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Hollie Welch

Reimagining Workplaces: Exploring the Future of Office Design with Hollie Welch at dMFK

Hollie Welch, Associate Director at dMFK, on the future of workplace and commercial office design. Profile on Architecture Social.

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Hollie Welch · dMFK
Current role
Associate Director
Practice
dMFK
Location
London, UK

Conversation

The thinking behind the work.

Episode 0233 · Architecture Social

Reimagining Workplaces: Exploring the Future of Office Design with Hollie Welch at dMFK

Join us in a fascinating discussion with Hollie Welch, Associate Director at DMFK Architects, as she delves into her journey in architecture, starting from her studies in Northumbria University to her current role. Explore how DMFK has adapted to the changing landscape of commercial office spaces, from traditional designs to innovative, user-centric workspaces. Learn about key projects, sustainability in design, and the future direction of workplace environments post-pandemic.If you're curious a

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  1. 00:12 · Meet Hollie Welch from dMFK ↗
  2. 01:20 · Early career and education ↗
  3. 02:54 · Joining dMFK and early projects ↗
  4. 05:01 · The pandemic and office design ↗
  5. 06:34 · Evolution of office space ↗
  6. 18:14 · Sustainability and future trends ↗

Selected work

Selected work.

Chancery Lane, London, United Kingdom

Chancery House

A deep retrofit that reconnects a fragmented office as a flexible, hospitality-led workplace in central London.

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Other public work

York House ↗

A workplace retrofit that gives a vacant 1980s office a lighter plan and a new timber-framed brick entrance.

About

The story so far.

The person behind the work.

Hollie Welch is an Associate Director at dMFK, the London architecture practice, where she leads commercial workplace and office design projects.

Originally from the north east of England, Hollie was first encouraged into architecture by her school art teacher. She studied for her BA and Master's at Northumbria University and completed her year out with Practice Space Architects near Newcastle, working on civic, residential and educational projects. She moved to London and joined dMFK in 2017, progressing to Associate Director over nearly eight years with the practice.

Her work focuses on the commercial workplace sector. Early projects included a large fit out for The Office Group (TOG) across three floors at One Canada Square in Canary Wharf. More recently she has worked on Story, a serviced office product for British Land at 201 Bishopsgate, and a fit out for Dome at 19 Fitzroy Street. Her interests span flexible, ready-to-go workspace models, sustainability and the reuse of ageing building stock, and designing offices that genuinely draw people back in.

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The practice

dMFK

We are Architects, Makers, Communicators and Collaborators. We design new buildings, renovations and interiors which work in complex, historic and constrained contexts. Whether designing new buildings or restoring them, we want to create and respond to texture, warmth, and grain making buildings and interiors that…

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Expertise

What I bring.

Current role
Associate Director
Practice
dMFK
Location
London, UK
On the podcast
1 episode · 2025

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