Who we are

TDO is a Southwark based, AJ 40 under 40 architecture practice founded in 2012 by Tom Lewith, Doug Hodgson and Owen Jones.

Our portfolio balances contemporary insertions into historic settings, with off-site manufactured homes.

Our first built project was the Forest Pond House, a timber-framed meditation space and children’s den cantilevered over a garden pond. It is emblematic of our approach: we like to work with simple geometries and face-finished materials, reflecting our belief in architecture’s potential to bring clarity amid complexity.

Significant subsequent built works include: Old Church Street, an infill townhouse in Chelsea (2015); Fab House, low-cost modular terrace housing in North Shields, for Places for People and Urban Splash (2018); and the headquarters for The Modern House, Bankside (2018).

Projects currently under construction include; Great Suffolk Yard, the redevelopment of industrial warehouse buildings in Southwark into a thriving new workspace; Skyroom St James's Road, MMC key-worker housing built over an existing residential building off the Old Kent Road; and The Low Line arches, the adaptive reuse of railway arches along the Low Line in South London, accommodating various different community functions with adaptable, pre-formed, low cost proposals.

We work from our self-built studio in Bankside, Southwark.

We feature regularly in the press and were profiled in The Architecture Foundation’s New Architects 3, published in 2016. In 2020 we were featured in The Architects’ Journal 40 under 40: the first time since 2005 that the AJ has run its unique showcase of the nation’s next generation of boundary-pushing designers and innovators.