Residential
Custom homes, additions, ADUs, basements, kitchens, baths and sunrooms — designed around how a household actually lives.
Architectural Design Studio · Newark, NJ
Spaces shaped with intention, around the people who live them.
Dream Design Build is a soup-to-nuts architectural firm — architects, engineers and designers assembled to fit each client, blending contemporary and traditional elements into work that feels both sophisticated and alive.
The Studio
We believe space is not second to the aesthetics of design — it is a crucial element that works hand in hand with materials, light and life. Every DDB design is a balanced composition of contemporary and traditional, made to change the lives of the people who inhabit it.
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End-User Focused
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What We Do
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A practice without a fixed scale.
From a single room to a multi-family building, we tailor a team of designers, architects and engineers to each project — bringing it from first sketch to finished space.
Commercial
Offices, retail, restaurants, hotels, healthcare and mixed-use — spaces engineered to perform while making a lasting impression.
Industrial & Multi-Family
Warehouses, industrial buildings, modular and multi-family developments — planned for scale, code and the people inside.
How We Work
Soup to nuts — start to finish.
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Discover
We start with the end user. Goals, site, budget and the feeling you want the space to hold.
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Design
Schematics into developed design — balancing contemporary form with traditional craft.
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Engineer
Architects and engineers resolve structure, systems and code into permit-ready documents.
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Deliver
We stay in charge of the project start to finish, supporting the build to a faithful result.
If a person takes the time to do something — no matter what — do it with intention.
Anthony Lord · Founder & Lead Designer
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Where design meets daily life.
Residential
Custom Single-Family Home
A contemporary gable with traditional warmth, organized around an open core.
Commercial
Mixed-Use Storefront
Retail at grade, workspace above — a façade that gives back to the street.