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Henley Halebrown are delighted to announce our partnership with Volunteer It Yourself (VIY), an organisation that has involved over 7000 young people in the repair and improvement of community facilities in London.

Through our involvement with VIY we will engage youth who are interested the built environment and its associated trades as a career path, but who may not have access to work experience opportunities. We want to empower a more diverse range of young people to become involved in shaping our built environment.

Our first collaboration with VIY, the refurbishment of a green room for the non-profit theatre company Clean Break, is nearing completion, with more refurbishment and community-led meanwhile use projects on the horizon. We are looking forward to broadening our role as an industry mentor through this exciting new partnership. 

Simon Henley and Stefi Orazi debate brutalist architecture with Robert Elms on BBC Radio London, prompted by the inclusion of both Goldfinger’s towers – Trellick and Balfron – in this year’s Open House programme. ⁠

To listen, visit BBC Sounds and scroll to 2h40m. 

Henley Halebrown has won Planning Permission to build a children’s home and 17 affordable homes for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Bow in the East End of London.  

On Saturday 21st of September Henley Halebrown will take part in Open House London, with tours of schemes including Stirling shortlisted Chadwick Hall.

Our scheme for Edith Summerskill House in London’s Fulham has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival’s Future: Residential award.

This week practice principal Simon Henley addressed the Future School Buildings conference at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin.

Henley Halebrown has signed an open letter declaring a climate emergency. We will seek to:

– Raise awareness of the climate and biodiversity emergencies and the urgent need for action amongst our clients and supply chains.

– Advocate for faster change in our industry towards regenerative design practices and a higher Governmental funding priority to support this.

– Establish climate and biodiversity mitigation principles as the key measure of our industry’s success: demonstrated through awards, prizes and listings.

– Share knowledge and research to that end on an open source basis.

– Evaluate all new projects against the aspiration to contribute positively to mitigating climate breakdown, and encourage our clients to adopt this approach.

– Upgrade existing buildings for extended use as a more carbon efficient alternative to demolition and new build whenever there is a viable choice.

– Include life cycle costing, whole life carbon modelling and post occupancy evaluation as part of our basic scope of work, to reduce both embodied and operational resource use.

– Adopt more regenerative design principles in our studios, with the aim of designing architecture and urbanism that goes beyond the standard of net zero carbon in use.

– Collaborate with engineers, contractors and clients to further reduce construction waste.

– Accelerate the shift to low embodied carbon materials in all our work.

– Minimise wasteful use of resources in architecture and urban planning, both in quantum and in detail.

https://www.architectsdeclare.com

In their latest book – Public Housing: a London renaissance – New London Architecture examine the changing climate for public housing, the resurgent public sector, a new role for local councils and how we make the most efficient use of public land. HHbR joined a number of industry leaders in contributing to the research.

Hackney New School and Hackney New Primary School selected for Aedes Architectural Forum's FUTURE School Buildings exhibition in Berlin.

Hackney's Kings Crescent Estate has been featured in HIC Arquitectura, a leading Spanish language architecture platform. Hic et Nunc, meaning "here and now", provides information and discussion on contemporary architecture across the world.

Read the article here.Hackney's Kings Crescent Estate has been featured in HIC Arquitectura, a leading Spanish language architecture platform. Hic et Nunc, meaning "here and now", provides information and discussion on contemporary architecture across the world.

Read the article here.

Our scheme De Beauvoir Block was recently featured in Detail Magazine's German Blog Architecture. Described as a 'Black Roof Landscape', the dull black wooden structures wrapped in EPDM give De Beauvoir Block a new silhouette. 

Find the link here.

Simon Henley writes for Architecture Today on Dixon Jones' 35 Marylebone High Street.

"35 Marylebone High Street exploits the potential of latency in found objects and it is an ingenious amalgam of typologies, each of which plays its part in the city"

For the full article, follow this link.

