Allies and Morrison

The joy of making. Our festive window along the facade of our Southwark Street studios, stop by and take a look. This year's display celebrates the abundant creativity of our colleagues through their explorations in making, outside of practice life. From ceramics, to dressmaking, to bike restoration, we’re proud to show the talent of the many people that ‘make' a practice. With a sprinkling of seasonal fun. Wishing everyone a peaceful and joyous end to the year. See you in 2025.

On Thursday, our Bob Allies will be in Seoul sharing learnings from our work at King's Cross, as part of Reshaping Spatial Structure, an international conference organised by the Seoul Metropolitan Government (서울특별시) and the Korea Urban Real Estate Association. You can register here: https://url.kr/yn3we5 

Thrilled with this news. Congrats to all the team.

Delighted to share that our Boord Street project has recently received planning approval. This community of sustainable new homes at the heart of Greenwich Peninsula marks a point of transition between our masterplan to the east where an emerging piece of city is taking shape, and to the western edge of the peninsula with its active wharf. The trio of residential buildings with interlocking forms step down from 26 storeys along Millenium Way, to 21 and 9 storeys towards the wharf; each step representing an increasing informality. March Square, a new south-facing public space at the corner of Marsh Walk and Boord Street, provides an entrance court for a nursery and leads to a light-filled residents garden at the centre of this family of buildings. New and repaired streets will knit the site into the wider fabric of the peninsula, with key routes along the future Millenium Way, a lively, tree-lined boulevard and River Way, an important east-west route. The wider project features student housing and self-storage and was a collaboration with aca studios and Threesixty Architecture Ltd.

Wonderful to see two of our projects recognised in the NLA Awards last week - The Low Line Vision took home the top prize for Masterplan and Area Strategies, as the category winner. Holland House also received a special commendation in the Conservation category. Congratulations to both project teams and clients - London Borough of Wandsworth, London Borough of Lambeth and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. #NLAawards24 #lowlinevision #masterplan #hollandhouse #conservation

Always a pleasure to visit Allies and Morrison, and many thanks to Lianne Peterkin for delivering an excellent presentation to our Year 12 #DEC students at #School21 about the company and the development of the Olympic Park and East Bank, which is local to our school in Newham.

A busy week at Cityscape Global in Riyadh for our Zainab Alireza and Simon Gathercole. #cityscapeglobal2024 #RIBAatcityscape

London Build Expo begins tomorrow at Olympia London where two of our colleagues will join the conversation. At 11am on the Tall Buildings stage, our Antje Saunders will be speaking on the panel; The Evolution of London’s Skyline: Successfully Incorporating New Skyscrapers into the Capital, looking at many aspects of designing tall from contextual towers, positive density, public realm activation, designing for light and for safety. Also at 11am on the Sustainability stage, our Alex Wraight will take part in a panel; Health Buildings, Healthy Lives: Wellbeing by Design - discussing the challenges to wellbeing with the rise of home-working in environments not designed to be workplaces. How can housing design adapt to this new reality beyond increasing spatial requirements, to facilitate more personalisation and enhance communality? Tickets are available here: https://lnkd.in/eTP3chWJ #londonbuildexpo2024

Delighted to share that our detailed application for a new life science neighbourhood in the heart of Whitechapel has received planning consent. The masterplan will help to deliver a long-held vision supported by Barts Health NHS Trust, Queen Mary University of London, the Greater London Authority and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The proposals transform a series of outdated buildings and empty sites around the Royal London Hospital, with a new vision that provides commercial workplace, life science laboratories and higher education space alongside new public amenities including green spaces, squares, cafes and community spaces. Read more about the proposals here: https://lnkd.in/ed3gfszY #lifesciences #whitechapel #publicrealm

Collecdev Markee's CEO, Jennifer Keesmaat, and VP Development, Alex Mather, were in London, England, this past week and received an inspiring tour from our partners and friends at Allies and Morrison. They are an award-winning UK-based architecture firm working with Collecdev Markee on various transformative projects across the GTA, which will be announced soon. Allies and Morrison share’s our commitment to placemaking and community building through high-quality urban design, buildings and materials, as evidenced by their Master Plan of King Cross and Keybridge Development (pictured below). Thanks for having us!