01.10.2025
Award: Camden Design Awards 2025, Winner
Delighted that Central Somers Town is a Major Projects Award Winner in the Camden Design Awards 2025, with the judges' view.
"Community is an important part of this project, providing a civic hub for all ages. From nursery spaces to roof top MUGAs, play and joy are at the heart of this project, with generous and thoughtful layouts and interactive defensible spaces with visual connections. Well designed flats with passive cooling techniques, including external shutters, set a precedent for sustainable moves we must consider in designing homes of the future. Finished with a softness appropriate to its programme and a well addressed street setting, it is a fantastic addition to Somers Town."
More here
26.09.2025
Talk: The Housing We Want
Adam is taking part the 2nd Navarre Meetings, in Pamplona, to explore the theme of 'The Housing We Want'. Together with the invited architects, managers, politicians, other agents and the public, a series of round table discussions and debates are being held on architecture, urban models, management and financing, in relation to housing and to making a good city for citizens. Adam will be presenting a talk on 'Resistance and Nurture - Designing for Cultural Plurality'.
The Housing We Want
Arquitectura y Sociedad
Pamplona
September 24, 25 and 26
Tent, located at the intersection of Carlos III Avenue and Roncesvalles Street
More here
20.09.2025
Event: Open House Festival
Adam Khan led the guided Commons Tour of Stamford Hill around Tower Court, as part of the Open House Festival.
Common Land has a long and rich tradition of bringing people together in the public realm, and this tradition continues today in the north-eastern corner of Hackney. The guided walking tour around Clapton Common, historic common land in Stamford Hill, was led by some of the architects and community builders who have recently delivered new social infrastructure to serve a mixed community.
More here
11.09.2025
Publication: The Guardian
Wonderful article in The Guardian today by Oliver Wainwright, including quotes from the client, across the design team and residents.
Tower Court is a collaboration between Adam Khan Architects and muf architecture/art and we would like to thank Hackney Council and every member of the team.
Article here
26.08.2025
Planning Granted: Greenwich Lot 3
Planning granted on two garage sites for the Royal Borough of Greenwich, at Wricklemarsh and Zangwill Road, which will provide high quality affordable housing, new landscape and public realm, stitched into the existing residential neighbourhood.
Image in collaboration with PONNIE
08.08.2025
Office: We've moved
Goodbye to Regent Studios!
We have moved to Tufnell Park where we are building our new studio. Finishing soon!
07.08.2025
Award: Neave Brown Award for Housing 2025, Shortlist
Delighted that Tower Court has received a RIBA London Award 2025 and has been shortlisted for the Neave Brown Award for Housing 2025. Named in honour of modernist architect and social housing pioneer Neave Brown, the award celebrates high-quality, people-focused housing design.
Tower Court is part of a ‘unilateral undertaking to deliver affordable housing across 18 estates’, and provides 132 mixed tenure homes for Hackney Council. It is a collaboration between Adam Khan Architects, muf architecture/art and Child Graddon Lewis Architects. We would like to thank Hackney Council and every member of the wonderful team.
More here
24.07.2025
Competition: Adam Khan Architects appointed by LBC for CST Phase 3
Adam Khan Architects have been appointed by the London Borough of Camden, for the development of the final phase of the proposed regeneration scheme in Central Somers Town (CST) Phase 3.
One of the last built pieces in the jigsaw that is the acclaimed Central Somers Town regeneration, the building will complete the framing and definition of the ambitious new park that is being formed at the heart of Somers Town.
An area of fond memories to the practice, it is an exciting privilege and responsibility to return, to build social housing and to be working with the London Borough of Camden again.
We're looking forward to getting started.
09.07.2025
Publication: Dual Cities: Social Housing in London & New York
Lovely to contribute Central Somers Town and Tower Court to RIBA's new publication Dual Cities: Social Housing in London & New York, authored by Karakusevic Carson Architects.
Providing an exploration of social housing design and delivery through the parallel experiences of London and New York, the publication offers a practical guide to the past, present and future of housing. Featuring commentary from experts on both sides of the Atlantic, unlocking policy and delivery mechanisms and including 40 illustrated historic and contemporary housing case studies from a range of practices in both cities.
Thank you to Karakusevic Carson Architects.
07.06.2025
Talk: Arquitetura Entre Vistas Podcast
Adam has spoken as a guest on Ana Catarina Silva's podcast, "about taking architecture where it doesn't normally go", in response to a set of really thoughtful and well research questions.
Listen here
09.04.2025
Award: Civic Trust Awards 2025, Winner
Delighted that Tower Court is a winner in the Civic Trust Awards and also won the Special Award for Community Impact & Engagement. Established in 1959 to recognise outstanding architecture, planning and design in the built environment, the Civic Trust Awards emphasis projects that make a positive difference for local communities.
Tower Court sits within a diverse neighborhood, home to Europe’s largest Haredi community. It is a Hackney Council owned scheme providing 132 high-quality, modern, mixed tenure homes, for this community and others. Rigorous site analysis and deep community engagement, led to innovate best practice across the design process, and a design that has grown from, and is highly specific to, people and place.
