Mae News

251113 Nla Talk

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
251107 Agar Grove Awards

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
251107 Noele Gordon Awards

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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Agar Grove Phase 1c shortlisted for British Homes Award Project Update

Our latest phase of Agar Grove regeneration for the London Borough of Camden has been shortlisted in the British Homes Awards 2025 for Sustainable development of the year.

Designed as part of a larger masterplan in collaboration with Hawkins\Brown Phase 1c comprises two buildings. One is designed by Mæ and the other by Hawkins\Brown, which together deliver 125 one, two and three bedroom flats and two-storey, two bed maisonettes (plus one three-bed wheelchair accessible maisonette) for social and intermediate rent, and private sale.

The new buildings are designed, built and certified to Passivhaus standards, reducing carbon emissions in use by reducing energy for heating and cooling to maintain comfortable temperatures in the building throughout the year.

October 2025 Read more
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Noele Gordon House shortlisted for three major awards Project Update

We are delighted that Noele Gordon House, our later living scheme in Newham designed for Populo, has been shortlisted for three major awards. Noele Gordon House combines a 1,650 sqm community health centre with two buildings containing 75 affordable one and two bedroom homes for later living. It regenerates a brownfield site and gives a new sense of purpose to this part of a busy high street. The awards are:

RICS Awards 2025 shortlist for Best residential development, winners will be announced on 16th October

Inside Housing Development Awards 2025 shortlist for Best supported housing development, to be announced on 25th November.

Housebuilder Awards 2025 shortlist for Best retirement scheme, to be announced on 6th November

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250929 Built By Nature

Sands End Arts & Community Centre shortlisted for Built by Nature 2025 Award Project Update

The 2025 Built by Nature Prize celebrates excellence in timber building projects which demonstrate alignment with the Principles for Responsible Timber Construction in completed and in-use projects – including new builds, renovations, and significant extensions.

We are delighted that our Sands End Arts & Community Centre has been included in this years shortlist. Winners will be announced on 16th October

September 2025 Read more
250716 Building Southwark Duotone

Building Southwark Architecture and Regeneration in a London Borough Practice News

This comprehensive and fully illustrated book describes more than 50 projects that have been built in Southwark in the new millennium, and features Mæ's Harriet Hardy House. Mæ's extra-care housing scheme is including alongside such well-known landmarks as the extension to Tate Modern, the Shard and the redeveloped London Bridge station, as well as diverse social, cultural, healthcare and education projects.

The renowned architecture writer and critic Kenneth Powell continues the story of one of Britain's most dynamic and successful areas of regeneration. While this architectural and urban renaissance – which began in the 1980s – is evident most publicly along the south bank of the Thames, it extends through the borough, from Walworth to Peckham and from Bermondsey to Dulwich. Its impact can be seen in the creation of cultural venues, the revival of industrial spaces for residential and commercial use and shared working, and the generation of a wealth of stunning new – and already iconic – projects.

July 2025 Read More
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Dual Cities published Practice News

Our Agar Grove project is featured in ‘Dual Cities – Social Housing in London + New York’ – a new RIBA book supported by AIA New York Chapter, authored by Paul Karakusevic and Mike Althorpe. The book also includes an essay by Director Alex Ely 'London Dwelling Standards- Enabling the Equitable City'.

The book explores social housing design and delivery through the parallel experiences of London and New York

Opening up a new global dialogue and offering a practical guide to the past, present and future of housing, Dual Cities features commentary pieces from experts on both sides of the Atlantic unlocking policy and delivery mechanisms and includes 40 illustrated historic and contemporary housing case studies from a range of practices in both cities.

July 2025 Available to buy here