Daykin Marshall Studio

INFILL SITES DELIVER HOUSING | Underused and neglected sites can be found all over our urban and suburban areas. In both private and public ownership these pockets and land are one part of the wide range of approaches we need to tackle to address the housing crisis. In this scheme, abandoned garages become the site for fourteen social rent units in south London.
HERITAGE + RETROFIT | the addition of a timber bay dining hall breathes new life into an early work by renowned George Gilbert Scott. Carbon emissions are reduced by two thirds using breathable insulation and plaster finishes, air-source heating and embodied energy conscious materials.
LOW CARBON, LOW IMPACT, RECYCLED | We see high-end new build projects, especially those permitted through the demanding requirements of the national policy 'Paragraph 80', as opportunities to lead by example. Housed within recycled red brick walls this project is an off-grid, low-carbon timber framed microclimatically designed 'forever' home.
TIMELESS MATERIALS | The embedded and uncanny connection between new and old at La Tour Maison captures our approach to sensitively, yet confidently working with historic buildings.
RURAL SUSTAINABILITY | Renewable technologies have been subtly integrated to vastly reduce carbon emissions and retrofit draughty old buildings for 21st century use. The estate’s natural resources were harnessed to reduce the embodied energy of buildings materials
SOLAR CONCRETE | The stepped in-situ cast walls at Concrete House surround the courtyard garden, buffering the internal spaces from overheating and radiating retained heat during evenings on the terrace
REIMAGINING THE MANSION BLOCK | Nine apartments in the Highgate Conservation Area revisits a relevant typology for suburban low-rise densification in a sensitive, yet gritty North London setting

Daykin Marshall Studio are award-winning architects based in London and the East Midlands specialising in houses, housing and public placemaking

01.09.2026

In Nottinghamshire we've just started work on a project to transform and extend this house in Lambley.  Nicknamed 'Butchered Bays' due to less than flattering 1970s alterations we'll be replacing. On our first visit we were excited to be shown this 1940s Standard Eight car, abandoned in the garden when a tree crashed through the roof of the garage, crushing the car!

25.08.2026

Brilliant craftsmanship on show here in Saffron Walden turning Dan's lovely architectural stair details into reality. The stair sits at the centre of a full retrofit upgrade of a late 1980s for a repeat clients working on their third house with us.

19.08.2026

Just around the corner from the South London studio, this project to extend and remodel the lower ground floor has started on site and is fully in the discovery phase, taking the building back to its bones.

We're always collecting samples in the studio and testing ideas through model making. The process of design is rarely linear, and we believe that the best thinking comes from taking a hands on approach.⁠

14.08.2026

In Putney we're enjoying the perfect colour contrast of the vapour control layer and fireline plasterboard. The colour will soon be replaced by elegant neutrals as part of the interiors scheme, so we're savouring this fun moment.

06.08.2026

Chloe took this great photo of stacked cork bark on a recent trip to Spain.  It is a fantastic renewable, versatile, low carbon material we're increasingly specifying on projects for insulation and internal finishes. 

29.07.2026

'Rubbed' red bricks form the arches over ox blood red framed glazing to this Dulwich Village project that has recently been handed over to happy clients. The Portland stone copings are a high quality and low carbon alternative to precast.

23.07.2026

Looking sharp in the hot summer sun, the cladding and glazing is finished on Chloe's latest site extension project. We love how the pre-weathered timber works with the door frame colour.

We are architects, people who make buildings. Good places are a product of those that use, design and make them and so, though we are a small studio, we are part of a much larger family of collaborators.

17.06.2026

Copper shingles are marrying beautifully with the Copper Beech tree at the Fairway up in Leicester. The external shell is finished and work is now fully focussed on getting the bespoke interior fit out complete before the Autumn.

01.05.2026

Following successfully working on their London home, we’ve just been appointed by recent past clients to refurbish and extend this holiday home in the Witterings. The house has been a cherished part of the family for over twenty years already, so we’re honoured to be asked to redesign this special place. Changes will include decarbonising the energy systems and carefully adding additional space for the adult family.

