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Spring has sprung! Our studio felt like getting stuck in and giving back. Recently, we spent the morning weeding around newly planted natives in the Eskdale Reserve with Kaipātiki Project. Kaipātiki are an innovative EcoHub, growing a sustainable future and inspiring connection for people and nature. It's was nice to get our hands dirty for the morning, then back to the studio to catch up on some in-house spring cleaning as well.

Infrastructure can dictate how people should live or it can create better opportunities for them to choose how to live. I believe the Elizabeth line is the latter - infrastructure as scaffold for living - architecture in the service of life. The project was the archetypal collective endeavour. Its realisation was an act of monumental persistence by many, over decades. Its manifestation is hundreds of millions of better journeys, connections made, for people from all walks of life.  Gosh I’m proud to have played my little part in it, and of my respected colleagues from Maynard Design Consultancy, Grimshaw, EQUATION Lighting Design and AtkinsRéalis for earning the deserved recognition of this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize through dogged determination and a little touch of quiet genius. As others have said, the beauty of this project team was its true melting pot of skillsets and collective commitment to the vision, and I learned something from every single one of these people (and still am in many cases): Julian Maynard Neill McClements Keith Miller David Hunter Julian Robinson Peter Brown Jorrin ten Have Graham Gibbon Wynne Leung Alkestie Skarlatou Philip Avery Lauren Rundle (nee van Uden) Katarzyna Jurkiewicz Yassaman Mousavi Stephen Wheater Helen Garley Gary Smith Juan López de Lerma Euan Russell Carolina Florian and all the others who came before me and after me on the job! The architecture is the canvas - the people are the colour ❤️ #elizabethline #kitofparts #dreamteam #stirlingprize

👏🎉 A big thank you to all who joined us last night at our RIBA Stirling Prize ceremony at London's iconic Roundhouse. We were delighted to award Grimshaw, Maynard Design Consultancy, EQUATION Lighting Design and AtkinsRéalis the RIBA Stirling Prize for the Elizabeth Line - the UK's best new architecture for 2024. We also awarded our Stephen Lawrence Prize to Clementine Blakemore Architects for their project Wraxall Yard, our Client of the Year Award to SHAKESPEARE NORTH TRUST and Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council for their project Shakespeare North Playhouse, the Neave Brown Award for Housing to Chowdhury Walk by AL-JAWAD PIKE, and our Reinvention Award to Croft 3 by fardaa. Thank you to our Stirling Prize sponsor Autodesk and to our event supporter Champagne Taittinger. Taittinger. ➡️ Find out more about this year's winning projects: https://ow.ly/fVzP50TNtQa 📅 Discover the story behind the Elizabeth Line at our Winner's Talk on 5 November: https://ow.ly/EXnB50TNtQ9 #StirlingPrize #RIBAawards

Last night myself and Muyiwa Oki PRIBA were invited by BBC News to talk about the Stirling Prize and the Linewide Design for the Elizabeth Line. Slight confusion over my job title, that's the problem of sharing the same name as our client Julian Robinson! However it was great to talk with Asad Ahmad who shared a genuine enthusiasm for the project which was lovely to hear. If you missed it yesterday watch it here from 9.35 mins: https://lnkd.in/e2j2qJPD Grimshaw EQUATION Lighting Design AtkinsRéalis RIBA

It's wonderful to see that the Elizabeth Line has been awarded the Stirling Prize. Over 220 million passengers used it last year alone! It was a significant early career project collaborating with an excellent team on the C100 Package. Congratulations to the client and C100 team I worked with below (and to the many others before my time), as well as to all the architects, engineers, and contractors who delivered the project at each of the stations. Grimshaw, Maynard Design Consultancy, EQUATION Lighting Design, AtkinsRéalis, C100 Team - Julian Maynard Neill McClements Keith Miller George Stowell Graham Gibbon Jorrin ten Have Lauren Rundle (nee van Uden) Guy Hohmann Hayley Branston Euan Russell Stephen Wheater Yassaman Mousavi Wynne Leung Client Team - Julian Robinson Wincenty Sosna Gavin Franklin Richard Brown Megan Ancliffe Architects - Grimshaw, John McAslan + Partners, Hawkins\Brown, Aedas, WilkinsonEyre, WW+P Architects, BDP (Building Design Partnership Ltd), Foster + Partners, Adamson Associates Architects, Allies and Morrison Fereday Pollard Engineers - AtkinsRéalis, Arup, Mott MacDonald, AECOM, Jacobs, Bechtel Corporation, WSP - along with many others Contractors - too many to mention!

