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Education & Health
31 March 2025
NLA Healthcare Expert Panel Chair and WSP Director Anisha Mayor reflects on key insights from the panel meeting on NHS reforms, investment, digital transformation, and more.
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Education & Health
11 March 2025
Rethinking Higher Education Spaces
Joyce Yazbeck Architect at LOM architecture and NLA Education Expert Panel Member reflects on the lessons learnt from the panel's first meeting of 2025 and more.
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Education & Health
11 February 2025
Shaping the Future of Education
Cora Kwiatkowski, Chair of NLA's Education Expert Panel, reflects on the panel’s meeting, where experts discussed strategic priorities, equity, and challenges in education sector.
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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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Education & Health
14 January 2025
We all need to design for health
Hawkins\Brown partner Ewan Graham suggests that prioritising well-being in building design can reduce strain on the NHS and promote a healthier, more resilient society.
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Education & Health
29 October 2024
Shaping the future of inclusive education
Ben Marston, Director at Jestico + Whiles, reflects on the Designing Inclusive Spaces webinar, exploring inclusive, sustainable designs for diverse student needs.
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Education & Health
24 September 2024
Ellie Cosgrave, Director of CIC and Research at Publica, who wrote the Women’s Safety Good Growth by Design report, discusses the need for gender-inclusive urban development in London.
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Education & Health
24 September 2024
David Taylor catches up with Ben Marston of Jestico + Whiles to hear about the key issues including demographic changes, energy, reusing facilities for other uses and more.
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Education & Health
28 May 2024
What role can the workspace play in creating a sense of community?
Future Places Studio, in partnership with HB Reavis UK, is undertaking a piece of research that seeks to explore why London is facing a ‘loneliness epidemic’ .
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Education & Health
11 March 2024
Education Expert Panel chair Ben Marston of Jestico + Whiles explains the key takeaways from the first meeting of the 2024 cycle with new members welcomed.
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Education & Health
22 January 2024
Innovation Districts Expert Panel
Elie Gamburg, Principal at KPF and Chair of the Innovation Districts Expert Panel reflects on the first meeting of the cycle, discuss the key topics for 2024 and the New London Agenda.
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Education & Health
18 May 2023
Three key themes emerged from the first Education Expert Panel meeting and after exploring these in more detail, Dan Tassell from Haworth Tompkins reflects.
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Education & Health
27 March 2023
Josephine Neill of Arcadis (formerly IBI Group) reports from NLA's latest Healthcare Expert Panel meeting, reflecting on the power of the neighbourhood for bettering health and wellbeing.
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Education & Health
20 February 2023
Inclusive innovation districts to lead ‘renaissance’ in UK economy
David Taylor reflects on our recent Innovation Districts half-day conference, placing London alongside international case studies.
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Education & Health
27 January 2023
Innovation Districts Expert Panel
The Innovation Districts Expert Panel identified key themes to catalyse and celebrate London's growth, as well as ways to harness the quality of innovation districts, Emily Slupek of Bidwells reflects...
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Education & Health
07 December 2022
Reflecting on the latest Healthcare Expert Panel meeting, discussing three key areas of need: clinical need, estates need and staff retention.
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Education & Health
24 November 2022
Ben Marston, Jestico + Whiles reflects on the latest NLA Education Expert Panel meeting, as the new cycle kicks off.
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Education & Health
04 October 2022
Innovation Districts Panel Meeting
Jonathan Burroughs, CEO, Creative Places, reflects on the latest meeting discussing clear plans to galvanise activity to recover from covid, navigate difficult economic times and support its instituti...
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Education & Health
20 September 2022
As we wrap up the latest cycle of NLA Expert Panels, we asked each of our Expert Panel chairs to summarise strategic areas that they will take forward into the next cycle.
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Education & Health
13 September 2022
As we wrap up the latest cycle of NLA Expert Panels, we asked each of our Expert Panel chairs to summarise strategic areas that they will take forward into the next cycle.
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Education & Health
24 August 2022
Kent Jackson, Partner at SOM, shares his best thing about London - the hospitals and the NHS, embodying the best of what humans can achieve - to provide world-class care for all who need it.
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Education & Health
07 August 2022
Inspire future generations: Take the survey
As future citizens, children and young people have a critically important stake in how buildings and spaces are shaped.
