Popelo is a design-led architecture and interiors studio creating playful, sensuous spaces across the hospitality and residential sectors. Taking a feeling-first approach, we work with carefully selected materials rooted in context and place, crafting timeless environments that celebrate both craft and the expressive touch of the maker’s hand.
We take a holistic view of space, working across all scales, from architecture and interiors to the objects that inhabit them.
Sustainability is integral to our practice. Through an ongoing research strand dedicated to circular material systems and their integration into contemporary construction, we take a rigorous approach to reducing environmental impact and building complexity. This research underpins every project, regardless of scale.
daniel@popelo.co
About
Daniel Pope (he/him) was born in Warwickshire and has lived in London since 2014. Named one of Zetteler’s trailblazing talents to watch in 2023, he has been recognised for his research into Ceramic Material Systems, awarded the Architect’s Journal Sustainability Prize in 2021 and an RIBA Silver Medal Commendation. This research remains integral to the studio’s work, supported by the Architectural Research Fund.
Daniel qualified with Distinction from the Bartlett School of Architecture. Prior to founding Popelo, he specialised in the residential, commercial and arts sectors as an architect at THISS Studio and previously spent two years in Berlin and Beijing with HENN Arkitekten, working across the culture and health. He has also worked with Haptic Architects and ScanLAB Projects.
Press
2024, Gilded Birds, On the London Stock Brick
2024, Portrait of Resilience #1: Meet Hackney’s Daniel Pope
2024, Architecture Today, Can we Trust in Timber?
2022, KoozArch, Interview on The Earthen Land Registry
2021, Marley, Sustainability Award Winner Interview
2021, RIBA, President’s Medals
2021, Architect’s Journal, Sustainability Prize
2021, Dezeen, Project Spotlight
2021, Metropolis Magazine, Role Models Contest
2024, Gilded Birds, On the London Stock Brick
2024, Portrait of Resilience #1: Meet Hackney’s Daniel Pope
2024, Architecture Today, Can we Trust in Timber?
2022, KoozArch, Interview on The Earthen Land Registry
2021, Marley, Sustainability Award Winner Interview
2021, RIBA, President’s Medals
2021, Architect’s Journal, Sustainability Prize
2021, Dezeen, Project Spotlight
2021, Metropolis Magazine, Role Models Contest
Awards
2022, Brick Awards Shortlist
2021, Architect’s Journal, Sustainability Prize
2021, RIBA, Silver Medal commendation
2021, Sir Bannister Fletcher Prize and Medal
2021, The Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design
2020, Design Realisation ‘Innovation in Detail’ Prize
Exhibitions
2025, Clay, Culture, Carbon
2024, Royal Academy Summer Show
2022, The Memory of Architecture, FILET Gallery
2022, Brick Awards Shortlist
2021, Architect’s Journal, Sustainability Prize
2021, RIBA, Silver Medal commendation
2021, Sir Bannister Fletcher Prize and Medal
2021, The Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design
2020, Design Realisation ‘Innovation in Detail’ Prize
Exhibitions
2025, Clay, Culture, Carbon
2024, Royal Academy Summer Show
2022, The Memory of Architecture, FILET Gallery