We want to pass on our congratulations to the entire line-wide team on the Elizabeth Line, Grimshaw, Atkins and EQUATION Lighting Design, on being awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize! For us, the Elizabeth Line has always been a project about impact not just on the platforms, but beyond the tracks too. It’s one that right from the start embraced a responsibility to deliver not just for the commuter, but for all. Designed to last for the next 120 years, the network’s 62 miles of track, 26 miles of new tunnels, and 10 new and 31 upgraded stations – all step free and fully accessible – have already carried more than 350 million passengers since opening. This is a civic project that has spanned thirteen years of our lives, and it’s been an honour to see our work recognised – and now awarded – by the RIBA. It’s a once-in-a-generation journey that has laid the foundation for our team to continue applying the same line-wide design principles in infrastructure around the world. #riba #stirlingprize #architecture

Muyiwa Oki PRIBA Oki, RIBA President, is the one who put it best, explaining that the projects on this year’s shortlist were “united in making sensitive contributions to elevating everyday life.” For the line-wide team on the Elizabeth Line, with Grimshaw, AtkinsRéalis and EQUATION Lighting Design, this is a project that has spanned thirteen years of our lives, and it’s been an honour to see our work recognised – and now awarded the Stirling Prize – by the RIBA. At its core, London’s new transport network is a civic project. It’s one that right from the start embraced a responsibility to deliver not just for the commuter, but for all. Designed to last for the next 120 years, the Elizabeth Line’s 62 miles of track, 26 miles of new tunnels, and 10 new and 31 upgraded stations – all step free and fully accessible – have already carried more than 350 million passengers since opening.  What has been most rewarding for us is not just the completed architecture and industrial design detail, but the impact of the project beyond the tracks. Urban development across London and the South East is evident: improved public spaces, up-value in emerging hotspots across the network, impact on the development of new homes and new employment opportunities. Embracing the principles of modular industrial design, with room for future retrofit, the Elizabeth Line is an infrastructure network designed to stand the test of time. It’s a once-in-a-generation journey that our design team is immensely proud to have been part of.  #riba #stirlingprize #architecture

Our Aotearoa Director, Guy Hohmann will be at the New Zealand Rail 2024 conference. Find him to chat City Rail Link, Elizabeth Line and the importance of customer information in rail environments!  

Thank you Best Awards and Designers Institute of New Zealand for awarding Te Mātāwai Bronze in Environmental Graphics, recognised amongst the best from Aotearoa and Australia. We’re proud to see our design for Kāinga Ora be valued within a wide range of entries from retail to commercial.   Te Mātāwai has set a new standard for Kāinga Ora, delivering real social, cultural and economic benefits for its community. In defining our approach to social housing wayfinding, we intentionally challenged conventional “institutionalised” outcomes. We approached our process with an open mind, seeking to understand the diverse needs and aspirations of the community. Our commitment to challenging stereotypes and avoiding limiting assumptions has led us to design wayfinding that embodies ‘craft’ and ‘care’.

An exciting addition to the Maynard bookshelves: Arrows of desire by Nick Job. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the iconic double arrow symbol, which has endured and become a fundamental part of our nation’s rail identity. This book beautifully illustrates the logos inception, ups and downs and hopeful future. Congratulations, Nick, on this fantastic publication. Available now from the modernist https://lnkd.in/e-iTQ3ZA