To celebrate 10 years of Darren Oldfield Architects we held an anniversary party at Studio Z Brixton last month. And we had a secret to unveil… our new identity and brand: DO+CO!

We have some big news to share with you…

After 10 years as Darren Oldfield Architects, we're proud to announce our new name: Do+Co. We are the same team, and the same director. And now we have a name and a brand that reflects our best qualities: creativity, communication, collaboration, and community.

Today we are celebrating 10 years since Darren took the huge leap of setting up his own practice! In that time, the practice has weathered the industry ups and downs, a global pandemic, completed 60 projects and drawn out nearly triple that.

Stay tuned for an exciting announcement to come next week...

As part of our ten year celebrations, we took an office trip to Venice! The whole team came along, Darren, Jen, Rita, Lydia, Jack, Dom and Connor. We took in all the 18th Biennale Architettura (International Architecture Exhibition 2023) had to offer, explored the streets and canals of Venice and consumed our body weights in pizza and pasta. There might have been a few Campari Spritz too….

Check out the reel on our instagram for the highlights.

This September, we are welcoming a new Part I Architectural Assistant to the office. Connor Tweedie is joining us having recently graduated from the Macintosh School of Architecture. His favourite university project, titled “A Dance Hall for Equality” envisioned a new community space which fostered a more equal, fair and diverse culture than the original Glaswegian dance hall typology. Alongside his studies, Connor was also a member of the Glasgow school of arts queer society, where the group would raise, and discuss concerns over discrimination and disadvantage within the industry.

Outside of architecture, Connor has a passion for aviation, and when given the opportunity, has even been known to fly planes himself. Welcome Connor!

We are busy celebrating our Part II Architectural Assistant, Jack! This summer he graduated from his part II studies at London Metropolitan University with a distinction! We're really happy to have him back in the office full time and we cannot wait to see what he does next. Well done Jack! Great work.

We've moved!

Still in Parkhall, we have taken the short journey upstairs to a larger, brighter, cooler office with a view!

We're having great fun making it our own. Watch this space for photos of the finished space.

Our winter 2023 newsletter has arrived! Heading into the last stretch of winter, we’re here for lovely news only… gorgeous interiors, a sustainable, accessibly-designed home, and our newly qualified architect, Lydia!

It’s been a scorcher of a summer so far, hasn’t it? We’re back with a cooling, soothing photoshoot from one of our recent projects, the lovely Peckham House – all stark black exteriors and light, colourful interiors. And we have some exciting office news – read on for more!

We’re pleased to see this full-length feature article recently published in 25 Beautiful Homes Magazine on our Wood Vale project from 2019. Take a look here for a preview of the whole piece. We still love that bathroom…

Hello – it’s been a while! We’re back with our Spring 2022 newsletter, celebrating our recent feature in 25 Beautiful Homes Magazine. We’ve got a giveaway of a new RIBA book on skilful design for small spaces featuring several of our projects. We welcome our recent recruit, Dominic. And we celebrate the work of Project Architect Rita at the Royal Society of Ulster Architects.

We’re in a book! Published in January 2022, Squeezing It In by Mary Leslie is all about creative design for compact living. The book offers a range of innovative solutions to familiar problems, from bathrooms to staircases, in an easy-to-read format, for interior designers, architects and anyone with an interest in compact design. Details from several of our projects feature, including the Notting Hill Apartment, Apartment Refurbishment and Extension, Chelsea, Ryedale, East Dulwich and Dylways, Denmark Hill.

You can buy your own copy here from the RIBA website