Planning proposals were recently submitted for Macbean Street, a mixed-use development of 595 homes and flexible commercial space set within the heritage context of the nearby Woolwich Arsenal.

St George's Bristol has been voted as the RIBA Journal's Best On Show building in the South West region. The accolade celebrates some of the buildings that "most affect people's lives and that have most impressed readers", both RIBA members and the wider public. Click here to read more about the shortlist on the RIBA Journal website.

We are delighted to secure a place on Peabody's £85m consultants' framework. Pictured is Times House at London Dock, our first project for Peabody that involved a retrofit and redevelopment of the old The Times and The Sunday Times office building into 70 family homes arranged around central courtyards.

Industrial co-location schemes help to deliver homes while also intensifying critical industrial activities. Elthorne Works in Hanwell is the first our our industrial co-location projects to receive planning.

We are delighted to join an illustrious list of London architects on Southwark Council's LHC ADS framework for masterplanning and landscape architecture services. Since 2016, we have been providing strategic input into the council's Old Kent Road Area Action Plan and look forward to working with the council and local communities to help progress their borough-wide regeneration.

One of London's largest estate regeneration projects at Grahame Park has been granted approval for planning. When complete, the estate will provide over 2,088 new homes (50% affordable) with improved community facilities, landscape and infrastructure.

Proposals for the Cambridge Road Estate can now be developed towards planning following a highly successful outcome at Residents' Ballot, where 73% of the 86% turnout voted in favour of the regeneration plans.

Another win for London Dock! This time, for its stunning landscape design at the 2019 Sunday Times British Homes Award. The landscape strategy opened the historically defensive site to increase urban mobility through Wapping and reconnect the docks to the rest of East London.

Beam Park has been nominated for a 2019 AJ Architecture Award in the Masterplan of the Year category! Delighted that our 3,000-home city addition with Countryside and L&Q has once again been recognised for its contribution to East London's regeneration. Click here to read the full shortlist.

Shelter UK's "A vision for social housing" report calls for land reform, more protection for renters and 3.1 million homes for social rent over the next 20 years. Honoured that a mini-case study of Barking's Courtyard Housing was included as an exemplar of equitable social development for senior living. Click here to read the full report.

From its 19th century heyday as the centre of world trade, to the site of the News International printworkers' strike in the 1990's; London Dock has been a place in constant transition. Today, it is one of the city's brightest emerging districts, imbued with the spirit of Wapping's dockland heritage. Join George Ferrari and heavyweight of British graphic design, Andy Altmann of Why Not Associates, of on a walking tour that explores how Wapping's colourful past has been embedded into the design of the mixed-use development adjacent to Tobacco Dock. Free with Festival of Place pass, click here to book.

St George's Bristol was the recipient of a Bristol Civic Society 2019 Design Award for its contribution to the city's built environment heritage! The panel were said to be "very impressed by the design quality of the new extension, unashamedly modern, yet working harmoniously with the Greek Revival church of Robert Smirke. Both externally and internally the new extension works superbly and delivers on its brief."

Our façade study of 8-13 Casson Square is currently on display at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Curated by Spencer de Grey, sustainability was the theme for this year's Architecture Room. The complex, crafted organisation of the building's external appearance is expressed through a modular system of unitised façade panels. Manufactured off site, full-storey single and double-bay façade portions are delivered to site, glazed, sealed and ready to be craned into place. The production method benefits from waste-conscious, controlled factory conditions that lower the building's overall environmental impact. From 10 June - 12 August, 10:00 - 18:00 daily, £18 (concessions available). 

Following a 3.5 year closure, York Road ticket hall reopens to the public. The original ticket hall was built to serve the 1951 Festival of Britain and was later subsumed as part of the Shell complex. Today, it forms the gateway to the emerging Southbank Place and more importantly, it creates new pedestrian connections between Waterloo Station and the Thames. Located over three levels at the base of 8-13 Casson Square, this has been one of our most technically complex projects to date.

