SSdH Wins ArchDaily 2025 Next Practices Award for Adaptive Reuse
SSdH, founded in 2020 in Melbourne by Todd de Hoog, Harrison Smart, and Jean-Marie Spencer, has been honored with the ArchDaily 2025 Next Practices Award for their innovative work in adaptive reuse. The firm focuses on renovation, extension, and adaptive insertion, treating existing structures as vital components of their design process. Their methodology emphasizes environmental stewardship and material efficiency while fostering collaboration that responds to site-specific conditions. SSdH represents a growing movement in architecture that prioritizes the transformation of existing materials and spaces, redefining inherited environments.
Key facts
- SSdH was founded in 2020 in Melbourne by Todd de Hoog, Harrison Smart, and Jean-Marie Spencer.
- The practice won the ArchDaily 2025 Next Practices Awards.
- SSdH works across renovation, extension, and adaptive insertion scales.
- The firm treats existing buildings as active agents in design.
- Their approach emphasizes environmental responsibility and material economy.
- Collaborative processes are grounded in site-specific conditions.
- The practice is part of a shift toward working with existing material, spatial, and historical conditions.
- Architecture and design aesthetics are increasingly about reshaping inherited environments.
Entities
Artists
- Todd de Hoog
- Harrison Smart
- Jean-Marie Spencer
Institutions
- SSdH
- ArchDaily
Locations
- Melbourne
- Australia