Our Projects

We’re very proud of our portfolio of renovations and extensions, but few projects are more exciting for architects than designing a brand new home. Starting with a blank page, we coax designs from our client’s imagination, our practical experience and the constraints of the site (and physics). Here are four projects still on the drawing…

Our renovation and extension of a Building of Townscape Merit is Twickenham is underway, and is in the middle of a dramatic transformation. From the street, everything looks fairly normal. As it should, seeing as we weren’t permitted to modify the front elevation of this grand detached house with its towering finials and ornate period…

Fulham House, despite boasting a basement and extension which more than doubled the original floor size, fits unassumingly into a very typical terraced street. An acid wash and repointing on the flank wall removed 100 years of grime to give a freshly-built look which highlights the quality of the original brickwork. The sash windows are…

Our latest project is yet another renovation and extension of one of Richmond’s beautiful, high quality family homes. Fun was high on our clients’ list of design objectives. A brand new basement floor will host a games and cinema room, with enough space for both a full-sized tennis table and pool table. And after they…

Our latest project is a 6,000sqft new home in Cobham, Surrey. Two storeys, an extended ground floor and a full plan basement provide plenty of space, while a traditional façade means that – despite the size – the house won’t stick out. The interior will be far less modest. Our clients want double height spaces…

Our latest period project aims to refine an already gorgeous family home in Richmond. The property is a three storey detached Victorian house with matching front and rear façades in a clean, uniform yellow brick typical of the St. Matthias Conservation Area. A 30m long landscaped garden is the main selling feature of the house,…

This detached Victorian house is one of the most striking in Richmond. With its red brick façade, white cornices and towering finial, it’s an exceptional example of elegant period architecture. Our proposal renovates the interior to bring its period charm to the forefront with a luxurious, high quality finish, while also ensuring that the spaces…

At DGA, we have the privilege of building homes in some of the country’s most exclusive locations, but nothing beats a site that sits directly on the River Thames. Our proposal replaces two houses of little architectural merit with two highly contemporary Buckinghamshire homes. They have been designed as stark white modernist villas with fully…

Our newest commission is an architectural jigsaw puzzle squeezed within a terrace townhouse in Belgravia. Built in the late 1820s, the original plan appears to have been a single room deep at the front, with a long, narrow rear extension on the back. In World War 2, the house was damaged, and the lost original…

Our ongoing Fulham full plan basement and renovation is a prime example of why we urge clients to add at least a 10% contingency fund to their projects. We always prefer retaining as much of the original fabric as we can when renovating a property, but as we peeled back the plaster of this neglected…