Tower Court is a collaboration between Adam Khan Architects and muf architecture/art and we would like to thank Hackney Council and every member of the wonderful team.
More here
02.04.2025
Award: Pineapple Awards 2025, Winner
Delighted that Tower Court is a winner of Community Engagement: Homes, in The Pineapples Awards 2025.
Tower Court, located in a multicultural neighbourhood that is home to Europe’s largest Haredi community, is part of a redevelopment across 18 Hackney estates. The project includes 132 homes: 27 per cent social rent, 12 per cent shared ownership, and 61 per cent private. Repeated, tailored engagement allowed key stakeholders to shape the design, including former residents exercising their right to return, local Haredi community members and the wider public interested in the area’s character, architecture and housing opportunities.
Tower Court is a collaboration between Adam Khan Architects and muf architecture/art and we would like to thank Hackney Council and every member of the wonderful team.
More here
13.03.2025
Competition: Shortlisted in the Bouwmeester
We've been shortlisted as one of four practices, for a mixed use project in Beveren, Belgium, by the housing company Woonpunt Waas and through the Vlaams Bouwmeester Open Call. The project calls for high quality social housing, shops, offices and an integrated public realm, to be realised through both renovation of existing buildings and the construction of new buildings. We'll now prepare our design proposal with our Belgium collaborators, BLAF and Mouton.
More here
Image © Isabelle Pateer
31.01.2025
Planning Granted: Palais de Danse
Delighted that Listed Building Consent and Planning Permission has been granted for the Palais de Danse.
The project with allow Tate St Ives to bring Hepworth's studios into public use for community, performance, making and interpretation. The Palais de Danse allowed Hepworth to make larger scale work and experiment with how to display and communicate her work, and the memory of the dance hall lives on in St Ives.
20.12.2024
Publication: Love Hackney
Tower Court is a Design Award winner in the 2024 Hackney Design Awards, appearing on the front page of the Love Hackney magazine. We would like to thank Hackney Council, muf architecture/art for a fantastic collaboration and all team members.
09.12.2024
Event: Architecture Foundation Summer School
Anne Femmer, Adam Khan, and Florian Summa, have provided an account and reflection on the Architecture Foundation 2024 Summer School, which ran between 11–15 September 2024 at the newly completed St Pancras Campus.
A big thank you to all the workshop participants: Aaron Green, Ajay Gurung, Alexander Whitwell, Alexei Sandmann, Alfie Gee, Alvaro Matias, Amy Bass, Andrew Fifield, Emma Mowat, Caro Halford, Jack Oaten.
More here
21.11.2024
Award: New London Architecture Awards 2024, Overall Winner
Tower Court was the Overall Winner of the New London Architecture Awards 2024, as well as winning the Housing category. As Sadie Morgan, Founding Director of dRMM and member of the 2024 International Jury said:
“Tower Court is a noble example of how we can continue to address the housing crisis whilst prioritising quality and dignity in design. Its ability to balance built and green space harmoniously, creating a place of real wellbeing and belonging, should still be the bar we set housing design to. Moreover, it is stands as a built advocate for designing in close collaboration with community, understanding people’s needs and translating them into places that truly resonate.”
Tower Court is a collaboration between Adam Khan Architects and muf architecture/art and we would like to thank Hackney Council and every member of the wonderful team.
More here
16.10.2024
Publication: Launch of Architecture After War
Bohdan Kryzhanovsky will be in conversation with Wendy Pullan and Robert Mull, at the AA Bookshop, to celebrate the launch of his new publication Architecture After War. Edited by Bohdan, the book brings together wide-ranging essays on the subject of post-war reconstruction and covers a spectrum of historical examples and geographic contexts to navigate the challenges and opportunities that define post-war reconstruction and war-related issues within the field of architecture.
Bohdan would like to thank MACK and the AA for making it all possible.
Event here
06.09.2024
Planning Submitted: Palais de Danse
Plans submitted, for Palais de Danse, to open up Barbara Hepworth’s former workshops and provide new community, exhibition and making spaces
01.01.2024
Talk: A Public Housing Manifesto
Adam Khan joined an expert panel to present ideas for a 'New Manifesto for Public Housing', and to discuss the key issues that Britain's next government will need to address if its it is to bring about needed change to public housing.
Introduced and chaired by Claire Bennie from Municipal, the other panelists included Pooja Agrawal (Public Practice), Russell Curtis (RCKA), Mellis Haward (Archio), Joseph Henry (Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design), Paul Karakusevic (Karakusevic Carson architects), Annalie Riches (Mikhail Riches architects), Osama Shoush (Southwark Construction), Astrid Smitham (Apparata).
The event formed part of the Architecture on Stage programme curated by the Architecture Foundation, in partnership with the Barbican Centre.
Watch here
16.09.2023
A3 Design District at Open House Festival
Open House Festival is a two-week celebration of London’s homes, architecture and neighbourhoods. On the weekend of 16th and 17th September we will give short tours at our A3 Design District building for the public. Come join us!
