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    Chadwick Hall awarded Silver in the Fritz Höger Award 2020 for Brick Architecture

    We're delighted that Chadwick Hall on the University of Roehampton campus has been awarded Silver in the 'Residential Building/Apartment Complex' Category of the Fritz Höger Award 2020 for Brick Architecture.

    Read the full journal entry here

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    Chadwick Hall shortlisted for the Fritz Höger Award 2020 for Brick Architecture

    We're delighted that Chadwick Hall, a project concerned with history, social purpose, and the way we build, has been shortlisted for the Fritz Höger Award 2020 for Brick Architecture. 

    Read the full journal page here

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    Recent articles on Hackney New Primary School

    Within the past month, our recently completed mixed-use scheme, Hackney New Primary School / 333 Kingsland Road has been published in the UK press. The scheme fuses two building typologies, a courtyard school and an apartment building within a compact footprint that frees up much of the site for the school. 


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    Serious Delight - Hackney New Primary School / 333 Kingsland Road

    "Henley Halebrown’s new project in Hackney, east London, is of interest as much for its approach to urban design as for its architecture." 


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    The Facade - a Liminal Space, an editorial critique for The Plan Magazine

    "Like the novelist, the architect uses narrative, events or elements, characters or spaces, to reveal truths, and universal ideas that are more widely applicable" 

    Read the full journal entry here



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    NLQ Magazine: Working The Social

    Henley Halebrown is celebrating 25 years of creating human, sensitive and civic-minded buildings, and ‘quietly fighting a rear-guard action for the welfare state’. By David Taylor

    Read the full journal entry here

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    Three projects shortlisted for Housing Design Awards

    We're proud to have three projects shortlisted for this years's Housing Design Awards and send congratulations to our collaborators.

    Read the full journal entry here

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    Arnold Road in Building Design

    Tower Hamlets council has given the go-ahead for a 100% affordable housing scheme designed by Henley Halebrown.

    Read the full journal entry here

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    Congregation: One Day Festival

    Curated by the Architecture Foundation, in partnership with Grand Junction
    Alain de Botton in conversation with Simon Henley 

    Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene’s, London

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    Congregation; An exhibition of secular and sacred architecture

    Curated by the Architecture Foundation, in partnership with Grand Junction
    Battersea Baptist Church & Thames Christian School
    February - March 2020
    Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene’s, London

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    Dialogues 09

    Dialogues 09 with Milinda Pathiraja. The talk will explore the subject of ‘Labour, Work & Architecture’.


    Dialogues is a series of talks hosted by Henley Halebrown at their studio in Shoreditch. The events provide a forum for a range of voices from across the discipline to share projects and ideas, encouraging informal discussions and critical engagement.

    Read the full journal entry here

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    Suzanne Deakin illustrates Hackney New Primary School

    This playful cartoon, by Suzanne Deakins, illustrates the primary school with a whole host of different characters. 

    Illustration, December 2019

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    Planning Permission Granted for Stour Road

    Henley Halebrown has received planning permission for a new 330-room student accommodation project for Future Generation and studios, exhibition and performance space for Stour Space on a site in Fish Island in Hackney Wick, just west of the Olympic Park.  The site falls within the London Legacy Development Area within an up-and-coming part of the city currently undergoing major regeneration.


    Image credit: F10 Studios

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    Morphology & Matter

    On 2 November Simon Henley gave a lecture entitled Morphology & Matter at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

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    Register Lecture – Making Sense

    On 6 November Simon Henley gave a lecture entitled Making Sense at Kingston School of Art at Kingston University 

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    Kings Crescent Final Phase Planning Permission Granted

    We have received planning permission for the final phase of our work on the award-winning Kings Crescent development, in collaboration with KCA and MUF Architecture/Art. When complete, this mixed use piece of city will be made up of nearly 500 new homes and the refurbishment of 275. Alongside the creation new build housing, the project will have a transformational effect on the lifespan of the existing buildings and the living conditions for the long established community. 

    Read the full journal entry here

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    Gavin Hale-Brown Featured in Building Magazine

    Gavin Hale-Brown tells Building about a cemetery in Italy, getting dirty to make buildings work, and being a secret artist...

    Read the full interview here

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    Norman Grove Architects' Journal Feature

    "The scheme in Norman Grove, Bow, is made up of four townhouses and 13 flats for social rent to people on the council’s housing register and forms part of the local authority’s wider commitment to deliver 2,000 new council homes by 2022."

    Read the full article here

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    Planning Permission Granted for Norman Grove

    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.  

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    Open House London

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

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    Edith Summerskill House shortlisted for WAF 2019

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

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    Simon presents at Aedes Architecture Forum

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

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    'Public housing: a London renaissance' released

    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.

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    Hackney New School at FUTURE School Buildings

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

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    Kings Crescent in HIC Arquitectura

    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.

