• Patel Taylor unveils images for 54-storey Canary Wharf tower

    How the 54-storey towerwould look when built
    Architect Patel Taylor has unveiled images of what one of London’s tallest residential towers in Canary Wharf would look like.
    The 54-storey 77 Marsh Wall scheme is being developed by Areli Developments on behalf of British Airways Pension Trustees and would contain around 820 homes above a mixed-use podium which will include retail, restaurant and café space.
    It would be Canary Wharf’s third tallest tower if built, behind the 235m One Canada Square and 233m Landmark Pinnacle.
    The scheme would require the demolition of the site’s existing building, a 17-storey office block built in the early 1990s known as Sierra Quebec Bravo.

    The 77 Marsh Wall scheme would include restaurants and retail at ground floor level
    Areli said the existing building offers “very little in the way of benefits to the community” and that it wanted to maximise the “unique and exciting” potential of the waterfront site with new public spaces, shops and restaurants.
    The podium would contain around 4,000sq m of retail, leisure and workspace along with a cinema and cycle parking under early plans aired in a public consultation. Green space is also included in the plans which saw two public consultation events held last month.
    Homes in the tower above the podium would be of a mix of tenures including shared ownership, build to rent, social rent, apart-hotel and co-living.

    The site’s existing 17-storey office block would be demolished
    An environmental impact assessment scoping report has been drawn up by consultant Trium for to Tower Hamlets council with a planning application expected to be submitted later this summer.
    Other firms currently on the project team include planning consultant DP9 and communications firm Kanda Consulting.
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    Patel Taylor unveils images for 54-storey Canary Wharf tower
    How the 54-storey towerwould look when built Architect Patel Taylor has unveiled images of what one of London’s tallest residential towers in Canary Wharf would look like. The 54-storey 77 Marsh Wall scheme is being developed by Areli Developments on behalf of British Airways Pension Trustees and would contain around 820 homes above a mixed-use podium which will include retail, restaurant and café space. It would be Canary Wharf’s third tallest tower if built, behind the 235m One Canada Square and 233m Landmark Pinnacle. The scheme would require the demolition of the site’s existing building, a 17-storey office block built in the early 1990s known as Sierra Quebec Bravo. The 77 Marsh Wall scheme would include restaurants and retail at ground floor level Areli said the existing building offers “very little in the way of benefits to the community” and that it wanted to maximise the “unique and exciting” potential of the waterfront site with new public spaces, shops and restaurants. The podium would contain around 4,000sq m of retail, leisure and workspace along with a cinema and cycle parking under early plans aired in a public consultation. Green space is also included in the plans which saw two public consultation events held last month. Homes in the tower above the podium would be of a mix of tenures including shared ownership, build to rent, social rent, apart-hotel and co-living. The site’s existing 17-storey office block would be demolished An environmental impact assessment scoping report has been drawn up by consultant Trium for to Tower Hamlets council with a planning application expected to be submitted later this summer. Other firms currently on the project team include planning consultant DP9 and communications firm Kanda Consulting. #patel #taylor #unveils #images #54storey
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    Patel Taylor unveils images for 54-storey Canary Wharf tower
    How the 54-storey tower (centre) would look when built Architect Patel Taylor has unveiled images of what one of London’s tallest residential towers in Canary Wharf would look like. The 54-storey 77 Marsh Wall scheme is being developed by Areli Developments on behalf of British Airways Pension Trustees and would contain around 820 homes above a mixed-use podium which will include retail, restaurant and café space. It would be Canary Wharf’s third tallest tower if built, behind the 235m One Canada Square and 233m Landmark Pinnacle. The scheme would require the demolition of the site’s existing building, a 17-storey office block built in the early 1990s known as Sierra Quebec Bravo. The 77 Marsh Wall scheme would include restaurants and retail at ground floor level Areli said the existing building offers “very little in the way of benefits to the community” and that it wanted to maximise the “unique and exciting” potential of the waterfront site with new public spaces, shops and restaurants. The podium would contain around 4,000sq m of retail, leisure and workspace along with a cinema and cycle parking under early plans aired in a public consultation. Green space is also included in the plans which saw two public consultation events held last month. Homes in the tower above the podium would be of a mix of tenures including shared ownership, build to rent, social rent, apart-hotel and co-living. The site’s existing 17-storey office block would be demolished An environmental impact assessment scoping report has been drawn up by consultant Trium for to Tower Hamlets council with a planning application expected to be submitted later this summer. Other firms currently on the project team include planning consultant DP9 and communications firm Kanda Consulting.
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  • LGBTQ+ nightlife is going back to its counter-cultural roots

    Queerness and nightlife go hand in hand. Out of the mainstream. Underground and counter-cultural. Whether it’s the location, venue, organisers or crowd, they are always outside the norm. 
    Some, like new lesbian bar La Camionera in Hackney, east London, have been designed, built and crafted by queer hands – the same ones which will soon be shaking, stirring and drinking negronis on a brushed aluminium countertop, or raising a glass in the purpose-built seating areas.
    Source: Rachel FerrimanLa Camionera
    The reopening of the quietly elegant La Camionerafollows a months-long conversion of a temporary space led by its trans owner and a team of queer architects, contractors and trades. It is unique and stylish.  Advertisement

    But that’s not the only reason this tailored LGBTQ+ space stands out. Its mere existence sits against a background of queer venue closures because of an unholy trinity of rising costs, licensing issues and safety concerns. London, to take one city, has lost half of these safe spaces since 2006.
    Waves of redevelopment and gentrification have had their impact, too. One of the most famous victims was the wildly beloved Joiners Arms pub in Hackney Road in 2015. Never forgotten, attempts continue to resurrect this institution somewhere else in London’s East End a decade on.
    But can La Camionera pave the way for a design-led renaissance of after-hours ‘queerness’? One thing is for sure, there is a growing queer movement – architects included – to create safe, accessible LGBTQ+ spaces and define what that might look like.
    We’re going out, to find out.
    The state of play
    The Night Time Industries Associationrecently reported that 37 per cent of all night clubs across the UK have permanently shut since March 2020. That’s an average of three clubs a week, or 150 a year.Advertisement