31.07.2023
Practical Completion of Tower Court
We are delighted to share the news that the works on Tower Court at the head of Clapton Common have been completed! Tower Court will provide 132 homes for social rent, shared ownership and sale. It provides units of high standard, inclusive design and addresses the cultural needs of the Haredi families.
01.07.2023
Happy Birthday Plot 10!
We celebrated 50th anniversary of the Community play project, Plot 10, at Central Somers Town this weekend! Plot 10 has delivered wraparound childcare and an exuberant spirit of adventure for 4-11 year olds since 1973 and is a pillar of the community in Somers Town. They run breakfast clubs and after school clubs, holiday play schemes and a girls club for 9-14 year olds. Thanks Sally and team for your great work, it’s always been amazing working with you on the Central Somers Town project.
29.06.2023
Barbara Hepworth’s social and artistic legacy
Adam Khan Architects have been selected to lead refurbishment of Palais de Danse. We are excited to start exploring opportunities to bring the Palais de Danse – former cinema, dancehall, and later Barbara Hepworth’s studio – back into public use, for Tate in St Ives.
Archive image © Bowness via Historic England
08.06.2023
Custom House Site Visit
It is exciting to visit site with Etude to see the Custom House sites coming out of the ground and the construction of the thermally broken foundations details, which are helping the buildings achieve passivhaus standards.
This project is the First phase of the Custom House Masterplan with Hill, for London Borough of Newham. The buildings are being built to passivhaus standard, using ‘fabric first’ approach for high energy performance and a focus on reducing energy costs to meet Newham’s ambitious Low Energy Housing Design standards.
Team includes Hill, Etude, East, Robinson Associates, Walker Associates, Haworth Tompkins
12.05.2023
CST received RIBA National Award!
We were delighted to hear the news that Central Somers Town has received a RIBA National Award! It’s been fantastic to work with a great team to deliver the project.
London Borough of Camden
Jonathan Cook Landscape Architects
LUC Landscape Architects
Max Fordham
Price & Myers
Turley
Currie & Brown
05.05.2023
Custom House and Central Somers Town have been shortlisted for Housing Design Awards
Both of our submitted projects, Custom House Kickstart and Central Somers Town have been shortlisted for this years’ Housing Design Awards. Winners will be announced in September.
31.03.2023
Central Somers Town is winner of the 2023 Civic Trust Award
The winners of the 2023 Civic Trust Awards have been revealed, and we are delighted that our project Central Somers Town Community Facilities and Chalton Street Housing has been successful. The awards recognise projects, that demonstrate excellence in architecture or design, whilst being sustainable, accessible and provide a positive civic contribution.
Thanks to the fantastic team:
London Borough of Camden
Jonathan Cook Landscape Architects
LUC Landscape Architects
Max Fordham
Price & Myers
Turley
Currie & Brown
25.01.2023
AKA and muf appointed to lead design team for Hackney Town Centres project
We are delighted to lead a team to develop the vision for these key Council-owned sites. Our work begins by careful site analysis and community engagement to underpin the development of briefs which achieve the visionary changes that Hackney want to see, including how to nourish, protect and provide Community & Cultural spaces and deliver truly affordable housing.
The full design team includes:
Adam Khan Architects: architect
muf architecture/art: public realm and landscape
Apparata: collaborating architect
Freehaus: collaborating architect
JA Project: collaborating architect
Landolt + Brown: rail specialist architect
Daisy Froud: community engagement
Authentic Future – Heritage Consultants
Tibbalds - Planning Consultants
Velocity – Transport Consultants
Webb Yates – Structure/Civil Engineering
OFR – Fire Engineers
08.11.2022
Architecture on Stage: Adam Khan presents at the Barbican
The Barbican organised a series of talks and debates around ideas and issues that impact architecture and urbanism today. Next guest of the series will be Adam Khan presenting the practice’s current works including competition-winning scheme for Ellebo Garden Room, the regeneration of 260 social housing units in Copenhagen, Denmark.
10.09.2022
Central Somers Town at Open House Festival 2022
Plot 10 at Central Somers Town opened its doors to the public this weekend as part of Open House Festival 2022.
21.08.2022
Looking forward to getting stuck into the exciting role of a Mayor’s Design Advocate!
Following last week’s first meeting with the new 42 strong cohort of Mayor’s Design Advocates, Adam is excited to get stuck in his role of as a MDA to help the Mayor support London’s growth programme, promoting quality and inclusion within the built environment. The Newly appointed 42 Mayor’s Design Advocates (MDAs) are independent experts who will ensure quality buildings and public spaces that benefit Londoners are at the heart of the capital’s recovery from the pandemic.
06.08.2022
Rich Mix cinebar now open
A new cinebar - marking the first phase of an ambitious transformation of Rich Mix is now open to the public.
22.07.2022
Tustin Estate Awarded Planning
Adam Khan Architects together with dRMM and JA projects have been granted planning permission by Southwark council for Phase 1 of the Tustin Estate. As part of a masterplan led by dRMM, Adam Khan Architects were responsible for designing a building providing 73 new affordable homes. Following close residents engagement, design principles were established such as ensuring that mature trees were maintained. It was a fantastic opportunity to work with a great team lead by DRMM including the London borough of Southwark and the local residents.
