Lecture – 'A bedroom is a room with a bed’ – a sentence, written by George Perec, that is close to our hearts. Departing from this idea, Chris and Max will give a lecture at Syracuse University in London about the building and its guests.

Publication – 'Camping in a High-Rise' MA architecture course at the Royal College of Art. Together with our students we explored the contrast between the mass and permanence of buildings and the temporary, light-weight and ad-hoc notion of camping. For more joy, please explore our students' work at the RCA Virtual Show or you can order the publication from us. shop@dyvikkahlen.com

Construction – Buildings 'Seven' and 'Eight' in Klingelbeek, Arnhem are now under construction, with final completion in summer 2021. Both apartment buildings are part a group of eight residential buildings placed in the park of Villa Klingelbeek.

We are working on the Exhibition Design for the inaugural edition of Sharjah Architecture Triennial, curated by Adrian Lahoud with the theme of 'Rights of Future Generations'. For more information about venues, participants, events see the website.

Alternative Histories exhibition and book launch at CIVA in Brussel. Co-curated by Jantje Engels and Marius Grootveld in collaboration with Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation, London. Book design by Mathias Clottu. For more information about the project and it's participants see Drawing Matter

We recently ran a workshop at the Porto Academy titled 'Building Buildings'. Other workshop leaders include MOS (US), Frida Escobedo (Mexico), Scheidegger Keller (Switzerland), Nicolas Dorval-Bory (France), Raamwerk (Belgium), Lopez Rivera (Spain), OMMX (UK), Johansen Skovsted (Denmark), Arrhov Frick (Sweden), Fala Atelier (Portugal) and Atelier Bouça (Portugal).

The large canopy has now been installed at West Green Place. The nursery can use this large covered exterior space for play during warm or rainy days. We will need to wait for another year until the overall masterplan is finished and the other landscape works are complete.

Morten Andenæs "I remind me of you" opened on the 6th of June. We have designed a table and a room for the exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus. The show is open until the 4th of August.

Dyvik Kahlen has opened its second office in Porto! We share the office with Architecture Matters at Av. Combatentes da Grande Guerra, 307 2º, 4200-189 Porto, Portugal

We will give a lecture together with our friends OMMX and Adam Nathaniel Furman at Arkitektenes Hus (NAL) in Oslo, Thursday 7th of March. Oslo Arkitekt Forening

We will give a lecture titled 'Naive Pragmatism' at the Syracuse University in London, November 5th

Sunday the 7th of November we will participate in a day long symposium exploring the classical influence on contemporary architectural culture. For more information see The Architecture Foundation website.

This year we will be inspired in equal measures by Le Corbusier and Twins, large scale tectonic models and Virtual Reality. For more information see ADS5 at the Royal College of Art.

Demolition and excavations has started on the site for the Courtyard Houses in Duisburg, Germany.

We are part of the second instalment of the publication 'What’s In The Making'. The article focus on Villa R, and the use of Virtual Reality as a design tool. The grey perspectives, taken at 1.6m eye-level from within the digital model, embrace the literal, spatial desire from the VR. To purchase the book, go to otherwhere.nl

Our students at The Royal College of Art are showcasing their graduate projects at The Workshop. The exhibition is open from the 21st to 28th of June. Dyvik Kahlen designed the exhibition in collaboration with the RCA and graphic designer Mathias Clottu.

As part of a program of talks called ‘The Mirror Series’, organised by Campo at Betts Project in London, Max will present ‘Twins, Mirrors, Columns, Pillars’ – four ideas about an object and its space, juxtaposed and presented in alternating order, two from Antoine Espinasseau and two from Dyvik Kahlen.
The event will take place on Friday 1st of June 2018, 7-9 pm
Betts Project, 100 Central Street London EC1V 8AJ 
Find more info here

The Cross Laminated Timber structure has arrived on site at West Green Place.

Opening night for 'Teeth' at the Wellcome Collection. The exhibition is open to 18th of September.

