CDA have been accepted as members of the East End Trades Guild (EETG). The EETG is a community of small independent businesses, offering goods and services and providing social spaces, sustaining ...
29/11/17
CDA feature in new RIBA publication: new design for old buildings
Three CDA projects have featured in RIBA's New Design for Old Buildings publication. The book features a range of homes, churches, commercial and industrial buildings from across the UK that showc...
10/11/17
CDA feature on Channel 4’s ‘From Ugly to Lovely’
3/10/17
Gideon purser features in short film about the planned refurbishments at the grade II* listed bell house, Dulwich
CDA are currently involved in an extensive renovation at Bell House in Dulwich, London. The Grade II* listed building originally acted as the home for the headmaster of the nearby Dulwich College,...
1/12/16
CDA’s Gasworks features in Self Build & Design
CDA's Gasworks project features as a case study in this months edition Self Build & Design. The article details CDA's role in resurrecting the existing derelict cottages, gaining planning for ...
11/11/16
CDA’s Huguenot Physicians House commended at Brick Awards 2016
CDA have been commended for the "Huguenot Physicians House" project at last night's Brick Awards, in the "Best Refurbishment Project" category. The project saw this early Georgian house's facade r...
17/10/16
CDA wins at Sunday Times British Homes Awards
Clerkenwell Cooperage and Gasworks were announced as winners on Friday night at the Sunday Times British Homes Awards in the "Small Scale Conversion, Restoration or Refurbishment", and "One-Off Hou...
4/10/16
Gasworks makes shortlist for Manser medal award for the British homes awards
The Manser Medal was set up in 2001 by the late Michael Manser to inspire innovation in house design, and we are delighted to announce that CDA's Gasworks project has made the shortlist. Click her...
14/9/16
CDA’s Gasworks for sale
CDA's Gasworks is now available to buy. If you are interested in viewing the property please click here. The design involves the conversion of an existing redundant Grade II listed Gasworks in ...
10/6/16
Promotions at CDA
Maria Louise Long is now a Senior Associate. Maria Louise joined the Spitalfields office in October 2011 and has led the design team on a variety of projects including Spencer House and Hatoum s...
21/3/16
Chris Dyson Interviewed in Telegraph Magazine
The Telegraph Magazine's latest publication features an interview with Chris Dyson, in which he reveals his home, gallery, and talks about his new studio which is currently under construction. The...
17/3/16
CDA receives commendation – AR future projects awards
CDA's cafe at Crystal Palace has received a commendation from the AR Future Projects Awards. The cafe design is part of a package of improvement and conservation works proposed for the wider park....
11/2/16
Chris Dyson Charity Cycle for Coram Foundation
Chris Dyson will be taking part in a 1,500km cycle from London to Cannes with 100 people from the construction industry as part of Club Peleton to raise funds for Coram, the UK's first-ever childre...
10/2/16
AJ Small Projects Nomination | Worthy Ken House
CDA's extension for Worthy Ken House has been nominated for the AJ Small Projects Awards 2016. \This residential project extends and converts a compact 3 bedroom Victorian end terrace house into a...
9/12/15
The London Phoenix | CDA feature in HBD Magazine
CDA project Huguenot Physicians House has feature in the October-November issue of HBD magazine. Hailed as 'the London phoenix', the feature tells the story of the transformation made to this 'vac...
5/11/15
Anthony Coleman Town Hall Series | Architects Journal
Town Hall Series: A London Typology, is an ongoing project by architecture and landscape photographer Anthony Coleman. Inspired by the civic confidence and architectural ambition of London’s town ...
23/10/15
Wapping Pierhead – Ecola 2015
CDA award-winning project Wapping Pierhead has been selected for publication in ECOLA (European Conference of Leading Architects) 2015 Award for the use of render/plaster in Architecture. For more...
14/10/15
No House Style: The Drawings of Stirling & Wilford | Architects Journal
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Stirling Prize, Chris Dyson has shared some memories and reflections on his time working at James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates in the Architec...
