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Daventry House wins AJ Mixed-use Award Project Update

Daventry House, has won the Mixed-use Project (up to £75million) Award in the AJ Architecture Awards 2024. The project delivers 60 homes for later living above a 1300sq.m business enterprise centre. It was praised by the judges as a 'great example of human-centred design'.

‘Westminster City Council and Mæ show this is a new standard that social housing can strive to be,’ The project was praised by judges as a ‘visceral embodiment’ of the borough’s corporate strategy to promote a fairer economy across this central area of the capital, which is characterised by great inequality and rich diversity. They went on to say ‘This is an example of a local authority really putting their money where their mouth is.’

December 2024 AJ Architecture Awards 2024
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Architects' Action for Affordable Housing Practice News

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.

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NLA Commendation for Daventry and Harriet Hardy Project Update

Both Harriet Hardy House and Daventry House have been Commended in the NLA Awards 2024.

Supported by the Mayor of London, the New London Awards celebrate all scale of projects, from community-led to large-scale mixed-use developments, both built and unbuilt, that contribute to the creation of a more sustainable, civilised, and egalitarian London.

The New London Awards were presented during our Annual Lunch at Guildhall on Thursday 21 November.

November 2024
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Towards a Resilient Architecture Research News

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
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Daventry House wins Award for Best Healthy Homes Development Project Update

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
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AJ Architecture Awards 2024 shortlist Project Update

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.

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NSW Housing Pattern Book shortlist Research News

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.

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Press Cuttings Practice News

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
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Studio International interview Practice News

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