As part of Craft Week, we have designed an exhibition at The National Trust Sutton House for London College of Fashion. 'Footnotes: Intimate Stories of Shoes' is open during the summer. The show is curated by Alison Moloney with archive co-curation by Amy de la Haye, graphic design by ÅBÄKE

'Columns, Twins and other things' at the Le Bourg concert hall and bar in Lausanne, 7th of May. Part of the 'Corridor' lecture series.

Max will give a lecture and participate in 'El Simposio Internacional: De la Villa a la Celula' at Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile. Friday 20th of April, 18.00

We have designed the exhibition 'Hope to Nope' at the design Museum which explore how graphic design and technology have played a pivotal role in dictating and reacting to the major political moments of our times. For more information please visit the Design Museum.

We have been working together with Arket (H&M group) on the design of their shop facades. The concept includes a set of elements that can adapt to different locations as they continue to roll out the new shops throughout Europe. The first shop has now opened in Stratford, East London. Arket Website

Max Kahlen will give a lecture at The RCA as part of the Inside / Out lecture series. 27.02.2018 at 18.30, Darwin Lecture Hall.

The Work-In-Progress show with our students from ADS5 is open from Thursday 19th to Sunday 21st of January at the Royal College of Art. The work on display is a collection of different ideas and observations driven by an intuitive process that explores domesticity and form.

'A relentlessly provocative show'... open until 11th of March at The Royal Academy of Arts. Graphic Design by Kellenberger White, Exhibition Design by Dyvik Kahlen.

We have contributed with an essay called 'Postcards from London' in the new Hiatus book published by Birkhauser. The book is a collection of essays, reportages and interviews from several European Architects about different models for the multifunctional densification of cities. Please follow link to Birkhäuser

We will be teaching a MA course at the Royal College of Art starting this Autumn. During the year we will explore topics such as Domesticity, the Countryside and Virtual Reality. For more information go to RCA ADS5. Credit: Hunstanton School by Peter and Alison Smithson, 1954

We have been appointed for the Exhibition Design of 'From Life' at The Royal Academy. The exhibition will look at the past, present and future of one of the cornerstones of the artistic process; life drawing. Image credit: Chantal Joffe, Self-Portrait in the Garden at Night V, 2016. Pastel on paper, 47.6 x 37.8 x 3.8 cm © Chantal Joffe, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London

We will give a lecture together with our friends from Gafpa Architects at the World Trade Centre in Brussels, 31.08.17.

This summer we will be teaching at the summer school ‘Real Estate Architecture #2, Reclaiming the Office Building’. Based in Brussel at the World Trade Center, the group workshop is open to 40 participants, who will collaborate in teams under the guidance of tutors including Piovenefabi, Gafpa, Something Fantastic and Dyvik Kahlen. For more information about the workshop and how to apply

The work by Dyvik Kahlen is shown in 'A Minor Architecture', opening in Espacio Valverde Madrid on 18.01.2017. The exhibition shows fragments of the work from a select group of European offices founded in the first decade of the twenty-first century; offices in which small private commissions—generally understood as “minor commissions”— have been relevant for the articulation of their own independent voice within contemporary architectural discourses. For more information, please visit Gallery Espacio Valverde

Together with DRDH Architects we have been selected by Statsbygg to participate in the competition for the extension of The Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway. The other six participants are: ALA Architects, Carl Viggo Hølmebakk, Jarmund/Vigsnæs, Jensen og Skodvin, Snøhetta and Transborder Studio.

We are giving a lecture at Kingston University at 16th of November titled 'a model, a sketch, a collage, a photograph and a drawing'. We will present five projects each with a different form of representation to speculate and reflect on how it’s used as a tool during our design process.

We have been interviewed by Flavien Menu for the new Frog Magazine #16. The interview is accompanied by a photo essay of the Raboes Harbour Building, with images by Antoine Espinasseau.
To order the magazine follow link.

