Paul Mooney, BBC’s popular Look North weatherman performed the honours on Tuesday 1 November with the official opening of The Elms, Cestria Housing’s new specialist housing development for the over 55’s in Chester-le-Street. Widely praised as an example of best practice in its field, our £6.5m scheme consists of 52 apartments and six bungalows, for… Full Article >
Award-winning architectural practice Jane Darbyshire and David Kendall (JDDK) Ltd have rebranded to JDDK Architects with the launch of a new website which was officially launched on September 7. JDDK Director, Nicky Watson, explained the rationale behind the rebrand, “For almost 30 years the practice’s reputation has been built on quality of design and service,… Full Article >
Main contractor, Robertsons Ltd, handed over the third and final stage of the £3.5m refurbishment of Cramlington’s Concordia Leisure Centre to clients, Active Northumberland and Northumberland County Council, on July 22. The project, led by award-winning Newcastle architects, JDDK Ltd, had begun on site in September 2015 but required the centre to remain open throughout… Full Article >
Newcastle architects, Jane Darbyshire and David Kendall (JDDK) Ltd’s design and management of the £1.8m refurbishment and redevelopment of the Old Post Office on St Nicholas Street in the centre of Newcastle, is the latest project in a growing portfolio of Commercial building schemes that is expanding the award-winning practice’s reputation out of their traditional… Full Article >
Adam Vaughan, previously an Associate, has joined the board of Directors at Newcastle architects, Jane Darbyshire and David Kendall (JDDK) Ltd. Adam’s first experience of Architecture was a Site Engineer prior to studying Architecture at Sheffield University, completing his first degree in 1995. A year working in Paris followed before returning to Sheffield where he… Full Article >