Jennifer Pirie joins the studio as an architect having trained at The Scott Sutherland in Scotland and The Bartlett. She has previously worked extensively in China and the UK. 

Elina Dueker, originally from Kiel, arrives with us having worked with David Chipperfield in Germany. Elina has undertaken internships as a bricklayer and a carpenter, before qualifying as an architect.

Elin Soderberg, has recently been travelling having completed her Part Two at The Bartlett where she received The Architecture Medal for her work. She was also educated in Denmark and in her native Sweden. 

James Browne qualified as an Architect in Dublin, and has gained experience working in the Netherlands and Ireland.

We are also very happy to welcome Jieun Jun back following her completion of her Masters degree at the Royal College of Art. Jieun worked with us through her year out and has returned after spending some time in her native South Korea.

We are honoured to have received a commendation for De Beauvoir Block at the Civic Trusts Awards 2019.

The results of the 2018 Hackney Design Awards have been announced, with our schemes De Beauvoir Block and Kings Crescent Estate Phases 1&2 among the six winning designs.

In March, principal Simon Henley will give a lecture as part of the Queen's University Belfast Architecture Society's 'Architecture Is' series. Previous speakers include Filipe Magalhães of Fala Atelier and Joan McCoy of White Ink.

Find tickets through this link

There was a time when housing was just that, housing – cottages and country houses, terraces and tower blocks. But things change. For some time housebuilders have been building products, especially in the suburbs. Now almost everything is a product, probably because most is for the market. All new housing is named and branded, but the names and brands are underpinned by more fundamental structural changes in policy and expectation.

The forthcoming demolition of the remarkable Welbeck Street car park means there will soon be little evidence of our great British monuments to parking, writes Simon Henley for Architects' Journal.

On February 6, Simon gave a talk for Building on the Built, a series of public events that aim to promote the topic of architectural work connected with existing structures and, more specifically, to look at work that might challenge the way in which work on existing structures is approached today. Building on the Built aims to focus on work that celebrates an alternative to pure architecture, work that is evolving, mongrel and collaborative with time.

Opportunities to design new schools are few and the budgets to build them are restricted, but new schools, school buildings and extensions are being built and there is still scope to create exciting environments for learning and buildings that enrich their communities. At this masterclass leading designers will talk about how to commission and design high quality educational buildings even in today’s straightened times.

In February, Simon will join leading designers for Kent Design Masterclass: School design in the current funding context.

See the link for tickets and more information.

Residents’ consultation was key to Phases 1 & 2 of Karakusevic Carson and Henley Halebrown’s revamped Kings Crescent Estate, Hackney, winner of the AJ Architecture Awards Editor’s Choice prize, writes Rob Wilson in the recent building study featured in Architects' Journal. Link to the full article here.

We have recently celebrated the topping out of Hackney New Primary School, a mixed-use scheme combining a 350-pupil courtyard primary school and 68 dual-aspect apartments and retail space in Hackney’s Kingsland Road Conservation Area, due for completion later this year. Henley Halebrown joined The Benyon Estate, developers Thornsett, and Hackney New School Trust to celebrate the occasion with a spectacular view of the city.

Kings Crescent Estate was awarded Housing Project of the Year (over £10 million) and Editor's Choice Award at the AJ Architecture Awards.

Hattie Hartman of the Architects' Journal writes, "The project was applauded by the AJ Architecture Awards jury for demonstrating an ‘holistic approach that is socially and spatially innovative’. Showing what is possible within a budget, Kings Crescent Estate stands as an exemplar in high density, mid-rise housing. ‘This is housing with character and without compromise. This is what all councils should be aiming for,’ is how the jury summed it up. The scheme sets a laudably high bar for estate regeneration and more widespread adoption of this approach could positively impact London’s housing crisis. "

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Simon Henley attended the symposium, Education: An Urban Inquiry, in Vienna this month, presenting our scheme Hackney New School as part of a Case Study on Urban Reconstruction.

