Full List of Press Exposure and Awards
RDA Architects - Awards
Shortlisted --- Sustainable Development of the Year - British Homes Awards 2025
Finalist --- Architecture Today - Buildings that stand the test of time Awards 2025
Shortlisted --- RIBA London Awards 2025
Shortlisted – Home Extension of the Year – British Home Awards 2024
Shortlisted – AJ Retrofit and Reuse Awards - Decarbonisation and Net Zero 2024
Finalist – Best Green House Category - Homebuilding and Renovating Awards 2023
Finalist – Home Transformation of the Year (up to 2,500 sq ft) - British Home Awards 2023
Finalist – Residential Retrofit - Passivhaus Trust Awards 2023
Shortlisted – WRK/LND: Office Revolution? – NLA Awards 2021
Shortlisted – Best Offsite Manufactured Home - Build It Awards 2018
Shortlisted – Best Eco Home - Build It Awards 2018
Winner – Best Green House Category - Homebuilding and Renovating Awards 2018
Finalist – Small Project Category UK Passivhaus Awards 2018
Finalist – Architect of the Year Awards 2018
Winner – ‘Sustainable Project of the Year’ Graphisoft Archicad Awards 2018
Shortlisted – Residential ‘Passive Mews II’ RICS Awards 2018
Shortlisted – Residential ‘Modern Courtyard’ RICS Awards 2018
Winner – ‘Best Eco House’ Build-It Awards 2016
Winner – ‘Best Studio 5-20’ London Design Award 2015
Winner – ‘Architecture - Residential - Constructed’ London Design Award 2015
Shortlisted – One-Off House or Extension between 2,500 and 5,000 sq ft - British Home Awards 2015
Shortlisted – Ideal Home of the Year Blue Ribbon Awards 2014 Ideal Home of the Year 2014
Finalists – Bespoke Project Design Category UK Passivhaus Awards 2014
Winner – ‘Best Eco Home’ The Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine Awards 2012
Winner – ‘Reader’s Choice Award’ The Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine Awards 2012
Shortlisted – ‘Best Renovation’ The Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine Awards 2009
Winner – ‘Best Small Home’ The Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine Awards 2006
Commendation – 'Best house (three storeys or more)' – The Mail – Sunday National Homebuilder Design Awards 2006
Runner up – 'Single Dwelling Building' – Design Architect of the Year Awards 2006
RDA Architects - Press Exposure
July 2025 – Build It Magazine – 'What is a Brownfield Site & How can I get planning permission to build on one'
July 2025 – Mumsnet – ‘Heat pumps: a guide to the greener way to heat your home’
July 2025 – Property Week – ‘Steely resolve can make reuse work’
October 2024 – Architecture Today 'Pitched Passive House'
June 2024 – Architecture Today ‘School of Specification – EnerPHit’
January 2024 – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Real Project – Eco Retrofit’
April 2023 – Passive House Plus
April 2023 – RIBA Architectural Journal
December 2021 – Architect Today Podcast – Richard in conversation with Isabel Allen and Marion Baeli
November 2021 – Extraordinary Extentions (Channel 4 TV show)
May 2021 – NSBRC Presentation for their Passivhaus Workshop
March 2021 – Architecture Today Podcast
March 2021 – Architecture Today ‘Hideaway’
February 2021 – Elle Decoration ‘Rested Development’
June 2020 – Dulwich House Magazine ‘New Horizons, New Home’ and RDA Ad
June 2020 – Life Magazine ‘New Horizons, New Home’ and RDA back page Ad
April 2019 – Essential Kitchen ‘Detailed Transformation
March 2019 – Concrete Quarterly ‘Marks of Distinction’
January 2019 – Passive House Plus ‘Camberwell Passive’
January 2019 – House Planning Help Podcast
November 2018 – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Taking the Plunge’
September 2018 – The Daily Telegraph ‘Dream homes: revealing the UK’s best self-build projects’
May 2018 – Grand Designs ‘Self-Build Special’
February 2018 – New London Architecture ‘Don’t Move, Improve’