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    De Beauvoir Block on Detail Magazine

    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.

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    New Starters

    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.

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    Civic Trust Awards 2019

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

    View Project | Civic Trust Awards | Wayne Myers Photography

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    Hackney Design Awards

    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.

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  • Belfast Lecture Poster

    Architecture Is...

    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

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  • Thought for tomorrow: Housing 2044

    Thought for tomorrow: Housing 2044

    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.

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  • V&A should save this unique car park façade

    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.

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    Building on the Built

    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.

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  • Kent Design Masterclass

    Kent Design Masterclass

    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.

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    Democratic regeneration: Kings Crescent Estate

    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.

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    Hackney New Primary School Topping Out

    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.

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    Kings Crescent wins two AJ Architecture Awards

    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. "


    View Project | See the link to the full article here.

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    Symposium - Education: An Urban Inquiry

    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.


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    Dialogues 06

    Helen Thomas and Adam Caruso ‘An Alternative Modernism’

    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'.

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    EU Mies Award 2019 Nomination

    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.

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    RIBA North Stirling Prize Exhibition

    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.

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    KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture

    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.

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    Architecture Foundation Tour of Chadwick Hall

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


    See the web link here.

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    RIBA Great British Buildings Tour

    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. 

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    Guest Lecture at Hochschule Luzern

    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/

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    Monocle On Design

    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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    RIBA Stirling Prize Exhibition 2018

    Chadwick Hall features as part of RIBA's Stirling Prize Exhibition 2018 at 66 Portland Place. It provides a glimpse of the six schemes shortlisted and an opportunity to better understand the buildings and the practices behind them.

    3 October to 9 November 2018

    Opening times:
    Monday to Saturday: 10am to 5pm
    Tuesday: 10am to 8pm

    Sunday: Closed

    RIBA | View Project

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    RIBA’s Stirling Prize 2018 Shortlist

    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. 

    View project | RIBA

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    AJ Retrofit Awards Winner

    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.

    View Project | Architects' Journal

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    De Beauvoir Estate Infills

    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.

    Architects' Journal

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    Building Awards Shortlist

    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.

    Building Awards 2018

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    Mayor's Prize at NLA Awards

    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.

    View project | Mayor's Speech

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    Dialogues 05

    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.

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    AJ Building Study

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

    The Architects' Journal | Project Page

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    RIBA London Award Winners

    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

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    De Aedibus International 15

    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.

    Quart | AA Bookshop

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    De Aedibus Book Launch

    Drinks reception on Wednesday 9 May 2018 at the AA Bookshop with Simon Henley and Gavin Hale-Brown to celebrate the launch of this new publication.

    Quart | AA Bookshop

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    http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=3863

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    Black Block

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


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    Architecture+Design India, October 2017

    Chadwick Hall is featured in Architecture+Design India


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    Dialogues 04

    Takero Shimazaki (TSa) and Nicholas Lobo Brennan (Apparata)

    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.

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    RIBA London Awards Shortlist

    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.

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    Kings Crescent on Today

    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…”.

    Today programme | View project

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    People Powered

    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.

    AJ Article

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    Hackney Housing Show in New York

    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


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    Daily Dose 1033

    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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    Recognition for Housing Design

    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

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    Design in Historic Environments

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

    Kent Design | Tickets

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    Groundwork and Frame

    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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    HEDQF at University of Roehampton

    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)

    HEDQF Event | Book Tickets

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    Happy New Year!

    All the best for 2018 from everyone at Henley Halebrown

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    Forms of Living Conference

    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.

    FOAGE

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    Domus 1017

    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.

    View Project | Domus

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    Chadwick Hall

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

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    Edith Summerskill House

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

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    De Beauvoir Block

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

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    Open House at De Beauvoir Block

    Building tours at Open House 2017.

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    Hackney New School

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

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    Redefining Brutalism Book Launch

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

    RIBA J | AT | BBC | AA Bookshop

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    Zollverein and the IBA

    Character and potential of our built environment.

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    Goole and Hull

    Cultural Regeneration of the Humber Estuary.

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  • We're delighted that Chadwick Hall on the University of Roehampton campus has been awarded Silver in the 'Residential Building/Apartment Complex' Category of the Fritz Höger Award 2020 for Brick Architecture.

    Read the full journal entry here

  • We're delighted that Chadwick Hall, a project concerned with history, social purpose, and the way we build, has been shortlisted for the Fritz Höger Award 2020 for Brick Architecture. 

    Read the full journal page here

  • Within the past month, our recently completed mixed-use scheme, Hackney New Primary School / 333 Kingsland Road has been published in the UK press. The scheme fuses two building typologies, a courtyard school and an apartment building within a compact footprint that frees up much of the site for the school. 


    Read the full journal page here

  • "Henley Halebrown’s new project in Hackney, east London, is of interest as much for its approach to urban design as for its architecture." 