The symposium is a co-production of ÖGFA, the Austrian Society for Architecture and IoA, the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts of Vienna.

Helen and Adam’s research considers some of Europe's more arcane architectural figures, thereby revealing a series of alternative modernisms concerned with the contemporary architect’s position in a cultural continuum. ‘The Stones of Fernand Pouillon’ presents the work of the prolific French architect and will be the subject of the evening’s talk by Helen. Adam will give a brief overview of the series, including an upcoming publication on 'Hopkins in the City'.

We are delighted that Chadwick Hall has been nominated for the The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van dear Rohe Award 2019. Candidates for the Award are put forward by independent experts from all over Europe.

The Jury, that will be announced in December, will meet in January and the 40 shortlisted works will then be known. The 5 Finalist works will be announced in February and the Granting Ceremony will take place in Barcelona on May 7 2019 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.

The RIBA is hosting an exhibition of the Stirling Prize shortlisted buildings at RIBA North, Mann Island, Liverpool from 16 November 2018 to 23 February 2019.

In mid-November, Simon Henley visited the Faculty of Architecture, KULeuven, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent. There he gave a lecture in the series Exploring Fundamentals, and joined Ass. Prof. dr. Caroline Voet and students for discussion in studio.

Simon Henley recently led a tour of Chadwick Hall in conjunction with the Architecture Foundation.

See the web link here.

Chadwick Hall is a part of this year's RIBA Great British Buildings program, taking you behind the scenes of RIBA Award winning buildings, with a series of talks and tours across England. 

Simon Henley has recently given a guest lecture at the Hochschule Luzern (University of Applied Sciences and Arts) School of Engineering and Architecture in Switzerland. 

The event took place on the 4th October.

To see more lectures hosted by Hochschule Luzern, follow this link http://vorbilder.ch/lectures/

Henley Halebrown has recently been featured on the Monocle On Design radio show for its episode, Extra: Bricking it.

Listen to the show here.

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Film by Jim Stephenson

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We are delighted that – Chadwick Hall - our project for student residences at the University of Roehampton has made this year’s Stirling Prize shortlist. The Prize is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to the best building in the UK and is judged against a range of criteria including design vision and capacity to stimulate, engage and delight occupants and visitors. 

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We are thrilled that De Beauvoir Block won Office of the Year (2,000–5,000m²) at the AJ Retrofit Awards 2018.

Jury comment: An imaginative reworking of existing buildings with a sophisticated layering of new additions which resolve circulation and enhance daylight penetration. There is much sensitive use of materials and careful consideration of environmental impacts.

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Working in collaboration with Stephen Taylor Architects, we have been selected by Hackney Council to provide 170 new homes on four sites in the De Beauvoir Estate.

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Kings Crescent Estate has been shortlisted as Housing Project of the Year.

The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on 8 November 2018.

We are delighted that our project for the Kings Crescent Estate in Hackney has won the Mayor's Prize at the New London Architecture (NLA) Awards.

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In 2017, Mark Swenarton published Cook's Camden: The Making of Modern Housing (the result of ten years of research), of which is the theme for this talk. The book examines how Camden Council created a new kind of street-based housing, offering lessons for today.

The latest AJ focuses on workplaces, with studies of the De Beauvoir Block scheme for small businesses and startups.

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Three of our buildings, all in different sectors, have been successful in this year’s RIBA Regional Awards: Chadwick Hall in the education sector; De Beauvoir Block in adaptive reuse/offices sector; and Kings Crescent Estate in the housing/ regeneration sector.

Chadwick Hall | De Beauvoir Block | Kings Crescent Estate

Designs by Simon Henley and Gavin Hale-Brown are inspired by the dominant social structures of the location as well as its cultural and architectural characteristics. This volume presents a number of buildings that are often inserted into the dense urban texture of London with a self-assertive, poetic expression.

