A group of D5’ers working on our multiple projects at Birmingham Airport had a fantastic evening at their inaugural charity dinner in aid of Birmingham Children’s Hospital. A great night for a great cause raising £63,000 (and counting) for the charity.

We had a bountiful supply of fantastic home bake cakes made by the D5 team for all to enjoy. It was great catching up with so many people. Thanks to everyone who was able to make it and donations given. We made a tidy sum for the charity, which was fantastic!

Blessed with fine weather we enjoyed a walking tour of Bristol's finest architecture with various pit stops for food and drink including some great local cider!

The new house will replace a bungalow on a prominent corner site, with a 5 bedroom family home.

We have carefully developed a proposal that responds to the neighbouring property's predominance of inter-war arts and crafts inspired designs. Our design reflects the neighbours, while creating its own identity with contemporary, refined detailing.

A group of D5'ers enjoyed the BAA Dinner last night, with a key note speech by Anna Minton. A great night had by all!

Group office visit to see progress on site at our Southgate student residential project in Selly Oak, Birmingham.

Last night an group from the office enjoyed a night out at Roxy Lanes around the corner form our office in Digbeth. It was a great night with friendly competitive fun on the Pool table and Shuffleboards!

Our design for a part restoration, part new building project in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter received Full Planning Permission last week.

The project will provide ground floor street facing commercial space for designers, makers and potentially a small commercial gallery. The rear and upper storeys will have 9 generous residential dwellings; apartments and duplex's.

A courtyard will be formed at the rear of the site for residents and business users use, where the large timber truss's of the current roof will be retained as a feature of the space.

Great time attending UKREiiF by Joel Kempsey-Fagg. Catching up with contacts and meeting new, attending a number of interesting and social events and enjoying Leeds in the sun!

Last week, three D5'ers attended Open City's 'Young City Makers' programme training led by Nasra Abdullahi and Zafir Ameen.

"Young City Makers pairs primary schools with architecture practices, and gives students the opportunity to develop their collaboration and model-making skills, along with their understanding of their role in shaping their city." Open City

Training day photos by Manijeh Verghese

A group from the office enjoyed a night out to welcome three new recruits to the team with a few drinks in Digbeth, before heading to the Jewellery Quarter for a great meal at the Indian Brewery Snowhill.

Norwood Road, London Borough of Lambeth: Work is nearing completion on site with our project to convert and extend the upper floors of a former purpose built Woolworths store with a Listed white terracotta façade, into spacious and characterful dwellings.

London stock brick extends the side and rear second floor and pre-patinated copper shingles have been used to wrap the top floor. The terracotta will also be cleaned and renovated as part of the project.

New accommodation provided includes a mix of 1 and 2 bedroom apartments including 4 duplex’s with 2 benefitting from dramatic double height spaces that incorporate the existing double height windows in the Listed façade. All but one unit has private external space or winter gardens and all but 2 have dual aspect accommodation. A shared roof garden at third floor level will provide semi private external amenity space to all residents to enjoy.

Congratulations to Cadence Projects for their success in winning the Environmental Social Governance Award sponsored by D5 Architects at the Variety Midlands PROPS Awards 2025 held at the Grand Hotel, Birmingham.

Group office visit to see progress on site at Ariel House where we are converting a former Barclays Bank office building into 56 apartments.

Great to see our design for Legge Lane in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter is near complete.

D5 were involved in the redevelopment of the large site on Legge Lane from 2014-2019, obtaining Full Planning Permission for the constructed scheme with 100 dwellings in multiple blocks around 3 courtyards on the site which has a 2-storey change in level.

The contemporary contextual design was developed to reflect the historic location with a series of buildings referencing historic plot sizes.

Our client sold the site after we obtained Planning Approval and our design was then developed and constructed by the new owners.

Yesterday D5’s Santa gathered staff donations for charity.

Our charity Reverse Christmas Calendar this year has involved all D5 staff donating long life food provisions for a big donation on behalf of us all to Homeless One. Inspired by an 11 year old girl’s concern for a homeless person she passed on a street, since 2014 Homeless One has been serving hot meals to Birmingham’s homeless from their base in Digbeth. They now provide a hot meal 7 days a week by 20+ volunteers serving 650+ meals a week.

Please make contact with them if you would like to make your own donation or volunteer to help.

We're looking for driven and talented individuals to join our team to work on projects within our Aviation, Residential and Education sector work, from RIBA Stage 1-6.

We're looking for RIBA qualified Architects with 2+ years post qualification experience. Ideal applicants will have experience in multiple sectors and across RIBA works stages.

We also seek experienced Technologists with high quality technical design experience using Revit . Ideal applicants will also have experience of dealing with projects on site.

If this is this you, please get in touch with your CV and Portfolio to hello@d5architects.net

With our guests, great cakes made by all the staff and 'guess how many sweets in the jar' for donations, all made for a great morning and significant money raised for the charity. Thanks to all involved!

A great relaxed social day chatting about design, details and materials interspersed with comfortable helpings of food and drink!

The proposal dynamically cantilevers over the existing set back top floor with a design that complements the existing mid-century building below, while presenting its own identity through the use of pleated cladding creating light, shade and texture to the façade.

The roof extension also complements our new-build 15-storey Queensgate Square proposal on the right hand side, which obtained Full Planning Permission earlier in the year.