    LGBTQ+ venues make up a considerable chunk of this. In the capital, between 2006 and 2022, Greater London Authority numbers show that 75 bars, clubs and LGBTQ+ pubs shut down – sometimes forever. 
    The list keeps growing. In the past 18 months, G-A-Y Late in Soho and The Glory in Haggerston have closed. Meanwhile, a third LGBTQ+ safe space, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, has been fighting closure on and off for years – though it seems the east London venue may finally have had a late reprieve. 
    Venue closures are happening elsewhere in the UK, too, with Birmingham losing the Village Inn, Glasgow losing Bonjour and Sheffield losing the Queer Junction nightclub. 
    Based on the current rate of club closures, the NTIA warns the UK could have no nightclubs of any kind by 2030. The pro-nighttime body blames the collapse partly on the long-term impact of the Covid pandemic. Once closed down and locked up, these unique spaces rarely re-emerge, eyed up by developers for larger gain. 
    And, while the NTIA data does not explain how many of these closures are LGBTQ+, the community is among the hardest-hit because queerness and nightlife are so intertwined. Or, as Olimpia Burchiellaro, a shareholder of the Friends of The Joiners Arms campaign, puts it: ‘Nighttime is queer time’. 
    A call toArms
    While The Joiners Arms, where reportedlyAlexander McQueen used to hang out, became one of the first LGBTQ+ venues to get protection in the planning system because of the sexual orientation of its users back in 2017, no on-site replacement has yet popped up on Hackney Road.
    Tower Hamlets Council had imposed a planning condition requiring any new development on The Joiners Arms site to include an LGBTQ+ venue. Developer Regal Homes had agreed to it. However, the proposed scheme that forced the closure has been delayed. No development, no new venue. 
    Burchiellaro tells the AJ that The Joiners Arms shows that LGBTQ+ spaces often act as ‘canaries in the coalmine’; a bellwether of the redevelopment cycle and of the state of the nighttime economy more generally. With little planning protection, they can be easily lost because they are often perceived as ‘unproductive’ uses in buildings ripe for replacement.
    Source: Friends of The Joiners ArmsFriends of The Joiners Arms protest outside the former pub
    ‘Gentrification and redevelopment are making it more and more difficult for communities who are not solely focused on profit, like queer spaces, to exist,’ argues Burchiellaro. ‘And, although queer clubs and bars have always been businesses, they’ve always been so much more than that.’
    In the meantime, the Friends of  The Joiners Arms campaign has put on ‘an itinerant, moving club night’ at other east London venues as an act of resistance against anti-LGBTQ+ gentrification and the demise of LGBTQ+ nightlife in the capital, according to Aska Welford, an architectural worker formerly with Karakusevic Carson Architects. Welford, who is leading on co-design for a future permanent home for The Joiners Arms campaign, adds: ‘Even without the physical space, without a permanent, fixed space, queer people continue to exist and have a good time and be together.’
    Safe and sound
    In Edinburgh, GRAS architect Kirsty Watt has also resorted to moving club nights, dubbed ‘Femmergy’, that turn the city’s historic urban fabric – including most recently a former biscuit factory – into a playground for femme-presenting members of the LGBTQ+ community, including trans people and afab women. Watt says: ‘In Edinburgh the queer nightlife scene particularly focused around cis gay men and so women, non-binary and trans people weren’t necessarily welcome in those spaces and that was the point of it, because there wasn’t really a space at all.’
    Source: Kirsty WattFemmergy club night
    While Femmergy has difficulties finding Edinburgh venues with level access and accessible toilets, the club nights have provided a safe space for people ‘to be inherently themselves and represent themselves in a way that they want to while still feeling safe’, says Watt. 
    Both accessibility and safety are central to Femmergy, and are what makes it queer, she tells the AJ, ‘because people need to feel like they have a representation within their urban space’. However, she admits that having level access and accessible toilets have ‘limited us in terms of what venues we can work with, particularly in Edinburgh, because so many of the buildings are historic’.
    Putting the pop in pop-up
    So, if permanent dedicated spaces don’t always exist, what about bringing the nuts-and-bolts of a party to the people instead? This is the concept behind the Mobile Dyke Bar, a travelling lesbian disco started by former Royal Academy Interior design student Lucy Nurnberg and her right-hand woman, Ali Wagner, as part of a wider project dubbed Uhaul Dyke Rescue, a series of design-led club nights. The Mobile Dyke Bar is made of prefabricated parts which ‘slot’ into rental vans, which Nurnberg suggests is a tongue-in-cheek response to hyper-masculine removal van culture as much as it is a declaration of space for lesbians when there is barely any. 
    Its next stop is Mighty Hoopla, a pop festival in south London, later this month – the Mobile Dyke Bar’s second outing at the LGBTQ+ friendly event. 
    Source: Courteney FrisbyThe Mobile Dyke Bar at Mighty Hoopla in 2024
    ‘The idea was that this would be a friendly space, but also about taking space for ourselves and being like, “Look, we need a bit of a dedicated corner here”,’ explains Nurnberg, whose Uhaul Dyke Rescue service was a reaction to ‘queer spaces in London generally declining, especially lesbian spaces’.
    Nurnberg adds that her interior design course informed Uhaul’s philosophy, ‘which is a bit secret and underground’ and had to be done on the cheap. It also looks at temporary structures as queer structures. 
    ‘We had a scaffold structure on the dance floor for our first night because I know that dykes love to flex muscle,’ Nurnberg explains, ‘But I also wanted to make it for anybody more femme presenting, and for anybody wanting to look a bit sexy, so we put a swing on the structure and people loved it.’
    Why architects should design the night
    CAKE, a Dalston, east London-based practice, which was behind the Agnes stage at Rally festival in south London last year, has experience on an even bigger scale of delivering for a queer crowd. 
    The Layher scaffolding and translucent fibreglass-clad structure was designed to flip to become ‘The Strap’ at Body Movements – a queer festival the following day. That’s when the versatility of the modular structure’s raised platforms, floating walls, and one central dance floor all came into action – bringing the audience, artist and stage together. ‘For both days, depending on the music, it was a completely different environment,’ says CAKE architect Emiliano Zavala. ‘At  Body Movements people were dancing up on terraces and the whole thing was inhabited, and for Rally, the crowd was low and spread out, with the stage a kind of undercroft. The difference was really interesting.’
    Source: Rory GaylorAgnes by CAKE Architecture
    Why did CAKE take on the challenge? Hugh Scott Moncrieff, creative director, says it ‘wasn’t the idea of making money’ but the opportunity to make creative architecture that reflects music, rhythm and sound, as well as context.
    Agnes, or The Strap, was possible because CAKE had proven to festival organisers with an earlier Rally stage that you could ‘spend a tiny bit of money on design work’ and win against standard fabrication teams ‘who weren’t coming at it from an architectural lens’, Scott Moncrieff adds. Agnes could be getting an upgrade for this year’s August bank holiday festivals. The structure also won the people’s choice award at last month’s AJ Small Projects. A sign of better-designed nights out to come?
    The future is niche – and lesbian
    If the Mobile Dyke Bar and Agnes could be the future of festivals and club nights, is La Camionera the future of LGBTQ+ nighttime spaces more broadly? A well-polished, honed product for a community crying out for something decent designed especially for them? 
    Daniel Pope, of newly established design studio and architects Popelo, which worked on La Camionera, says the bar is special because the result is super-niche. Certainly, there is no underfoot nastiness, peeling paint or unwanted design features common to many of the old underground venues. Yet this is queer through and through. 
    ’There’s not really many queer spaces where you can get a really beautiful drink in a nice glass, where the floor isn’t sticky,’ says Pope. ‘And with funding being so difficult, often queer spaces can feel quite DIY and quite shabby, perhaps not thought-through. With La Camionera, we really tried to make it feel high-end. So we focused the budget on specific areas, like the bespoke bench seat and polished aluminium bar; it feels quite luxe.’
    Source: Rachel FerrimanLa Camionera interior by Popelo and WET Studio
    Those additions, Pope admits, had to be costed in and compensated for elsewhere. Making decisions like these is part of the ‘burden’ on queer architects delivering queer spaces – often pro bono or for a reduced fee. But designing with care and enthusiasm, and, crucially, with first-hand experience of being part of the community.
    As Pope says: ‘While I can’t talk for lesbians and there’s loads of spaces for gay men in London, I know that having a lesbian space that felt really sexy was key for La Camionera.
    The architect, who worked alongside LGBTQ+ set design firm Wet Studio on the job, argues that La Camionera’s queer energy was brought by that very queer team of ‘builders and makers who know how you want to feel in a space as a queer person’. On that basis, bespoke queer design for clubs, bars and music experiences in general could be the way forward – and a challenge to the troubles of the wider nighttime economy and a lack of LGBTQ+ representation in permanent spaces.
    He adds: ‘Talking from experience, when I was not out, I would go to events and never felt like I enjoyed it. It wasn’t until I started making queer friends and we would go to queer venues that you could be yourself and connect with other people in a really magnetic way.’

