A signature interior lit by architectural daylight, the room composed as one material language

An independent design studio · DMDC Group

Design &

Architecture

Architecture and interiors for ultra-prime homes — a studio with its own name to protect, and a builder’s knowledge one floor away. Commissions accepted anywhere in the world; where we do not build, we say so.

Architecture Leaders Awards · Winner 2026

The studio’s position

We design what we know can be built —
which frees us to design further.

Most studios hand their drawings across a contractual boundary and hope. This studio’s drawings walk downstairs — to the engineers who will build them and the workshop that will make their joinery. Feasibility is a conversation over a desk, not a claim tested a year later on site.

The result is a particular kind of confidence: proportion, light and material pushed to the edge of what a house can carry, because the people who know exactly where that edge is sit in the same building. Independent enough to be engaged alone. Integrated enough that nothing is lost in translation.

Selected work

Elevation of a private villa at Sanctuary Falls, its massing and proportion resolved in daylight
Private villa · Sanctuary Falls
Design & Build Project of the Year · Architecture Leaders Awards 2026
Interior at Aseel Villa 54, Arabian Ranches, rooms and joinery drawn as one language
Aseel Villa 54 · Arabian Ranches
The one address we may name — the house
Lighting detail in a private residence, light planned room by room
Private residence · lighting design
Lighting Project of the Year · Architecture Leaders Awards 2025

Homes are shown by type, community and status — never by address. The full portfolio is shown in person. The work ↗

How the studio works

From the first sketch, everything speaks one language.

01

Architecture

Massing, plan and light resolved first — concept to construction drawings, with authority submissions drawn and managed by the studio itself.

02

Interior architecture

Rooms, materials and joinery designed as one language with the building — stone selected by the slab, timber by the log, light planned room by room.

03

Landscape & externals

Gardens, pools and boundary works drawn with the house, not appended to it — the plot treated as one composition.

04

FF&E & styling

Furniture, fixtures and finishes specified to the standard they were drawn — and, where the design calls for it, made in the group’s own workshop.

Recognition

Judged by the industry, not by ourselves.

Design & Build Project of the Year — Sanctuary Falls Villa
Architecture Leaders Awards · 2026
Lighting Project of the Year
ALA · 2025
Two further honours held across the group
Luxury Lifestyle Awards · 2026
Awards credited to the entity that won them — the full record is on
press & recognition
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The studio in the group

Engage the studio alone — or with the builder already at the table.

Many clients commission Design & Architecture on its own; the drawings stand wherever they are built. Those who engage the group entire get the rarer thing: a design intent that survives all the way to handover, because the builder and the workshop answered to it from the first sketch. The five companies.

The next step

Bring us the site. We’ll bring what it could be.

Your brief is read by the studio’s senior designers — never a sales team — and nothing you share is published without your written approval.

Begin a private brief
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