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20 February 2025
Prioritising Health in the Workplace
NLA's expert panel on work tackle the important topic of health and wellbeing in the workplace, and how the built environment plays a key component in holistic health.
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Culture, Education & Health, Housing, Industrial & Logistics, Net Zero, Planning, Technical, Transport & Infrastructure, Work
14 January 2025
As we kick off 2025 Expert Panels, panel chairs share summaries, recommendations, reflections and key findings from across the 2024 meetings, visits and debates.
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Work
06 August 2024
What does workplace actually mean?
Chiara Cantilena, Senior Associate at LOM architecture and design reflects on the recent NLA members event, reimagining the office, which saw meaningful discourse on what workplace means
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Work
26 March 2024
Cushman & Wakefield's Richard Goldin and Sitara Bhundia presented their latest research on how workspace and talent needs shape the future of property and location.
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Work
07 November 2023
Meet the experts - Katrina Kostic Samen on Work.
In the first of a new series, David Taylor catches up with Savills’ Katrina Kostic Samen to get the key takeaways from her chairmanship of the NLA’s Expert Panel on Work.
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Work
27 July 2023
Reworking and Retrofitting Offices: Unlocking the Timeless Potential of Workspaces
The idea of reworking and retrofitting offices may not be new, but it is more important now than ever before, Michelle Ludik, Principal and Regional Leader at HOK reflects.
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Work
24 July 2023
High-performing workplaces spark employees’ intrinsic motivation
What if a workplace could accelerate and amplify talent? What if a workplace could make employees not just produce more — but actually perform better? Naomi Sakamoto of Gensler reports.
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Work
19 July 2023
Georgia Laganakou, Head of Sustainability at Hopkins Architects reflects on our latest conference exploring how the retrofit-first approach can create flexible and sustainable workplaces.
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Work
07 March 2023
Our second Expert Panel met recently to explore the workplace in a post-pandemic context. The drive to have people back in offices and the city is key, Yetta Reardon Smith of KKS Savills reports.
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Work
21 November 2022
KKS Savills's Katrina Kostic Samen reflects on the latest meeting of the Work Expert Panel, as the third cycle kicked off with a strong focus on the New London Agenda.
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Work
06 October 2022
On Wednesday 16 November, join the discussion with experts on the future of the workplace, at the London Build conference.
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Work
12 September 2022
When it comes to the post-COVID workplace, what do people want? What do people care about? And what will buildings look like? To tackle these questions the panel split into three subgroups to investig...
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Work
19 July 2022
Oliver Bayliss, Managing Director at BuckleyGrayYeoman reflects on the future of London's manufacturing and industrial spaces following the recent NLA Productive City webinar.
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Work
05 May 2022
People and planet: the key message for future workspaces
Yetta Reardon Smith of KKS Savills reports from the latest meeting of the NLA Expert Panel on Work.
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Work
04 February 2022
The post-Covid future workplace
The full NLA Expert Panel on Work met on 21 January 2022. The sub-groups met separately to discuss three key questions relating to the post-Covid future workplace.
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Work
04 October 2021
Designing the workplace of the future
Office designers envisage an end to sector clustering and a renewed focus on wellbeing, sustainability and flexibility, webinar hears
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Work
21 September 2021
How has the pandemic influenced the way we use our workspace?
Last week the NLA Expert Panel on Work met to start the new cycle of the Expert Panels supporting the NLA’s purpose to make London a better place to live, work and visit.
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Work
19 July 2021
Building services: future offices need fresh thinking
Nick Offer, Head of Building Services, WSP UK, writes for NLA on the future of offices
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Work
18 June 2021
WRK/LDN: Office Revolution? Project, Idea and Product Showcase
A selection of key projects featured in NLA's report on the office, WRK/LDN: Office Revolution?
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Work
25 May 2021
New NLA report glimpses workplace revolution
Offices of the future must be ‘places for purpose’ and designers urged to ‘up their game’ to provide healthier, fun environments with more collaboration space
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Work
24 May 2021
Re-imagining the Workplace of the Future
RIBA's Managing Director William Poole-Wilson writes on what we can expect from the post-COVID office
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Work
19 May 2021
The results are in: let’s reimagine the office
The NLA Expert Panel on Work panellists came together to review the NLA Members Survey, part of the upcoming research WRK/LDN: office revolution?
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Work
19 April 2021
Five minutes with… Justin Nicholls
David Taylor catches up with Fathom Architects partner Justin Nicholls to get the lowdown on starting a business and surviving and prospering over the first five years, plus his crystal ball views on...
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Work
17 March 2021
Amplify your purpose. Become a B Corp.
The B Corp movement is sweeping at pace through various sectors – notably food & beverage and responsible fashion – but what about the built environment?
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Work
12 March 2021
Robert Houmøller, Founding Partner of Merrett Houmøller Architects, rethinks the idea of the traditional workplace and offers solutions to fit our individual needs.
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Work
12 March 2021
Big boost for offices – and for dogs too
Office developers and architects gave an optimistic thumbs up to the prospects for a return to workspace later this year – along with a call for canine provision…
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Work
24 February 2021
Five minutes with... Lindsay Urquhart
David Taylor catches up with Bespoke Careers CEO Lindsay Urquhart to get the lowdown on architectural recruitment patterns across the world, making a new life in Australia, and what exactly got smashe...
