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Daventry House shortlisted for RIBA Regional Award 2025 Project Update

Daventry House has been shortlisted for the RIBA London Awards 2025.

RIBA Regional Director of London, John Nahar said the shortlisted projects "capture and celebrate the city’s diverse cultural identity, contributing to inclusive and sustainable communities" and "not only improve the physical environment but also enhance the quality of life for all of us".

All projects shortlisted for RIBA Awards will be visited by a regional jury, and the winning projects will be announced later this spring.

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The Pineapple for Healthy Homes shortlisting for Agar Grove Project Update

Agar Grove has been shortlisted in the Healthy Homes category of The Pineapples 2025. The awards are in their 7th year, having launched in 2019 by The Developer and having grown to recognise excellence in every stage of the development, design and delivery of placemaking. They are the only awards that celebrate the very best in placemaking and place-led initiatives. The pineapple is an historic symbol of welcome in UK architecture, a fact that inspired the awards and its iconic golden pineapple trophy. Winning projects will be announced and presented at The Pineapples awards party, in April 2025.

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Housing standardisations: who designs our homes and how do we live? Practice News

Alex Ely will be joining a roundtable debate as part of the exhibition 'Housing Standardisation: Who Designs Our Homes and How Do We Live?' at the Building Centre. The exhibition explores recently built housing in England, Chile, China, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain, analysing their diverse housing systems and provisions through 37 in-depth case studies of affordable homes. It focuses on the experiences and everyday lives of residents, examining how design governance, housing standards, socio-cultural expectation, and home use shape perceptions of ‘well-designed’ and ‘affordable’ homes – and how these are highly contextual.

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Architectural Association MArch Jury Week Keynote Practice News

Founder Director Alex Ely will be giving a keynote lecture to kick-off the annual MArch Jury Week, which marks the culmination of six of the Taught Postgraduate Programmes. The talk will follow the Housing and Urbanism MArch jury at 6.30pm on Monday 6th January 2025. Titled Spatial systems for society the lecture will explore spatial systems at different scales, from the city as ecosystem to the cellular structure of the home as explored in the work of Mæ. The talk is available to view here.

January 2025 AA MArch Programme

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

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

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

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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RIBA Stirling Prize Jury Practice News

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.