St George's Bristol received 'Highly Commended' in the Transformation category of the inaugural Bristol Property Awards! Equally thrilled that the awards ceremony was held at St George's. Congratulations to the team: BuroHappold Engineering, Alan Baxter, Charcoalblue and of course, the wonderful St George's Bristol.

Photograph: Evan Dawson

For the first time in 40 years, we are staying to see substantial numbers of homes being delivered by local authorities. This NLA report and accompanying exhibition examines different trends in the design and delivery of public housing in the capital today; from infill sites, to estate regeneration and mega-brownfield transformations. Click here for a free download of the report, featuring Courtyard Housing and Beam Park.

York Place has also been shortlisted for a 2019 Planning Award for the Best Use of Arts, Culture and Sports in Placemaking! When complete, the unique development will provide a new home for the Royal Academy of Dance, alongside 299 mixed-tenure homes and an equitable public realm for all.

The award nominations keep rolling in for London Dock! The 6.2 hectare transformation of Wapping's historic docklands has been shortlisted for a Planning Award for Regeneration, as well as RESI Award for Development of the Year. Fingers crossed...

With a rapidly changing skyline and city shape, questions remain over the contributions that tall buildings bring to the capital: do we have the appropriate tools to ensure tall buildings are in the right place and of good quality design? How do tall buildings contribute to the streetscape, providing good quality public realm as part of their developments? And how do we make sure that tall buildings really address London's housing challenge? Click here to download the 2019 NLA Tall Buildings Report.

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We celebrated a key milestone today with the topping-out of Coda at York Place. Sincere thanks to Omer Weinberger and the team at Avanton Limited for a fantastic event. Also to Leader of Wandsworth Council Ravi Govindia and the Royal Academy of Dance's Luke Rittner and Darcey Bussell for their thought-provoking speeches. In Ravi's words, "it was important not to miss the opportunity to create a place". Collectively, this is what the whole team have been working towards: a new destination that serves all of Battersea's communities.

"Watch, listen and learn how outdoor spaces and nature shapes everyday lives. Be thoughtful of people's needs and have a strong, bold vision with ideas that makes those places better for all. Landscape Architecture uses nature and sustainability to unlock a healthy and happy vitality in all."

Senior Landscape Architect Tom Sudhoff, shares his views with Y3-6 pupils at Britannia Village Primary Careers Day, alongside colleagues from Foster + Partners, Barton Willmore and Keystone London.

If you are looking for an uplifting festive experience, take a trip down to the Museum of Architecture's Gingerbread City at the V&A Museum. This tasty utopia is open to the public until Sunday 06 January and features work from a stellar line-up of architects and designers, including our very own Honeycomb Hall. From all of us here at Patel Taylor, we wish you a wonderful Christmas break and look forward to seeing you in the New Year!

Lee Mallett writes about the new chapter in the life of the Old Kent Road in today's Evening Standard. Since 2016, we have led the tall building and employment strategies, public realm design guidelines, as well as a series of masterplan and site feasibility studies for Southwark's local Area Action Plan (AAP). Read more about the next steps for one of London's most fascinating historic districts here.

Lombard Wharf is a finalist in the AJ Architecture Awards Housing category! Full shortlist here.

London’s Deputy Mayor for Planning, Regeneration and Skills Jules Pipe gave the resolution to grant approval for Beam Park following a successful hearing today at City Hall. With 3,000 homes over 31 hectares, this is one of the largest brownfield land transformations in the UK today, right after Stephenson Street. Unusually, the site stretches across two London boroughs; Havering to the east, and Barking & Dagenham to the west. Between 1931 and 2013, the site was occupied by the Ford Dagenham automotive factory; this rich industrial heritage partly influenced elements of the Phase 1 building design.

Courtyard Housing strikes again! Featured today in Dezeen as one of seven bungalows worthy of early retirement - click on the links to read more.

