New London Architecture

Max Fordham

Max Fordham

Max Fordham LLP is an environmental building services engineering consultancy. For over 50 years, they have engineered energy, air, light and sound to bring buildings to life. From their offices in London, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Manchester and Bristol, they have worked with the world’s leading architects on some of the world’sgreatest buildings. 
Max Fordham's portfolio includes award-winning exemplars of sustainable design and a diverse mix of beautifully engineered buildings.
Max Fordham started his own practice in the spare bedroom of his Camden home in 1966. The practice has now grown to more than 220 people in five offices around the United Kingdom. The Practice’s Cambridge office opened in 2000 and a job won at Telford College in Scotland in 2003 led to a presence in Edinburgh. Continued growth of the Practice resulted in the establishment of offices in Manchester and Bristol, both in 2012.
The Practice is a Limited Liability Partnership and is essentially employee-owned, with over 120 partners.

Max Fordham

Contact Details

Max Fordham
42-43 Gloucester Crescent
London
NW1 7PE
Tel: 020 7267 5161
Web: www.maxfordham.com

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11 Belgrave Road

11 Belgrave Road

Built

Renewal of a 1950s building to provide Grade A workspace with a key focus on wellbeing, sustainability and user-centric design.

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Lee Valley Ice Centre

Lee Valley Ice Centre

Built

a project combining two Olympic-sized ice rinks, a gym, studios, café and community space to create the UK’s most sustainable ice centre, alongside a sensitive £1.5m landscape transformation.

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Fair Field Landscape

Fair Field Landscape

Planning Granted

A vibrant, major new public space in the centre of Croydon. A rich and diverse public realm with public art gateways, a variety of hard and soft landscaped spaces, to positively transform the area.

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Kindred House

Kindred House

Built

25-storey mixed-use tower at the edge of Croydon's old town centre, adjacent to flyover providing 128 new homes with 45% affordable above flexible office and retail space.

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A House for Artists

A House for Artists

Built

A House For Artists is an ambitious model for affordable and sustainable housing for creatives. The ground floor is a glass-walled community space, where artists can make and exhibit their work.

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Graphite Square

Graphite Square

Under Construction

A mixed use scheme in London’s Vauxhall combining residential, workplace, and public realm.

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Woodward Road

Woodward Road

Under Construction

Housing and community buildings sat within the ambitious inter-war ‘cottage housing estate’ of Becontree.

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Livesey Exchange_PHASE 1

Livesey Exchange_PHASE 1

Under Construction

Livesey Exchange demonstrates the transformative power of community participation, creating a new cultural destination and affordable workspaces on Old Kent Road.

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Edith Neville Primary School

Edith Neville Primary School

Built

Edith Neville Primary School forms the first phase of Camden’s new £89m regeneration of Somers Town. Located between St. Pancras and Euston stations, Somers Town.

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No1 Blackhorse Lane

No1 Blackhorse Lane

Planning Granted

The scheme delivers innovative co-living accommodation for 272 residential apartments with a series of shared residential amenity spaces, retail at ground, and a purpose-built cultural venue

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St Raphael’s Estate Masterplan

St Raphael’s Estate Masterplan

Proposed

The renewal of the St Raphael’s Estate in Wembley, North London unites a disconnected neighborhood to provide better quality council homes, public spaces and new civic infrastructure.

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Dockley Apartments

Dockley Apartments

Built

111 unit residential scheme provides a European take on housing design, comprised of a combination of 1, 2 and 3-bed units while accommodating 1,136m2 of commercial space at ground level

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Broadwick Street

Broadwick Street

Under Construction

We've brought Studio Stockholm designs to life as delivery architects for the project, which offers flexible office space that fosters community and collaboration, with sustainability as a key driver.

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Banya and Garden Studio

Banya and Garden Studio

Built

An inventive project housing the traditional elements of a Russian ‘Banya’ - including sauna, bucket shower, and plunge pool – as well as a garden studio, set within a wooded location in Hampstead.

