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Revealing the Don't Move, Improve! 2025 Shortlist! 📣 Fourteen exceptional home improvement projects have been shortlisted for this year’s edition of Don’t Move, Improve!, celebrating the very best of London’s renovations and the talent behind them. From innovative layouts to impressive extensions, this year’s shortlist highlights the creativity, ingenuity, and vision of architects and homeowners across the capital. Each project is a testament to the transformative impact of great design, showcasing how thoughtful renovations can elevate the way we live. Explore the full shortlist! 👇 https://lnkd.in/e2gXcnzn #DMI2025 #Shortlist | VitrA Bathrooms Dezeen Wallpaper* The London Standard Grand Designs Portfolio

Last night, The London Stand at MIPIM's pre-MIPIM event brought the city's leading developers, investors, architects and policymakers to The London Centre ahead of #MIPIM2025! We heard the latest insights into London’s real estate and investment landscape from Tom Copley, Deputy Mayor of London for Housing and Residential Development and Shravan Joshi MBE, City of London Corporation. Don't miss out on the opportunity to connect with London's key stakeholders at #MIPIM and secure your London Club pass to gain access to exclusive networking opportunities and insider access to events. Secure your London Club pass! 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/dk7TDX5K #MIPIM2025 #MIPIM | RX Global The London Stand at MIPIM Opportunity London London & Partners

Final tables remaining for NLA's Big Quiz 2025 taking place Thursday 27 February at The London Centre! 📣 Join us for an evening of fun and friendly competition as we test your knowledge of London’s architecture, history, and current affairs with all proceeds going to NSPCC, the UK's leading children's charity. Secure your table! 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/d2eKW4BX #NLABigQuiz

David Taylor catches up with Passivhaus specialist architect Richard Dudzicki of RDA Architects Ltd to talk through the firm’s 25 years in business, home design, cycling  and more. Read more! 📖 https://lnkd.in/edFY59T7

Announcing our new design competition ‘City Views’ with Eastern City BID and City of London Corporation! 📣 We’re inviting #architects, #designers, and #artists to create innovative wayfinding solutions that celebrate London’s skyline and overlooked urban perspectives. This competition challenges participants to reimagine how we experience viewing platforms across the City, enhancing public spaces with creative, thoughtful designs that encourage new ways of seeing and engaging with our surroundings. Let’s reshape the urban landscape together—blending design and placemaking to unlock fresh perspectives across the City. Submit your idea by 6 March! 👇 https://lnkd.in/eQ6bnucz #LFA2025 #CityViews

Thank you to BDP (Building Design Partnership Ltd) for hosting the first NextGen Networking of the year! 🥂 #NLANextGen supports emerging talent from across the built environment, championing the development of a diverse cohort of future industry leaders. With a programme of focused events, peer networking, mentoring sessions, and PechaKucha presentations, NextGen helps young professionals expand networks, develop skills, and play a central role in shaping the future of London’s built environment. View upcoming NextGen events! 👇 https://lnkd.in/e9kn7TpS

Five spaces have opened up for tomorrow's Study Tour: MacFarlane Place, Television Centre! 📣 Join us as to explore Phase H1 & H2 of MacFarlane Place and hear about the redevelopment part of the iconic Television Centre, including 142 new affordable homes. Book now! 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/eDBGf5nB

Design codes face an uncertain future, with the recent disbandment of the Office for Place and the new NPPF removing the requirement to create them, there are questions about their role in the planning process. To explore these issues, industry experts, planners, architects and policymakers participated in a recent breakfast roundtable hosted by The Earls Court Development Company (ECDC). ECDC recently published its design code, praised as a “benchmark for major brownfield developments” as part of the planning application for the 44-acre brownfield site which was submitted last summer. Contributions came from experts such as Vicky Payne, Andy von Bradsky and organisations such as Historic England, the Greater London Authority and CREATE STREETS. The discussion explored the blueprint ECDC has created and key issues of who should be creating design codes and how they interact with the National Model Design Code and the NPPF. To find out more, read the full article here. https://lnkd.in/e4-4NBiG #MemberMonday #EarlsCourtDesignCode #EarlsCourt

"These projects offer inspiration and practical solutions for Londoners looking to improve their homes, demonstrating that great design is accessible to all." View more on Dezeen! 📖 https://lnkd.in/erh-JW-K #DMI2025

Central to Common’s ethos is the use of development as a tool for good. In the midst of climate and housing crises, our default should be using the land we have to create housing for people most in need – as we have done with Zodiac. We’re pleased to announce a deal agreed with Croydon Council which will see Zodiac’s 73 new homes, provided via the sensitive conversion of a long empty office building, used for emergency accommodation. The apartments will be available for Croydon families facing homelessness: part of the council’s long-term strategy to reduce its reliance on private sector rental. Local authorities are spending £1.5 billion a year on temporary accommodation. At the same time, thousands of commercial buildings across the country are sliding into obsolescence. Using residential development experience, and the policy levers at our disposal for good, it’s possible that many more underutilised office buildings can be repurposed in this way, saving public money, and delivering homes within planetary boundaries. Read more! 👇 https://lnkd.in/epid5v-9 #MemberMonday | Common Projects