Delighted to share that our hybrid planning application for Stephenson Street was granted approval today. Delivering 3,810 homes and supporting amenities over 10.6 hectares, this new piece of the city aims to redefine perceptions of Newham, while improving urban mobility between West Ham and Bromley-by-Bow.

London is growing. As our urban populations increase, the demand for new homes continues to rise. Tall buildings play an important role in the solution to meet this demand. Since 2014, NLA have charted the tall building trend in London; the latest report is available to read now and features two of our projects; Lombard Wharf and Stephenson Street. Click here to download the full report.

Lombard Wharf won Silver for Best Exterior Design at the What House? Awards! Here's what the judges had to say, "The simple concept of undulating ribbon balconies gives this scheme a strong identity and a clean sculptural aesthetic. Overall, the scheme makes a positive contribution to the London skyline and the public realm, with a simple and effective façade articulation that delivers a sense of form and place."

Join Andrew Taylor and Craig Carson of St George City for a talk and guided walk of London Dock, as part of this year's London Festival of Architecture. The event starts at 18:00 in the Trading Words pop-up exhibition space, where visitors can find out more about the weird and wonderful goods once imported and exported at the historic Wapping docklands, followed by a guided walk through the newly unveiled public spaces along the Trading Words art installation and inside the Edwardian Pennington Street Warehouse.

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The first building at London Dock is now complete! Clipper Wharf provides 57 apartments within a 6-storey bronze anodised aluminium and glass box, inspired by the historic dockside architecture of metal transit sheds that once stood on the site. Forming a jewel-like object in the cityscape, Clipper Wharf is the development's flagship residential building, designed to create a sense of arrival at London Dock. 

We are incredibly proud to have won RIBA East Building of the Year Award as well as an RIBA East Regional Award for our University of Essex Albert Sloman Library and Silberrad Student Centre. The project is now up for consideration for the RIBA National Award which will be revealed in June 2016.

We are delighted to take one of Bristol’s most loved concert venues through to the next stage of design development. The new pavilion for St George's Bristol, which has recently received planning consent, will reconfigure and extend this world-class music venue helping to secure its long term future and financial sustainability.

For this year's Open House London, we are offering architect-led tours of Courtyard Housing. Completed in 2014, Courtyard Housing is an innovative protoype for senior living in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, based on a radical shake-up of the traditional English almshouse typology. Click here for more information.

Patel Taylor and St James have received a resolution to grant planning permission for White City Living, one of London’s most ambitious large-scale regeneration projects. Proposals for the redevelopment of a 10.5 hectare brownfield site will provide West London with up to 1,465 new homes with a new public park at its heart. The new homes are made up of a range of different sizes and tenures, including affordable housing, while commercial, leisure and community uses are planned to support the residential development. For further information, click here.

Lombard Wharf, a 28-storey residential tower with an elegantly twisting sculptural form, has been granted planning permission. Work can now begin to construct this distinctive new addition to the Thames riverside. The tower occupies one of the last remaining waterfront sites in Wandsworth and lies adjacent to the Grade II* listed Cremorne Bridge. This combination of new homes, exemplary design and generous public realm, will work together to create a new destination for Wandsworth, drawing people towards and reconnecting the local community to the riverfront.

"We're creating a new piece of the city and the trail, which includes poems and artwork, will act as a visual and verbal narrative and collective memory" - Andrew Taylor on the Gordon Young and Why Not Associates public realm artwork at London Dock in the FT How to Spend it article, Properties with art at their heart - read it online here.

Eastside City Park has won a further two awards this week. The scheme, which has already received a number of accolades, was named Best Public Space Scheme at the FX Awards on Wednesday, followed by success in the Design for a Medium Scale Public Development at yesterdays Landscape Institute Awards.  

Patel Taylor has been commissioned by developers St James to develop a residential-led masterplan for a prominent 10.4 acre site in West London. Appointed after a competition, we are developing masterplan, architecture and landscape design proposals for the White City site, which sits opposite the former BBC Television Centre and adjacent to Westfield shopping Centre, and is currently home to a Marks & Spencer distribution depot. For further information, click here.