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Charlton and Albany House Regeneration, Brentford

Charlton and Albany House Regeneration, Brentford

Planning Granted

Provide 209 sustainable, high-quality homes, 1,190 sqm commercial floorspace, and associated landscape amenity and public realm.

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55 Great Suffolk Street

55 Great Suffolk Street

Proposed

A Grade II-listed Victorian warehouse in Southwark being sensitively restored & extended to provide 15,000 sqft of characterful & creative workspace, using reclaimed steel from a demolished

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Dulwich College Junior and Lower School Buildings

Dulwich College Junior and Lower School Buildings

Planning Granted

Net Zero Carbon retrofit/enhancement and extension of existing Junior and Lower School buildings at Dulwich College to provide library, ICT classrooms, wellbeing hub and Junior Hall.

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Britannia Leisure Centre

Britannia Leisure Centre

Built

Britannia Leisure Centre is an inclusive new leisure facility transforming health and wellbeing for the local community in Hackney.

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Royal Wharf Primary School

Royal Wharf Primary School

Built

Royal Wharf Primary School is a new-build school at the heart of the Royal Wharf masterplan. Two-form entry, it provides accommodation for 420 pupils and 60 nursery pupils.

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Tumbling Bay & Timber Lodge

Tumbling Bay & Timber Lodge

Built

Tumbling Bay & Timber Lodge is a community hub with cafe and a destination playground embedded in the naturalistic landscape setting of the North Park.

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London 2012 Water Polo Arena

London 2012 Water Polo Arena

Built

A 5,000 seat capacity venue, the Water Polo Arena sat within a unique development of architecture, infrastructure and landscape with the purpose of providing a platform for the London 2012.

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Mossbourne Riverside Academy

Mossbourne Riverside Academy

Built

Mossbourne Riverside Academy is a 3FE primary school and nursery delivered on the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park. It is plays a key role for local communities and continues the legacy of the Olympics

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Agar Grove Estate Redevelopment

Agar Grove Estate Redevelopment

Under Construction

Agar Grove is a 493-home estate regeneration scheme in Camden, London. 80% of the homes will be built to a Passivhaus standard, the largest development of its kind in the UK.

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Woodward Road

Woodward Road

Under Construction

Woodward Road is a development of 56 affordable homes and 650m2 of community space, designed for Be First in Dagenham, London.

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Dulwich College - Junior and Lower School

Dulwich College - Junior and Lower School

Under Construction

From the outset, Dulwich College have prioritised the sustainability aspect of the project and set the aspiration to be net zero carbon in both construction and operational energy.

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The Makers Building

The Makers Building

Built

A flagship mixed-use regeneration scheme offering a new, innovative model for densification of inner-city sites and a sustainable way of funding new education facilities via residential development.

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Max Fordham's House

Max Fordham's House

Built

This 3-bed Passivhaus home is an exemplar of collaboration, innovation and solution-focused design. The building is designed so that the heat lost is no more than that generated by using the home.

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Sands End Arts and Community Centre

Sands End Arts and Community Centre

Built

Sands End Community and Arts Centre is a new community facility containing an artist’s studio and cafe alongside flexible community events spaces in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

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Agar Grove 1B

Agar Grove 1B

Built

Agar Grove is a 493-home estate regeneration scheme in Camden, London. The masterplan has been designed by Mæ and Hawkins\Brown following intensive resident consultation.

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Ibstock Place school

Ibstock Place school

Built

Re-imagining the grand tradition of the banqueting hall, the refectory at Ibstock Place School provides an uplifting space for the celebration of communal school life for pupils aged four to 18.

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Hampton Pool

Hampton Pool

Planning Granted

The redevelopment of the buildings and facilities at Hampton Pool to create a fully accessible, highly sustainable and future proof community asset.

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Tribeca

Tribeca

Planning Granted

The mixed-use development will deliver state-of-the-art laboratory and offices at the heart of London’s biotech cluster. The scheme will also support vibrant retail, restaurants and residential.

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Wembley Link

Wembley Link

Under Construction

An overgrown area of railway embankment is set to be revitalised into much-needed homes for private rent in these new 17 and 19 storey brick built buildings inspired by their railway location.

