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Daventry House has won the Best Healthy Homes Development Award at the Inside Housing Development Awards 2024.
The Inside Housing Development Awards celebrate the very best residential developments across the UK over the past year. The awards recognise the teams, schemes and solutions that have made a positive impact in these exceptional times.
September 2024 Inside Housing Development Awards
We are pleased to be a founder member of 'Architects' Action for Affordable Housing'
A good home is the foundation everyone should enjoy, a human right that too many are living without. As architects we recognise the role we can play in helping to improve housing through design, planning and advocacy. We have come together to demand that the next government do better. We are calling for positive change that will take a collective effort to achieve. Please join our campaign. Follow the link below.
May 2024 Read more
Daventry House, has been shortlisted for the Mixed-use Project (up to £75million) category in the AJ Architecture Awards 2024. The project delivers 60 homes for later living above a 1300sq.m business enterprise centre. It forms the first phase in the wider Church Street area regeneration. The winners will be announced on Tuesday 3rd December at the Awards event at Park Plaza Westminster Bridge.
September 2024
Our new publication 'Towards a Resilient Architecture' is out now. Published by Quart the book is a rallying call to create more resilient cities, diverse neighbourhoods, responsible buildings, and high quality homes. The projects features work by Mæ from the last 21 years of practice.
December 2022 View Article
We are pleased to announce that we have been selected as one of fifteen architecture firms shortlisted for NSW competition aimed at alleviating housing crisis. Selected from more than 200 entries the shortlisted practices will create designs for a terrace house or mid-rise apartment for 21st century NSW.
This is the first time the NSW Government has instigated the use of a pattern book to help improve housing. The idea behind a pattern book for building is to provide a fast track for construction by pre-approving selected designs, thereby cutting through red tape and lengthy development applications. Winners will be announced in November.
September 2024 Read more
Mæ Director Alex Ely has been invited to join this year's RIBA Stirling Prize jury alongside Muyiwa Oki, RIBA President, Mary Duggan, Mary Duggan Architects, David Light, Director of Autodesk and this year's sponsor, Minna Sunikka-Blank, Professor of Architecture and Environmental Policy at Cambridge University and Yana Peel, Global Head of Arts & Culture at Chanel.
The RIBA Stirling Prize jury changes each year and this year’s jury is made up of a range of leading experts who will visit each of the six shortlisted buildings. As 2023 winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize we are delighted to have the opportunity to engage with the award, the winner of which will be announced on 16th October.
September 2024 Read more
Harriet Hardy Extra Care has been shortlisted for a NLA Award in the Housing category. The project has been cited as a 21st century almshouse, Harriet Hardy House provides 119 new council homes - of which 54 are much needed extra care social rented flats for older persons.
The NLA Awards recognise projects that contribute to and enhance the NLA's vision for a New London: a city that is sustainable, civilised and egalitarian, that seeks to improve the quality and standards of new design. Winners will be announced on Thursday 21st November at a reception at Guildhall, City of London.
August 2024 Read more
Our Director Alex Ely has been profiled in Building magazine and BD online. In an interview with Ben Flatman he explores the evolution and future of the practice, working at the scale of the city to the room. He reflects on his influences from education, from his time and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and on the role architects can have in civic society.
February 2024 Feature link
Founder Director Alex Ely has been interviewed for Studio International magazine.
Studio was first published in April 1893 under the title The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. It rapidly established itself as one of the most successful fine art periodicals in the English-speaking world.
Among others, it featured the work of the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley and the architects Charles Rennie Mackintosh and CFA Voysey.
In the interview with Veronica Simpson, Alex explores the secret to making buildings that other architects admire and envy, but which are dedicated to the greater good.
April 2024 Read more