A London Terraced House. Site Photographs, Practical Completion, April 2026.
A new timber stair is inserted to replace a rotted and non-regulatory vertical connection.
Rooms of different openness and intimacies are accessed off the landings with the porosity (provided by a fire strategy of concealed smoke curtain and very limited doorways) allowing daylight and views deep into the centre of the plan.
Thanks to @sufa.construction.ltd , @ritchiedaffin and @structure.workshop and our clients.
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A London Terraced House. Site photographs nearing completion, February 2026.
A Victorian house is adjusted to provide a highly insulating, low VOC, breathable clay perimeter, with large section douglas fir used for interior spatial alteration’s and much needed daylight.
The timber structures offer a low-embodied-carbon approach to keep the chamber qualities of the original period house but translating these rooms into new spaces suited to C21st open domestic living.
Thanks to @sufa.construction.ltd for the care and enjoyment during construction, the rest of the design team @structure.workshop@ritchiedaffin , and our clients.
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THANK YOU FOR ALL THE APPLICATIONS.
David Leech Architects is looking for a Part 1 year-out Student and a Part 2 Recent Architecture Graduate to join our small London studio. Microstation is desired, but not essential. Please email [email protected] with your portfolio, experience, and desired salary. Application deadline is 12th January with an expected start date for mid-February. Thank you for the interest!
One up, Two down. 2025. Nearing completion. A reworking of a small (52sqm) 1930s two-storey workers cottage (on a very large plot) in Dublin, Ireland.
Site Photograph - D. Haskins.
Contractor - Clancon Ltd.
Fabrication - Sam de la Rosa. @mothindustrial
A late post but, we are very pleased to have been honoured with an Architecture Association of Ireland (AAI) Award last month for a House within a House in the Belsize Park Conservation Area, London.
Thanks to our clients / contractors @ask_interiors_ltd / collaborators @structure.workshop and @ritchiedaffin and for the wonderful photographs from Johan Dehlin and Max Creasy.
A House in the Desert. 2022 - 2023.
Line axonometric, ground floor plan & sculpture courtyard perspective : A house for an artist.
Our winning entry for a competition for an art gallery, artist studio and residence, in a desert town.
At ground floor, two public rooms hold the temporary exhibition displays. One gallery is internal, conditioned and visible from the street like a shopfront; the other is external and embedded within the body of the block, open to the sky and shaded by exaggerated canopies. The artist studio sits between these spaces and the private residence raised above.
With Structure Workshop and Ritchie + Daffin
A House in the Desert. 2022 - 2023.
Section drawing, CAD imagery & mural study: A house for an artist.
Our winning entry for a competition for an art gallery, artist studio and residence, in a desert town.
A hollowed, rammed earth, wall containing circulation and stairs, wraps a delicate interior and exterior, of screens and glass, and of rooms and gardens.
The heavy mural clay veil is partially painted with a metallic finish to reflect the harshness of the sun and is eroded from above and the sides to provide glimpses from the private to the public worlds, and back again. A stepped roof garden with tented canopies provides shade with long distance views across the valley and oasis. A labyrinth of thermal passages provides natural cooling to the house and studio.
With Structure Workshop and Ritchie + Daffin.
Thank you to the Architects Journal for nominating A house within a house in this years AJ Awards. Looking forward to the awards and celebrating with our brilliant client. Photographs from Max Creasy.
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A Suburban House. 2023 -
Working within the variety of the the suburban pattern houses, a (hopefully) recognisable but contemporary villa is situated within the surroundings of residential speculative development somewhere between faux arts and craft and local midcentury modernism.
Made from insulating poroton block, it’s faces wrapped in render, brick slip and metal frames/glass as they relate to the surroundings.
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A Suburban House. 2023 -
Working within the variety of the suburban pattern houses, a (hopefully) recognisable but contemporary villa is situated within the surroundings of residential speculative development somewhere between faux arts and craft and local midcentury modernism.
#davidleecharchitects
We are pleased that our two most recently completed projects, A House for an Engineer & A House within A House, have been shortlisted for the RIBA London Awards 2023.
Although both are small projects they take a lot of time and care from the initial ideas to completion.
In addition, we are delighted that A House within a House is a finalist in the Architects Journal Retrofit Awards; refurbishment and reworking existing buildings for future use is important to our practice.
Thank you to our brilliant and supportive clients, the Design Teams and Contractor Teams.
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A house for sleeping / an extension for living. Dublin. 2023 -
We are pleased to start on site this week for the refurbishment and extension to an early C20th workers cottage on the outskirts of Dublin City in Ireland.
The original semi-detached body is reappropriated as a dormitory block with an enfilade of living spaces, distinguished by distinct volumes and gardens pushed out from the rear facade through the void created by the removal of the original central stair.
(Phase 1 of An Alley and Courtyard Housing)
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