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HTA have taken home the Pro Landscaper Sustainability and Biodiversity Award for Landscape Architecture Studio!   The award celebrates companies and projects striving for a more sustainable future and setting an example within their sector. At HTA we put nature at the core of our projects by creating functional, beautiful spaces that meet local needs, promote wellbeing, and environmental stewardship. We are committed to doing all we can to combat the biodiversity emergency and mitigate climate change through the creation and stewardship of beautiful, resilient, and biodiverse landscapes that benefit nature and people alike. Winners were announced at FutureScape, with more than 40 companies and projects nominated across 13 awards. #landscape #awards #biodiversity #sustainability

HTA are hosting Flora Johnston and Lisa Highton in conversation for the paperback launch of The Paris Peacemakers.   Join us at our Hackney Wick studio for an evening of conversation and readings from Flora's latest novel. Flora Johnston lives in Edinburgh and The Paris Peacemakers is her second novel. Her love of Scottish history began at St Andrews University and has spanned working at the National Museum of Scotland and a career in heritage interpretation. Lisa Highton is the Founder and Publisher of Two Roads, an imprint of John Murray Press/Hachette where she published authors including Kirsty Wark, Sally Magnusson, Monty Don, Ruth Hogan, Janet Skeslien Charles, Guinevere Glasfurd, Janet Ellis, Sarah Haywood, Susan Calman and Wendy Cope. Book your tickets here: https://lnkd.in/e94MjJ7x

HTA’s London team got together last week for their Autumn Social which was a chance to thank everyone for the amazing things we’ve achieved so far this year.   We turned the studio into a bowling alley, played shuffleboard and had delicious Vietnamese food cooked by Gina at local business @hanoi_ca_phe   Thanks to everyone who came along – especially to those who started up the dancefloor - and to our Marketing team for making it happen 🤩 #autumnsocial #75wallisroad #hackneywick #bowling #greatfood #htadesign

Ben Derbyshire PPRIBA FRSA HonAIA, Chair of HTA Design, was recently invited by AsBEA-SP - Associação Regional dos Escritórios de Arquitetura de São Paulo to be the keynote speaker for the Construction of Industrialized Residential Buildings as part of the Modern Construction Show in São Paulo, Brazil. Speaking alongside industry experts, Ben shared HTA’s knowledge and successes in off-site construction, with focus on award nominated College Road, Greenford Quay and Hanham Hall to a global audience. Ben shared HTA's experience working with Tide, Vision and Greystar to deliver attractive and sustainable housing using factory built prefabricated homes. Thank you to AsBEA-SP - Associação Regional dos Escritórios de Arquitetura de São Paulo for an incredible trip and fantastic opportunity to see all that Brazil has to offer. Catch Ben presenting next week in Lisbon at the 3rd Annual Modular, Prefab and Construction Senate.

HTA worked in close collaboration with Canary Wharf Group, Howells and the wider design team to deliver a ground-breaking new public realm with interconnected pontoons and floating ecology islands within the Grade I listed, 19th-century dock which had been previously inaccessible and inanimate. Eden Dock, a pioneering collaboration with the Eden Project, welcomes visitors right to the water’s edge across generous amphitheatre steps and planted pontoons which connect outdoor rooms. These lead visitors to an open water swimming course located within a spectacular setting that’s bringing nature back to the city. The design introduces floating islands planted with native species—perennials, shrubs, and trees—creating crucial habitats for invertebrates, amphibians, fish, and waterfowl. These buoyant, porous islands allow plant roots to draw nutrients directly from the dock’s water, fostering sustainable growth and enriching biodiversity. Eden Dock forms part of a wider strategy for the greening of Canary Wharf, introducing a biodiverse and people-centred approach to the neighbourhood’s public realm. Reinforcing a nature recovery network across this part of London, a substantial new ‘green spine’ across the Canary Wharf is creating 6 hectares of new and improved green space. To find out more visit our website: https://lnkd.in/d2cdzggi Featured in Architecture Today https://lnkd.in/dsbFYih4 #EdenProject #EdenDock #CanaryWharf #BringingNatureBackToTheCity #LandscapeDesign #Biodiversity #NatureRecoveryNetwork #OpenSpaces Wider Design Team: Project lead: Canary Wharf Group Architect: Howells Structural engineer: Arup Main landscape contractor: Willerby Landscapes Ltd. Specialist contractor for floating islands: Biomatrix Water Structural contractor: Clement Systems Lighting Engineers: StudioFractal Canal & River Trust Photography: Howells and Canary Wharf Group