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Work
04 February 2021
Five minutes with... Ziona Strelitz
David Taylor catches up with Founder Director of ZZA Responsive User Environments, Ziona Strelitz, to talk about returning to the office, how they might look and function, the place of tall buildings,...
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Work
03 February 2021
In the first meeting of 2021, the NLA Expert Panel on Work came together to share thought leadership and discuss pressing issues around the future of the workplace., centring around commercial recover...
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Work
10 December 2020
Digital wellbeing - taking action on mental health
Mental health in architecture has been an increasingly pertinent issue in recent years. Now Covid-19 has added new pressures. Not only are we dealing with general feelings of anxiety and isolation, bu...
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Work
07 December 2020
People have changed in 2020. Occupiers, employees, and businesses have all changed their requirements, practices and expectations for work and the workplace. Martin Smith, Commercial Offices and D&I L...
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Work
17 November 2020
The return to the office…what office?
Architects, agents and developers are predicting that around 70% of workers will return to offices before next May – aided by evolving technology and a Covid vaccine making an impact in the wider worl...
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Work
17 November 2020
From grey boxes to a place to breathe
Could the floundered business park pioneer a new type of workplace?
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Work
28 October 2020
What would happen if we lost the office permanently? asks NLA Expert Panel on Work
We are possibly in the midst of the greatest and most rapid change to the way we work that we have ever seen. But what are the short-, medium- and long-term impacts of this transformation? Members of...
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Work
22 October 2020
Wick Workspace: How Hackney Council offered a lifeline to businesses being pushed out of the area
Hackney Council’s Mathieu Rogers, Area Regeneration Manager (Hackney Wick & Upper Lee Valley) reveals how the authority offered a lifeline for businesses being pushed out of the Hackney Wick area thro...
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Work
04 September 2020
Five minutes with... Del Hossain, group managing director, Adrem
David Taylor catches up with Adrem group managing director, business coach, psychologist, Bartlett tutor and now podcaster, Del Hossain about inspirational people, the lack of business savvy some prac...
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Work
18 August 2020
Flexible, green, outside, fun and ‘in between’ – the office of the future
The office of the future should be a mixture of a flexible, sustainable, and fun ‘in between’ space with outdoor amenities, greenery, possibly located in a park or as a part of a thriving local commun...
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Work
30 July 2020
Office demand is dropping but industrial space is booming
Office occupiers are taking 10-15 per cent less space than they were before the pandemic struck but industrial demand is seeing some of its best stats ever according to speakers at the NLA webinar on...
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Work
24 July 2020
Expert panel chair Katrina Kostic Samen of KKS Savills takes a look at key issues affecting the future design and delivery of office space for London, including occupier concerns and the ‘when’ not ‘i...
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Work
24 July 2020
Five minutes with…Bruce Daisley
David Taylor talks to Bruce Daisley, the ex-VP of Twitter and Google director who has now carved out a career in podcasting, writing and consulting about businesses and workplace issues. So: which way...
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Work
24 July 2020
Soapbox: Using global learnings to collaborate with facility managers
How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we use elevators and escalators and how is Otis responding to those changes?
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Work
16 July 2020
The plan for Jobs – are we missing the moment, could a greater return on investment be the reward?
Waterman Group’s Craig Beresford follows up his piece on the green revolution last week with a further look at Rishi Sunak’s jobs plan and how the UK is perhaps missing out on a greater return on its...
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Work
19 June 2020
From the Archive: The Office - London’s Workplace
In 2006 NLA studied The Office - London’s Workplace. The title owed much to David Brent’s peak popularity at the time but its messages still resonate at a time when we are wondering what shape the wo...
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Work
12 June 2020
Offices will only get better after this...
Buckley Gray Yeoman director Oliver Bayliss looks at life after Covid for the office of the future, casting off their ‘factory-like stigma’ forever - and the need for businesses to keep their people t...
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Work
07 May 2020
Workplaces - creating a positive shift
Matthew Blain, Principal at Hassell UK suggests that another positive to emerge from the Covid-19 period might be an end to the ‘Big Brother’ mentality in workspaces and perhaps a greater concentratio...
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Work
24 April 2020
We must rethink how workers on modest incomes can live close to their work
The forgotten, in-betweener housing markets — In an era where key workers are more in the public eye than perhaps ever before, Dolphin Living CEO Olivia Harris argues that we must rethink how workers...
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Work
17 December 2019
Go multi-storey and intensify! The future of industrial London
London must continue its battle to keep industrial land, create more of it, and think differently about the sector if the capital is to reverse a trend and be a fully rounded, global city. And intensi...
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Work
04 June 2019
Be more bored, says Twitter vice president
Twitter vice president Bruce Daisley recommended boredom as one of the most efficient ways of getting the best ideas and improving the work experience. Great ideas com...
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Work
25 January 2019
Delivering affordability: resi vs workspace
How can London create the type and quantity of both the affordable workspace and residential that it needs? A Think Tank organised by NLA and held in Hackney’s Old Ba...
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