27/8/15
Gasworks | Blueprint Awards 2015
Gasworks has been shortlisted for a Blueprint Award, in the category 'BEST NON-PUBLIC USE PROJECT - RESIDENTIAL' The winners will be revealed on 22nd October at the awards ceremony at Village Unde...
12/8/15
Worthy Ken House Extension Complete
Here is a preview of CDA's recently completed extension on Worthy Ken House, Hackney. The project successfully extended and converted a compact 3 bedroom Victorian end terrace house into a bright ...
3/8/15
Roger Street nears completion
The part-conversion, part refurbishment of this 1970’s office block at Roger Street is nearing completion. The building comprises 6 luxury residential units with a rooftop zinc-clad extension and ...
29/7/15
Harry Whittaker: RIBA Accredited Conservation Architect
CDA are thrilled to announce that Harry Whittaker, Principal Partner of the Bath office, is now a RIBA accredited Conservation architect. Over the last twenty years Harry has designed and built a ...
29/7/15
Gasworks featured in RIBA
CDA project Gasworks has been featured by Jan-Carlos Kucharek in the RIBA Journal. Kucharek highlights the use of corten-coated corrugated sheeting as being 'part of the final language of this agr...
23/7/15
Progress at Albion Drive
Concrete pour has started at Albion Drive. CDA is working with concrete specialist David Bennet in order to achieve an ultra-smooth, high-quality finish to the exposed internal concrete for this e...
19/6/15
Calvin Street awarded Schueco Excellence Award
Chris Dyson Architects have been awarded the Schueco Excellence Award in the category of Residential Development for the Calvin Street apartments in Shoreditch, London. Judges enjoyed the 'Tardis-...
3/6/15
Calvin Street feature in Architects Choice Magazine
Calvin Street has been featured in May's edition of Architects Choice magazine. Under the heading 'Sensitive Restoration', the article praises the copper clad rooftop extension and how its additio...
15/5/15
CDA and Chisel and Mouse – Exciting New Commission
This summer Chris Dyson Architects and Chisel and Mouse are launching a series of architectural models, of the six complete London churches designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor Architect. The series wil...
28/4/15
Gasworks – The Spaces
CDA Principal Partner and lead architect Harry Whittaker chatted with online magazine The Spaces about the recently completed project Gasworks. The renovation of the existing 19th Century gas work...
28/4/15
Gasworks – Architects Journal
CDA's eco-friendly transformation of a redundant Gas Works in rural Gloucestershire has been featured in the Architects Journal. Built-in 1877 as a private acetylene gas works to provide gas for l...
21/4/15
Shoreditch Penthouse featured on Adelto
CDA are thrilled to have this recently completed penthouse project in Shoreditch featured on Adelto. The duplex apartment has been converted from a Victorian warehouse into a luxury penthouse. ...
16/3/15
Gasworks featured in Dezeen
CDA residential project, Gasworks has been featured in Dezeen. The property is located in rural Gloucestershire, so the majority of the annex comprises a single-storey 120-square-metre structure i...
13/2/15
Kitty Fisher reviewed in the Telegraph
CDA restaurant project, Kitty Fishers has been featured in the Telegraphs Luxury supplement. The Shepherd Market eatery is a charming new addition to Mayfair's culinary scene. Specialising in a...
13/11/14
CDA wins at brick awards 2014
House in Wapping was announced winner in last nights ceremony in the category of 'Best Housing Development 1-5 Units'. CDA were praised by the judges for having 'followed the brief flawlessly to c...
17/10/14
CDA exhibit at MIPIM UK
CDA exhibit project on Shoreditch High Street at MIPIM UK.
15/10/14
Crystal Palace Park Cafe shortlisted in Architect of the Year Awards
CDA are thrilled to have been shortlisted for this year's Architect of the Year Awards. Selected from hundreds of entries, we are very proud to be shortlisted in the category; Refurbishment Archit...
6/10/14
CDA in the Financial Times
CDA are pleased to announce we have been mentioned in the Financial Times. We were featured in an article entitled "Why art galleries are moving back into domestic settings" by Edwin Heathcote. ...
