O’DonnellBrown

Over more than a decade, community-driven practice O’DonnellBrown has built a reputation for socially responsible architecture that makes a positive difference to human lives. Founded in 2013 by Jennifer O’Donnell and Sam Brown, both graduates of Mackintosh School of Architecture, the practice began life in London, born of a series of projects for Tower Hamlets Council, and relocated to Glasgow in 2016. Early self-initiated projects such as the Community Classroom demonstrated the practice’s agency and design ingenuity, setting an attitude that has brought significant opportunities to contribute to Glasgow’s cityscape, reinventing spaces at every scale – from individual buildings to entire neighbourhoods.

O’DonnellBrown has particular strengths in retrofit and regeneration, exemplified in projects such as New Olympia House and the refurbishment of the Pipe Factory, but also actively pursues bold new development models. The team, which now comprises eight architects, is passionate about tackling societal and environmental challenges through architecture, bringing about progressive change by collaborating with partners such as Barnardo’s on the Gap Homes initiative for care leavers.

WHAT WE DO FOR O’DonnellBrown

Zetteler is excited to be supporting O’DonnellBrown through a milestone year. Alongside the completion of a major 209-home housing project in central Glasgow, the reinvention of a 1970s Kilmarnock community centre and the rejuvenation of a historic town hall on Great Cumbrae, 2025 also sees the start of the delivery of O’DonnellBrown’s cultural and heritage masterplan for the former Govan Graven Docks, which introduces 306 homes onto the site and will open up the site to the public for the first time in 40 years.

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