Jan 15 2021

Canary Wharf Walking Tour

Join us on a Virtual Walking Tour of Canary Wharf, led by Blue Badge Guide, David Thompson.

Jan 14 2021

The social value of design

What is the impact of housing design and placemaking on social value and wellbeing in the pandemic? Flora Samuel is Professor at the University of Reading and a specialist on social value and research...

Housing

Jan 14 2021

Innovative French housing

The Paris-based practice of Hamonic+Masson has recently joined NLA, unphased by the implications of Brexit. Peter Murray asks co-founder Jean-Christophe Masson why they became members and about the in...

Housing

Jan 14 2021

Delivering affordable housing

This webinar focuses on the affordable homes being built that show best practice, demonstrating good design and providing safe, sustainable homes Londoners can be proud of.

Jan 08 2021

London’s recovery

It’s safest to assume that cities like London want to get back to how things were before – in a better way, suggests LSE Professor Tony Travers. He also discusses with Peter Murray the new book he has...

Jan 08 2021

England's Greatest Carver

2021 marks the 300th anniversary of Grinling Gibbons, England’s greatest carver and the inspiration for today’s craftsmen. Peter Murray talks to Hugh Wedderburn, the Secretary of the Master Carvers’ A...

Jan 08 2021

Poetry and pragmatism

Studio Egret West have won projects on major sites across London including Earl’s Court and Smithfield Market. David West talks about the masterplans – or ‘frameworks’ – for these areas and the practi...

NextGen

Dec 18 2020

NextGen Festive Networking

The NLA NextGen Christmas party is an event we all look forward to and in a year with so few opportunities for young professionals to come together and meet one another, we didn’t want to miss the cha...

Retail & Hospitality

Dec 18 2020

The new face of Regent Street

This NLA Breakfast Talk presented the plans to refresh Regent Street that are currently underway to improve this key historic street of the West End.

Dec 17 2020

London, Glasgow, Manchester – Becoming Truly Sustainable

A Civic Engineers event, hosted by NLA. Civic Engineers brought together speakers from the built environment and political landscape in Manchester, London and Glasgow.

Building Better

Dec 15 2020

Technical Competency Briefing: Building Safety Bill

This webinar brought together experts to the discuss the repercussions of the draft Building Safety Bill, published in July 2020, and what built environment professionals need to know to adapt to new...

Net Zero

Dec 11 2020

Projects in Practice: Zero Carbon London

The first seminar of the NLA series of Projects in Practice looked into the approaches of environmental design used to reduce carbon emissions. It explored two exemplar London projects that show best...