19/9/14
CDA book launch / Artifice books
6/8/14
CDA in Evening Standard
Hugenot Physicians House has been featured in the Evening Standard's Home and Property Section. Phillipa Stockley tells the story of how Dyson rescued the 18th Century house from ruin and injected...
1/3/14
Chris Dyson’s wapping extension wins aj small projects award
CDA’s House in Wapping was chosen ahead of 23 other finalists to win the award. The ‘subtle, thoughtful yet mischievous’ addition to a Georgian-style terrace in east London was described as ‘archi...
1/12/13
CDA on team appointed to design the public realm and landscape at Bishopsgate Goodsyard
Spacehub, Chris Dyson Architects, Studio Weave and Kinnear Landscape Architects have been appointed to design the public realm and landscape for Bishopsgate Goodsyard in east London. The 4ha site ...
1/12/13
Chris Dyson artwork sold in charity auction
Last month saw Article 25’s annual fundraising event ‘10x10: Drawing the City.’ This years 10x10 has been the most successful one yet, raising approximately £90,000. Among the works sold at auc...
1/10/13
Planning permission granted at Albion Drive
CDA are thrilled to announce full planning permission has been approved on this very exciting back land re-development in Dalston. This derelict Victorian workshop will be transformed into 4 high-...
1/10/13
New veneers in Shoreditch
We are pleased to announce we have recently submitted two new designs for projects in the south Shoreditch conservation area of Hackney. The Designs In both cases the design is to be read as a co...
1/9/13
Creative living London | Chris Dyson
This month sees the publication of a new book taking an ‘exclusive peek inside the personal spaces of the city’s most ingenious talents.’ One of the homes featured is the Dyson family home here in...
1/8/13
11 Princelet street extension
CDA are pleased to announce that they have been awarded planning and listed building consent for the excavation of a basement level under their studios at 11 Princelet Street. The ground level of ...
1/8/13
Progress at Gasworks
Gasworks will soon be alight with a lovely corten steel addition. Here in this project, new meets old in a thoroughly compelling manner embracing the local and long vistas and completing the long-...
1/8/13
Hyde park corner lodge
CDA are pleased to announce they have been awarded full planning permission for this exciting project at Hyde Park Corner Lodge. The proposal is to adapt the building for use as a cafe whilst reta...
1/8/13
Howitt road, Belsize park
CDA are pleased to announce their commission to create basement level living space with loft conversion and internal reconfiguration to this Edwardian terraced house in LB Camden.
1/8/13
Barton street, Westminster
CDA are pleased to announce their commission to create basement level living spaces with single storey ground floor pavilion at the rear of the garden and internal reconfiguration for this beautifu...
1/8/13
Kitty fisher’s a new restaurant at 10 shepherd market
We are pleased to announce we have our first restaurant project at No 10 Shepherd Market for Mrs Penelope and Mr Michael Milburn, which is located in the north eastern corner of the market square, ...
1/8/13
Practise & projects | artifice books to publish book on CDA
CDA are pleased to announce the publication of a new book exploring a diverse range of projects we have worked on over the past 8 years as a practice. ‘Practise & Projects’ features contributi...
1/8/13
Albion Drive
CDA have put forward planning permission to turn this derelict Victorian workshop in Dalston into high quality residential units with large top lit artists studios at ground floor.
1/8/13
Chestnut Road
CDA are pleased to announce they have been awarded full planning permission for this elegant extension to this large semi detached Victorian house in Dulwich.
1/8/13
Illustrator Owen Pomery | CDA series
Here are a series of images by illustrator Owen Pomery of a variety of CDA projects. They were commissioned by CDA for inclusion in our upcoming book, to be published by Artifice books this fall. ...
1/7/13
Hugenot place
This development was largely established in the 1970’s providing commercial accommodation to decant workspace from the Huguenot houses of the Fournier street conservation area and as such permittin...
1/5/13
Design team appointed for the Goodsyard
Hammerson and The Ballymore Group, have appointed a professional team to bring forward the development proposals for The Goodsyard, London. The Goodsyard is one of the biggest regeneration develop...
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