Daykin Marshall Studio are award-winning architects based in London and the East Midlands specialising in houses, housing and public placemaking

INFILL SITES DELIVER HOUSING | Underused and neglected sites can be found all over our urban and suburban areas. In both private and public ownership these pockets and land are one part of the wide range of approaches we need to tackle to address the housing crisis. In this scheme, abandoned garages become the site for fourteen social rent units in south London.
01.09.2026

In Nottinghamshire we've just started work on a project to transform and extend this house in Lambley.  Nicknamed 'Butchered Bays' due to less than flattering 1970s alterations we'll be replacing. On our first visit we were excited to be shown this 1940s Standard Eight car, abandoned in the garden when a tree crashed through the roof of the garage, crushing the car!

HERITAGE + RETROFIT | the addition of a timber bay dining hall breathes new life into an early work by renowned George Gilbert Scott. Carbon emissions are reduced by two thirds using breathable insulation and plaster finishes, air-source heating and embodied energy conscious materials.
25.08.2026

Brilliant craftsmanship on show here in Saffron Walden turning Dan's lovely architectural stair details into reality. The stair sits at the centre of a full retrofit upgrade of a late 1980s for a repeat clients working on their third house with us.

LOW CARBON, LOW IMPACT, RECYCLED | We see high-end new build projects, especially those permitted through the demanding requirements of the national policy 'Paragraph 80', as opportunities to lead by example. Housed within recycled red brick walls this project is an off-grid, low-carbon timber framed microclimatically designed 'forever' home.
19.08.2026

Just around the corner from the South London studio, this project to extend and remodel the lower ground floor has started on site and is fully in the discovery phase, taking the building back to its bones.

TIMELESS MATERIALS | The embedded and uncanny connection between new and old at La Tour Maison captures our approach to sensitively, yet confidently working with historic buildings.

We're always collecting samples in the studio and testing ideas through model making. The process of design is rarely linear, and we believe that the best thinking comes from taking a hands on approach.⁠

RURAL SUSTAINABILITY | Renewable technologies have been subtly integrated to vastly reduce carbon emissions and retrofit draughty old buildings for 21st century use. The estate’s natural resources were harnessed to reduce the embodied energy of buildings materials
14.08.2026

In Putney we're enjoying the perfect colour contrast of the vapour control layer and fireline plasterboard. The colour will soon be replaced by elegant neutrals as part of the interiors scheme, so we're savouring this fun moment.

SOLAR CONCRETE | The stepped in-situ cast walls at Concrete House surround the courtyard garden, buffering the internal spaces from overheating and radiating retained heat during evenings on the terrace
06.08.2026

Chloe took this great photo of stacked cork bark on a recent trip to Spain.  It is a fantastic renewable, versatile, low carbon material we're increasingly specifying on projects for insulation and internal finishes. 

REIMAGINING THE MANSION BLOCK | Nine apartments in the Highgate Conservation Area revisits a relevant typology for suburban low-rise densification in a sensitive, yet gritty North London setting
29.07.2026

'Rubbed' red bricks form the arches over ox blood red framed glazing to this Dulwich Village project that has recently been handed over to happy clients. The Portland stone copings are a high quality and low carbon alternative to precast.

23.07.2026

Looking sharp in the hot summer sun, the cladding and glazing is finished on Chloe's latest site extension project. We love how the pre-weathered timber works with the door frame colour.

We are architects, people who make buildings. Good places are a product of those that use, design and make them and so, though we are a small studio, we are part of a much larger family of collaborators.

17.06.2026

Copper shingles are marrying beautifully with the Copper Beech tree at the Fairway up in Leicester. The external shell is finished and work is now fully focussed on getting the bespoke interior fit out complete before the Autumn.

01.05.2026

Following successfully working on their London home, we’ve just been appointed by recent past clients to refurbish and extend this holiday home in the Witterings. The house has been a cherished part of the family for over twenty years already, so we’re honoured to be asked to redesign this special place. Changes will include decarbonising the energy systems and carefully adding additional space for the adult family.