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Education & Health
19 July 2022
Access to education and the need for a creative curriculum in schools
Ben Marston of Jestico + Whiles and Chair of the NLA expert panel on education reports from the latest meeting and reflects as we close this expert panel cycle.
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Education & Health
11 April 2022
The challenge to our industry is putting people first
Ben Marston of Jestico + Whiles reports from the latest meeting of the NLA Expert Panel on Education.
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Education & Health
28 March 2022
Where is the London healthcare estate heading in the next few years?
Ernest Fasanya of Hopkins Architects reports from the recent NLA Expert Panel on Healthcare
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Education & Health
21 March 2022
Five Minutes With... Dr Neal Shasore
The London School of Architecture has just launched a bursary for students from low-income backgrounds – and perhaps refugees from Ukraine. David Taylor caught up with LSA chief executive and head of...
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Education & Health
07 December 2021
New London Agenda and Early Years and Family Support the new focus of Expert Panel on Education
Ben Marston reports from the fourth NLA Expert Panel on Education, focussing on two subjects: the New London Agenda and Early Years and Family Support.
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Education & Health
30 August 2021
Architecture for all through education
Teacher Neil Pinder reports on the NLA Expert Panel on Education, which looked at how we can inspire young people to get involved in the industry.
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Education & Health
20 August 2021
Why Is Healthy Hotel Design Important post-COVID?
Franz Huelle, Head of Technical – Building Solutions, REHAU, writes for NLA on the future of healthy hotel design.
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Education & Health
06 August 2021
NLA Expert Panel on Healthcare
The final meeting of this cycle of the NLA Expert Panel on Healthcare focused on the topical issue of decarbonising the health estate.
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Education & Health
09 July 2021
Aye for an eye - Oriel project hailed as ‘beacon’ of ‘world leading’ eyecare
AECOM, Penoyre & Prasad and White Arkitekter project gets go-ahead to provide exemplar low-carbon centre for eye research and patient care.
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Education & Health
28 June 2021
Kristian Steele, Associate, Arup, shares his thoughts on reducing carbon emissions in the healthcare sector.
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Education & Health
24 May 2021
Redundant retail, a new home for education?
Can redundant retail property in London provide a new home for education, and might bringing education into our high streets make for better and more sustainable places?
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Education & Health
19 April 2021
Universities prepare to play major part in London recovery
Universities show off building plans and consider offering vaccines to lure more international students from less affluent countries - webinar
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Education & Health
11 April 2021
Innovation districts for the community
The NLA Expert Panel on Science, Technology and Innovation talked about how innovation districts can support inclusive growth and the challenges and opportunities of supporting local communities and e...
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Education & Health
10 April 2021
Hospitals as Anchor Institutes
The third meeting of the NLA Healthcare Expert Panel discussed the role of hospitals as Anchor Institutes.
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Education & Health
11 March 2021
Colour: Are we ignoring a powerful tool to support dementia patients?
The use of colour in the built environment can be a transformative tool to add joy, variety, and legibility to space, but is often rejected or ignored during the design process in favour of neutral to...
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Education & Health
10 March 2021
Education schemes push for outside learning
Government should amend its building bulletins to take the new post-Covid world for schools into account and encourage the maximum use of covered outdoor space, education experts agreed.
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Education & Health
17 February 2021
Adaptability holds the key for new lab projects
Adaptability was the watchword in the creation of Imperial College London’s new Molecular Sciences Research Hub. That was according to the key players in the scheme to create an old office building in...
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Education & Health
04 February 2021
The first meeting of the NLA Expert Panel on Education covered a lot of ground, exploring the impact of the pandemic on learning environments. They talked about the Covid-accelerated adoption of techn...
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Education & Health
05 January 2021
Optimum model of a hospital for pandemic preparedness.
2020 was a wakeup call, highlighting the need to be generally more prepared for health threats. We need hospitals to be more resilient in future, to reduce this ripple effect as much as possible. We m...
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Education & Health
10 December 2020
This week the NLA Expert Panel on Health’s discussion honed in on two key topics: the importance of integrating hospitals more fully with their urban context, and on the need for renewed investment in...