London Borough of Tower Hamlets has granted planning permission for London Dock in Wapping, East London. The redevelopment will transform the 15-acre site into a mixed use and residential development comprising 1,800 homes, 20,000m² of commercial space, and over 50% public open space, including a new civic square.

The first phase of development will commence in March, with completion of the entire site expected in 2029. Further details on the project can be seen here.

We are honoured to announce that we have been named Masterplanning and Public realm Architect of the Year in the Architect of the Year Awards 2013. Organised by Building Design magazine, the awards reward the practices responsible for the best overall body of work within various sectors. A full list of the winners can be viewed here.

We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for BD magazine's Architect of the Year Awards. Nominated in the Masterplanning and Public Realm category alongside five other practices, the awards recognise bodies of work in numerous sectors within the profession. The winner will be announced in December. A full shortlist and further details can be seen here. 

Patel Taylor's public realm proposals for the historic Ram Brewery site, as part of the EPR Architects masterplan for owners Minerva, has been granted planning approval. Located in Wandsworth Town, the banks of the River Wandle will be opened up, with 1.2 hectares of public space being created.

Eastside City park picked up yet another award nomination this week. Following on from the recent success in the RIBA awards, it has been shortlisted in the Landscape category at the World Architecture Festival Awards. Taking place in Singapore from 2-4 October 2013, WAF is the largest festival and live awards programme for the global architecture community. A full shortlist can be viewed here.

Here is the first image of the Phoenix School in Bow, East London. Due for completion later this year, this SEN school is part of a scheme that encompasses the neighbouring Central Foundation Girls School, also by Patel Taylor, which will complete in 2014. 

Patel Taylor have had three projects shortlisted for this years NLA awards. Courtyard Housing has made the Residential category, Lowther Primary School the Education category and the East Village masterplan, for which we authored the Design Guidelines as well as designing plots N03 and N04, is shortlisted in the Masterplans and Mixed-Use category. Recognising 'the very best in architecture, planning and development in the capital', the winners will be announced in a ceremony at The Guildhall on July 11th.

Lambeth Council recently granted planning permission for the redevelopment of the Shell Centre site on London's Southbank. Featuring a residential tower by Patel Taylor, work is due to start on site later this year with completion expected in 2019.

Patel Taylor have recently been shortlisted for several awards. Our blocks on the East Village in Stratford (formerly the 2012 Athletes Village) have been shortlisted for an RIBA London regional award, whilst Eastside City Park is in the running for recognition on three fronts - from the RIBA West Midlands, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and the Institute of Civil Engineers.

This Wednesday evening sees the launch of Forum at Forty Eight with an evening debate on the 'Value of Investing in Landscape' at Patel Taylors Clerkenwell office. Chaired by Ruth Slavid, the editor of the Landscape Institute Journal, the panel will comprise of Mark Davy (Founder of Futurecity), Clive Dutton (Executive Director for Regeneration and Inward Investment for London Borough of Newham), Sue Illman (President of Landscape Institute), Jonathan Smales (Executive Chairman, Beyond Green) and Andrew Taylor (Director, Patel Taylor).

Patel Taylor's recently completed Eastside City Park in Birmingham has been profiled in this weeks Architects Journal, by Rory Olcayto.

Patel Taylor and Allain Provost successfully emerged from two stages of an international competition as the winners of the commission to design Birmingham’s first new park for over a century. This is a wonderful opportunity and one which has had our highest attention. The site is a long, narrow site which joins the city centre along the frontage of Millennium Point eastwards to the Digbeth canal and lies within the city’s Eastside regeneration precinct.

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Having won an international competition, we are designing a new student centre for the University of Essex in Colchester, which will also include an addition to the university’s Albert Sloman library. When complete in 2014 it will be the largest new building on campus. The student centre is our second project for the University of Essex, as we also designed a lecture hall there which won Civic Trust and RIBA Awards in 2008.