dpa is pleased to announce the promotion of Ingo Kalecinski, Ela Karel, and Tommaso Gimigliano to the Senior Associate position. These advancements underscore the professional growth and dedication demonstrated by Ingo, Ela, and Tommaso during their tenure with our organisation. Congratulations to them!
dpa’s London studio is delighted to welcome Jessica Gami who has joined our team as a Senior Designer. Jessica’s diverse experience will complement our growing London team.
We would like to wish Jessica all the best in developing her lighting career with us.
The dpa Oxfordshire studio are delighted to welcome Kirsty Armstrong who has joined us as a Designer. We look forward to working with Kirsty and wish her a successful career within independent lighting design.
We are delighted to announce that Mark Tweedale, dpa Oxfordshire Associate, has been selected as a winner within the 40 under Forty Award 2023 – a unique annual international competition which selects young and outstanding demonstrable talent working in a creative capacity, applying lighting in architecture.
From us all at dpa – congratulations and well done Mark!
We are absolutely delighted to welcome back to dpa Sotirios Stamatopoulos, who returns to the Practice as an Associate. Richard Bolt, Partner, commented, “we are thrilled to be working together again and are excited for the future – welcome home Sotos!”
dpa project MSC World Europa “Illuminated Trees” has been featured in the December/January edition of Arc Magazine, please click here to read the article in full.
If you would like further information about this project, please visit our project page by clicking here.
We are sharing an article published in Frame magazine’s Autumn edition, which features EE, Westfield, London, a project recently completed by our London studio in collaboration with UK retail designers Dalziel & Pow. Please click here to read this article in full.
If you would like further information about this project, please visit our project page by clicking here.
The dpa London studio is thrilled to welcome two graduates Shakhlo Islamova and David Camacho Romero, who have joined our team as Lighting Designers. We are delighted to have them as a part of our team and would like to wish them every success in developing their lighting design career with us.
Congratulations to KSR Architects, SMC Smart Homes and the entire team on winning three awards at the UK Property Awards 2023-2024 for IO House, London. This multi-award winning dpa project situated in North West London received awards for categories “Residential Property for London”, “Architecture Single Residence for London” and “Architecture Single Residence UK” at the London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square on 10th November 2023. To read more about this project, click here.
Photography: Adam Letch
We are pleased to announce that Marilena Zapounidi has joined us as a Designer in the dpa Dubai Studio. Marilena will add to the creative talent of the team and help deliver successful lighting design solutions to our world-class commissions.
dpa’s Oxfordshire Studio welcomes Tammy Julleekeea who has joined our team as a Designer. We are delighted to be working together and wish Tammy every success in developing her lighting design career with us.
Congratulations to Intern Samuel Walker on receiving the highly prestigious Jonathan Spiers Scholarship Award 2023. Samuel, who will be the last of the scholarship winners, received the award on 25th October at the Spiers Major London Studio. Beginning in 2012, the scholarship was created to provide 10 years of support to students of architecture aspiring to enter the Architectural Lighting Design profession.
dpa Partner Richard Bolt commented “this is a proud moment for Samuel and all of us at dpa, we look forward to seeing him develop and progress within our discipline”.
dpa Senior Associate Iain Carlile looks at two of the latest papers to be published by Lighting Research and Technology which variously examine the effect of lighting conditions on plant growth and the visual appearance of artwork . Please click here to view this article in full.
This article was published in the Society of Light and Lighting’s newsletter ‘Light Lines’ September/October 2023 edition.
Further editions of the Society of Light and Lighting’s newsletter ‘Light Lines’ can be found on their website www.cibse.org or by clicking here.
We are pleased to announce the promotion of Karl Quizon to Senior Designer in the Dubai Studio. Karl has been working with us for 4 years and has been an integral team member to many of our successful projects in the region.
The dpa team are thrilled to welcome three new members! Dimitris Theocharoudis joins our London studio as Associate, whilst our Oxfordshire studio is joined by Anuhas Jayakody and Samuel Walker, Designer and Intern respectively.
We are happy to share that two of our projects, Anita Lounge & Bar – Intercontinental Rome Ambasciatori Palace, Rome and BYRD – Hart Shoreditch Hotel, London have been shortlisted for the Ahead Awards Europe 2023 in the Bar, Club or Lounge category. The awards ceremony is due to take place on 17th November 2023 at Evolution, London so we are keeping our fingers crossed!
With 8 months to go until her maiden voyage, Cunard, Carnival and the design teams visited the Fincantieri shipyard to see build progress of the glorious Queen Anne.
Presenting this short film commissioned by David Collins Studio and produced by Oh Kestrel, London-based artist Robson Stannard delves into the inspiration behind his artwork for dpa project, Velvet at the Corinthia, London. Click here to read more about this project.
Photography and video courtesy of David Collins studio
Photographer: Alex Upton
Videographer: Oh Kestrel
Presenting an article in Hotel Designs by Hamish Kilburn who joins Geoff Hull of EPR Architects for a preview of The OWO, London – dpa project due to complete shortly. Click here for the full article.
Click here to read more about dpa‘s involvement.
dpa project Velvet at the Corinthia, London featured in Wallpaper Magazine. Click here to read the full article.
To read about dpa‘s involvement in this project, click here.
