About Us

BENCHMARK Architects is a new architecture and design studio based in London and Ampthill.  We are a passionate and personable team, alive with creative and commercial design solutions.

We love architecture and design.  We enjoy working with people on projects to create, challenge and innovate.

Whilst we specialise in all things residential and hospitality, such as homes, apartments, hotels, students, private for rent, restaurants, bars and spas, we also have extensive experience with retail, offices and mixed-use developments.​

As much as we love designing and developing new-build “clean canvas” building projects, we also love rethinking, remodeling and refurbishing listed, heritage buildings and the unloved “ugly-monsters”.

Our Team 

BENCHMARK Architects is led by Mark Doohan, founder and director. 

Mark qualified as an architect in 2000 and his passion for architecture has grown stronger and stronger over the last 16 years.  For 10 years Mark has been a director at FCH Architects, a large international firm with offices in London, Liverpool, Manchester and Malaysia.

Between 2011 and 2015, he opened and ran the London office for FCH Architects specialising in residential and hotel projects in London and across the UK.  Mark has always dreamed of shaping his own architectural design studio and thus BENCHMARK Architects was born in 2016.

Our team of collaborating architects and designers are based in Central London and Ampthill, Bedfordshire.  Our friendly team are ready to help you.