About EBBA
EBBA is an inquisitive architecture and design practice, making quietly progressive buildings, places, objects and furniture through an investigative and hands-on approach. Working across cultural spaces, large and small dwellings and retail, EBBA’s focus is on making spaces that reflect particular poetic and material qualities that can carry meaning and can have a direct emotional effect on the users.
Founded by architect and designer Benni Allan, each project combines intellectual thinking, considered materiality and construction logic to create experiences and spaces that are familiar yet provocative.
The research-driven practice has won multiple awards for its work and was shortlisted for the Dezeen Awards Emerging Architecture Studio of the Year in 2024 as well as being profiled by Wallpaper* magazine as one of the ground-breaking new generation of studios. They have also previously been awarded the coveted YAYA Young Architect of the Year Award by Building Design.
Selected Clients
Adidas
Beaconsfield Gallery
BlackMilk
Bold Tendencies Gallery
Burberry
Cubitts
Edouard Malingue Gallery
Erdem
Flat Time House Gallery
Gathering Gallery
Hypebeast
Liberty London
London Legacy Dev Corporation
Modern Matter Gallery
Penhaligons
Petar Petrov
Ports 1961
Rotaro
Royal Academy of Arts
Saint Church Hackney
Space Talk
Studio Nicholson
Tate Modern
TFL
The Office Group
Topman & Topshop
Victoria and Albert Museum
WatchHouse
William Morris Gallery
Veja
YMC
Awards
2024 Shortlisted – Dezeen Emerging Architect of the Year
2023 Winner – Kyoto Global Design Awards
2022 Platform – 40-40 Next Generation Europe
2022 Longlist – Dezeen Furniture Design Awards
2022 Longlist – Dezeen Small Building Awards
2021 Winner – YAYA Architect of the Year Award
2021 Winner – D&AD Award (Hackney Church)
2021 Finalist – Dezeen Emerging Architecture Studio
2019 Winner – RIBA Rising Stars Award
2019 Finalist – AJ Small Projects Award
2015 Winner – British Design Council
Press, Publications & Exhibitions
Lectures + Workshops
2023 London School of Architecture
2021 Design Museum Young Creatives
2021 The Courtauld Institute of Art
2021 Sheffield School of Architecture
2020 Plymouth School of Architecture
2020 London School of Architecture
2020 Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
2020 Garden Festival
2019 RIBA Ambassadors Programme
2019 Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
2019 Leeds School of Architecture
2018 RIBA Ambassadors Programme
Teaching
Our collective form of practice extends to teaching and making – at both a physical and theoretical level – which has become an important aspect of the work of the studio, able to test and explore ideas while allowing on-going investigations into the role of architecture in society.
Employment
We do not currently have any vacancies however we are always interested to hear from talented individuals. We welcome speculative applications sent as hard-copy CVs with examples of work by post, or via email to info@eb-ba.co (maximum 5mb). If your application is successful, we will contact you.