Housing

Nov 27 2020

Building more homes won’t bring prices down

Building more homes will do nothing to solve Britain’s housing affordability crisis, according Peter Bill, co-author of ‘Broken Homes – Britain’s Housing Crisis: Faults, Factoids and Fixes’. He and Ja...

Nov 27 2020

Practice profile: Formation Architects

Tim Quick, Director of Formation Architects, talks about the practice’s work on major residential schemes as well as hotels and offices.

Nov 27 2020

London will remain a focus for international business

Steven Skinner is UK CEO of HB Reavis which has a pipeline of over a million square feet of offices in Waterloo, Clerkenwell and Hackney. He tells Peter Murray he is confident that his global customer...

Tall Buildings

Nov 27 2020

Building the tallest modular tower in the world

Mike De’Ath, partner at HTA Design, recently published a report on MMC written with Mark Farmer based on the practice’s experience in delivering modular projects including the tallest modular tower in...

Wellbeing

Nov 25 2020

Wellbeing Wonders: designing happy healthy places

This webinar focuses on some of the outstanding shortlisted projects from the Wellbeing category of the New London Awards, that put physical and mental health at the heart of the design process.

New London Awards

Nov 25 2020

Surrey Docks Farm, The Mayor's Prize

Winner of The Mayor's Prize in the New London Awards 2020. A refurbishment and extension of a number of educational and office buildings for a city farm in Rotherhithe. Surrey Docks Farm is a working...

New London Awards

Nov 24 2020

Battersea Arts Centre, Community Town Hall

Winner of the Community Prize in the New London Awards 2020. Envisioned as an improvisatory collaboration with artists, theatre producers and locals, the client brief for Battersea Arts Centre was for...

New London Awards

Nov 23 2020

The Centre for Creative Learning

Winner of the Wellbeing Prize in the New London Awards 2020. The Centre for Creative Learning unlocks an overshadowed corner of the school to house a library and lush rooftop garden, carefully designe...

New London Awards

Nov 20 2020

Toynbee Hall Estate

Winner of the New London Awards 2020 Mixing category. A collaborative project for developer London Square and the charity Toynbee Hall creating a mixed-use scheme arranged around a pocket park and the...

New London Awards

Nov 20 2020

Queen’s Yard

Winner of the New London Awards 2020 Mixing Prize. Queen’s Yard is a residential-led mixed-use development in Hackney Wick, comprising 143 high-quality new homes, 4,500 m² flexible mixed-use workspace...

Net Zero

Nov 19 2020

Webinar - Retrofitting London’s homes: case studies of green finance solutions

This event was part of London Climate Action Week (LCAW) and brough together experts to present practical case studies showcasing financing solutions to retrofit residential stocks.

Net Zero

Nov 19 2020

‘COVID is bad, but climate change is something else’ – Sunand Prasad

New Chairman of the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) Sunand Prasad talks to Peter Murray about pro-green Government policies, Biden’s victory and COP26 next year.