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    LGBTQ+ nightlife is going back to its counter-cultural roots
    Queerness and nightlife go hand in hand. Out of the mainstream. Underground and counter-cultural. Whether it’s the location, venue, organisers or crowd, they are always outside the norm.  Some, like new lesbian bar La Camionera in Hackney, east London, have been designed, built and crafted by queer hands – the same ones which will soon be shaking, stirring and drinking negronis on a brushed aluminium countertop, or raising a glass in the purpose-built seating areas. Source: Rachel FerrimanLa Camionera The reopening of the quietly elegant La Camionerafollows a months-long conversion of a temporary space led by its trans owner and a team of queer architects, contractors and trades. It is unique and stylish.  Advertisement But that’s not the only reason this tailored LGBTQ+ space stands out. Its mere existence sits against a background of queer venue closures because of an unholy trinity of rising costs, licensing issues and safety concerns. London, to take one city, has lost half of these safe spaces since 2006. Waves of redevelopment and gentrification have had their impact, too. One of the most famous victims was the wildly beloved Joiners Arms pub in Hackney Road in 2015. Never forgotten, attempts continue to resurrect this institution somewhere else in London’s East End a decade on. But can La Camionera pave the way for a design-led renaissance of after-hours ‘queerness’? One thing is for sure, there is a growing queer movement – architects included – to create safe, accessible LGBTQ+ spaces and define what that might look like. We’re going out, to find out. The state of play The Night Time Industries Associationrecently reported that 37 per cent of all night clubs across the UK have permanently shut since March 2020. That’s an average of three clubs a week, or 150 a year.Advertisement LGBTQ+ venues make up a considerable chunk of this. In the capital, between 2006 and 2022, Greater London Authority numbers show that 75 bars, clubs and LGBTQ+ pubs shut down – sometimes forever.  The list keeps growing. In the past 18 months, G-A-Y Late in Soho and The Glory in Haggerston have closed. Meanwhile, a third LGBTQ+ safe space, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, has been fighting closure on and off for years – though it seems the east London venue may finally have had a late reprieve.  Venue closures are happening elsewhere in the UK, too, with Birmingham losing the Village Inn, Glasgow losing Bonjour and Sheffield losing the Queer Junction nightclub.  Based on the current rate of club closures, the NTIA warns the UK could have no nightclubs of any kind by 2030. The pro-nighttime body blames the collapse partly on the long-term impact of the Covid pandemic. Once closed down and locked up, these unique spaces rarely re-emerge, eyed up by developers for larger gain.  And, while the NTIA data does not explain how many of these closures are LGBTQ+, the community is among the hardest-hit because queerness and nightlife are so intertwined. Or, as Olimpia Burchiellaro, a shareholder of the Friends of The Joiners Arms campaign, puts it: ‘Nighttime is queer time’.  A call toArms While The Joiners Arms, where reportedlyAlexander McQueen used to hang out, became one of the first LGBTQ+ venues to get protection in the planning system because of the sexual orientation of its users back in 2017, no on-site replacement has yet popped up on Hackney Road. Tower Hamlets Council had imposed a planning condition requiring any new development on The Joiners Arms site to include an LGBTQ+ venue. Developer Regal Homes had agreed to it. However, the proposed scheme that forced the closure has been delayed. No development, no new venue.  Burchiellaro tells the AJ that The Joiners Arms shows that LGBTQ+ spaces often act as ‘canaries in the coalmine’; a bellwether of the redevelopment cycle and of the state of the nighttime economy more generally. With little planning protection, they can be easily lost because they are often perceived as ‘unproductive’ uses in buildings ripe for replacement. Source: Friends of The Joiners ArmsFriends of The Joiners Arms protest outside the former pub ‘Gentrification and redevelopment are making it more and more difficult for communities who are not solely focused on profit, like queer spaces, to exist,’ argues Burchiellaro. ‘And, although queer clubs and bars have always been businesses, they’ve always been so much more than that.’ In the meantime, the Friends of  The Joiners Arms campaign has put on ‘an itinerant, moving club night’ at other east London venues as an act of resistance against anti-LGBTQ+ gentrification and the demise of LGBTQ+ nightlife in the capital, according to Aska Welford, an architectural worker formerly with Karakusevic Carson Architects. Welford, who is leading on co-design for a future permanent home for The Joiners Arms campaign, adds: ‘Even without the physical space, without a permanent, fixed space, queer people continue to exist and have a good time and be together.’ Safe and sound In Edinburgh, GRAS architect Kirsty Watt has also resorted to moving club nights, dubbed ‘Femmergy’, that turn the city’s historic urban fabric – including most recently a former biscuit factory – into a playground for femme-presenting members of the LGBTQ+ community, including trans people and afab women. Watt says: ‘In Edinburgh the queer nightlife scene particularly focused around cis gay men and so women, non-binary and trans people weren’t necessarily welcome in those spaces and that was the point of it, because there wasn’t really a space at all.’ Source: Kirsty WattFemmergy club night While Femmergy has difficulties finding Edinburgh venues with level access and accessible toilets, the club nights have provided a safe space for people ‘to be inherently themselves and represent themselves in a way that they want to while still feeling safe’, says Watt.  Both accessibility and safety are central to Femmergy, and are what makes it queer, she tells the AJ, ‘because people need to feel like they have a representation within their urban space’. However, she admits that having level access and accessible toilets have ‘limited us in terms of what venues we can work with, particularly in Edinburgh, because so many of the buildings are historic’. Putting the pop in pop-up So, if permanent dedicated spaces don’t always exist, what about bringing the nuts-and-bolts of a party to the people instead? This is the concept behind the Mobile Dyke Bar, a travelling lesbian disco started by former Royal Academy Interior design student Lucy Nurnberg and her right-hand woman, Ali Wagner, as part of a wider project dubbed Uhaul Dyke Rescue, a series of design-led club nights. The Mobile Dyke Bar is made of prefabricated parts which ‘slot’ into rental vans, which Nurnberg suggests is a tongue-in-cheek response to hyper-masculine removal van culture as much as it is a declaration of space for lesbians when there is barely any.  Its next stop is Mighty Hoopla, a pop festival in south London, later this month – the Mobile Dyke Bar’s second outing at the LGBTQ+ friendly event.  Source: Courteney FrisbyThe Mobile Dyke Bar at Mighty Hoopla in 2024 ‘The idea was that this would be a friendly space, but also about taking space for ourselves and being like, “Look, we need a bit of a dedicated corner here”,’ explains Nurnberg, whose Uhaul Dyke Rescue service was a reaction to ‘queer spaces in London generally declining, especially lesbian spaces’. Nurnberg adds that her interior design course informed Uhaul’s philosophy, ‘which is a bit secret and underground’ and had to be done on the cheap. It also looks at temporary structures as queer structures.  ‘We had a scaffold structure on the dance floor for our first night because I know that dykes love to flex muscle,’ Nurnberg explains, ‘But I also wanted to make it for anybody more femme presenting, and for anybody wanting to look a bit sexy, so we put a swing on the structure and people loved it.’ Why architects should design the night CAKE, a Dalston, east London-based practice, which was behind the Agnes stage at Rally festival in south London last year, has experience on an even bigger scale of delivering for a queer crowd.  The Layher scaffolding and translucent fibreglass-clad structure was designed to flip to become ‘The Strap’ at Body Movements – a queer festival the following day. That’s when the versatility of the modular structure’s raised platforms, floating walls, and one central dance floor all came into action – bringing the audience, artist and stage together. ‘For both days, depending on the music, it was a completely different environment,’ says CAKE architect Emiliano Zavala. ‘At  Body Movements people were dancing up on terraces and the whole thing was inhabited, and for Rally, the crowd was low and spread out, with the stage a kind of undercroft. The difference was really interesting.’ Source: Rory GaylorAgnes by CAKE Architecture Why did CAKE take on the challenge? Hugh Scott Moncrieff, creative director, says it ‘wasn’t the idea of making money’ but the opportunity to make creative architecture that reflects music, rhythm and sound, as well as context. Agnes, or The Strap, was possible because CAKE had proven to festival organisers with an earlier Rally stage that you could ‘spend a tiny bit of money on design work’ and win against standard fabrication teams ‘who weren’t coming at it from an architectural lens’, Scott Moncrieff adds. Agnes could be getting an upgrade for this year’s August bank holiday festivals. The structure also won the people’s choice award at last month’s AJ Small Projects. A sign of better-designed nights out to come? The future is niche – and lesbian If the Mobile Dyke Bar and Agnes could be the future of festivals and club nights, is La Camionera the future of LGBTQ+ nighttime spaces more broadly? A well-polished, honed product for a community crying out for something decent designed especially for them?  Daniel Pope, of newly established design studio and architects Popelo, which worked on La Camionera, says the bar is special because the result is super-niche. Certainly, there is no underfoot nastiness, peeling paint or unwanted design features common to many of the old underground venues. Yet this is queer through and through.  ’There’s not really many queer spaces where you can get a really beautiful drink in a nice glass, where the floor isn’t sticky,’ says Pope. ‘And with funding being so difficult, often queer spaces can feel quite DIY and quite shabby, perhaps not thought-through. With La Camionera, we really tried to make it feel high-end. So we focused the budget on specific areas, like the bespoke bench seat and polished aluminium bar; it feels quite luxe.’ Source: Rachel FerrimanLa Camionera interior by Popelo and WET Studio Those additions, Pope admits, had to be costed in and compensated for elsewhere. Making decisions like these is part of the ‘burden’ on queer architects delivering queer spaces – often pro bono or for a reduced fee. But designing with care and enthusiasm, and, crucially, with first-hand experience of being part of the community. As Pope says: ‘While I can’t talk for lesbians and there’s loads of spaces for gay men in London, I know that having a lesbian space that felt really sexy was key for La Camionera. The architect, who worked alongside LGBTQ+ set design firm Wet Studio on the job, argues that La Camionera’s queer energy was brought by that very queer team of ‘builders and makers who know how you want to feel in a space as a queer person’. On that basis, bespoke queer design for clubs, bars and music experiences in general could be the way forward – and a challenge to the troubles of the wider nighttime economy and a lack of LGBTQ+ representation in permanent spaces. He adds: ‘Talking from experience, when I was not out, I would go to events and never felt like I enjoyed it. It wasn’t until I started making queer friends and we would go to queer venues that you could be yourself and connect with other people in a really magnetic way.’ queer architecture 2025-05-22 Gino Spocchia comment and share Tagsqueer architecture #lgbtq #nightlife #going #back #its
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    LGBTQ+ nightlife is going back to its counter-cultural roots
    Queerness and nightlife go hand in hand. Out of the mainstream. Underground and counter-cultural. Whether it’s the location, venue, organisers or crowd, they are always outside the norm.  Some, like new lesbian bar La Camionera in Hackney, east London, have been designed, built and crafted by queer hands – the same ones which will soon be shaking, stirring and drinking negronis on a brushed aluminium countertop, or raising a glass in the purpose-built seating areas. Source: Rachel FerrimanLa Camionera The reopening of the quietly elegant La Camionera (Spanish for ‘female trucker’ and slang for butch lesbian) follows a months-long conversion of a temporary space led by its trans owner and a team of queer architects, contractors and trades. It is unique and stylish.  Advertisement But that’s not the only reason this tailored LGBTQ+ space stands out. Its mere existence sits against a background of queer venue closures because of an unholy trinity of rising costs, licensing issues and safety concerns. London, to take one city, has lost half of these safe spaces since 2006. Waves of redevelopment and gentrification have had their impact, too. One of the most famous victims was the wildly beloved Joiners Arms pub in Hackney Road in 2015. Never forgotten, attempts continue to resurrect this institution somewhere else in London’s East End a decade on. But can La Camionera pave the way for a design-led renaissance of after-hours ‘queerness’? One thing is for sure, there is a growing queer movement – architects included – to create safe, accessible LGBTQ+ spaces and define what that might look like. We’re going out (OUT), to find out. The state of play The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) recently reported that 37 per cent of all night clubs across the UK have permanently shut since March 2020. That’s an average of three clubs a week, or 150 a year.Advertisement LGBTQ+ venues make up a considerable chunk of this. In the capital, between 2006 and 2022, Greater London Authority numbers show that 75 bars, clubs and LGBTQ+ pubs shut down – sometimes forever.  The list keeps growing. In the past 18 months, G-A-Y Late in Soho and The Glory in Haggerston have closed. Meanwhile, a third LGBTQ+ safe space, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, has been fighting closure on and off for years – though it seems the east London venue may finally have had a late reprieve.  Venue closures are happening elsewhere in the UK, too, with Birmingham losing the Village Inn, Glasgow losing Bonjour and Sheffield losing the Queer Junction nightclub.  Based on the current rate of club closures, the NTIA warns the UK could have no nightclubs of any kind by 2030. The pro-nighttime body blames the collapse partly on the long-term impact of the Covid pandemic. Once closed down and locked up, these unique spaces rarely re-emerge, eyed up by developers for larger gain.  And, while the NTIA data does not explain how many of these closures are LGBTQ+, the community is among the hardest-hit because queerness and nightlife are so intertwined. Or, as Olimpia Burchiellaro, a shareholder of the Friends of The Joiners Arms campaign, puts it: ‘Nighttime is queer time’.  A call to (Joiners) Arms While The Joiners Arms, where reportedlyAlexander McQueen used to hang out, became one of the first LGBTQ+ venues to get protection in the planning system because of the sexual orientation of its users back in 2017, no on-site replacement has yet popped up on Hackney Road. Tower Hamlets Council had imposed a planning condition requiring any new development on The Joiners Arms site to include an LGBTQ+ venue. Developer Regal Homes had agreed to it. However, the proposed scheme that forced the closure has been delayed. No development, no new venue.  Burchiellaro tells the AJ that The Joiners Arms shows that LGBTQ+ spaces often act as ‘canaries in the coalmine’; a bellwether of the redevelopment cycle and of the state of the nighttime economy more generally. With little planning protection, they can be easily lost because they are often perceived as ‘unproductive’ uses in buildings ripe for replacement. Source: Friends of The Joiners ArmsFriends of The Joiners Arms protest outside the former pub ‘Gentrification and redevelopment are making it more and more difficult for communities who are not solely focused on profit, like queer spaces, to exist,’ argues Burchiellaro. ‘And, although queer clubs and bars have always been businesses, they’ve always been so much more than that.’ In the meantime, the Friends of  The Joiners Arms campaign has put on ‘an itinerant, moving club night’ at other east London venues as an act of resistance against anti-LGBTQ+ gentrification and the demise of LGBTQ+ nightlife in the capital, according to Aska Welford, an architectural worker formerly with Karakusevic Carson Architects. Welford, who is leading on co-design for a future permanent home for The Joiners Arms campaign, adds: ‘Even without the physical space, without a permanent, fixed space, queer people continue to exist and have a good time and be together.’ Safe and sound In Edinburgh, GRAS architect Kirsty Watt has also resorted to moving club nights, dubbed ‘Femmergy’, that turn the city’s historic urban fabric – including most recently a former biscuit factory – into a playground for femme-presenting members of the LGBTQ+ community, including trans people and afab women. Watt says: ‘In Edinburgh the queer nightlife scene particularly focused around cis gay men and so women, non-binary and trans people weren’t necessarily welcome in those spaces and that was the point of it, because there wasn’t really a space at all.’ Source: Kirsty WattFemmergy club night While Femmergy has difficulties finding Edinburgh venues with level access and accessible toilets, the club nights have provided a safe space for people ‘to be inherently themselves and represent themselves in a way that they want to while still feeling safe’, says Watt.  Both accessibility and safety are central to Femmergy, and are what makes it queer, she tells the AJ, ‘because people need to feel like they have a representation within their urban space’. However, she admits that having level access and accessible toilets have ‘limited us in terms of what venues we can work with, particularly in Edinburgh, because so many of the buildings are historic’. Putting the pop in pop-up So, if permanent dedicated spaces don’t always exist, what about bringing the nuts-and-bolts of a party to the people instead? This is the concept behind the Mobile Dyke Bar, a travelling lesbian disco started by former Royal Academy Interior design student Lucy Nurnberg and her right-hand woman, Ali Wagner, as part of a wider project dubbed Uhaul Dyke Rescue, a series of design-led club nights. The Mobile Dyke Bar is made of prefabricated parts which ‘slot’ into rental vans, which Nurnberg suggests is a tongue-in-cheek response to hyper-masculine removal van culture as much as it is a declaration of space for lesbians when there is barely any.  Its next stop is Mighty Hoopla, a pop festival in south London, later this month – the Mobile Dyke Bar’s second outing at the LGBTQ+ friendly event.  Source: Courteney FrisbyThe Mobile Dyke Bar at Mighty Hoopla in 2024 ‘The idea was that this would be a friendly space, but also about taking space for ourselves and being like, “Look, we need a bit of a dedicated corner here”,’ explains Nurnberg, whose Uhaul Dyke Rescue service was a reaction to ‘queer spaces in London generally declining, especially lesbian spaces’. Nurnberg adds that her interior design course informed Uhaul’s philosophy, ‘which is a bit secret and underground’ and had to be done on the cheap. It also looks at temporary structures as queer structures.  ‘We had a scaffold structure on the dance floor for our first night because I know that dykes love to flex muscle,’ Nurnberg explains, ‘But I also wanted to make it for anybody more femme presenting, and for anybody wanting to look a bit sexy, so we put a swing on the structure and people loved it.’ Why architects should design the night CAKE, a Dalston, east London-based practice, which was behind the Agnes stage at Rally festival in south London last year, has experience on an even bigger scale of delivering for a queer crowd.  The Layher scaffolding and translucent fibreglass-clad structure was designed to flip to become ‘The Strap’ at Body Movements – a queer festival the following day. That’s when the versatility of the modular structure’s raised platforms, floating walls, and one central dance floor all came into action – bringing the audience, artist and stage together. ‘For both days, depending on the music, it was a completely different environment,’ says CAKE architect Emiliano Zavala. ‘At  Body Movements people were dancing up on terraces and the whole thing was inhabited, and for Rally, the crowd was low and spread out, with the stage a kind of undercroft. The difference was really interesting.’ Source: Rory GaylorAgnes by CAKE Architecture Why did CAKE take on the challenge? Hugh Scott Moncrieff, creative director, says it ‘wasn’t the idea of making money’ but the opportunity to make creative architecture that reflects music, rhythm and sound, as well as context. Agnes, or The Strap, was possible because CAKE had proven to festival organisers with an earlier Rally stage that you could ‘spend a tiny bit of money on design work’ and win against standard fabrication teams ‘who weren’t coming at it from an architectural lens’, Scott Moncrieff adds. Agnes could be getting an upgrade for this year’s August bank holiday festivals. The structure also won the people’s choice award at last month’s AJ Small Projects. A sign of better-designed nights out to come? The future is niche – and lesbian If the Mobile Dyke Bar and Agnes could be the future of festivals and club nights, is La Camionera the future of LGBTQ+ nighttime spaces more broadly? A well-polished, honed product for a community crying out for something decent designed especially for them?  Daniel Pope, of newly established design studio and architects Popelo, which worked on La Camionera, says the bar is special because the result is super-niche. Certainly, there is no underfoot nastiness, peeling paint or unwanted design features common to many of the old underground venues. Yet this is queer through and through.  ’There’s not really many queer spaces where you can get a really beautiful drink in a nice glass, where the floor isn’t sticky,’ says Pope. ‘And with funding being so difficult, often queer spaces can feel quite DIY and quite shabby, perhaps not thought-through. With La Camionera, we really tried to make it feel high-end. So we focused the budget on specific areas, like the bespoke bench seat and polished aluminium bar; it feels quite luxe.’ Source: Rachel FerrimanLa Camionera interior by Popelo and WET Studio Those additions, Pope admits, had to be costed in and compensated for elsewhere. Making decisions like these is part of the ‘burden’ on queer architects delivering queer spaces – often pro bono or for a reduced fee. But designing with care and enthusiasm, and, crucially, with first-hand experience of being part of the community. As Pope says: ‘While I can’t talk for lesbians and there’s loads of spaces for gay men in London, I know that having a lesbian space that felt really sexy was key for La Camionera. The architect, who worked alongside LGBTQ+ set design firm Wet Studio on the job, argues that La Camionera’s queer energy was brought by that very queer team of ‘builders and makers who know how you want to feel in a space as a queer person’. On that basis, bespoke queer design for clubs, bars and music experiences in general could be the way forward – and a challenge to the troubles of the wider nighttime economy and a lack of LGBTQ+ representation in permanent spaces. He adds: ‘Talking from experience, when I was not out, I would go to events and never felt like I enjoyed it. It wasn’t until I started making queer friends and we would go to queer venues that you could be yourself and connect with other people in a really magnetic way.’ queer architecture 2025-05-22 Gino Spocchia comment and share Tagsqueer architecture
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  • Smith Young Architects’ ‘modern suburban family home’ named RIBA North West Building of the Year 2025