We have designed a traveling exhibition cabinet for London College of Fashion. The cabinet has toured predominantly in the boroughs of East London where the topic of fashion has been used to engage with new audiences in the community. Cabinet Stories will now be open to the public for the first time at Emmaus Greenwich, Poplar shop. At Emmaus all the exhibitions will be on display at the same time, accompanied by a free workshop programme.

Our proposal for a public intervention, or rather anti-intervention is on show at the Lisbon Architecture Triannale. Together with Chilean office Plan Comun, we proposed a strategy of creating ‘Cut Outs’ Islands scattered throughout the city where asphalt or hard surfaces are removed to reveal new green public spaces. Other participants include Bruno Canepa, Marcelo Cox, Hamed Khosravi, Ciro Miguel, NP2F, Tsubame Lavina Scaletti, Tiego Torres Campos and UMWELT.

Dyvik Kahlen has designed a new office space for graphic design practice Fraser Muggeridge studio in London.

The interior of the cupcake factory –our second project under a viaduct– is about to be completed. The opening will be in October.

We have won a competition to design the new Westgreen Place Nursery and Community Centre for Pocket and Haringey Council. To see the article in Architects Journal and the other shortlisted submissions please follow link.

We have opened a new service building and public space for t’Raboes harbour in Eemnes, Holland.
The building incorporates a workshop, office for the harbour master, public facilities and a large covered external patio. A 300 m² translucent photo-voltaic roof, generates enough energy for the building and other facilities in the harbour.

We are proud to be included in the ‘New Architects 3’ book. A definitive survey of the best British architects to have set up practice in the ten years since 2005. It’s the third book in the Architecture Foundation's highly influential series, it features close to 100 practices, selected by a jury of leading critics and curators.

For more information, please visit The Architecture Foundation

Our second building within the St. James Lane Viaduct is now under construction. The bakery will start delivering cupcakes from July onwards.

We have collaborated with Fraser Muggerdige studio and artist Jeremy Deller on the design of an ‘Utopian Treasury’, located in Somerset House’s Embankment entrance. Throughout the year it will host a rolling programme of talks, debates, workshops, film screenings and salons, as well as a library full of ‘Utopia’- themed literature. Please visit the UTOPIA 2016 website for events schedule. More info here

We have submitted planning for a new service building and public space for t’Raboes harbour in Eemnes, Holland. The construction is scheduled for the beginning of 2016.

We are working on a light-industrial park on the outskirts of Amersfoort, Holland. The proposed zero energy units will sit within a landscaped garden and water reservoir.

We will lead a tour of the gallery to give insight in the design process and explore the relationship’s between the artist’s collections, artwork and the exhibition design. Each collection tells a different story and the unconventional use of furniture, antiques and domestic references add to a fascinating portray of the artist’s everyday life.

Barbican Art Gallery @ 19.00
Thursday 16th of April
For tickets see website

We will give a talk about the Small House at the Architectuurcafé in Amersfoort together with Bart Schoonderbeek from Schipper Bosch. Heijmans will talk about their moveable home : Heijmans ONE and students from TU Delft will present the micro compact home of Richard Horden. More information can be found at the FASadE website

Architectuurcafé @ 20pm
Wednesday the 4th of March
de Nieuwe Stad, Amersfoort
Holland

The ‘Twin Arch Studios’ are about to be completed. An extremely economical approach to the design and construction have made it possible to build a new building for less than £450/m2. Using off the shelf materials, we focused on the essential elements that give a project architectural quality : spacious, practical and well insulated with double aspect views and lot’s of natural light. Basically, as large, cheap and flexible as possible.

We have been commissioned to design a new build cupcake factory in Muswell Hill. The factory will be the next door neighbour to our Twin Artist Studios.

Walls and roof have been erected and the penthouse is ready for winter. The project will be finished beginning 2015.

As part of the ‘Whats Next’ series at the Architectural Association, we will give a lecture to present 6 recent projects.