04.07.2022
Custom House Kickstart Sites submitted for planning
We have recently submitted planning for the London Borough of Newham for 66 new 100% affordable homes. The site come forward as one of 2 kickstart sites as part of a larger masterplan for custom house we have been designing with East and Haworth Thompkins. Our project provides a sequence of new public, private and communal spaces. The buildings form a new south facing Neighbourhood square provides doorstop play and high quality public space accessible to the wider neighbourhood. The site come forward as one of 2 kickstart sites as part of a larger masterplan for custom house. The new homes have been designed to passivhaus standards and provide a mix family housing typologies including ground floor maisonettes and large 3 bed + family flats. Starting on site spring 2023.
30.06.2022
Ellebo Garden Room Shortlisted for the Danish Renovation Award 'Renoverprisen 2022'
Ellebo Garden Room, a project comprising the regeneration of 260 social housing flats, has been shortlisted for the Danish Renovation Award 'Renoverprisen 2022'.
04.03.2022
Their Dark Materials - Adam Khan Architects featured in The RIBA Journal
We welcomed Isabelle Priest from the RIBA Journal and showed her around the office and our recently completed Somers Town project. We talked about ideas behind the office and the wide range of projects we have completed since setting up in 2006.
View article
15.02.2022
Design for Learning: Hannah Summers talks at New London Architecture PechaKucha
Hannah Summers presents Somerstown at an evening PechaKucha: 'Design for Learning: Primary Schools Newest Projects' hosted by New London Architecture.
Presentation available to view here.
30.05.2021
A3 Design District opens to the public
Building A3 of Greenwich Penisula's Design District is now complete and open to the public.
Read more
28.05.2021
Jewish Life in the City: Antwerp and London
Featuring voices from both Antwerp and London, this discussion between architects and architectural historians addresses the presence of the Jewish communities in both cities. Speakers include Adam Teilelbaum who discusses the evolution of Antwerp's Diamond Quarter; Adam Khan and Tom Stebbing who are designing buildings for the Hassidic Jewish community in North London and Kaat Verdickt, an architectural historian who is researching the work Jewish architects in Antwerp in the early twentieth century. The talk is chaired by architectural historian Helen Thomas, and forms part of a series of films focussing on the Belgian city of Antwerp, in partnership with Brickworks Vande Moortel.
Watch here.
27.05.2021
The Earth Project: Adam Khan speaks with the Young Ambassadors
Adam talks to the Young Ambassadors of the The Earth Project about the role of architecture in building a better future for people and the planet. 27.05.21 at 1pm.
Details here: https://theearthproject.world/international-young-ambassadors-program/
16.03.2021
Recovery Roundtables: 10 Calls to Action
Mayor of London's Recovery Roundtables: 10 Calls to Action report brings together the findings of the 7 roundtable sessions with over 100 experts, including Mayor's Design Advocate, Adam Khan.
Join livestream Virtual Summit to find out more about London's recovery programme
Date: 16.03.2021
Time: 14:30-15:45
24.02.2021
Mayor's Design Advocate, Adam Khan, contributes to GLA's Connective Social Infrastructure Report
Read Adam Khan's thought starter here
This GLA report is part of Good Growth by Design’s united programme of work to enhance the design of buildings and neighbourhoods for all Londoners.
See full report at london.gov.uk here
03.01.2021
Glenilla Road now on site
The project for two semi detached homes in the conservation area of Belsize Park starts on site.
View project.
25.11.2020
A Sociable City of Palaces and Gardens: Adam Khan and Juliette Scalbert's lecture at Kingston School of Art
Adam Khan and Juliette Scalbert will give a lecture as part of the Register series at Kingston School of Art on Wednesday, 18.30 BST to present recent work at Central Somers Town and Custom House under the title ‘A Sociable City of Palaces and Gardens’.
Poster image by David Grandorge of Central Somers Town.
18.11.2020
Le Cru et le Cuit: Adam Khan's lecture at Leibniz University
Adam Khan will give a lecture for Bernd Schmutz's studio at Leibniz University in Hannover on Wednesday, 19.00 CET to present several projects and recent work under the title ‘Le Cru et le Cuit’.
Stream here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LEjBTj71AZ-xb_N8cUguQ
Photo by Lewis Khan of Hillside Gardens.
01.11.2020
Central Somers Town features in The Guardian
Central Somers Town features in The Guardian.
Rowan Moore review ‘An Object Lesson in Child’s Play‘ is accompanied with photography by David Grandorge and Lewis Khan as the project opens for the young people of Camden.
View article
01.07.2020
Central Somers Town features in l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui
Central Somers Town features in the July Issue of l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui – 'Fabulous Britain!’.
Adam Khan’s text ‘Little Palace’ is accompanied with photography by David Grandorge as the project prepares to open for the young people of Camden.
Publication details here.
