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Hollie Welch
Associate Director · dMFK
Associate Director at dMFK, leading commercial workplace and office design across London.
- Current role
- Associate Director
- Practice
- dMFK
- Location
- London, UK
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2025
The story so far
The path behind Hollie's 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.
Episode 0233 · Architecture Social · 40:01
Reimagining Workplaces: Exploring the Future of Office Design with Hollie Welch at dMFK
Office design has changed sharply since the pandemic, but the real question is not whether offices still matter. It is what kind of workplace is worth travelling for.
Inside the conversation
6 moments to start with- 01
00:00 · Introduction and setting the scene
- 02
00:12 · Meet Hollie Welch from dMFK
- 03
01:20 · Early career and education
- 04
02:54 · Joining dMFK and early projects
- 05
05:01 · The pandemic and office design
- 06
06:34 · Evolution of office space
Profile in brief
The work and context behind Hollie's conversation.
- Current role
- Associate Director
- Practice
- dMFK
- Location
- London, UK
Continue exploring
Meet the practice behind the work.
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…
- Greater London
- Commercial
- Conservation
- Retrofit
Podcast · moments that play
Start where the idea starts.
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Meet Hollie Welch from dMFK
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Early career and education
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Joining dMFK and early projects
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The pandemic and office design
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Evolution of office space
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Sustainability and future trends
Selected work from dMFK
Three projects, one connected practice.
A closer look at the practice’s work
Chancery House
A deep retrofit that reconnects a fragmented office as a flexible, hospitality-led workplace in central London.
View project →76 Charlotte Street
dMFK's own Fitzrovia studio, combining a human-centred workplace with a material library and event space.
View project →Voysey House
A careful retrofit of C.F.A. Voysey's Grade II* former Sanderson factory in Chiswick.
View project →