Diller Scofidio + Renfro looking at more work in UK after brace of high-profile wins
A founding partner of architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro has said she expects the New York-based studio to open a London office in the next year.
The firm has worked on very few jobs in the UK since it was founded in 1981 but has recently nabbed a couple of high-profile schemes in the capital.
DS+R has designed a new collection centre for the V&A in Stratford, as well as the London Centre for Music to house the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican.
Liz Diller told 黑洞社区 her studio had already opened a small office, which is the base for 鈥渢hree people, on and off, when things get intense鈥�.
It also has staff co-habiting at Sheppard Robson, the London-based architect working with DS+R on the Barbican concert hall.
But Diller said: 鈥淧robably in the next year or so, we will open an office [in London] and probably have more and more people here.
鈥淲hen we start designing, we are always in our studio 鈥� we really don鈥檛 believe in satellites 鈥� but we have a lot of consultants who are here, and when it becomes technologically challenging to do everything remotely then we will come here.鈥�
Diller added it was looking at more jobs in the UK. 鈥淲e are hoping that more things will evolve,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a fantastic place to work, a very natural thing for us.鈥�
DS+R beat several high profile firms to the Centre for Music scheme, including Foster + Partners, Amanda Levete鈥檚 practice AL_A, Renzo Piano and Frank Gehry.
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