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Noele Gordon House wins Inside Housing Development Award Project Update

Noele Gordon House has been named 'Best supported housing development' at the Inside Housing Development Awards 2025. The Inside Housing Development Awards celebrate the UK’s most outstanding residential developments over the past year, highlighting the innovation and resilience driving the sector forward. With governments across the UK focused on increasing delivery, the Inside Housing Development Awards flag the schemes and teams crucial to success: delivering quality, sustainable housing and transforming communities.

November 2025 Read more
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Boston Society for Architecture Talk Practice News

Director Alex Ely will be joining the Boston Society of Architects on the 2nd October to explore the impact of the London Housing Design Guide on regulation and policy in the UK; and how those lessons can translate to Boston.

Alex will speak alongside Kate Rushe and Sam Naylor of Boston housing architects Utile and Karl Heckmaev from the Boston Mayor’s Office of Housing who will talk about its own design guide for affordable projects, and give context to incoming Boston guides as well.

September 2025 Read more
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Homes for Londoners: Interventions for regeneration Practice News

Associate Payal Ceurvels will be speaking at the NLA's 'Homes for Londoners: Interventions for regeneration' event on Thursday 04 December 2025. The event explores projects that demonstrate innovative interventions to estate regeneration, from infill to new development.

As part of the NLA’s Housing programme, this fast-paced Test & Learn event showcases a selection of projects that demonstrate innovative interventions to estate regeneration, from infill and small sites to new development.

Innovative solutions are needed to meet the housing needs of all Londoners. Drawing on case studies from the Homes for Londoners publication, this Test & Learn event showcases key projects that are innovative in scale, design and partnership models.

November 2025 Read more
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Alex Ely appointed Chair of the Museum of the Home Practice News

Mæ Founder Director Alex Ely has been appointed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport as Chair of the Museum of the Home.

The Museum of the Home reveals stories of home life, past, present and future. Its vision is to inspire everyone to explore the meaning of home through our exhibitions, displays, programming and online content. No other museum in the country specialises in this particular aspect of our national heritage.

Since re-opening in 2021, following an £18.8m refurbishment, Museum of the Home is realising its vision to encourage and challenge different ways of thinking about domestic life today with stories that reveal and rethink the ways we live, to help us live better together.

The Museum's main funder is the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. The Museum of the Home is a specialist museum, located in Hoxton, London. It has outstanding collections, and engaging displays covering 400 years of the history of the UK home, and is set in beautiful buildings and gardens. It enjoys a reputation for high-quality learning and engagement programmes and is known as one of London’s most friendly and welcoming museums.

April 2025 Read more
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Agar Grove Phase 1c wins 3 Awards at the British Homes Awards 2025 Project Update

Agar Grove Phase 1c has won three awards at the British Homes Awards 2025. It picked up the awards for:

🥇 Sustainable Development of the Year
🥇 Sustainable Project of the Year

whilst our client London Borough of Camden won

🥇 House Builder of the Year

This spotlight on a local authority affirms the importance of high-calibre, publicly-led residential delivery and we couldn't be more proud of them, and grateful for being given the opportunity to design this special project for them.

November 2025 Read more
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Noele Gordon House wins best Best Retirement Scheme at the Housebuilder Awards 2025 Project Update

The Housebuilder Awards celebrate excellence in all aspects of the sector and we are delighted that our scheme Noele Gordon House –designed for Populo Living– has won the Award for Best Retirement Scheme.

The 100% affordable later living scheme, in the heart of East Ham Newham, embraces HAPPI principles to support independence, connection and wellbeing. It’s been a real collaboration, made possible with the help of some incredible partners across design, planning and construction all working together to deliver something special for Newham. Delivered by Populo Living for Newham Council, Noele Gordon House is the borough’s first 100% affordable Later Living scheme. A milestone in inclusive, community-led housing, the development offers 75 high-quality homes for residents aged 55+, with features like dual-aspect apartments, generous communal spaces, a rooftop terrace, and a state-of-the-art NHS health centre on the ground floor.

November 2025 Read more
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Messum's Architecture symposium 'Housing and Homes' Practice News

Mæ Director Alex Ely is a guest speaker at the annual Messums architectural symposium on Saturday 4th October.

Taking place in the thirteenth-century tithe barn at Messums West, Tisbury the event looks at the positive impact of innovation in construction and design in confronting some of the many challenges we face in contemporary society. It will consider how thinking differently can present new solutions to old problems and look at how imaginative architectural solutions can help shape our everyday lives.

October 2025 Read more
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Yale School of Architecture Environmental Design lecture Practice News

Alex Ely will be delivering a lecture at the Yale School of Architecture on the 23rd September on the subject 'Towards a Resilient Architecture'.

The lecture is for MArch Students on the Environmental Design course. The course examines how the design of buildings in the 21st century are linked to ecological health, indoor environmental health and carbon life cycles. Across all three areas, students examine key ecological theory and principles, bioclimatic design across various climate contexts and thermal comfort standards; followed by an introduction to fundamental scientific principles governing the design and control of thermal, luminous, and acoustic environments of buildings.

September 2025 Read more
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The dialectic between modernism and tradition in the work of Mæ Practice News

Director Alex Ely will be giving a talk about the links between modernism and tradition in the work of Mæ for Docomomo UK on 8th April 2025 19.00-21.00 at the Alan Baxter Associates Gallery, 75 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EL.

At the fascinating intersection of modernist innovation and historical continuity, Mæ's architectural practice weaves a compelling narrative of urban evolution. Drawing inspiration from Frederick Gibberd's revolutionary new town paradigms, the ground breaking spatial compositions in postwar social housing, the humanist approaches of Alvar Aalto and the social consciousness of Bruno Taut, this discourse explores the delicate balance between progress and heritage. At its heart, this exploration reveals how Mæ is forging a new path in sustainable and socially responsible design. Their work demonstrates how architecture can simultaneously honour its modernist inheritance while addressing our most pressing contemporary concerns: environmental sustainability, social equity, and cultural enrichment.

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April 2025 Read more