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Architects of the project, not just the building.

Modular development advisory across London and Seoul

BDV Global Partners is a design-led development and advisory firm specialising in modular construction.

We sit between vision and delivery, directing manufacturers, contractors, and consultants on the client's behalf. Founded by Sangmin Cha, a UK-registered architect (ARB/RIBA) with two decades of practice in London and Seoul, we bring an architect's judgment to the developer's seat: shaping feasibility, structuring projects, and orchestrating delivery across borders.

We are not a contractor or a manufacturer. We are the partner who makes modular work — aligning capital, design, manufacturing, and construction around a single, deliverable vision.

Build. Develop. Value.
The three questions every modular project must answer.


       
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What we do
Modular Development Consulting
Project & Development Management
Overseas Business Development
Architecture Design 
Modular Manufacturing Partnerships
Real Estate Development Advisory
Team 
Sangmin Cha
Founder / CEO of BDV Global Partners
2024~

Experience / Track Record
200MW Hyperscale Data Centre, Korea — Modular feasibility & cost validation

Mixed-tenure Housing, Western Australia — Consortium formation & HAFF application

Historic Building Retrofit, London — KOKO Camden, Admiralty Arch
Contacts
Korea:  5, Hangang-daero 43-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
UK: 97 Gardeners Court, London 
Awards
RIBA London Award 2025

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BDV 
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KOKO Camden
2018~2020


KOKO, Camden
Grade II listed music venue · 5,308 m² · £70m construction value · London · 2018–2020

Attribution — Archer Humphryes Architects for KOKO / Olly Bengough. Sangmin Cha contributed during the consent and early construction phase while at the practice; the venue completed in April 2022, after his departure.

Challenge — Three adjoining Grade II listed buildings — a 1900 Sprague theatre, a former piano factory and a public house — had to be woven into a single operating asset without diminishing an independent music venue's commercial life.

Approach — The scheme was structured around programme rather than preservation alone: sixteen distinct revenue-generating spaces were planned across the combined footprint, including a members' club, roof terrace restaurant, recording studio and a 300-capacity venue inserted into the retained Victorian fly tower. Consent was secured through sustained negotiation with English Heritage, the Victorian Society and Camden's conservation department.

Outcome — Consent obtained and construction commenced January 2019. Completed 2022 at £70m; longlisted in Dezeen Awards 2022 (Rebirth) and shortlisted by New London Architecture in the Culture category.


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