29.06.2020
Casabella lectures: Adam Khan with Massimo Curzi
Adam Khan in discussion with Massimo Curzi as part of the Casabella webinar series.
More details and sign up link here. Non-Italians enter n/a for ‘Codice Fiscale’.
26.05.2020
Adam Khan Architects selected for new LHC and Southwark Council Framework
Adam Khan Architects have been selected for the new LHC and Southwark Council Architect Design Services framework to work directly with public sector organisations on delivering new housing projects within London.
We always endeavour to design and deliver places that are inclusive, sustainable, beautiful and for all Londoners.
Details here.
18.11.2019
Film Screening: New Horizon Youth Centre
New Horizon Youth Centre by Lewis Khan screens as part of Women in Architecture's event series - Three Colours: Blue White Red. This third and final event Red explores home, homelessness and celebrates the importance and diversity of what Home means to individuals.
Date: 20.11.19
TIme: 18:00 - 20:00
Location: RIBA The Forum, 76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT
Tickets available here.
03.10.2019
Seizure Gallery at Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Seizure Gallery is featured in Economy of Means exhibition curated by Éric Lapierre.
Date: 04.10.19 - 13.01.20
TIme: Monday - Sunday, 11:00 - 19:00
Location: MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Av. Brasília, Central Tejo, 1300-598 Lisbon
21.09.2019
Festival of Architecture, Flanders - Connect the city!
Festival of Architecture, Flanders - Colloquium: Architecture Connects features Adam Khan and Peggy Totté discussing different types of living.
Date: 26.09.19
Time: 11:15
Location: Theaterzaal, Vooruit, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23, 9000 Ghent
Event details here.
11.07.2019
Housing Design Awards 2019: Project Winner
Marian Court, Homerton - a collaboration between Adam Khan Architects and muf architecture/art for Hackney Council is Housing Design Awards 2019, Project Winner!
Award details here.
11.07.2019
Tower Court: Groundbreaking Ceremony
Tower Court, Clapton Common starts on site!
Amazing energy at the groundbreaking ceremony with Liza Fior, muf architecture/art; Adam Khan, Christiane Felber, Adam Khan Architects; Motty Friesel, Hatzola; Andy Fancy, Countryside; and Philip Glanville, Mayor of Hackney
03.07.2019
New London Awards 2019: Mixed-Use Winner
Carlton & Granville, South Kilburn is Unbuilt Winner in
the category of Mixed-Use for New London Awards 2019
Award details here.
14.06.2019
Film Screening: New Horizon Youth Centre
New Horizon Youth Centre by Lewis Khan screens at ASPECT:Cinema's DESIGN ME HAPPY - a short film screening series and panel-led discussion that explores how our architectural environments can affect our mental health and well-being.
Event details here.
21.05.2019
AA Building Conversations: Waterlow Court with Adam Khan
Architectural Association building visit to Waterlow Court designed by Baillie Scott, will be led by Adam Khan in conversation with Alvaro Velasco, AA PhD candidate.
Tickets available here.
16.05.2019
Public Housing: a London renaissance
NLA's Public Housing: a London renaissance exhibition features both Tower Court, Clapton Common and Marian Court, Homerton, our collaborations with muf architecture/art for Hackney Council.
Details here.
15.05.2019
Custom House, Newham: Steering Group
17.01.2019
Design District, Greenwich Peninsula on site!
Piling starts for Building A3 with concrete being poured.
30.11.2018
Sydenham Road, London: site visit
On site for our new project, Sydenham Road with client, Peabody Construction.
06.11.2018
Brecht Weigel Haus: Honourable Mention
Visitor centre for the listed building and garden in Buckow, Germany
Competition Award: Honourable Mention
Collaborators: Bernd Schmutz Architekten, Lossen Ingenieure, Valerio Calavetta
26.10.2018
Finkenau Baugruppe, Hamburg: under construction
Due for completion Spring 2019
13.10.2018
Carlton & Granville: local young people in action!
Public consultation event at The Granville
11.10.2018
Pembury Close, Hackney: planning permission granted
08.10.2018
Adam Khan is teaching Unit 8 at Kingston University
05.10.2018
Site visit to Central Somers Town
On site with Hayhurst and Co reviewing Edith Neville Primary
School and Central Somers Town community facilities and new homes. Both Camden projects due for completion 2019.
24.07.2018
Adam Khan Architects is appointed by LLDC for Chobham Farm North, Leyton
18.07.2018
Rue Delaunoy, Molenbeek, Brussels
Site workshop for Rue Delaunoy in Brussels. A collaboration with Laure Prouvost & Nick Aikens.
16.07.2018
Filming day: Young Londoners at The Stephen Lawrence Centre
Ibi
Femiola, Lucy Norfield, Nuzha Noukri and Ruzna Noukri being filmed by
Vincent Kelsey at The Stephen Lawrence Centre – on how to better engage young
Londoners in regeneration projects.
Adam
Khan Architects and Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust are partnering to develop
youth led consultation events, as part of Brent Council’s Carlton and Granville
project.
09.07.2018
Lecture: Betwixt and Between
Adam Khan presents Betwixt and Between, a guest lecture for studio Krucker Bates at TUM.
