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Clients seeking diversity ‘shouldn’t delegate responsibility to practices’ Emerging practices with BAME-leadership have called on clients to ‘be more proactive’ about diversity and avoid shifting responsibility on to bidding teams and small firms Speaking ahead of tonight’s Negroni talk on ‘bamewashing’, two of the panellists have responded to growing concerns that BAME-led micro-companies are being pressured to join forces with larger practices on time-consuming and costly bids for large-scale work. Advertisement AJ 40 under 40 star Jas Bhalla, a panellist for the Negroni tal...

Copy The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the selection of nimtim architects with artist Katie Schwab for the Becontree Estate’s public realm commission. Looking to redesign 12 neglected and underused corner plots across the estate, the project reimagines these areas as new civic squares in East London. On the centenary of the estate, RIBA in collaboration with Create London and London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (LBBD) is celebrating Becontree’s past and reimagining its future. Six emerging and mid-career architectural practices were invited to propose a way...

Show Fullscreen Nimtim Architects’ winning proposal for Becontree Estate Nimtim Architects has won an RIBA competition to reimagine neglected areas of the Becontree Estate in east London. The agenda-setting project was built 100 years ago as part of the garden city movement and became the largest municipal housing estate in the world with 26,000 homes and, at one point, 100,000 people on four square miles of land in Barking & Dagenham. The public realm contest is part of a series of centenary celebrations which will also see two exhibitions mounted at the RIBA’s headquarters on Portland P...