    Other winners include projects by OMA, Sheppard Robson and Cullinan Studio

    Vestige by Smith Young ArchitectsSource: Daniel Hopkinson

    Vestige by Smith Young ArchitectsSource: Daniel Hopkinson

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    Vestige, a house in Cheshire designed by Smith Young Architects, has been named RIBA North West Building of the Year 2025.
    The two-storey home comprises a rendered ground floor with a timber-clad upper volume and seeks to offer a contemporary reinterpretation of the suburban house. The jury praised the design as an “exemplary prototype for a modern suburban family home” that “delightwith clever details”.

    Source: Marco CappellettiOMA’s Aviva Studios, also known as Factory International
    OMA’s Aviva Studios, also known as Factory International, received a regional award for its multipurpose cultural venue in Manchester. The project features a large, flexible internal volume intended to accommodate a range of performances and public events.

    Source: Paul RafteryThe Catkin Centre and Sunflower House by Cullinan Studio with 10architect
    The Catkin Centre and Sunflower House by Cullinan Studio with 10architect was also recognised. Located in Liverpool, the project combines a children’s mental health outpatient facility and clinical spaces for Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
    The design includes calm circulation areas, clinical zones and social spaces and was also the recipient of RIBA North West Client of the Year, awarded to Alder Hey.

    Source: Jack HobhouseThe School of Science, Engineering and Environment at the University of Salford by Sheppard Robson
    A fourth award was given to The School of Science, Engineering and Environment at the University of Salford by Sheppard Robson. The building houses technical laboratories and specialist teaching facilities alongside flexible learning environments and informal study areas.
    Project architect Matthew Taylor received RIBA North West Project Architect of the Year for his role in delivering the scheme.
    In a statement, jury chair Dominic Wilkinson, principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, said the projects represented “a diverse example of the positive impact architecture can have on the lives of its users” and “demonstrate a positive future for architecture in the region”.
    Regional award winners will now be considered for a RIBA National Award, which will be announced on 10 July. 
    The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s building of the year will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning projects later in the year.

    >> Also read: AHMM’s Tower Hamlets Town Hall wins RIBA London Building of the Year
    >> Also read: RIBA names winners of Yorkshire and South West awards
    #smith #young #architects #modern #suburban
    Smith Young Architects’ ‘modern suburban family home’ named RIBA North West Building of the Year 2025
    Other winners include projects by OMA, Sheppard Robson and Cullinan Studio Vestige by Smith Young ArchitectsSource: Daniel Hopkinson Vestige by Smith Young ArchitectsSource: Daniel Hopkinson Vestige by Smith Young ArchitectsSource: Daniel Hopkinson 1/3 show caption Vestige, a house in Cheshire designed by Smith Young Architects, has been named RIBA North West Building of the Year 2025. The two-storey home comprises a rendered ground floor with a timber-clad upper volume and seeks to offer a contemporary reinterpretation of the suburban house. The jury praised the design as an “exemplary prototype for a modern suburban family home” that “delightwith clever details”. Source: Marco CappellettiOMA’s Aviva Studios, also known as Factory International OMA’s Aviva Studios, also known as Factory International, received a regional award for its multipurpose cultural venue in Manchester. The project features a large, flexible internal volume intended to accommodate a range of performances and public events. Source: Paul RafteryThe Catkin Centre and Sunflower House by Cullinan Studio with 10architect The Catkin Centre and Sunflower House by Cullinan Studio with 10architect was also recognised. Located in Liverpool, the project combines a children’s mental health outpatient facility and clinical spaces for Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. The design includes calm circulation areas, clinical zones and social spaces and was also the recipient of RIBA North West Client of the Year, awarded to Alder Hey. Source: Jack HobhouseThe School of Science, Engineering and Environment at the University of Salford by Sheppard Robson A fourth award was given to The School of Science, Engineering and Environment at the University of Salford by Sheppard Robson. The building houses technical laboratories and specialist teaching facilities alongside flexible learning environments and informal study areas. Project architect Matthew Taylor received RIBA North West Project Architect of the Year for his role in delivering the scheme. In a statement, jury chair Dominic Wilkinson, principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, said the projects represented “a diverse example of the positive impact architecture can have on the lives of its users” and “demonstrate a positive future for architecture in the region”. Regional award winners will now be considered for a RIBA National Award, which will be announced on 10 July.  The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s building of the year will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning projects later in the year. >> Also read: AHMM’s Tower Hamlets Town Hall wins RIBA London Building of the Year >> Also read: RIBA names winners of Yorkshire and South West awards #smith #young #architects #modern #suburban
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    Smith Young Architects’ ‘modern suburban family home’ named RIBA North West Building of the Year 2025
    Other winners include projects by OMA, Sheppard Robson and Cullinan Studio Vestige by Smith Young ArchitectsSource: Daniel Hopkinson Vestige by Smith Young ArchitectsSource: Daniel Hopkinson Vestige by Smith Young ArchitectsSource: Daniel Hopkinson 1/3 show caption Vestige, a house in Cheshire designed by Smith Young Architects, has been named RIBA North West Building of the Year 2025. The two-storey home comprises a rendered ground floor with a timber-clad upper volume and seeks to offer a contemporary reinterpretation of the suburban house. The jury praised the design as an “exemplary prototype for a modern suburban family home” that “delight[s] with clever details”. Source: Marco CappellettiOMA’s Aviva Studios, also known as Factory International OMA’s Aviva Studios, also known as Factory International, received a regional award for its multipurpose cultural venue in Manchester. The project features a large, flexible internal volume intended to accommodate a range of performances and public events. Source: Paul RafteryThe Catkin Centre and Sunflower House by Cullinan Studio with 10architect The Catkin Centre and Sunflower House by Cullinan Studio with 10architect was also recognised. Located in Liverpool, the project combines a children’s mental health outpatient facility and clinical spaces for Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. The design includes calm circulation areas, clinical zones and social spaces and was also the recipient of RIBA North West Client of the Year, awarded to Alder Hey. Source: Jack HobhouseThe School of Science, Engineering and Environment at the University of Salford by Sheppard Robson A fourth award was given to The School of Science, Engineering and Environment at the University of Salford by Sheppard Robson. The building houses technical laboratories and specialist teaching facilities alongside flexible learning environments and informal study areas. Project architect Matthew Taylor received RIBA North West Project Architect of the Year for his role in delivering the scheme. In a statement, jury chair Dominic Wilkinson, principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, said the projects represented “a diverse example of the positive impact architecture can have on the lives of its users” and “demonstrate a positive future for architecture in the region”. Regional award winners will now be considered for a RIBA National Award, which will be announced on 10 July.  The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s building of the year will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning projects later in the year. >> Also read: AHMM’s Tower Hamlets Town Hall wins RIBA London Building of the Year >> Also read: RIBA names winners of Yorkshire and South West awards
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  • Hugh Broughton Architects’ Sheerness Dockyard Church wins RIBA South East Building of the Year

