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Shades of Grey House was finalist in the AJ Retrofit Awards 2019,and the Kitchen was finalist in the SBID International Design Awards 2018. Featured in:© Grand Designs magazine, January 2018 © Grand Designs magazine, October 2018 Photography; Image 6, 8 to 16, 18, 20 to 30 © JCT Photography; Full House Tour:© Matt & Summer, March 2021 Shades of … Continued

Major retrofit of arts & crafts house; front, rear and basement expansion. Our client, a young family of five, approached us to build them a large 21st century home. They had just bought a semi-detached unmodernised house but were interested in full demolition, partly because the property was internally very poor and had been stripped … Continued

The overall ambition of the of the client was to re-configure the house as a modern home, catering for the needs of an expanding family for the present and long term future. The property, situated in a Conservation Area, already included low quality, tired and unattractive single-storey rear & sideway extensions, predominantly built of timber … Continued

This Mews house in a North London was cramped, dark and not suited to modern living requirements. The brief from our clients was to open up the house, connecting the warren of small rooms to bring light in and rationalise the functions and circulation of the entire house. The introduction of a full height, central … Continued

This Victorian terraced villa in a North London conservation area had at one stage been split into maisonettes, resulting in a warren of spaces at entrance and garden levels. The brief from our clients; enthusiastic chefs, gardeners and hosts was to open up the house to maximise use of the hidden spaces, rationalise the duplicated … Continued

Winner of the BUILD Architecture Award 2017 for Best in Contemporary Residential Architecture – UK Refurbishment and Extension of a Victorian Terrace Featured in:The Angel Resident, February 2017The Daily Telegraph, September 2017Build It, October 2017 Contractor: Peake ProjectsInterior Design: Vecason Ltd.Structural engineer: Greig LingAutomist: Elite fire safetyWindows and structural glazing: IQ glass solutions

Having modernized their listed terraced Georgian house 15 years ago, our client again approached us to expand rather than move. We obtained consent to build under the entire garden in a design that rebalances narrow vertical family spaces for their brief for modern living – but without impacting the listed structure. We removed and then … Continued

Mews House Primrose Hill 2 was shortlisted for the 2014 RIBA Regional Awards: London. Mews House Primrose Hill 2 was shortlisted for two 2013 Camden Design Awards Click the links below for more details:Enhancing Context AwardDon’t Move, Improve Award Extensive work to this property meant Robert Dye Architects could pursue two objectives at once: the … Continued

Winner of Daily Telegraph Best Residential design 2014; and the CEDIA award for Best Integrated design. Our original brief for this family was to extend an existing 250m2 house designed by architect Ted Levy in 1970. It was perched a storey above the road on a hillside. We proposed excavating back from the road under … Continued

Modernisation and extension of Edwardian semi-detached house, including a new bedroom floor at roof level, and replacement of existing rear extension with 2 storey new extension. Inspired by our client’s love for childhood memories of ‘inside/outside’ modernism in India, the garden and first floor rear was opened to the garden and the sky. The rear … Continued

The muscular streetwall of Wimpole Street typically comprises terraced houses of 5 storeys plus a set-back mansard roof level. Today, most of this Georgian architecture is occupied by medical practices and associations but some houses survive as private residential homes. Our clients acquired the upper 3-storey maisonette within one such Grade II listed house that … Continued

Having lived on the opposite side of the road for some years, our client acquired this large property in West Hampstead with the intention of modernising as well as significantly extending. The house was built in the1930s in the ‘arts and crafts’ Hocroft Estate. On the street it was 2 storeys plus loft floor, dropping … Continued

Recycled House was shortlisted for the 2011 R.I.B.A. Awards. This Victorian end-of-terrace house in North London had suffered from substantial subsidence in the past and was in poor structural condition when purchased. Despite these defects, our Client had fallen in love with its charm and did not want to lose the original 19th century features; … Continued

RDA completed this side and rear extension on a house in Hackney. More to follow…

Awarded the RIBA Manser Medal, 2005 ‘Stealth House’ is a radical reworking of a 1950’s bomb-site in-fill house, that reconfigures and expands the original from two to five bedrooms, and repairs the disruption of the streetscape where the post-war construction failed. Retaining a few masonry remnants, a new volume is framed up in highly-insulated timber … Continued

A new element occupying a gap between an existing red-brick main house and detached music room. The client brief for a room in which to grow plants was transformed by challenging the awkward position of the existing front door. This led to the idea of an internalised court to satisfy the initial brief and provide … Continued

Contractor: ShipShape Construction Ltd.Photography © ShipShape Construction Ltd. Featured in:Delightfull, March 2017

This 1930s house in suburban Northwest London has been carefully demolished to make way for substantial refurbishment and rear extension.

 The rear of the house was an incoherent mess of details and elements accumulated over the years. Now demolished, it is being replaced by a two-storey extension added to the full width of the existing … Continued

The client’s townhouse required complete modernisation, which was structured in phases. The rear ground floor kitchen was gutted and rebuilt with a wall of units and a new cantilevered stone counter. The wall was opened up to the courtyard with folding steel windows, allowing the kitchen counter to flow between inside and outside. Featured in: … Continued

A bathroom box hovers over a glazed garden room, both additions to a listed two-storey Georgian terrace house in a conservation area. RDA steered the project through difficult constraints to achieve consent. The bathroom has an acid etched glass roof with clear circular openings, casting patterns of light through and out of the room into … Continued

Our client wanted RDA to fulfil a simple aspiration, to create the largest room possible at the back of a standard Victorian terrace house, but with two constraints; that there should be no planning delay and roof glazing only when absolutely necessary.

