This week we've had secondary school student Muhammed Ahmed with us. He's taken part in office activities and progressed his own design brief. As a thankyou from him to us, he brought in these fantastic cakes which he had made himself. He's an aspiring Architect and capable baker already with is own business Moreish Bakes. A very promising young man!

The two block proposal on Suffolk Street Queensway in Birmingham city centre provides 125 residential apartments of one, two and three bedrooms in the 15-storey and 7-storey buildings, with a shared communal courtyard garden between.

Great work by the team including Carney Sweeney who lead the planning process.

Project page here.

Aston Brook Street East

Our client, ProBuild360, invites members of the public to a Pre-Planning Submission consultation event regarding their new HQ building proposal designed by D5 Architects. We will also attend the event with ProBuild360 and we will be happy to answer any queries people may have.
The event will take place at 1 Phoenix Park, Avenue Road, B7 4NU on Thursday 23rd May 2024 between 4-6pm.

D5 team members were delighted to attend Coventry University’s recent Architecture Degree Show to view the great work on show and talk to the graduates in person. D5’s Meera Jackson has been tutoring second year architecture degree students for the past two years and was very pleased to be asked to present the Best Final Year Design Project prize, to Joscelyne Theophania Eugene on D5 Architects behalf.

D5 have a long history of collaboration with local schools of architecture including tutoring, examining, work experience and year out placements. We see this as great way to connect with and help new upcoming talent and support the schools many of the practice attended.

Following last weeks award success for Best Residential Project we present a film by Frame Studio with Old Heaton House and the complimentary accompanying development of new build apartments and townhouses we completed for Elevate Property Group.

What the film on the project page here.

Fantastic news yesterday for our Old Heaton House project for Elevate Property Group receiving 'Residential Project of the Year' award at the Constructing Excellence Awards 2024 at last nights awards event.

Great for the whole project team (client, consultants and contractors) to receive recognition for the hard work and commitment in effectively delivering the complex, challenging Next Generation Security project for Birmingham Airport, which won the 'Integration & Collaborative Working Award' at last nights Constructing Excellence Award 2024 last night.

Great fundraising event last night in aid of the charity working to reduce homelessness in the UK. Brilliant effort put in by the D5 squad!

With our 35 day count down of 35 YEARS : 35 PROJECTS to the anniversary of D5 Architects practice now complete, we are very proud to launch our new branding to carry us forward into year 36 and beyond!

Many thanks to @designbyz3 for their tireless work in bringing the new branding to fruition!

In celebration of our time in business, we will be posting a project a day for 35 days leading up to our anniversary date at the end of April. ‘35 YEARS : 35 PROJECTS’ will start with current projects and journey back through our archives to some of our earliest formative projects. Projects posted to date:

1/35 Heronfield House

2/35 Portsmouth International Port - Terminal Extension

3/35 Heaton House

4/35 Coventry Station

5/35 Queensgate Square

6/35 Bournbrook Road

7/35 Next Generation Security - Birmingham Airport

8/35 Delia Derbyshire - Coventry University

9/35 Carver & Pope Street

10/35 Boeing Sheffield

11/35 Bath Racecourse

12/35 St Pauls House

13/35 Reynaers Knowledge Centre

14/35 Boeing Gatwick

15/35 Concord House

16/35 Monarch MRO

17/35 Galashiels Transport Interchange

18/35 Amhurst Park School

19/35 North Gate Bus Station

20/35 BAL One Terminal

21/35 Emerson Valley Rugby Club

22/35 Monyhull Church Annexe

23/35 Sports Centre - HOW College Redditch

24/35 Heathrow CBS

25/35 Birmingham Institute for the Deaf

26/35 Redditch Campus - HOW College

27/35 St Philips Chambers, Birmingham

28/35 Manor House, Preston Bagot

29/35 Terminal Development Works - Birmingham Airport

30/35 Brixworth Library

31/35 Afro Caribbean Millennium Centre

32/35 Early Works - Birmingham Airport

33/35 Boughton School Hall

34/35 Family Care, Northampton

35/35 Bishops Croft, Birmingham

Elevate have been shortlisted for:

Building of the Year Award : Old Heaton House (D5 Architects)

Residential Developer of the Year Award : For their extensive contributions to Birmingham and Solihull with the completion of £22m Priory House (D5 Architects), the near sell-out at £20m Heaton House (D5 Architects) and phase 2 of the hugely popular 60-strong apartment scheme at £18m Imperial House.

Winners will be announced on the 16th May at a ceremony in The Grand Hotel Birmingham.

Rachael joined D5 after taking a two-year break to spend time with her son and was promoted to an Associate in 2022.  Rachael has since worked across multiple sectors including residential, education, transport and leisure projects across the UK. She is leading internal teams on projects, working closely with both client and contractor teams across all RIBA stages.

Rachael believes successful delivery of a project is a blend of open communication, collaboration and co-ordination. She enjoys client engagement and developing schemes from a detailed design to delivering the completed building.

- Building Project of the Year : Old Heaton House
- Client of the Year Award : NGS, Birmingham Airport
- Integration & Collaborative Working Award : NGS, Birmingham Airport
- Residential Property of the Year : Old Heaton House

Savita Patel has been promoted to Senior Architectural Technologist and Jennifer Moffat to Senior Architect. Both promotions have been made in recognition of their professional development, including their hard work and commitment on large complex projects, meeting and exceeding our clients’ expectations.

In the last couple of months we've been very please to be joined by Isobel Barrett, (Architectural Technologist, now studying her RIBA Pt2 to become an Architect), Rob Simmonds (Senior Architectural Technologist), Stefan Fratila (RIBA Pt2 Architectural Assistant) and Jake Mace (Architect).

As D5's business grows, its great to welcome new talent to the D5 team, bringing more skills and insights to further the quality of our work and service we provide.

The D5 team goes from strength to strength!

D5 had a busy 2023 with project work across our sectors including a great deal of work in Transportation and Education sectors. But its interesting to see that we received most Instagram ‘likes’ for our Residential work and posts about office activities and staff. It’s great to see that followers like our people posts as our office culture and the team we have at D5 are so important to us and core of our success. For 2024, we look forward to progressing the incomplete projects in our Best Nine and our many other projects in Transportation, Education, Workplace, Leisure + Sport and Residential sectors! Happy New Year!

Ideal applicants should have a broad range of working experience through RIBA Work Stages 1 - 7, the ability to lead within teams and work autonomously, have working experience of Revit and Auto-Cad, have excellent technical, design and presentation skills. Please email CV and Portfolio to info@d5architects.net

The two block proposals are 15 and part 8, part 7 storeys respectively, accommodating 125 dwellings of one, two and three bedrooms. The long vacant site will now be developed with a high quality development, enhancing and adding to the ongoing regeneration of the area.

More project information here

We opened our office for the morning for clients and consultants to drop in, enjoy a coffee from our roaming barista and have a slice or two of cakes all baked by D5 staff. It was a great morning, and the weather was very kind with sun shining into our courtyard to enjoy the event largely alfresco!

Congratulations to Izzy from Evolve Planning for correctly guessing that there were 72 sweets in the jar. And we’re very happy to advise the morning raised a brilliant £1013 for Acorns. So, many thanks for all who attended and donated, it’s very much appreciated.

The Lowans Hill site is designed around communal public open space in its centre in a semi-rural location in Redditch. The planning committee gave particular praise to our design work, which was carefully developed to provide high quality homes, that reflected the sites former agricultural use.

More project information here.