    Other buildings recognised include schemes by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Tim Ronalds Architects, Artefact, Kaner Olette Architects and Liddicoat & Goldhill

    Sheerness Dockyard Church by Hugh Broughton ArchitectsSource: Dirk Lindner

    Hugh Broughton Architects' Sheerness Dockyard ChurchSource: Dirk Lindner

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    The RIBA has announced the eight winners of the 2025 South East Awards, including residential, educational and cultural buildings across Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
    Among the winners is Sheerness Dockyard Church by Hugh Broughton Architects, which was also named RIBA South East Building of the Year. The project involved the restoration and adaptation of a Grade II* listed church damaged by fire in 2001, and was recognised by the jury for its transformation into a new community facility.
    It also received the Conservation Award and Project Architect of the Year. The jury noted that the scheme had been “exquisitely restored and transformed” and praised the design team for demonstrating that “a historic building in an extreme state of decay can have a very good future”.
    The Brighton Dome Corn Exchange and Studio Theatre by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios was awarded both a regional award and RIBA South East Client of the Year for Brighton and Hove city council. The project involved the careful reconfiguration of two listed performance venues to create new arts spaces in the city’s cultural quarter.

    Bury Gate Farm by Sandy Rendel ArchitectsSource: Ståle Eriksen

    The Spencer Building, by Tim Ronalds ArchitectsSource: Jim Stephenson

    Brighton Dome Corn Exchange & Studio TheatreSource: Richard Chivers

    Hastings House by Hugh Strange ArchitectsSource: Rory Gaylor

    Knepp Wilding Kitchen and Shop by Kaner Olette ArchitectsSource: Richard Chivers

    Triangle House by ArtefactSource: Lorenzo Zandri

    Sea, Sky House by Liddicoat & GoldhillSource: Sam Grady

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    Other winners include Triangle House by Artefact, a small-scale extension to a 1950s home in Surrey, and Knepp Wilding Kitchen and Shop by Kaner Olette Architects, which adapted a set of farm buildings to serve a 3,500-acre rewilding estate in West Sussex.
    The Spencer Building, a new low-carbon timber school building by Tim Ronalds Architects, received an award for its efficient use of space and daylight. Hastings House by Hugh Strange Architects, Sea, Sky House by Liddicoat & Goldhill, and Bury Gate Farm by Sandy Rendel Architects were all acknowledged for their residential design, materials handling and responses to their respective sites.
    In a statement, jury chair Lisa Shell said the region’s winning projects represented “a heartening direction in sustainable development within a region typically celebrated for new houses”, adding that “the majority involve the inventive re-use and conservation of existing structures”.
    Regional award winners will now be considered for a RIBA National Award, which will be announced on 10 July. 
    The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s building of the year will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning projects later in the year.

    >> Also read: AHMM’s Tower Hamlets Town Hall wins RIBA London Building of the Year
    >> Also read: Let Queen Elizabeth II’s memorial serve the whole nation
    #hugh #broughton #architects #sheerness #dockyard
    Hugh Broughton Architects’ Sheerness Dockyard Church wins RIBA South East Building of the Year
    Other buildings recognised include schemes by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Tim Ronalds Architects, Artefact, Kaner Olette Architects and Liddicoat & Goldhill Sheerness Dockyard Church by Hugh Broughton ArchitectsSource: Dirk Lindner Hugh Broughton Architects' Sheerness Dockyard ChurchSource: Dirk Lindner 1/2 show caption The RIBA has announced the eight winners of the 2025 South East Awards, including residential, educational and cultural buildings across Kent, Sussex and Surrey. Among the winners is Sheerness Dockyard Church by Hugh Broughton Architects, which was also named RIBA South East Building of the Year. The project involved the restoration and adaptation of a Grade II* listed church damaged by fire in 2001, and was recognised by the jury for its transformation into a new community facility. It also received the Conservation Award and Project Architect of the Year. The jury noted that the scheme had been “exquisitely restored and transformed” and praised the design team for demonstrating that “a historic building in an extreme state of decay can have a very good future”. The Brighton Dome Corn Exchange and Studio Theatre by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios was awarded both a regional award and RIBA South East Client of the Year for Brighton and Hove city council. The project involved the careful reconfiguration of two listed performance venues to create new arts spaces in the city’s cultural quarter. Bury Gate Farm by Sandy Rendel ArchitectsSource: Ståle Eriksen The Spencer Building, by Tim Ronalds ArchitectsSource: Jim Stephenson Brighton Dome Corn Exchange & Studio TheatreSource: Richard Chivers Hastings House by Hugh Strange ArchitectsSource: Rory Gaylor Knepp Wilding Kitchen and Shop by Kaner Olette ArchitectsSource: Richard Chivers Triangle House by ArtefactSource: Lorenzo Zandri Sea, Sky House by Liddicoat & GoldhillSource: Sam Grady 1/7 show caption Other winners include Triangle House by Artefact, a small-scale extension to a 1950s home in Surrey, and Knepp Wilding Kitchen and Shop by Kaner Olette Architects, which adapted a set of farm buildings to serve a 3,500-acre rewilding estate in West Sussex. The Spencer Building, a new low-carbon timber school building by Tim Ronalds Architects, received an award for its efficient use of space and daylight. Hastings House by Hugh Strange Architects, Sea, Sky House by Liddicoat & Goldhill, and Bury Gate Farm by Sandy Rendel Architects were all acknowledged for their residential design, materials handling and responses to their respective sites. In a statement, jury chair Lisa Shell said the region’s winning projects represented “a heartening direction in sustainable development within a region typically celebrated for new houses”, adding that “the majority involve the inventive re-use and conservation of existing structures”. Regional award winners will now be considered for a RIBA National Award, which will be announced on 10 July.  The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s building of the year will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning projects later in the year. >> Also read: AHMM’s Tower Hamlets Town Hall wins RIBA London Building of the Year >> Also read: Let Queen Elizabeth II’s memorial serve the whole nation #hugh #broughton #architects #sheerness #dockyard
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    Hugh Broughton Architects’ Sheerness Dockyard Church wins RIBA South East Building of the Year
    Other buildings recognised include schemes by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Tim Ronalds Architects, Artefact, Kaner Olette Architects and Liddicoat & Goldhill Sheerness Dockyard Church by Hugh Broughton ArchitectsSource: Dirk Lindner Hugh Broughton Architects' Sheerness Dockyard ChurchSource: Dirk Lindner 1/2 show caption The RIBA has announced the eight winners of the 2025 South East Awards, including residential, educational and cultural buildings across Kent, Sussex and Surrey. Among the winners is Sheerness Dockyard Church by Hugh Broughton Architects, which was also named RIBA South East Building of the Year. The project involved the restoration and adaptation of a Grade II* listed church damaged by fire in 2001, and was recognised by the jury for its transformation into a new community facility. It also received the Conservation Award and Project Architect of the Year. The jury noted that the scheme had been “exquisitely restored and transformed” and praised the design team for demonstrating that “a historic building in an extreme state of decay can have a very good future”. The Brighton Dome Corn Exchange and Studio Theatre by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios was awarded both a regional award and RIBA South East Client of the Year for Brighton and Hove city council. The project involved the careful reconfiguration of two listed performance venues to create new arts spaces in the city’s cultural quarter. Bury Gate Farm by Sandy Rendel ArchitectsSource: Ståle Eriksen The Spencer Building, by Tim Ronalds ArchitectsSource: Jim Stephenson Brighton Dome Corn Exchange & Studio TheatreSource: Richard Chivers Hastings House by Hugh Strange ArchitectsSource: Rory Gaylor Knepp Wilding Kitchen and Shop by Kaner Olette ArchitectsSource: Richard Chivers Triangle House by ArtefactSource: Lorenzo Zandri Sea, Sky House by Liddicoat & GoldhillSource: Sam Grady 1/7 show caption Other winners include Triangle House by Artefact, a small-scale extension to a 1950s home in Surrey, and Knepp Wilding Kitchen and Shop by Kaner Olette Architects, which adapted a set of farm buildings to serve a 3,500-acre rewilding estate in West Sussex. The Spencer Building, a new low-carbon timber school building by Tim Ronalds Architects, received an award for its efficient use of space and daylight. Hastings House by Hugh Strange Architects, Sea, Sky House by Liddicoat & Goldhill, and Bury Gate Farm by Sandy Rendel Architects were all acknowledged for their residential design, materials handling and responses to their respective sites. In a statement, jury chair Lisa Shell said the region’s winning projects represented “a heartening direction in sustainable development within a region typically celebrated for new houses”, adding that “the majority involve the inventive re-use and conservation of existing structures”. Regional award winners will now be considered for a RIBA National Award, which will be announced on 10 July.  The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s building of the year will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning projects later in the year. >> Also read: AHMM’s Tower Hamlets Town Hall wins RIBA London Building of the Year >> Also read: Let Queen Elizabeth II’s memorial serve the whole nation
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  • Howells' Canary Wharf student tower gets green light from GLA

    Group looking to overhaul Docklands estate in wake of changing working practicesThe Greater London Authorityhas granted permission for a 912-bedroom student accommodation scheme at Canary Wharf in east London.
    Canary Wharf Group’s46-storey student accommodation tower at 7 Brannan Street in Wood Wharf was called in by the mayor’s office after being rejected by Tower Hamlets councul in November last year. 
    The local authority had deemed that the development by “virtue of its density and high number of student occupants” would lead to anti-social behaviour and noise that would be “detrimental to the existing residential amenity of neighbouring properties”.

