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Dolunay Dogahan

Changing Careers from Architecture to Development, ft. Dolunay Dogahan

Dolunay Dogahan is a Project Manager at CO—RE in Central London, having moved from architecture into development and project management.

Portrait of Dolunay Dogahan
Dolunay Dogahan · CO—RE
Current role
Project Manager
Practice
CO—RE
Location
London, UK

Conversation

The thinking behind the work.

Episode 0219 · Architecture Social

Changing Careers from Architecture to Development, ft. Dolunay Dogahan

Dive into Dolunay Dogahan's career shift from architecture to project manager, where she now orchestrates the development of London’s prime real estate at CO—RE.

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Explore episode moments

Use the timestamps below to find each moment in the full episode.

  1. 00:53 · Meet Dolunay Dogahan ↗
  2. 01:49 · Moving from architecture to project management ↗
  3. 04:15 · Challenges and realisations in architecture ↗
  4. 09:27 · Job market and interview lessons ↗
  5. 18:15 · What a project manager does ↗
  6. 23:27 · Architecture versus development management ↗

More conversations with Dolunay

Selected work

Selected work.

Farringdon, London, United Kingdom · 2025

Stonecutter Court

A 13-storey Farringdon office and retail development with a 66% increase in net lettable area and low embodied carbon.

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London, United Kingdom · 2024

20 Ropemaker

A completed 25-storey City workplace with 425,000 sq ft of offices, stepped terraces and achieved BREEAM Outstanding and WELL Platinum ratings.

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Fleet Street, London, United Kingdom

120 Fleet Street

A planned commercial, retail and cultural development that restores the Grade II* Daily Express Building and adds a public rooftop park.

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About

The story so far.

The person behind the work.

Dolunay Dogahan is a Project Manager at CO—RE, a Central London development management business working in the super-prime commercial market. She studied Part 1 and Part 2 architecture at Cardiff University and worked in architectural practice in London before moving client-side into development and project management.

At CO—RE she helps run the delivery of large commercial schemes, coordinating design teams, contractors and the tender and construction process from the client's seat. She also founded INVOLVED Magazine.

Watch or listen to the full conversation in the Architecture Social CPD: Changing Careers from Architecture to Development Management, ft. Dolunay Dogahan (CO—RE).

The practice

CO—RE

CO—RE is a Central London development manager delivering super-prime commercial schemes for investors through its Collaborative Real Estate approach.

Architecture practice · Greater London

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Expertise

What I bring.

Current role
Project Manager
Practice
CO—RE
Location
London, UK
On the podcast
2 episodes · 2024 and 2020

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