Date:
10.07.2018
Time: 18:30
Location: Room 2730, Technische Universität München, Department of Architecture,
Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 München
04.07.2018
New London Awards 2018: Housing Winner
Adam
Khan Architects is awarded Unbuilt Winner in the category of Housing for
Vaughan Road, a pilot PRS project for Harrow Council.
Awards details here.
19.06.2018
Marian Court, Homerton: planning permission granted
A collaborative, design-led approach established with Hackney Council, muf architecture/art, the full design team and the local community is delivering radically inclusive urban renewal and placemaking.
AJ article here.
18.06.2018
London Festival of Architecture: Designing for Diversity
Adam Khan joins a panel debate at London Festival of Architecture and presents Tower Court, our collaboration with muf architecture/art, Daisy Froud and Tom Stebbing.
This event is hosted by White Arkitekter, supported by the Mayor of London, and asks how can the city become more inclusive, equal and attractive to everyone?
Details here.
12.06.2018
Tower Court at Royal Academy of Arts: 250th Summer Exhibition
Tower Court, our collaboration with muf architecture/art for Hackney Council, is on display at Royal Academy of Arts: 250th Summer Exhibition, Architecture Room curated by Piers Gough.
23.05.2018
Talking about Carlton and Granville on K2K Radio #KilburnHeraldShow
Juliette Scalbert discusses with Sally on Kilburn Herald Show, the importance of local young people being part of the design and future of South Kilburn’s Carlton and Granville community facilities.
14.03.2018
Adam Khan Architects appointed for Carlton & Granville
Adam Khan Architects has been appointed by Brent Council to develop and transform the Carlton and Granville Site in collaboration with local stakeholders for the second phase of this ambitious project. Our multi-disciplinary team includes Practice Architecture, Daisy Froud, Structure Workshop and Ritchie + Daffin.
AJ article here
16.02.2018
Symposium: Transforming Social Housing – Stories from Europe
Adam Khan presents Tower Court, Hackney and Ellebo Garden Room, Copenhagen at Transforming Social Housing – Stories from Europe Symposium at Center for Architecture, New York.
Date: 17.02.2018
Time: 13:00 – 16:00
Location: 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012
Details here
12.02.2018
City Crits: Somers Town led by Adam Khan
As part of The Architecture Foundation London City Crits, Adam Khan leads a walking tour, which explores the architectural history of social housing in Somers Town.
Date: 24.04.2018
Time: 14:00 – 16:00
16.01.2018
Tower Court goes to New York
Photography: David Grandorge
Tower Court, Hackney, our collaboration with muf architecture/art, will feature in Social Housing - New European Projects exhibition and symposium at Center for Architecture, New York.
Curated by Karakusevic Carson Architects featuring projects and contributions by:
Adam Khan Architects (UK), Assemble (UK), Avenier & Cornejo Architectes (France), Chartier Dalix (France), Hans van der Heijden (The Netherlands), Einszueins (Austria), Hawkins\Brown (UK), Haworth Tompkins Architects (UK), Karakusevic Carson Architects (UK), Lacaton & Vassal (France), LAN architecture (France), Mae (UK), Mecanoo (The Netherlands), Mikhail Riches Architects (UK), Mole (UK), muf architecture/art (UK), Niall McLaughlin Architects (UK), s333 architecture + Urbanism (UK), Sergison Bates architects (UK & CH), TVK (France), Witherford Watson Mann (UK) and zanderroth architeckten (Germany). The exhibition was first shown at the Royal Institution of British Architects in London from 18 April to 28 May 2017.
Details here.
11.12.2017
Central Somers Town goes on site!
Plot 10 moves into temporary home.
11.07.2017
Housing Design Awards 2017: Project Winner
Tower Court awarded Project Winner at Housing Design Awards 2017
11.07.2017
Adam Khan appointed as a Mayor’s Design Advocate
Adam Khan has been appointed as a Mayor’s Design Advocate. From over 200 applications, 50 Design Advocates have been chosen to assist the Mayor of London’s Good Growth by Design programme.
Adam will be joining a team that includes members of the Housing Design Award-winning Tower Court project team: Hackney Council’s Rachel Bagenal, Liza Fior of muf architecture, and Daisy Froud.
Read the Mayor of London's announcement here.
Listen to Good Growth by Design – A Vision for London here.
05.07.2017
New London Awards 2017: Mayor's Prize
Central Somers Town, Camden, has been Highly Commended for New London Awards 2017: Mayor's Prize
The Mayor’s Prize is awarded in association with the Mayor of London to the project that best reflects the Mayor’s ambition for ‘good growth’ as expressed in A City for All Londoners.
02.06.2017
Global Architectural Political Event
Adam Khan Architects are participating in the Global Architectural Political Event – a discussion that will continue the investigation about the political re-engagement of the discipline, as analysed in Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s essay “Well into the 21st Century” and the “Global Architectural Compass”.
