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The 12,100 sqm new building for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University brings together a dynamic mix of the performing arts, journalism, and languages alongside the newly established Manchester Poetry Library, a cafe, public foyers, exhibition space and a 180-seat studio theatre. Situated on Manchester's Oxford Road corridor, Grosvenor East provides the university with spaces for teaching and learning, and a highly visible new cultural hub connected to the city.

Occupying a tight 2,600 sqm corner site, a sophisticated sectional design interlocks the building’s complex programme either side of a central atrium that acts as an internal ‘street’, linking north and south sides of the campus. The ground floor of Grosvenor East is entirely open to the public and includes the theatre, poetry library and café. Mid-levels provide media students with state-of-the-art television and radio studios, and drama students have flexible rehearsal studios that can be bathed in daylight or completely blacked out. The building’s upper levels are reserved for academic offices, classrooms and language laboratories.

Hale Wharf occupies a sliver of land where the urban intensity of Tottenham Hale meets designated green belt, the reservoirs and rivers of the Lee Valley and a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). A residential development for joint venture Waterside Places (Muse Developments and the Canal and River Trust), once complete it will provide 505 homes of a mix of size and tenure. Phase one of the development, 249 homes in the two tallest buildings within the Hale Wharf masterplan, has recently completed.

At the south-eastern tip of the site, the tallest (Navigation Point) rises to 21 storeys before stepping down to 8 as it meets Ferry Lane. Its multi-stock brick envelope is punctuated by a repeating rhythm of recessed metal windows with vertical white aluminium fins and projecting metal balconies, pitched zinc roofs and brick gable ends. To the north, its 14-storey counterpart (Windlass Apartments) is similarly formed, conceived as a robust waterside building and finished in a slightly lighter selection of the same brick and a series of pitched zinc roofs. The building is now 100% BTR and owned by Grainger.

The Sir Michael Uren Hub at Imperial College London opens its doors officially this week. Designed by Allies and Morrison, it brings together research labs, offices and social spaces for over 500 engineers, clinicians and scientists involved in the development of medical technologies to improve the treatment and diagnosis of diverse medical conditions, from finding ways to cure dementia to creating bionic limbs.

London Borough of Tower Hamlets have given approval to the outline planning application and listed building application for plans drawn up by Allies and Morrison for North Quay, for Canary Wharf Group. The 3.2-hectare site is located to the north of the Canary Wharf estate and adjacent to the new Elizabeth Line station.

The plans, unveiled in the summer of last year, will grow the Canary Wharf estate within a flexible masterplan of up to 355,000 sqm of mixed-use development. The masterplan is site responsive with high quality streets and safe, accessible quayside spaces, that make new connections that will bring real benefit to the wider area. The indicative scheme comprises seven buildings in total.

67 Southwark Street is a new sixteen-storey residential development, a tall, slender marker building occupying a tiny site on a sharp street corner in Bankside.

Just nine flats share the building, six of which extend over more than one floor to create five different apartment types in total: 3 single floor units; 4 duplex units of two different formats; 1 two-storey unit; and 1 three-storey unit occupying the uppermost floors. At roof level, a residents’ belvedere offers panoramic views over London.

Today, the preferred partner for the £1.5 billion new global-leading innovation district ID Manchester was announced by the University of Manchester.

Bruntwood SciTech, the UK's leading property provider dedicated to the growth of the science and technology sector, has been selected as the preferred bidder to deliver the new innovation district in the centre of the city. Allies and Morrison designed the masterplan proposals for the successful bid, working on behalf of Bruntwood SciTech.

Imperial College London’s new School of Public Health building officially broke ground yesterday. Designed by Allies and Morrison, the building will provide the School with a new, collaborative, and flexible home within Imperial’s White City campus with 7,940 sqm (GIA) of accommodation on an important site on the campus’ North Site. The new building has been designed to address both the central square at the heart of the north campus while contributing to the changing setting of Wood Lane.

The virtual groundbreaking was presided over by Professor Alice P Gast, President of Imperial College London, and Professor Deborah Ashby, Director of the School of Public Health and Founding Co-Director of the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit. The event also brought together professors from across the School and the wider College community for a panel discussion about the School’s future vision. These included Professor Neil Ferguson, Director of the Jameel Institute and author of some of the most influential reports on controlling Covid-19 in the UK.

The first major Passivhaus buildings in Cambridge, we have recently completed new graduate student accommodation for King's College at Cranmer Road. Won through a design competition, the project creates a 'graduate campus' for the College, delivering 59 graduate rooms within two new distinct buildings: a Garden Building and a Villa Building.

With a design life of 100 years, quality and longevity are of paramount importance. Located within the West Cambridge Conservation Area, the new buildings are contextual and quietly assured in their design, but nevertheless outstanding and pioneering in their performance.

First Capital REIT has announced the appointment of Allies and Morrison, in association with Adamson Associates, to take forward the first phase of 2150 Lake Shore, a significant mixed-use project on the Humber Bay Shores in Toronto, Canada.