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Education & Health
18 November 2020
The Planning White Paper has been broadly well received, with its drive to bring more delivery and efficiency to the planning system. One key aspect of the planning system, brought to the fore with t...
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Education & Health
13 November 2020
'Planning White Paper does not support the sector' says NLA Expert Panel on Science and Technology
The NLA Expert Panel on Science, Technology and Innovation met to analyse the implications of the proposed changes to the UK planning system to the knowledge economy sector.
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Education & Health
28 October 2020
Preparing Classrooms for a Return to School During the Pandemic
New technology can be integral to navigating the difficult situation our communities and schools now find themselves faced with. As we try to get students back to in-person learning, our solutions mus...
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Education & Health
16 October 2020
Building Review – Town and Gown
NLQ takes a look at the Grafton Architects-designed Town House for Kingston University, forging a link between the student fraternity and wider public
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Education & Health
30 September 2020
Embrace flexible futures, university estates told
Universities must put flexibility at the top of their agenda as ‘an imperative for the unknown’, keep ‘knitting’ themselves into the heart of the city and engaging with their neighbouring communities...
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Education & Health
17 September 2020
NLA Expert Panel on Healthcare
The first meeting of the NLA Expert Panel for Healthcare brought together a leading experts from the built environment who specialise in designing, developing and construction for the healthcare and k...
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Education & Health
07 September 2020
London scores knowledge quarter coup with AHMM-designed MSD HQ and discovery centre
London has scored a major coup for its knowledge economy and particularly its life sciences expertise by luring healthcare outfit MSD to create a sustainable, ‘world leading, state of the art’ UK Head...
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Education & Health
03 September 2020
Building blog – the Pears Building at the Royal Free
Heyne Tillett Steel’s Najib Sheeka pens a building blog about the firm’s work at The Pears Building, a forthcoming centre for research excellence at the Royal Free Hospital, London, designed by Hopkin...
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Education & Health
28 August 2020
Penoyre and Prasad win at Elephant and Castle
Architects Penoyre & Prasad, now part of NLA Partners Perkins & Will, has won a major fit-out competition for the University of the Arts London’s new building for London College of Communication at El...
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Education & Health
27 August 2020
The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park inclusive innovation district
As part of NLA's insight study, Knowledge Networks: London and the Ox-Cam Arc, Emma Frost, Director of Innovation, Sustainability and Community, LLDC and Michelle May, Director of Inclusive Growth, Ed...
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Education & Health
07 August 2020
Science, Tech and Innovation Expert Panel
The Science, Tech and Innovation Expert Panel met this week to discuss the key issues affecting the knowledge economy sector in the Golden Triangle, from the provision of labs and spaces for science t...
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Education & Health
09 July 2020
Higher education, High Streets, and high hopes for e-sports
Knowledge networks, revitalising our high streets and the potential power of e-sports – another busy week of webinars and Pecha Kuchas from the NLA stable, reviewed by David Taylor
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Education & Health
03 July 2020
Knowledge Networks project highlight: Here East
Here East, by Hawkins\Brown, is London’s campus for technology and innovation, located at the heart of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. It is home to a thriving community of start-ups, global...
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Education & Health
19 June 2020
Knowledge Networks Project highlight: White City Place
Stanhope worked closely with several major landowners to implement a shared vision for White City including quality homes, offices, new public spaces, an enhanced world-class shopping offer and a hub...
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Education & Health
11 June 2020
Government must speed up development to create a life sciences supercluster across Golden Triangle
NLA’s new report, Knowledge Networks: London and the Ox-Cam Arc,calls for the government to streamline planning to speed up development in the region and enable the creation of a U.S-style supercluste...
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Education & Health
21 May 2020
Collaborations in the time of Covid-19
As part of NLA's upcoming insight study ‘Knowledge Networks: London and the Ox-Cam Arc’ we are looking for stories of collaborations which have arisen in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Education & Health
03 April 2020
David Taylor interviews James Hepburn, Principal, Building Engineering Services, BDP and Paul Johnson, Architect Director, BDP about their role in constructing the NHS Nightingale Hospital in London a...
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Education & Health
25 March 2019
How do we deliver more and better quality schools for London?
That was the question posed to a special NLA Think Tank group of experts and practitioners who gathered at the offices of NBBJ. Shepheard Epstein Hunter director Ann...
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