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By Tom Lowe2021-05-11T05:00:00+01:00 Newham scheme designed with small windows to reduce overheating Levitt Bernstein has been given planning permission for a £22m affordable housing development in Newham designed to Passivhaus standards. The 65-home scheme in east London will include 39% family dwellings and a nursery and has been drawn up by a project team including sustainability consultant Etude, M&E engineer Max Fordham and structural engineer Heyne Tillet Steel. The scheme has been designed with small windows to reduce overheating in summer It has been awarded £6.4m in GLA funding w...

National Gallery announces shortlist for NG200 design competition 8 April 2021 Asif Khan, Caruso St John, David Chipperfield, David Kohn, Selldorf Architects, and Witherford Watson Mann have been selected in the first stage of the National Gallery’s NG200 refurbishing competition. London’s National Gallery is looking to redesign the foyer area of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s 1991 Sainsbury Wing, the gallery's main entrance since 2018. “Although the 1991 Sainsbury Wing has more than satisfied its original brief, audiences have grown over the past 30 years and, during bu...

Yinka Shonibare To Coordinate 253rd RA Summer Exhibition – National Gallery  The Summer Exhibition Committee members are Royal Academicians Tony Bevan, Vanessa Jackson, Mali Morris, Humphrey Ocean, Eva Rothschild, Bob and Roberta Smith and Emma Stibbon. David Adjaye will curate the Architecture Gallery. The committee will be chaired by the President of the Royal Academy, Rebecca Salter. For this year’s exhibition, Shonibare will explore the theme of ‘Reclaiming Magic’ and celebrate the joy of creating art. He also plans to include some work that has not been made in a ‘Western trad...

Maccreanor Lavington completes timber refectory for Roehampton school 9 March 2021 By Fran Williams. Photography by Jack Hobhouse 1/23 Source: Source: Source: Maccreanor Lavington has revealed its flexible timber refectory space for Ibstock Place School in Roehampton The new school dining hall for Ibstock Place School in south-west London features a striking glulam lattice-frame ceiling with inset panels of oak. Advertisement The brick and clay tile-clad canteen-style block sits at the heart of the campus and looks out over the school’s garden. The materials have been chosen to ...

EXCLUSIVE: The first look inside Ecclesiastical’s new multi-million pound headquarters After an 18-month construction project, Ecclesiastical Insurance’s new UK headquarters has been officially completed – and here’s what it looks like. Benefact House – the new headquarters of Ecclesiastical in Gloucestershire. Benefact House – the new headquarters of Ecclesiastical in Gloucestershire. Benefact House – the new headquarters of Ecclesiastical in Gloucestershire. Benefact House – the new headquarters of Ecclesiastical in Gloucestershire. Despite the national battle against the Co...