    Source: CWGThe scheme at Wood Wharf will be home to more than 900 students
    But officers at the GLA recommended the council’s decision be overruled, which was confirmed after a hearing yesterday afternoon.
    Designed by Howells, the scheme includes a range of amenities at ground, mezzanine, ninth and roof levels, as well as ground floor retail and two waterside public gardens.
    Others working on the scheme include Chapmanbdsp as M&E and sustainability engineer, Waterman Group as structural engineer, Arup as fire engineer, T&T Alinea as cost consultant and WSP as planning consultant.
    The tower will be located to the south of Blackwall Basin and falls within both the Isle of Dogs Opportunity Area and the Wood Wharf masterplan, the latter of which was approved in December 2014 under outline planing permission for between 1,700 and 3,610 homes.
    A S106 agreement for the scheme requires provision of 320 affordable rooms, secured at equal to or below 55% of the maximum government maintenance loan for living costs.
    Tom Venner, chief development officer for Canary Wharf Group, said: “7 Brannan Street will be a fantastic addition to the diverse range of residential offerings at Canary Wharf.
    “We are already home to world-leading education and learning facilities, including the UCL School of Management operating from One Canada Square.
    “This building will help meet the demand for modern, high-quality accommodation located within a metropolitan environment offering a rich mix of retail, leisure, hospitality and green spaces for students to enjoy.”  
    Canary Wharf has historically been office-focused and dominated by the financial and professional sectors, but recent years have seen CWG, which owns nearly 40ha of land across the estate, push for a diversification of the site, with additional residential, educational and life science uses.
    CWG currently owns and manages interests in more than 1,100 build-to-rent apartments and claims that 3,500 people already live in Canary Wharf.
    Earlier this year, the UCL School of Management doubled the size of its presence in the One Canada Square building in Canary Wharf.
    #howells039 #canary #wharf #student #tower
    Howells' Canary Wharf student tower gets green light from GLA
    Group looking to overhaul Docklands estate in wake of changing working practicesThe Greater London Authorityhas granted permission for a 912-bedroom student accommodation scheme at Canary Wharf in east London. Canary Wharf Group’s46-storey student accommodation tower at 7 Brannan Street in Wood Wharf was called in by the mayor’s office after being rejected by Tower Hamlets councul in November last year.  The local authority had deemed that the development by “virtue of its density and high number of student occupants” would lead to anti-social behaviour and noise that would be “detrimental to the existing residential amenity of neighbouring properties”. Source: CWGThe scheme at Wood Wharf will be home to more than 900 students But officers at the GLA recommended the council’s decision be overruled, which was confirmed after a hearing yesterday afternoon. Designed by Howells, the scheme includes a range of amenities at ground, mezzanine, ninth and roof levels, as well as ground floor retail and two waterside public gardens. Others working on the scheme include Chapmanbdsp as M&E and sustainability engineer, Waterman Group as structural engineer, Arup as fire engineer, T&T Alinea as cost consultant and WSP as planning consultant. The tower will be located to the south of Blackwall Basin and falls within both the Isle of Dogs Opportunity Area and the Wood Wharf masterplan, the latter of which was approved in December 2014 under outline planing permission for between 1,700 and 3,610 homes. A S106 agreement for the scheme requires provision of 320 affordable rooms, secured at equal to or below 55% of the maximum government maintenance loan for living costs. Tom Venner, chief development officer for Canary Wharf Group, said: “7 Brannan Street will be a fantastic addition to the diverse range of residential offerings at Canary Wharf. “We are already home to world-leading education and learning facilities, including the UCL School of Management operating from One Canada Square. “This building will help meet the demand for modern, high-quality accommodation located within a metropolitan environment offering a rich mix of retail, leisure, hospitality and green spaces for students to enjoy.”   Canary Wharf has historically been office-focused and dominated by the financial and professional sectors, but recent years have seen CWG, which owns nearly 40ha of land across the estate, push for a diversification of the site, with additional residential, educational and life science uses. CWG currently owns and manages interests in more than 1,100 build-to-rent apartments and claims that 3,500 people already live in Canary Wharf. Earlier this year, the UCL School of Management doubled the size of its presence in the One Canada Square building in Canary Wharf. #howells039 #canary #wharf #student #tower
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    Howells' Canary Wharf student tower gets green light from GLA
    Group looking to overhaul Docklands estate in wake of changing working practicesThe Greater London Authority (GLA) has granted permission for a 912-bedroom student accommodation scheme at Canary Wharf in east London. Canary Wharf Group’s (CWG) 46-storey student accommodation tower at 7 Brannan Street in Wood Wharf was called in by the mayor’s office after being rejected by Tower Hamlets councul in November last year.  The local authority had deemed that the development by “virtue of its density and high number of student occupants” would lead to anti-social behaviour and noise that would be “detrimental to the existing residential amenity of neighbouring properties”. Source: CWGThe scheme at Wood Wharf will be home to more than 900 students But officers at the GLA recommended the council’s decision be overruled, which was confirmed after a hearing yesterday afternoon (Tuesday). Designed by Howells, the scheme includes a range of amenities at ground, mezzanine, ninth and roof levels, as well as ground floor retail and two waterside public gardens. Others working on the scheme include Chapmanbdsp as M&E and sustainability engineer, Waterman Group as structural engineer, Arup as fire engineer, T&T Alinea as cost consultant and WSP as planning consultant. The tower will be located to the south of Blackwall Basin and falls within both the Isle of Dogs Opportunity Area and the Wood Wharf masterplan, the latter of which was approved in December 2014 under outline planing permission for between 1,700 and 3,610 homes. A S106 agreement for the scheme requires provision of 320 affordable rooms, secured at equal to or below 55% of the maximum government maintenance loan for living costs. Tom Venner, chief development officer for Canary Wharf Group, said: “7 Brannan Street will be a fantastic addition to the diverse range of residential offerings at Canary Wharf. “We are already home to world-leading education and learning facilities, including the UCL School of Management operating from One Canada Square. “This building will help meet the demand for modern, high-quality accommodation located within a metropolitan environment offering a rich mix of retail, leisure, hospitality and green spaces for students to enjoy.”   Canary Wharf has historically been office-focused and dominated by the financial and professional sectors, but recent years have seen CWG, which owns nearly 40ha of land across the estate, push for a diversification of the site, with additional residential, educational and life science uses. CWG currently owns and manages interests in more than 1,100 build-to-rent apartments and claims that 3,500 people already live in Canary Wharf. Earlier this year, the UCL School of Management doubled the size of its presence in the One Canada Square building in Canary Wharf.
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  • RIBA London awards 2025: all 38 winners revealed