9.12.2014 @ 18pm
Lecture Hall
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

More info at AA Public Program Website

Work has started on site in Cologne. The contractor is assembling the steel structure, awaiting the arrival of the pre-fabricated timber building in early November.

We have been commissioned to work on the exhibition design for the next Barbican show: Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector. It will be the first major exhibition in the UK to present the fascinating personal collections of post-war and contemporary artists. For more information see the Barbican website.

More than 900 people; young, old, short and tall came to visit our Small House and made the weekend a huge success.

London’s smallest house will take part in the Open House Festival from 20-21st of September. If you’re interested to see the project, please pop by. We are open Saturday and Sunday from 10-5. For more information, see the Open House Website.

Refurbishment works have started for the bookshop in Whitechapel Gallery. Opening of the new bookshop will coincide with the start of the London Art Book Fair, Thursday 25th of September.

Our Small House and Arch Studio are published in the june issue of L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui , as part of the ‘New Generations / Jeunes Generations issue. Images by Antoine Espinasseau and text by Flavien Menu.

Images of the newly designed bookstands for the AA Print Studio.

Fridericianum opened its doors in 1779 as the world’s very first purpose-built public museum. Since 1955 the building became the focus of the documenta exhibition, and has been a central hub for contemporary art ever since. We have been part of the recent refurbishment of the entrance hall, in collaboration with Zak Group. The project incorporates a reception, cafe, auditorium and a Walther König bookshop.

The bedroom walls have been clad in a Douglas Fir Ply, ready for a whitewash. We are nearing the final week of construction.

The refurbishment of the apartment in Oslo is nearing completion. The kitchen has been installed and the fitted furniture is being built. We are working with Blåverk Snekkeri, our in house carpentry workshop for the first time. More pictures will follow soon.

‘Making Elephants’
First year students at the Architectural Association presenting their final proposals for a Viaduct in London. No program was given and no problem to solve except connecting one point with another. The proposals – some extremely light, dead heavy, slow or fast, some very prominent others blend with their context, some feel like elephants and some like giraffes. Like mute commuters the structures cut through the city without interfering. There is no interior – pure exterior. (Image by Susanna Steuerman-Kinston, AA First Year)

We have received planning for the rooftop extension in Cologne. Construction planned for the summer of 2014.

Work has started on site for the Live/Work warehouse conversion. The ceiling has just been covered in spray foam winter wonderland.

Our infinity box has been installed at CCS showing work by Zak Group for Close, Closer : Lisbon Architecture Triennale, 2013.

Zak Group has asked us to collaborate on the design for the reception and bookshop at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel.

New site and new project. A studio for a stage designer in Highgate, London.

We are working on the design and development of two residential buildings on Ludwigsallee, Aachen.

Design for an extension in Brockley, London is about to start.

Completion of the Coach House end of July.

Work has started for the refurbishment of a beautiful old apartment at Gimle, Oslo. Construction planned to be finished early 2014.

The prefabricated elements arrive on site. The whole house is installed within one week by Anton, Remmelt and Ton.

Planning and Conservation Area Consent received for the rooftop extension in Dalston, London.

First year students presenting their final projects at the Architectural Association. The topic of this term was 'A Second Life'. In groups, the students developed ideas to transform and re-use self-storage buildings (designed in the previous term by other students) into a series of apartments.

Things are moving forward with Marius's flat in Oslo. Finally work start on site.

The Small House being fabricated 1:1 in Holland by Schipper Bosch and Timmerwerkplats. We go on regular site visits while it's being built, this allows us to design and modify all the elements during construction to make sure that it will be perfect on arrival.

Coach House on site.

Design proposal developed together with Augustus Brown Architects for a portable 1920's gentleman's bar. Designed to be disassembled for easy transport to different events.

Combination of prototypes for the Biennale. Black MDF table and stool.

Design of poster and book cover for the Projects Review 2011/12 at the Architectural Association.