December 2017 – Dwell ‘The London Prefab Made of 7 Modules’
May 2017 – The One Show (BBC TV show) ‘Trend of Smaller Housing in the UK’
March 2017 – Grand Designs Magazine ‘Dig Deep to Add Space and Value’
January 2017 – Build It Magazine ‘Focus on Passivhaus’
September 2016 – Evening Standard Homes & Property ‘The wish list worked’
September 2016 – Self-Build & Design Magazine ‘Passivhaus Awards 2016’
August 2016 – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Cutting Edge Passivhaus’
June 2016 – Passivhaus Plus Magazine ‘2016 Passivhaus Awards’
Spring 2016 – Concrete Quarterly ‘Marks of Distinction’
November 2015 – Architects Journal ‘The British Homes Awards’
October 2014 – ES Homes & Property
June 2014 – Dorset Magazine
May 2014 – Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom
January 2013 – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Homes & Property
January 2013 – Self Build Homes ‘The ultimate Passivhaus goal’
December 2012 – Sustain ‘Forward thinking’
October 2012 – London Evening Standard ‘Homes & Property’
September 2012 – AJ Online ‘FootprintWire’
August 2012 – BD Online ‘RDA starts work on Chiswick Passivhaus’
August 2012 – J Online ‘RDA completes eco-home on Newhall development site’
April 2012 – Self Build Homes
November 2011 – Self Build & Design ‘Flirting with the 30’s’
May 2011 – At Home ‘I Love my New Kitchen’
January 2011 – NatWest Sense ‘Home Life’
November 2010 – At Home Magazine ‘The Italian Job’
July 2010 – UK Architecture ‘Sowing the Seeds of Creative Partnership’
June 2010 – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Building Plots’
May 2010 – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Make solar and wind power pay’
February 2010 – RIBA London
February 2010 – The Independent ‘Small spaces: the urban architects making the most of petite properties’
January 2010 – Self Build & Design ‘Let it Slide’
2010 – 21st Century Houses ‘150 of the World’s Best’
2009 – The Eco House Book by Terence Conran
November 2009 – Homebuilding and Renovating ‘Architects & Designers’
October 2009 – Move & Improve ‘Supersize Your Kitchen’
September 2009 – Self Build & Design ‘Surprise Addition’
August 2009 – Self Build & Design ‘Leading Light: Little Gems’
July 2009 – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Site Specific Solutions’
May 2009 – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Smaller Homes: The Next Big Thing?’
April 2009 – The Sunday Telegraph ‘DIY houses: Dreams & Hard Graft’
October 2008 – Evening Standard Homes & Property ‘Factory of Good Ideas’
2008 – Space Magazine
December 2007 – Move & Improve ‘Transform Your Home on a Budget’
December 2007 – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Small Homes Big Ideas’
2007 – The New 100 Houses X 100 Architects
2007 – RIBA Architecture Review London
April 2007 – Move & Improve ‘Whiter than white’
January 2007 – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘It’s hip to be square’
2006 – The Mail on Sunday National Homebuilder Design Awards 2006 Judges Report
December 2006 – The Sunday Times: Inside Out ‘Kitchen confidential’
November 2006 – The Financial Times How to Spend It ‘The Generation Game’
November 2006 – The Daily Telegraph ‘Winners of The Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine Awards 2006’
September 2006 – Living Etc. ‘Standing out’
May 2006 – The Observer Magazine ‘The end of the terrace?’
May 2006 – The Sunday Times ‘Speed-date an architect’
May 2006 – Architecture Today EcoTech
April 2006 – The Sunday Times ‘It’s a slimline tonic’
April 2006 – The Independent ‘Use an architect and help the homeless’
June 2004 – Evening Standard Homes & Property ‘Architect in the House’
June 2004 – The Observer ‘Better laid plans for just £20 a time’
September
2003 – Evening Standard Homes & Property ‘Pavilions of splendour’