    The 38 winners, chosen from a 78-strong shortlist, were announced at a ceremony yesterday evening (13 May).
    AHMM’s restoration and extension to the Grade II-listed Old Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, repurposed as Tower Hamlets Town Hall, was praised by judges for being ‘sensitive and brave’ and a ‘tour de force of reinvention’.
    The building, which opened in March 2023, includes offices, a council chamber and a six-storey extension to the original building, parts of which date back to 1700.Advertisement
    Citizens House by Archio, meanwhile, won the London Client of the Year award for its backer.
    The development of 11 affordable homes on a former backyard garage site in Lewisham was led by Lewisham Citizens, a ‘citizen organising’ charity, and third-sector housing developer community land trust.
    Hawkins\Brown's Central Foundation Boys’ School – a transformation of a top-performing non-selective boys school – secured the practice both the Sustainability Award and Project Architect of the Year for Negar Mihanyar.
    Costa’s Barbers by Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries was named Small Project of the Year, while Hallelujah Project by Peregrine Bryant Architects took the Conservation Award.
    The total number of shortlisted schemes, 78, was up slightly on last year's 76.
    However, the awards are still below the bumper crop of 92 that were shortlisted in 2023.
    In 2022 there were 68 in the running, while in 2021, 77  projects made the shortlist.
    Among the projects to miss out on London  awards were UCL East Marshgate building by Stanton Williams, dRMM's 415 Wick Lane housing scheme, EPR's transformation of former war offices into The OWO, BDP's Oak Cancer Centre, and Salvation Army headquarters by TateHindle.
    To be eligible for an RIBA award, projects have to have been in use for at least a year.
    All projects were visited by a jury.
    Last year, the line-wide design for The Elizabeth Line was named RIBA London Building of the Year 2024 before going on to win the Stirling Prize last October.
    RIBA president Muyiwa Oki said that this year’s RIBA Award-winning schemes nationwide ‘exemplify architecture’s power to transform – turning spaces into places of connection, creativity, and care
    ‘Spanning the length of the UK and diverse in form and function, our 2025 winners show a deep sensitivity to place and a strong coherence of thought between all teams involved.
    Individually, these projects inspire and uplift, but collectively, they remind us that architects do far more than design buildings; they shape the way we live, work and connect.’
    The RIBA’s new regional director of London, John Nahar, praised the winning projects for reflecting a ‘breathtaking display of variety, creativity, and purpose' from across the capital.
    ‘These projects tackle some of the most pressing challenges we face today, from affordable housing and social isolation to the environment and the need for retrofit and reuse.
    It’s inspiring to see such a wide range of innovative and considered projects – a testament to the strength and ingenuity of architects in the region.’
    The winners will now be in the running for an RIBA National Award.
    These will be announced on 10 July with several schemes then going on to make up the shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the best building of the year.
    The Stirling winner will be announced in October.
    Source:Jack HobhouseCentral Foundation Boys’ School, nominated by Hawkins\Brown
    Winners
    Appleby Blue Almshouse by Witherford Watson Mann Architects
    Blenheim Grove by Poulsom Middlehurst, Yard Architects and New Makers Bureau
    Citizens House by Archio
    Design District C1 and D1 by Architecture00
    Harfield Gardens by Quinn Architects
    Idlewild Mews by vPPR Architects
    Niwa House by Takero Shimazaki Architects
    Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) by Bennetts Associates
    Sidcup Storyteller by DRDH Architects
    WorkStack by dRMM
    8 Bleeding Heart Yard by Groupwork
    Becontree Avenue by Archio
    Catching Sun House by Studioshaw
    Central Foundation Boys’ School by Hawkins\Brown
    London College of Fashion by Allies and Morrison
    Mary Ward Centre by AWW
    St.
    Mary’s Walthamstow by Matthew Lloyd Architects
    The Gilbert & George Centre by SIRS Architects
    Tower Court by Adam Khan Architects, Muf Architecture/Art, Child Graddon Lewis Architects
    Tower Hamlets Town Hall by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
    Young V&A by AOC Architecture and De Matos Ryan  
    Chancery House by dMFK Architects and Norm Architects
    Daventry House by Mæ
    Hallelujah Project by Peregrine Bryant Architects
    Quadrangle Building, King’s College London by Hall McKnight
    Soho Place by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
    The Greenhill Building - Harrow Arts Centre by Chris Dyson Architects
    Haringey Brick Bungalow by Satish Jassal Architects
    Maitland Park Estate Redevelopment by Cullinan Studio with ECE Westworks
    New Wave House by Thomas-McBrien Architects and New Wave London  
    Pine Heath by Studio Hagen Hall
    Technique by Buckley Gray Yeoman
    Chelsea Brut by Pricegore Architects   
    Costa’s Barbers by Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries 
    Elizabeth Tower by Purcell
    Lower Ham by Fletcher Crane Architects
    Royal College of Music, London by John Simpson Architects
    V&A Photography Centre by Gibson Thornley with Purcell
    Source:French+TyeCitizens House by Archio

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    RIBA London awards 2025: all 38 winners revealed
    The 38 winners, chosen from a 78-strong shortlist, were announced at a ceremony yesterday evening (13 May). AHMM’s restoration and extension to the Grade II-listed Old Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, repurposed as Tower Hamlets Town Hall, was praised by judges for being ‘sensitive and brave’ and a ‘tour de force of reinvention’. The building, which opened in March 2023, includes offices, a council chamber and a six-storey extension to the original building, parts of which date back to 1700.Advertisement Citizens House by Archio, meanwhile, won the London Client of the Year award for its backer. The development of 11 affordable homes on a former backyard garage site in Lewisham was led by Lewisham Citizens, a ‘citizen organising’ charity, and third-sector housing developer community land trust. Hawkins\Brown's Central Foundation Boys’ School – a transformation of a top-performing non-selective boys school – secured the practice both the Sustainability Award and Project Architect of the Year for Negar Mihanyar. Costa’s Barbers by Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries was named Small Project of the Year, while Hallelujah Project by Peregrine Bryant Architects took the Conservation Award. The total number of shortlisted schemes, 78, was up slightly on last year's 76. However, the awards are still below the bumper crop of 92 that were shortlisted in 2023. In 2022 there were 68 in the running, while in 2021, 77  projects made the shortlist. Among the projects to miss out on London  awards were UCL East Marshgate building by Stanton Williams, dRMM's 415 Wick Lane housing scheme, EPR's transformation of former war offices into The OWO, BDP's Oak Cancer Centre, and Salvation Army headquarters by TateHindle. To be eligible for an RIBA award, projects have to have been in use for at least a year. All projects were visited by a jury. Last year, the line-wide design for The Elizabeth Line was named RIBA London Building of the Year 2024 before going on to win the Stirling Prize last October. RIBA president Muyiwa Oki said that this year’s RIBA Award-winning schemes nationwide ‘exemplify architecture’s power to transform – turning spaces into places of connection, creativity, and care ‘Spanning the length of the UK and diverse in form and function, our 2025 winners show a deep sensitivity to place and a strong coherence of thought between all teams involved. Individually, these projects inspire and uplift, but collectively, they remind us that architects do far more than design buildings; they shape the way we live, work and connect.’ The RIBA’s new regional director of London, John Nahar, praised the winning projects for reflecting a ‘breathtaking display of variety, creativity, and purpose' from across the capital. ‘These projects tackle some of the most pressing challenges we face today, from affordable housing and social isolation to the environment and the need for retrofit and reuse. It’s inspiring to see such a wide range of innovative and considered projects – a testament to the strength and ingenuity of architects in the region.’ The winners will now be in the running for an RIBA National Award. These will be announced on 10 July with several schemes then going on to make up the shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the best building of the year. The Stirling winner will be announced in October. Source:Jack HobhouseCentral Foundation Boys’ School, nominated by Hawkins\Brown Winners Appleby Blue Almshouse by Witherford Watson Mann Architects Blenheim Grove by Poulsom Middlehurst, Yard Architects and New Makers Bureau Citizens House by Archio Design District C1 and D1 by Architecture00 Harfield Gardens by Quinn Architects Idlewild Mews by vPPR Architects Niwa House by Takero Shimazaki Architects Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) by Bennetts Associates Sidcup Storyteller by DRDH Architects WorkStack by dRMM 8 Bleeding Heart Yard by Groupwork Becontree Avenue by Archio Catching Sun House by Studioshaw Central Foundation Boys’ School by Hawkins\Brown London College of Fashion by Allies and Morrison Mary Ward Centre by AWW St. Mary’s Walthamstow by Matthew Lloyd Architects The Gilbert & George Centre by SIRS Architects Tower Court by Adam Khan Architects, Muf Architecture/Art, Child Graddon Lewis Architects Tower Hamlets Town Hall by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Young V&A by AOC Architecture and De Matos Ryan   Chancery House by dMFK Architects and Norm Architects Daventry House by Mæ Hallelujah Project by Peregrine Bryant Architects Quadrangle Building, King’s College London by Hall McKnight Soho Place by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris The Greenhill Building - Harrow Arts Centre by Chris Dyson Architects Haringey Brick Bungalow by Satish Jassal Architects Maitland Park Estate Redevelopment by Cullinan Studio with ECE Westworks New Wave House by Thomas-McBrien Architects and New Wave London   Pine Heath by Studio Hagen Hall Technique by Buckley Gray Yeoman Chelsea Brut by Pricegore Architects    Costa’s Barbers by Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries  Elizabeth Tower by Purcell Lower Ham by Fletcher Crane Architects Royal College of Music, London by John Simpson Architects V&A Photography Centre by Gibson Thornley with Purcell Source:French+TyeCitizens House by Archio Source: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/riba-london-awards-2025-all-38-winners-revealed #riba #london #awards #all #winners #revealed
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    RIBA London awards 2025: all 38 winners revealed
    The 38 winners, chosen from a 78-strong shortlist, were announced at a ceremony yesterday evening (13 May). AHMM’s restoration and extension to the Grade II-listed Old Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, repurposed as Tower Hamlets Town Hall, was praised by judges for being ‘sensitive and brave’ and a ‘tour de force of reinvention’. The building, which opened in March 2023, includes offices, a council chamber and a six-storey extension to the original building, parts of which date back to 1700.Advertisement Citizens House by Archio, meanwhile, won the London Client of the Year award for its backer. The development of 11 affordable homes on a former backyard garage site in Lewisham was led by Lewisham Citizens, a ‘citizen organising’ charity, and third-sector housing developer community land trust. Hawkins\Brown's Central Foundation Boys’ School – a transformation of a top-performing non-selective boys school – secured the practice both the Sustainability Award and Project Architect of the Year for Negar Mihanyar. Costa’s Barbers by Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries was named Small Project of the Year, while Hallelujah Project by Peregrine Bryant Architects took the Conservation Award. The total number of shortlisted schemes, 78, was up slightly on last year's 76. However, the awards are still below the bumper crop of 92 that were shortlisted in 2023. In 2022 there were 68 in the running, while in 2021, 77  projects made the shortlist. Among the projects to miss out on London  awards were UCL East Marshgate building by Stanton Williams, dRMM's 415 Wick Lane housing scheme, EPR's transformation of former war offices into The OWO, BDP's Oak Cancer Centre, and Salvation Army headquarters by TateHindle. To be eligible for an RIBA award, projects have to have been in use for at least a year. All projects were visited by a jury. Last year, the line-wide design for The Elizabeth Line was named RIBA London Building of the Year 2024 before going on to win the Stirling Prize last October. RIBA president Muyiwa Oki said that this year’s RIBA Award-winning schemes nationwide ‘exemplify architecture’s power to transform – turning spaces into places of connection, creativity, and care ‘Spanning the length of the UK and diverse in form and function, our 2025 winners show a deep sensitivity to place and a strong coherence of thought between all teams involved. Individually, these projects inspire and uplift, but collectively, they remind us that architects do far more than design buildings; they shape the way we live, work and connect.’ The RIBA’s new regional director of London, John Nahar, praised the winning projects for reflecting a ‘breathtaking display of variety, creativity, and purpose' from across the capital. ‘These projects tackle some of the most pressing challenges we face today, from affordable housing and social isolation to the environment and the need for retrofit and reuse. It’s inspiring to see such a wide range of innovative and considered projects – a testament to the strength and ingenuity of architects in the region.’ The winners will now be in the running for an RIBA National Award. These will be announced on 10 July with several schemes then going on to make up the shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the best building of the year. The Stirling winner will be announced in October. Source:Jack HobhouseCentral Foundation Boys’ School, nominated by Hawkins\Brown Winners Appleby Blue Almshouse by Witherford Watson Mann Architects Blenheim Grove by Poulsom Middlehurst, Yard Architects and New Makers Bureau Citizens House by Archio Design District C1 and D1 by Architecture00 Harfield Gardens by Quinn Architects Idlewild Mews by vPPR Architects Niwa House by Takero Shimazaki Architects Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) by Bennetts Associates Sidcup Storyteller by DRDH Architects WorkStack by dRMM 8 Bleeding Heart Yard by Groupwork Becontree Avenue by Archio Catching Sun House by Studioshaw Central Foundation Boys’ School by Hawkins\Brown London College of Fashion by Allies and Morrison Mary Ward Centre by AWW St. Mary’s Walthamstow by Matthew Lloyd Architects The Gilbert & George Centre by SIRS Architects Tower Court by Adam Khan Architects, Muf Architecture/Art, Child Graddon Lewis Architects Tower Hamlets Town Hall by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Young V&A by AOC Architecture and De Matos Ryan   Chancery House by dMFK Architects and Norm Architects Daventry House by Mæ Hallelujah Project by Peregrine Bryant Architects Quadrangle Building, King’s College London by Hall McKnight Soho Place by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris The Greenhill Building - Harrow Arts Centre by Chris Dyson Architects Haringey Brick Bungalow by Satish Jassal Architects Maitland Park Estate Redevelopment by Cullinan Studio with ECE Westworks New Wave House by Thomas-McBrien Architects and New Wave London   Pine Heath by Studio Hagen Hall Technique by Buckley Gray Yeoman Chelsea Brut by Pricegore Architects    Costa’s Barbers by Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries  Elizabeth Tower by Purcell Lower Ham by Fletcher Crane Architects Royal College of Music, London by John Simpson Architects V&A Photography Centre by Gibson Thornley with Purcell Source:French+TyeCitizens House by Archio
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  • AHMM’s Tower Hamlets Town Hall wins RIBA London Building of the Year