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"A bold renovation by Henley Halebrown provides efficient but uplifting workspace and a model for sensitive development, finds Crispin Kelly"

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Chadwick Hall is featured in Architecture+Design India

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Presentations will be followed by a discussion and the opportunity for questions from the floor. The event aims to provide a forum for a discipline specific conversation between practitioners, academics, theorists and writers.

We are very pleased to announce that three of our schemes have been shortlisted for the RIBA London Awards: Chadwick Hall for the University of Roehampton, De Beauvoir Block for The Benyon Estate and Kings Crescent Estate for the London Borough of Hackney in collaboration with Karakusevic Carson Architects and Muf Architecture/Art.

Delighted with the positive feedback we had from residents who spoke on the BBC Today programme about living at the Kings Crescent Estate in Hackney. As suggested in their comments, the affordable homes we have designed have exceeded expectations and enabled homeownership for many who have struggled to get on the housing ladder. As one resident said, "We absolutely love it, so we feel really lucky. We are still pinching ourselves…”.

Adam Branson discusses estate regeneration in The Architect's Journal, featuring King's Crescent by Karakusevic Carson Architects, Henley Halebrown and Muf Architecture for Hackney Council.

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Henley Halebrown is delighted to have two schemes included as part of the Centre for Architecture’s exhibition "Social Housing – New European Projects “ , Curated by KCA, in New York. 

The models are of the practice’s projects for the King’s Crescent Estate and the Nightingale Estate, both in the London Borough of Hackney.  The former housing scheme is a collaboration with Karakusevic Carson Architects and muf architecture/art and the latter with Karakusevic Carson architects and Stephen Taylor Architects. The exhibition is on until May 19, 2018

Events

Henley Halebrown was featured recently on Daily Dose, a non-profit art & architecture newsletter curated by Raphael Kadid, based in Basel, Switzerland. 

The feature includes our schemes Hackney New School, Copper Lane & Edith Summerskill among others.

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We are delighted to have been shortlisted for BD Housing Architect of The Year this week. Among other things, the judges were looking for “evidence of all-round design excellence and fitness for purpose over a body of work”. In 2011, we were awarded “Public Building Architect of the Year” in the BD Architect of the Year Awards. 

This week we also received an important recognition for our Chadwick Hall student housing at the University of Roehampton. It was selected as one of six projects in the Wandsworth Design Awards and will be presented with the Mayors Design Award. Judges were impressed with its contemporary design to provide student accommodation on a challenging site within the grounds of grade II* listed Downshire House (1770).

Project | 2017 Wandsworth Design Awards

Speakers from leading architecture practices, including Simon Henley, will present their responses to this challenging issue.

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Site progress photos of Hackney New Primary School can be viewed on the journal. Basement groundwork and the schools structural frame is underway.

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Day Visit at Roehampton University, London organised by HEDQF which will include presentations on the recent projects, including Chadwick Hall designed by Henley HaleBrown (23 January 2018, 11am to 4:45pm)

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All the best for 2018 from everyone at Henley Halebrown

Simon Henley will be speaking as part of a program of cultural events organized by Genoa’s Architects Professional Association Foundation (FOAGE) on Forms of Living.

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Henley Halebrown's Chadwick Hall is featured in depth in this months Domus magazine, October 2017.  The article explains the design of the three student residence buildings with accompanying photographs and drawings.

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Project page updates with new drawings and photographs by Nick Kane and David Grandorge.

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Project page updates with new drawings and renders from planning application.

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Recently completed De Beauvoir Block project page updates with new drawings and photographs by Nick Kane and David Grandorge.

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Building tours at Open House 2017.

Project page updates with new drawings and photographs by Nick Kane and David Grandorge.

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Simon Henley's Redefining Brutalism book launch at the Architectural Association on 28 June 2017.

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Character and potential of our built environment.

Cultural Regeneration of the Humber Estuary.