With the Labour government setting targets to build 300,000 new homes annually, Dr Riette Oosthuizen MRTPI reflects on the welcome changes brought in following the recent consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework.   “The government seems aware that it is essential to create homes where there is infrastructure to support growth. Large suburban extensions without necessary connectivity and social infrastructure are not sustainable, nor will they change behavioural patterns to reduce long-term car use.” Read the full column at Property Week https://lnkd.in/eet7bGCm

College Road has been shortlisted for the AJ Architecture Awards' Housing Project category. The development provides almost 1000 homes across two towers. Enclave’s 50-story tower provides 817 co-living apartments, the first of its kind approved by the GLA, alongside an additional 35-story tower offering 120 affordable homes. The building emphasises community with a range of amenity spaces designed by TiggColl, including a spa, gym, cinema, and co-working areas. A collaborative effort by HTA, Tide, and Vision, the project boasts Europe's tallest residential volumetric tower at 163 meters. The façade design was inspired by the adjacent NLA Building, a mid-century icon designed by Richard Seiferts. The project provides additional public realm with a colonnade that will connect to the emerging cultural quarter, creating an uplifting new landscaped route. Read more about College Road: https://lnkd.in/eNw-yKzh Tide Outpost Management Ltd Vision Architects’ Journal #AJArchitectureAwards #design #coliving #tallbuildings

Last week I took part in a Nerdworking event hosted by RIBA Nerdworking and HTA Design LLP to network and get to know better our hosts, HTA Design. Thank you Agata Eltman @Nerdworking HTA Design LLP for the fun evening! I thoroughly enjoyed the event and look forward to the next one.

Yesterday our Founder & Chairman John Fleming shared an insightful presentation on the power of #Volumetric development at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) #neworrenew Conference. Nick Hillard followed to discuss #sustainability and the range of diverse #ESG factors that should be considered in development, and demonstrated how volumetric delivery is, in some cases, saving 45% of total #embodiedcarbon. Finally, Simon Bayliss, Managing Partner at HTA Design LLP shared a scintillating presentation showing how #architects work with developers, and the wider industry, to provide high quality, desirable skyscrapers that will last the test of time. Hosted at the incredible Barbican Centre the session sparked some interesting debates on the viability and potential of Volumetric delivery. Thank you for all those that attended the session. We're looking forward to an exciting rest of the week with #CTBUH

I share a panel at The Labour Party conference, hosted by Policy Exchange. Our topic: The Building Beautiful Agenda – is less beauty the price we have to pay for more homes? I argue we must have both more, and more beautiful homes, adding the need for some clarity in the semantics about this dabate: ‘Beauty’. Many, if not most of us applauded the recommendations of ‘Living with Beauty’, the report of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. I think the key is right there – Building Better as well as Beautifully. In my own practice, we subscribe to four key principles, Order, Humanity, Sustainability and, yes Beauty. And of course Vitruvius prescribed firmitas, utilitas, and venustas (beauty) as the three indispensable virtues of architecture. Beauty, on its own, was never enough to convey all we need for human wellbeing and it is quite right that it should have been dropped from the highest level of desired outcomes in the National Planning Policy Framework. Other than that, there was a pretty good level of agreement between panellists Ike Ijeh, Nicholas Boys Smith, Margaret Mullane MP, Jack Shaw. Many thanks to Georgie Krone for convening.