 At ground floor, the rear wall of the main house was removed, the … Continued

Longlisted for the RIBA London Region Awards Following decades of piecemeal additions and alterations, the house required substantial work to restore a coherent whole and open up the volume to feel spacious. Originally used for servants’ quarters, the Lower Ground Floor was disconnected, despite having been used as family accommodation for many years. Our brief … Continued

Working to a specific client brief, a modern family home was created from a Victorian semi-detached house. The four-storey building had previously been split into five flats; it was transformed with a rebuilt two-storey rear extension – timber framed and clad in cedar, with a structurally glazed dining room addition. Featured in: Kitchens, Bedrooms & … Continued

Awarded a Housing Design Award in 2009 Originally a dairy with horse-drawn drays, the premises were last used as a taxi garage before becoming derelict; over a period of disuse the grazing land to the north was a refuge for wildlife. Fierce opposition from the neighbours made the site very difficult to gain planning consent. … Continued

Gayton Road is a typical terraced street of part-stucco fronted 19th century walk-ups off Hampstead High Street. Our clients approached us to see how they could fit their family into a house that had already been extended into the loft space and very little garden. Together in discussion we decided the house not only needed … Continued

Commendation Camden Design Awards 2008 Cantelowes skatepark in Camden was selected as a venue for the international Quicksilver ‘Bowl Rider Competition’ 2008 Robert Dye Architects has designed thirteen skateparks across England (London, East Sussex, Hampshire, Herefordshire) commissioned by various local authorities, most of which have now been realised. In each project the skatepark was designed … Continued

Mews House Primrose Hill 1 and 2 were shortlisted for the 2013 Camden Design Award ‘Enhancing Context’. Mews House Primrose Hill 1was shortlisted for the 2009 RIBA London Region Awards. Mews House Primrose Hill 1 was a finalist in the 2008 Grand Designs Awards. Although not listed, this mews house is in the heavily-conserved Primrose … Continued

This 5 bedroom house renovation and expansion from 2008, followed a strict privacy request from our client at the time of making this project. The family always thought that they would relocate and sell after a few years and have done exactly that, breaking through a local price-ceiling in the process. Images are courtesy of … Continued

Robert Dye Architects was called in to help with the gallery’s impending relocation. Having evaluated three London sites, the team chose a 3,000 square foot warehouse space close to Tate Modern to fit out. The two-storey volume allowed a double-height gallery at the rear and more exhibition space by getting light deeper into the plan. … Continued

Our Scandinavian client had had enough of a tatty and awkward conservatory at the back of her Tufnell Park home. The room was cold and unloved; our task was to remodel the back of the house to make it beautiful, functional and warm! Our client brought a strong willed sense of aesthetics to the table … Continued

We are currently working on an exciting new-build 10 bedroom villa in the Domaine de Brau vineyards outside Carcassonne in SW France. Having undertaken a localised search and found the site for our Client, we also sourced a local ‘executive’ architect to look after construction and delivery under our design direction. Planned in two phases, … Continued

Robert Dye Associates is working alongside a local architect to refurbish and extend an existing hillside property, adding new terraces, swimming pool and pool house, carefully sited to avoid existing trees whilst maximising both privacy and the stunning views from the site.

Masterplan and architectural design for regeneration of a derelict farmyard and buildings in the ancient city of Carcassonne, Southern France. Below the walls of the ancient Cathar castle city, this farmyard, farmhouse, barn, and garages had sat unused for 30 years and is a sensitive World Heritage site. Discussions with the local community revealed a … Continued

This Victorian end-of-terrace property had a poor ground floor arrangement whose pokey interiors didn’t suit our client’s family needs. Our proposals involved opening up this floor so that the main house, garden and outhouse became one continuous living space. Our client was delighted with the light that the new glazed openings on the side and … Continued

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Modernisation of a Grade II listed 6 storey terraced property comprising basement/ground floor shop, first and second floor offices, and upper storey 2 bedroom maisonette. The maisonette had had a sitting tenant for 35 years and required complete modernisation to provide a high-end rental unit. A new bathroom is accommodated in a structural glass and … Continued

This project required the modernisation and extension of 4-storey Regency family house. Following extensive negotiations with the London Borough of Camden on this Grade II listed house, a thorough modernisation was achieved, with a 3m glass cube extension to the rear. The scheme inserted new service systems and spaces, integrated within the framework of cellular … Continued

With London living space at a premium, and a rising demand for single person accommodation, how can you transform a Victorian house into a cost-effective, high density cluster of bedsits? 

RDA devised a new urban prototype – a modern bedsit for young singles. After protracted negotiations with the planners, we won permission for 11 studio … Continued

A large L-shaped, half-timbered Surrey farmhouse set in two acres of land. The design challenge was to modernise, while retaining the integrity of the original building. A masterplan produced the solution: a reorganisational move to improve the entrance, by linking an existing annex to the main house. A new entrance pavilion was designed using structural … Continued

Complete refurbishment of an Edwardian terraced house. The design solution focused on a conservatory infill at the rear and the removal of several structural walls to make an open plan kitchen, dining and adjacent sitting area. Within this newly opened living space, the remaining structure has been carved to make a sculptural use of the … Continued

Built half into a hillside, the ground floor rear of the house was so dark as to be virtually uninhabitable. A modernisation scheme opened up a two-storey glazed wall at the back and introduced a glass floor at the upper level – this visually linked the kitchen/dining entrance level to the garden above, and flooded … Continued

£1 million conversion of an Edwardian dairy site in London into 12,000 sqft of shell lofts and a 5,000 sqft home/design studio.

 Our client purchased a series of run-down brick warehousing buildings in a then-unfashionable area of Ladbroke Grove. Despite considerable constraints, our planning applications secured a change of use to ‘mixed light industrial and … Continued