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.

A new 2-storey teaching block providing 8 dual aspect classrooms. This project represents our ongoing relationship with the school, as our Viney Building extension courtyard infill project nears completion on site.

We're delighted to announce that we have received Full Planning and Listed Building Consent for our proposal to sensitively, restore, convert and extend this fascinating complex of Grade 2 Listed buildings with Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian and Mid-Century parts. The approved project will also add a new 4-storey building to the side of the listed buildings.

The total development will accommodate 26 dwellings including innovative duplex studios, 1 and 2 bedroom apartments. Furthermore, the original Georgian house and its Victorian rear ranges will be converted to a 12-bedroom Apart-Hotel.

 The scheme's composition embraces the site's boundaries while establishing focal points and landmarks that foster recognition, wayfinding and security. At its core, a residents' park becomes a community nexus, surrounded by diverse housing that enhances interaction, resulting in safe, inviting and activated social spaces. Additional green public spaces weave along the canal, connecting new and existing communities.

The scheme balances townhouses, apartments, and Canalside houses, with massing breaks, material changes and streetside social spaces that invite interaction between neighbours and enrich the urban rhythm.

Total site area: 1.1 Hectare
79 total Units split by
31 Townhouses
48 New Apartments
150m2 Commercial Space

His work explores the potential of interrelationships between industrial desalination processes and tidal salt marsh regeneration to supply decentralised, clean water to the village of North Ferriby, in the Humber estuary. The proposal takes a holistic approach to waste products by; reusing waste brine in a salt therapy spa to attract tourism and public engagement to our water infrastructure, and creating workshops that explore the potential of salt as a future building material.

The appeal was allowed and planning permission is granted for the demolition of existing buildings and construction of 83 residential apartments across two new development blocks, central amenity space including soft landscaping and planting, cycle storage, bin stores, plant store and enabling works at 334-340 High Street and 8-22 Harborne Park Road, Harborne, Birmingham

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