    Transformation of former Royal London Hospital among 38 winners announced at a ceremony yesterday evening
    The former Royal London Hospital dates back to the 1750s
    The original buildings and the extension are linked by a three-storey atrium
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    AHMM’s transformation of the Royal London Hospital into the new Tower Hamlets town hall has been named as RIBA’s 2025 London building of the year.
    The scheme on Whitechapel Road has added a contemporary extension to the grade II-listed former hospital, parts of which date back to the 1750s.
    It now functions as the headquarters of the council, which had decided to use the neoclassical building to bring its operations together into a single location after the hospital moved out in 2012 to an adjacent site.
    RIBA described the scheme as a “tour de force of reinvention, combining a sensitivity to the existing building’s story with a sharpness of contemporary detailing”. 
    The original and newbuild parts of the scheme are linked by a three-storey glazed atrium crossed by bridges, an approach which RIBA praised for illuminating and celebrating the brickwork on the former hospital’s south facade.
    “The junction between the existing building and the new extension is materially rich and spatially dramatic, and each is enhanced by its proximity to the other,” RIBA said.
    RIBA also praised AHMM’s access strategy for using ramps to “seamlessly” connect mismatching internal levels and the public realm.
    Tower Hamlets Town Hall was among 38 winners of RIBA’s regional awards for the capital handed out at a ceremony yesterday evening, which also included Purcell’s restoration of Elizabeth Tower and a social rent later living scheme by 2023 Stirling Prize winner Mae.
    Hawkins Brown’s Central Foundation Boys School
    Peregrine Bryant Architects’ restoration of Handel Hendrix HouseSource: Robin Forster
    Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries’ Costa’s Barbers
    Archio’s Citizens House
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    Hawkins Brown’s Negar Mihanyar scooped Project Architect of the Year for the practice’s transformation of the Central Foundation Boys School and its estate, while Peregrine Bryant Architects’ restoration of a grade I-listed building which was once home to Jimi Hendrix picked up the Conservation Award.
    Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries’ Costa’s Barbers, a shop in Battersea reimagined as a home and an office, won Small Project of the Year. 
    Client of the Year was awarded to Archio’s Citizens House, a community-led development of 11 affordable homes in a former backyard garage site in Lewisham. 
    RIBA Regional Director of London, John Nahar, described the shortlist for this year’s winners as a “breathtaking display of variety, creativity, and purpose”.  
    “These projects tackle some of the most pressing challenges we face today - from affordable housing and social isolation to the environment and the need for retrofit and reuse. 
    “It’s inspiring to see such a wide range of innovative and considered projects – a testament to the strength and ingenuity of architects in the region,” he said.
    Regional award winners will now be considered for a RIBA National Award, which will be announced on 10 July. 
    The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s building of the year will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning projects later in the year.

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    AHMM’s Tower Hamlets Town Hall wins RIBA London Building of the Year
    Transformation of former Royal London Hospital among 38 winners announced at a ceremony yesterday evening The former Royal London Hospital dates back to the 1750s The original buildings and the extension are linked by a three-storey atrium 1/5 show caption AHMM’s transformation of the Royal London Hospital into the new Tower Hamlets town hall has been named as RIBA’s 2025 London building of the year. The scheme on Whitechapel Road has added a contemporary extension to the grade II-listed former hospital, parts of which date back to the 1750s. It now functions as the headquarters of the council, which had decided to use the neoclassical building to bring its operations together into a single location after the hospital moved out in 2012 to an adjacent site. RIBA described the scheme as a “tour de force of reinvention, combining a sensitivity to the existing building’s story with a sharpness of contemporary detailing”.  The original and newbuild parts of the scheme are linked by a three-storey glazed atrium crossed by bridges, an approach which RIBA praised for illuminating and celebrating the brickwork on the former hospital’s south facade. “The junction between the existing building and the new extension is materially rich and spatially dramatic, and each is enhanced by its proximity to the other,” RIBA said. RIBA also praised AHMM’s access strategy for using ramps to “seamlessly” connect mismatching internal levels and the public realm. Tower Hamlets Town Hall was among 38 winners of RIBA’s regional awards for the capital handed out at a ceremony yesterday evening, which also included Purcell’s restoration of Elizabeth Tower and a social rent later living scheme by 2023 Stirling Prize winner Mae. Hawkins Brown’s Central Foundation Boys School Peregrine Bryant Architects’ restoration of Handel Hendrix HouseSource: Robin Forster Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries’ Costa’s Barbers Archio’s Citizens House 1/4 show caption Hawkins Brown’s Negar Mihanyar scooped Project Architect of the Year for the practice’s transformation of the Central Foundation Boys School and its estate, while Peregrine Bryant Architects’ restoration of a grade I-listed building which was once home to Jimi Hendrix picked up the Conservation Award. Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries’ Costa’s Barbers, a shop in Battersea reimagined as a home and an office, won Small Project of the Year.  Client of the Year was awarded to Archio’s Citizens House, a community-led development of 11 affordable homes in a former backyard garage site in Lewisham.  RIBA Regional Director of London, John Nahar, described the shortlist for this year’s winners as a “breathtaking display of variety, creativity, and purpose”.   “These projects tackle some of the most pressing challenges we face today - from affordable housing and social isolation to the environment and the need for retrofit and reuse.  “It’s inspiring to see such a wide range of innovative and considered projects – a testament to the strength and ingenuity of architects in the region,” he said. Regional award winners will now be considered for a RIBA National Award, which will be announced on 10 July.  The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s building of the year will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning projects later in the year. Source: https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/ahmms-tower-hamlets-town-hall-wins-riba-london-building-of-the-year/5135952.article #ahmms #tower #hamlets #town #hall #wins #riba #london #building #the #year
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    AHMM’s Tower Hamlets Town Hall wins RIBA London Building of the Year
    Transformation of former Royal London Hospital among 38 winners announced at a ceremony yesterday evening The former Royal London Hospital dates back to the 1750s The original buildings and the extension are linked by a three-storey atrium 1/5 show caption AHMM’s transformation of the Royal London Hospital into the new Tower Hamlets town hall has been named as RIBA’s 2025 London building of the year. The scheme on Whitechapel Road has added a contemporary extension to the grade II-listed former hospital, parts of which date back to the 1750s. It now functions as the headquarters of the council, which had decided to use the neoclassical building to bring its operations together into a single location after the hospital moved out in 2012 to an adjacent site. RIBA described the scheme as a “tour de force of reinvention, combining a sensitivity to the existing building’s story with a sharpness of contemporary detailing”.  The original and newbuild parts of the scheme are linked by a three-storey glazed atrium crossed by bridges, an approach which RIBA praised for illuminating and celebrating the brickwork on the former hospital’s south facade. “The junction between the existing building and the new extension is materially rich and spatially dramatic, and each is enhanced by its proximity to the other,” RIBA said. RIBA also praised AHMM’s access strategy for using ramps to “seamlessly” connect mismatching internal levels and the public realm. Tower Hamlets Town Hall was among 38 winners of RIBA’s regional awards for the capital handed out at a ceremony yesterday evening, which also included Purcell’s restoration of Elizabeth Tower and a social rent later living scheme by 2023 Stirling Prize winner Mae. Hawkins Brown’s Central Foundation Boys School Peregrine Bryant Architects’ restoration of Handel Hendrix HouseSource: Robin Forster Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries’ Costa’s Barbers Archio’s Citizens House 1/4 show caption Hawkins Brown’s Negar Mihanyar scooped Project Architect of the Year for the practice’s transformation of the Central Foundation Boys School and its estate, while Peregrine Bryant Architects’ restoration of a grade I-listed building which was once home to Jimi Hendrix picked up the Conservation Award. Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries’ Costa’s Barbers, a shop in Battersea reimagined as a home and an office, won Small Project of the Year.  Client of the Year was awarded to Archio’s Citizens House, a community-led development of 11 affordable homes in a former backyard garage site in Lewisham.  RIBA Regional Director of London, John Nahar, described the shortlist for this year’s winners as a “breathtaking display of variety, creativity, and purpose”.   “These projects tackle some of the most pressing challenges we face today - from affordable housing and social isolation to the environment and the need for retrofit and reuse.  “It’s inspiring to see such a wide range of innovative and considered projects – a testament to the strength and ingenuity of architects in the region,” he said. Regional award winners will now be considered for a RIBA National Award, which will be announced on 10 July.  The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s building of the year will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning projects later in the year.
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