Date: 02.06.2017
Time: 18:00 – 21:00
Location: AA Lecture Hall, 36 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3ES
More details here
24.05.2017
Clerkenwell Design week
Adam Khan Architects presents Central Somers Town Community Facilities at PechaKucha London Vol. 14 as part of Clerkenwell Design Week.
Date: 24.05.2017
Time: 19:30 – 20:30
Location: Spa Fields Park, Skinner Street, London, EC1
More details here.
Watch online here.
17.05.2017
Exhibition: London Design Capital
The NLA’s London: Design Capital which explores the global reach of London’s built environment industries, features Ellebo Garden Room, Copenhagen.
Date: 17.05.2017 – 07.07.2017
Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 – 18:00, Saturday 10:00 – 17:00
Location: The Building Centre, 27 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
Download London: Design Capital - Buildings/Places/Cities here.
27.04.2017
Ellebo Garden Room ‘Første Spadestik’
Construction has begun on Ellebo Garden Room, Copenhagen.
Delivery Team:
Adam Khan Architects (Main Consultant & Design Lead)
Ramboll
Kristine Jensen Tegnestue
Anticipated completion date: 2018
Watch Nordic Innovation’s video here
26.04.2017
Lecture: A Society of Rooms – The Poetic Dimension in Architecture
Adam Khan presents A Society of Rooms for The Poetic Dimension in Architecture lecture series curated by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou at The CASS.
Date: 26.04.2017
Time: 18:30 – 20:00
Location: Central House, 1st floor, Room CE1-16
More details here
18.04.2017
Exhibition: Social Housing – Definitions & Design Exemplars
Social Housing - Definitions and Design Exemplars features Ellebo Garden Room, Copenhagen and Tower Court, Hackney.
Across the UK and Europe a new generation of
practices are transforming public housing. Responding to continued high demand,
new funding methods and a reinvigorated public sector, architects are
re-addressing how homes are delivered at larger scales, piloting new methods to
achieve new high standards of design.
Date: 18.04.2017 – 28.05.2017
Opening hours: Monday – Sunday, 10:00 – 17:00, Tuesday 10:00 – 20:00
Location: The Practice Space, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD
23.03.2017
Play Barn shortlisted for RIBA East Award
Pensthorpe Play Barn, Norfolk, is one of 31 buildings shortlisted for a RIBA East award.
The winning submissions will be announced on 18.05.2017
22.03.2017
Play Barn wins RIDBA award
The Rural and Industrial Design and Building Association (RIDBA) has selected the Play Barn as the recipient of their award in the recreation and leisure category.
Formerly known as the Farming and Agricultural Buildings Awards (FAB Awards), the award recognises innovation and excellence in the industrial and agricultural building industry.
02.03.2017
Tower Court, Clapton Common: planning permission granted
Designed in collaboration with muf architecture/art, Tower Court is part of Hackney’s Estate Regeneration Programme and will be delivered directly by the Council. It will offer 132 high-quality, modern homes for social rent, shared ownership and outright sale, and a new ambulance depot.
05.01.2017
Play Barn nominated for the 2017 Mies van der Rohe Award
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe has selected Pensthorpe Play Barn, Fakenham as a nominee for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.
The prize is awarded biennially, and the Play Barn is named among 19 UK schemes. This is the second project by Adam Khan Architects to be nominated for the prize. Brockholes Visitor Centre was nominated and shortlisted in 2013.
For more details on the nomination, visit here.
16.12.2016
Book launch: Reminiscence
Reminiscence, which features an article by Adam Khan, is launching on 17 December in Munich.
Edited by Benedict Esche & Benedikt Hartl and published by Edition Architektur, it offers a collection of more than 100 international architects looking back and reminiscing about a particular building.
Date: 17.12.2016
Time: 12:00
Location: Architekturgalerie München, Türkenstrasse 30
Flipping through the book
02.12.2016
Ten Years of Adam Khan Architects
Adam Khan Architects is ten.
Thank you for coming to celebrate with us.
Website takeover & associated print by Fraser Muggeridge studio
28.11.2016
Adam Khan @ RA for ‘Future Estates’
Adam Khan is a speaker at ‘Future Estates’ at the Royal Academy.
“Following a previous debate exploring the changing status of Britain’s post-war housing estates, this event looks at estate regeneration and the range of alternatives that exist to the growing threat of demolition."
Date: 28.11.2016
Time: 18:30 – 20:00
Location: Geological Society, Piccadilly, W1
Other speakers include:
Geraldine Dening – Architect and founder, Architects for Social Housing
John Lewis – Executive Director Thamesmead, Peabody
Oliver Wainwright – Architecture critic, The Guardian (chair)
Sarah Wigglesworth – Architect, director of Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
More details here
01.11.2016
Adam Khan Architects in Baumeister
Following a studio visit in September 2016, the November issue of Baumeister features a profile of Adam
Khan Architects. The article offers a snapshot of various built projects, from
Brockholes Visitor Centre to Seizure Gallery, as well as future plans for
residential projects in London.
Words: Erik Wegerhoff
Photography: David Grandorge, Lewis Khan, Ioana Marinescu & Ed
Tyler
21.09.2016
Play Barn wins Graham Allen Award
The North Norfolk District Council has selected AKA’s Play
Barn as the recipient of the Graham Allen Award for Conservation & Design.
