Welcome to Mae

Creativity-led. Community-led. Drawing on the DNA of the neighbourhood, we create welcoming places for people.
We design policy as well as buildings. Inspired by our founder’s work at CABE, our thinking advances best practice.
We relish complexity. With carefully crafted architecture, we turn challenging sites into buildings with a distinct identity.

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Regent's Park Estate shortlisted for the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence 2019 Project Update

We are delighted that Regent's Park Estate has been shortlisted for the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence 2019 in the 'Excellence in Planning to Deliver Homes - Large Schemes (50 or more homes)' category.

The Regent's Park Estate project delivers 116 homes and significant public realm improvements within three years to replace homes lost to works connected with HS2.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in central London on 24 April 2019.

February 2019 View Project

New Associates Practice News

We are delighted to announce the promotion of Helen Clark and James Halsall to the position of Associate. Helen leads our BIM strategy and implementation and currently runs a number of high profile projects including the Mayor of London's Housing SPG and Brentford Lock West. James leads our sustainable and environmental design team and is currently running our large passivehaus project at Agar Grove for the London Borough of Camden.

The two bring exceptional specialist knowledge to our senior management team and will help us grow our profile and capabilities in the fields of environmental design, BIM and design for manufacture.

January 2019

ARCHITECTS.RF Practice News

Alex Ely was invited to speak at ARCHTECTS.RF and DOM.RF's programme, run by the Strelka Institute, on the future of the city. The event was attended by delegates from over 50 Russian cities leading local urban development projects Алекс Эли. Взгляд на запад. Общие основы городов и зданий Великобритании https://youtu.be/8Yb3XAdVoFk via @YouTube

December 2018

Croydon Smaller Sites Programme wins the AJ Architecture Award 2018 for Masterplan of the Year Project Update

We are delighted that Croydon Smaller Sites Programme led by Brick by Brick has won Masterplan of the Year at the AJ Architecture Awards 2018.

Croydon Council has an ambitious programme to deliver 1,000 high quality and characterful homes. We are working with the Borough’s delivery company Brick by Brick Development on 3 different schemes - Shrublands, Kingsdown Avenue and Tollers Lane.

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Brentford Lock West Block E wins at the Inside Housing Development Awards 2018 Project Update

We're delighted to announce that our Block E scheme at Brentford Lock West has won the 2018 Inside Housing Development Award for Design Quality.

The project was also a finalist in the Best Residential Development (under 70 homes) and Market Sale Development of the year categories.

November 2018 View Project

Agar Grove Estate and Regent's Park Infill Sites shortlisted for the London Planning Awards 2019 Project Update

We're delighted to announce that Agar Grove Estate has been shortlisted for The Mayor's Award for Sustainable and Environmental Planning, and Regent's Park Infill Sites for the Borough Led Projects Award in the London Planning Awards organised by London First.

Agar Grove Estate will create 493 new homes for new and existing residents of the estate. Of these, 345 will be built to the very high Passivhaus fabric performance standard.

Our Regents Park Infill Sites scheme provides high quality new homes on the Regent’s Park Estate for residents who are due to lose their current homes as a result of the HS2 development.

November 2018

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Mæ's Hammond Court and New Islington projects featured in the second edition of the Housing Design Handbook Research News

We are delighted to be part of the second edition of the Housing Design Handbook, an essential guide to housing by Jo McCafferty and David Levitt, with contributions from other leading practitioners.

The Housing Design Handbook provides an authoritative, comprehensive and systematic guide to best practice.

Our Hammond Court and New Islington projects have been featured, along with an essay written by us on the terrace house type.

You can purchase a copy of the book at the RIBA bookshop.

October 2018

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Brentford Lock West Block E wins thrice at British Homes Awards 2018 Project Update

We're very pleased to announce that our Brentford Lock West Block E project has won Development of the Year (up to 100 homes) and Apartment Development of the Year at The Sunday Times British Homes Awards 2018. Our client also received the Judges Award for Homebuilder of the Year for this project.

Block E provides 42 high-quality homes within a set of pavilion buildings to create a vibrant canal-side residential community with shared streets, promoting local interaction and encouraging walking and cycling.

September 2018 View Project

Futures London Workshop Research News

Mæ has been commissioned by the Mayor of London to develop a new Housing Design Supplementary Planning Guidance to the new London Plan, which will advocate the best solutions for well-designed housing in the city.

The Futures London Workshop was an event held at City Hall in partnership with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust to aid us in developing this guidance. This was an open, frank, and enlivening event where we presented our ideas on emerging housing design and invited young Londoner's views on their cities and communities, including how these may be affected by either significant regeneration or by the changes that smaller infill housing might bring.

August 2018 View Article