    Read the full journal entry here

  • "Like the novelist, the architect uses narrative, events or elements, characters or spaces, to reveal truths, and universal ideas that are more widely applicable" 

    Read the full journal entry here



  • Henley Halebrown is celebrating 25 years of creating human, sensitive and civic-minded buildings, and ‘quietly fighting a rear-guard action for the welfare state’. By David Taylor

    Read the full journal entry here

  • We're proud to have three projects shortlisted for this years's Housing Design Awards and send congratulations to our collaborators.

    Read the full journal entry here

  • Tower Hamlets council has given the go-ahead for a 100% affordable housing scheme designed by Henley Halebrown.

    Read the full journal entry here

  • Curated by the Architecture Foundation, in partnership with Grand Junction
    Alain de Botton in conversation with Simon Henley 

    Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene’s, London

    Read the full journal entry here

  • Curated by the Architecture Foundation, in partnership with Grand Junction
    Battersea Baptist Church & Thames Christian School
    February - March 2020
    Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene’s, London

    Read the full journal entry here

  • Dialogues 09 with Milinda Pathiraja. The talk will explore the subject of ‘Labour, Work & Architecture’.


    Dialogues is a series of talks hosted by Henley Halebrown at their studio in Shoreditch. The events provide a forum for a range of voices from across the discipline to share projects and ideas, encouraging informal discussions and critical engagement.

    Read the full journal entry here

  • This playful cartoon, by Suzanne Deakins, illustrates the primary school with a whole host of different characters. 

    Illustration, December 2019

  • Henley Halebrown has received planning permission for a new 330-room student accommodation project for Future Generation and studios, exhibition and performance space for Stour Space on a site in Fish Island in Hackney Wick, just west of the Olympic Park.  The site falls within the London Legacy Development Area within an up-and-coming part of the city currently undergoing major regeneration.


    Image credit: F10 Studios

  • On 2 November Simon Henley gave a lecture entitled Morphology & Matter at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

  • On 6 November Simon Henley gave a lecture entitled Making Sense at Kingston School of Art at Kingston University 

  • We have received planning permission for the final phase of our work on the award-winning Kings Crescent development, in collaboration with KCA and MUF Architecture/Art. When complete, this mixed use piece of city will be made up of nearly 500 new homes and the refurbishment of 275. Alongside the creation new build housing, the project will have a transformational effect on the lifespan of the existing buildings and the living conditions for the long established community. 

    Read the full journal entry here

  • Gavin Hale-Brown tells Building about a cemetery in Italy, getting dirty to make buildings work, and being a secret artist...

    Read the full interview here

  • "The scheme in Norman Grove, Bow, is made up of four townhouses and 13 flats for social rent to people on the council’s housing register and forms part of the local authority’s wider commitment to deliver 2,000 new council homes by 2022."

    Read the full article here

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    View Project | Civic Trust Awards | Wayne Myers Photography

  • 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. "


    View Project | See the link to the full article here.

  • 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 Thomas and Adam Caruso ‘An Alternative Modernism’

    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.

  • Chadwick Hall features as part of RIBA's Stirling Prize Exhibition 2018 at 66 Portland Place. It provides a glimpse of the six schemes shortlisted and an opportunity to better understand the buildings and the practices behind them.

    3 October to 9 November 2018

    Opening times:
    Monday to Saturday: 10am to 5pm
    Tuesday: 10am to 8pm

    Sunday: Closed

    RIBA | View Project

  • Film by Jim Stephenson

    View Project | AJ Article

  • 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. 

    View project | RIBA

  • 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.

    View Project | Architects' Journal

  • 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.

    Architects' Journal

  • 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.

    Building Awards 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.

    View project | Mayor's Speech

  • 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.

    The Architects' Journal | Project Page

  • 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.

    Quart | AA Bookshop

  • Drinks reception on Wednesday 9 May 2018 at the AA Bookshop with Simon Henley and Gavin Hale-Brown to celebrate the launch of this new publication.

    Quart | AA Bookshop

    https://aabookshop.net/?wpsc-product=henley-halebrown-de-aedibus-international-15

    | AA Event

    http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=3863

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


    View Project | AT

  • Chadwick Hall is featured in Architecture+Design India


    View Project 

  • Takero Shimazaki (TSa) and Nicholas Lobo Brennan (Apparata)

    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…”.

    Today programme | View project

  • 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.

    AJ Article

  • 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.

    Link

  • 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.

    Kent Design | Tickets

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

    View more

  • 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)

    HEDQF Event | Book Tickets

  • 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.

    FOAGE

  • 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.

    View Project | Domus

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

    View Project

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

    View Project

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

    View Project

  • Building tours at Open House 2017.

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

    View Project

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

    RIBA J | AT | BBC | AA Bookshop

  • Character and potential of our built environment.

  • Cultural Regeneration of the Humber Estuary.