13.09.2016
Adam Khan Architects shortlisted by Create London
Create London, along with the London Borough of Barking
and Dagenham, have shortlisted Adam Khan Architects for an Artists Housing
design competition.
04.07.2016
Seven Up @ DomusHaus, Basel
Our publication ‘Seven Up’, a visual exploration of the studio’s output, is available at a number of specialist architecture bookshops, now including DomusHaus Buchhandlung für Architektur und Design, Basel.
01.07.2016
Five Cottages, Pensthorpe
Adam Khan Architects have recently completed the restoration of the Grade 2 listed Five Cottages at Pensthorpe Wildlife & Gardens including the building of new rear and side extensions. The new building includes offices as well as a conference room and a well-being centre.
Location: Norfolk, Pensthorpe
Client: Pensthorpe Wildlife and Gardens
Photo credit: Lewis Khan
27.06.2016
Honourable Mention for Kunststilo
Adam Khan Architects have received an Honourable Mention for their submission to the Kunststilo art museum and culture quarter design competition in Kristiansand, Norway.
The new art museum will house 1,100 works donated by Nicolai Tangen, which constitute what experts have called the most important collection of Norwegian art from the 1930s to the 1970s.
The submission will be exhibited at Sørlandets Art museum until 18 September.
Details on the competition can be found here.
04.06.2016
Adam Khan Architects short-listed for Qatar Museum
Adam Khan Architects are among 8 practices to be shortlisted for the Qatar Art Mill design competition.
Nearly 500 practices from 56 different countries entered the three-stage contest, and we are the only British firm to reach the final eight in the contest for the 93 000 m² gallery project on Doha’s waterfront.
More information on the competition website.
20.04.2016
Adam Khan speaks at Sedgehill Secondary School
Adam Khan spoke to the year 9’s of Sedgehill Secondary School about the educational journey of the architect.
Other inspirational speakers included Maria Murtagh, Tammy Reed and Sade Banks. Thank you very much to the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust for organising the Career Pathway Programme.
23.03.2016
Book launch: New Architects 3
New Architects 3, which features a selection of Adam Khan Architects' work, is launching on 24 March.
“New Architects 3 is the Architecture Foundation’s landmark guide to the best architectural practices set up in the UK in the past decade. To coincide with its publication, join us for an afternoon of talks and conversations about the conditions shaping British architecture both today and in the future at The Barbican.”
Date: 24.03.2016
Time: 14:00
Location: Frobisher Auditorium 1, Barbican Centre, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS
10.03.2016
Book launch: ‘Building Upon Building’
Please join us at the Architectural Association Bookshop for the launch of the second edition of ‘Building Upon Building’, Edited by J. Engels & M. Grootveld.
The book will be introduced by Adam Khan, followed by a talk from the Editors.
“Architecture as evolution, rather than revolution. How can the views that underlie the historical city be interwoven with the stories of the present? This question is answered in 45 projects and four essays.”
Date: 23.03.2016
Time: 18:30
Location: AA Bookshop, 32 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3ES
12.02.2016
Praise for Adam Khan Architect’s Brockholes
Brockholes Visitor Centre has been praised by CIBSE Journal for its ability to handle flooding.
“A pioneering nature reserve has risen about the floodwaters that drenched the North West, proving an example to architects and engineers. The floating visitor village, which won new build project of the year at the 2012 CIBSE Building Performance Awards, is sited on the Meadow Lake at Brockholes, and has been designed to rise and fall with the water level.”
11.12.2015
Play Barn featured in Wallpaper*
Play Barn at Pensthorpe Wildlife and Gardens has been featured in Wallpaper* magazine’s January issue.
08.12.2015
Lecture at KADK
Adam Khan will be delivering a lecture ‘What Makes a Good Room?’ at the Danish Academy of Arts tomorrow, organised by Spatial Design, Perception and Detail 1 Semester.
Date: 09.12.2015
Time: 16:00
Location: KADK Danish Academy of Arts, auditorium 5
17.08.2015
Adam Khan Architects long-listed for Qatar Museum
Adam Khan Architects has been long-listed to submit a design for the international competition for the Art Mill in Doha, Qatar. Adam Khan Architects' application was chosen as one of 26 out of a total of 489 entries for the 93 000 m² project, which envisions the redevelopment of a historic waterfront site in the centre of Doha.
More information on the competition website.
15.03.2015
KADK housing exhibition
‘Housing and Welfare – Homes Ensembles City’ exhibition opens tomorrow at KADK Copenhagen, and will feature Adam Khan Architects’ Ellebo Garden Room.
“What will Copenhagen look like in 5, 10 and 15 years’ time? What is the future of the city as a residential city according to the projects that architectural firms are designing right now? And what role does housing play in a city and a welfare society that are undergoing change?”
Date: 19.03.2015 – 14.05.2015
Time: 11:00 – 18:00
Location: Exhibition Hall, KADK, Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 51, 1436 København