2150 Lake Shore reimagines an 11.5-hectare site, that of the former Christie Cookie Factory in the west end of Toronto, to create a new neighbourhood that offers the best of city life with access to green spaces and in close proximity to ravines and Lake Ontario. A range of building types will shape a network of public spaces anchored by two squares, a large new park and a year-round covered galleria. One of the largest developments underway in Toronto, its urban design aspires to create a lasting place, the last piece in the puzzle for the development of Humber Bay Shores. In 2018, a team led by Allies and Morrison was selected to draw up a masterplan for the site following an international search.

While towers are sometimes conceived as freestanding buildings, the recently completed 100 Bishopsgate has been designed to contribute to the matrix of the city fabric and be firmly embedded within it. Today, its architects release new images showcasing the development, which includes the City of London's newest skyscraper. Providing just over 950,000 sqft of lettable space across 40 storeys, together with a 55,000 sqft contained building at St Helen's Place, the project is owned by Brookfield and has been designed by Allies and Morrison in association with Arney Fender Katsalidis (AFK).

100 Bishopsgate's architecture signals a new generation of tall buildings in the capital positioning ultra-flexibility for tenants and wellbeing at the forefront of its design. The tower is anchored by five super-sized contiguous podium floors in excess of 44,000 sqft each and half an acre of new public realm creates new connections and walkable routes at street level. Neighbouring 16 St Helen's Place provides additional commercial space at a more intimate scale.

At the recent 2020 G20 Riyadh Summit, the Leaders' Declaration not only recognised but endorsed the AlUla Framework for Inclusive Community Development through Tourism to facilitate the travel and tourism sector's recovery from the pandemic - an inclusive recovery that will tackle inequalities.

Under the leadership of the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), Allies and Morrison together with Buro Happold, Prior and Partners and AS Urban helped to develop the AlUla Framework Plan to guide sustainable development of AlUla, a region in the northwest of Saudi Arabia. AlUla contains remarkable heritage dating back more than 200,000 years including the Nabataean tombs of Hegra, Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The work aims to protect and safeguard this precious heritage while further advancing the contribution of the tourism sector as an effective means towards fairer growth and advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Canary Wharf Group today set out plans for a 3.8 million sqft (GIA) development on the 3.2-hectare North Quay site at Canary Wharf, masterplanned by Allies and Morrison. These have been submitted to the local planning authority, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

The site, which is immediately adjacent to Crossrail's new Elizabeth Line station on the north side of Canary Wharf will create a vibrant mixed-use district and accommodate up to 2.5 million sqft of diverse commercial office space and up to 1.6 million sqft of residential space, within a flexible framework to suite the demands of future London.

Allies and Morrison is delighted to share our work on a new building at the 1.2 hectare Zeus site within the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. The new science and technology building will provide around 32,000 sqft (3,000 sqm) of R&D, laboratory and office space for multiple occupiers. Won through an architectural competition, the project broke ground in February of this year.

Harwell Campus is a global science and technology centre providing a home for numerous organisations of national and international significance, mostly working within the space, healthtech and energy technology sector. Designed to nurture innovation, the new Zeus building will sit within this dynamic environment, a flexible, hybrid place that can adapt to the needs of the businesses and the people who will inhabit it.

Plans to transform Landmark Court, just a stone's throw from our own studios, have been given the go-ahead at a virtual planning committee. Proposals designed by Allies and Morrison for U+I and Transport for London (TfL) for a well-located site next to Borough Market will include more than 200,000 sqft of commercial space, including affordable workspace and retail units, and 36 new homes.

The project offers a very rare opportunity to design and deliver an exceptional development within vacant, brownfield conditions within London's Zone 1, the Central Activity Zone and an Opportunity Area with unparalleled public transport connections. And its Bankside setting is special too, offering a rich mix of surrounding land uses, businesses and residents - and a historically significant tapestry of buildings and spaces.

Allies and Morrison has been appointed by Native Land as one of four architectural practices to develop designs for new buildings within Eastern Yards, part of the £1 billion Bankside mixed-use development, in Bankside London SE1.

Eastern Yards, on the former Sampson House site, makes up 550,000 sq ft of the 1.4m sq ft Bankside Yards development, and will comprise five buildings in total. Allies and Morrison will develop designs for Building 7, comprising 184 residences, a mixture of private and affordable homes, and a retail offering at the base.

In October, 137 second year students became the inaugural tenants at the Dorothy Wadham Building, a new residential project for Wadham College, Oxford designer by Allies and Morrison.

Situated in south-east Oxford, a 20-minute walk from the historic College campus in the city centre, a key challenge for the project was to create an appropriately collegiate set of buildings that would also sit comfortably on the edge of a residential conservation area.

Laid out in the form of a traditional college quad, the Dorothy Wadham Building houses the entire year group in one place for the first time. The design prioritises a strong sense of community by orienting shared and communal spaces so they overlook the internal courtyard, providing a backdrop of activity to the landscaped central garden.