Technical
03 September 2025
What does cybersecurity have to do with a retrofit or heritage building?
The integration of smart technologies into retrofit or heritage buildings represents a transformative step towards enhancing safety, efficiency and sustainability, but comes with challenges.
Read moreNet Zero
03 September 2025
Retrofitting Right in the Capital
Retrofitting is reshaping London’s future. Discover REHAU’s Retrofit Right initiative and the inspiring NLA Award nominees driving sustainable, high-quality design.
Read morePlacemaking
02 September 2025
Workplace Trends: How Placemaking Can Help Offices Earn the Commute
Why go into the office anymore? The answer is complicated. Work can now happen anywhere, so the office has to mean more than desks and square footage.
Read moreFuture City Makers
02 September 2025
The Unheard Voices of Youth Shaping the Built Environment
Research across the UK and Europe shows that dynamic creativity and genuine ownership emerge when young people play a substantive role in shaping their environments.
Read moreWork
27 August 2025
Workplace Trends: Wellness and Sustainability at Work
Dan Madeiros, Project Director at EPR Architects, led the design and delivery of OSMO in Battersea - bringing its ambition for sustainability, wellness and flexibility to life.
Read moreNet Zero
26 August 2025
Mass Timber: Shifting the Sustainability Narrative to Resilience
With global carbon emissions continuing to rise, this article considers the impact of timber on building projects and how and when it is the most sustainable practice.
Read more20 August 2025
NLA Awards 2025 Shortlist Revealed
We are delighted to announced the 2025 NLA Awards Shortlist. Supported by the Mayor of London, the NLA Awards celebrate the people, places and projects shaping a better London.
Read more20 August 2025
New Managing Director appointed to spearhead 20,000-home Barking Riverside scheme
Leigh Johnson has been appointed Managing Director of Barking Riverside Limited (BRL), the master developer behind East London’s largest residential development.
Read moreTransport & Infrastructure
13 August 2025
Christy Vanek, director of global disability inclusion and accessibility at Otis Worldwide Corporation, describes the efforts London has made to improve journeys for those with access needs.
Read more13 August 2025
Peter Murray Honoured with CTBUH Lifetime Achievement Award
Peter Murray OBE, co-founder of the NLA, has been awarded the prestigious Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).
Read more05 August 2025
Coffee Break with Dinah Bornat
Dinah Bornat, architect, author and co-founder of ZCD Architects, joins us for a quick coffee break to talk design, play, public realm, and why children belong at the heart of housing.
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