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Waltham Forest Active Travel Centre

Waltham Forest Active Travel Centre

Proposed

The solar-powered Active Travel Centre at Walthamstow Central operates as a base for secure cycle parking, local authority cycle hire, bike repair and a hub for the borough’s Behaviour Change Unit.

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Tiger Way

Tiger Way

Built

An innovative mixed-use development delivering a high-quality new primary school and nursery funded through the sale of 89 high quality private residential apartments co-located on site.

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Atomico Office, Rathbone Street

Atomico Office, Rathbone Street

Under Construction

The relocation of Atomico to offices of c.15,000 sqft at Rathbone Street. Atomico are undertaking a CAT B refurbishment that ranks highly in terms of Occupant Wellbeing and Sustainability.

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North London Collegiate School - Ideas Hub and Reception Building

North London Collegiate School - Ideas Hub and Reception Building

Proposed

North London Collegiate School are developing a new Ideas Hub, to facilitate a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and maths) curriculum, and to be the main school entrance and reception.

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Melfield Gardens

Melfield Gardens

Planning Granted

An affordable, intergenerational housing development for older people and postgraduate students, with generous and welcoming communal spaces, designed to Passivhaus standard.

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Gascoigne East Plot J

Gascoigne East Plot J

Proposed

Providing 124 new affordable homes around a communal courtyard, Plot J will be the first net zero carbon building to be delivered by Be First, Barking and Dagenham’s development company.

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Livesey Exchange

Livesey Exchange

Proposed

Livesey Exchange is a new cultural destination for Old Kent Road, designed and led by local residents. Conceived as ‘Village Hall meets Turbine Hall', it will be a local hub for skill sharing.

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The Britannia Project

The Britannia Project

Planning Granted

Council led regeneration of a London community delivering a new leisure centre, new housing and new school places to anticipate the facilities and amenities requirements for its expanding population.

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City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park

City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park

Built

New 6 FE secondary school with sixth form. Part of the ambitious Hackney Britannia Masterplan. Awarded BREEAM Outstanding (Design stage). Maximises daylighting and playground area on tight urban site.

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Fairfield Halls

Fairfield Halls

Built

Fairfield Halls has undergone a major conservation project sympathetically upgrade the venue returning many features from the original 1962 building, while creating new sustainable community spaces.

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Morland Gardens

Morland Gardens

Planning Granted

A socially focussed mixed-use scheme in the London Borough of Brent including 65 new council homes, a 2500m² state-of-the-art adult education centre with public café and 700m² of affordable workspace.

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Leven Road Gasworks, Poplar

Leven Road Gasworks, Poplar

Planning Granted

The 8.3 ha site is a residential-led mixed-use development aiming to deliver a 1 ha riverside park, 2,800 new homes in a range of sizes and tenures, and approximately 10,000 sq m of mixed-uses.

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Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene's

Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene's

Built

This project provides access – physical and cultural – to an under-used Grade I listed church on the Heritage at Risk register, opening the building up to the community for wider users.

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Former Maria Fidelis School Site Meanwhile Use

Former Maria Fidelis School Site Meanwhile Use

Planning Granted

Innovative meanwhile use of a former school, repurposed to provide high quality workspace, community facilities, allotments & gardens, as well as a Construction Skills Centre to enable new HS2 station

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Southbank Undercroft Skate Space

Southbank Undercroft Skate Space

Built

The Southbank Centre Skate project focuses on the Undercroft area of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, aiming to sensitively restore the skaters’ space

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Hobhouse

Hobhouse

Built

A part new build, part refurbishment, mixed-use development comprising new residences, offices and retail spaces and an art gallery within a Grade II listed John Nash building.

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Wellfit+Hardess, Loughborough Junction

Wellfit+Hardess, Loughborough Junction

Proposed

Creative light industrial and residential mixed-use development by Metaphorm Architects providing a makers hub, 170 market and affordable homes plus new public realm, located at the viaducts crossing.

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