We are super excited to announce that Laura Keay has been selected to be a judge for the Architects’ Journal Architecture Awards 2023!

Purpose and Place at The Africa Centre: A conversation between Teesa Bahana, Director of 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust, and James Hampton, architect and founder New Makers Bureau, exploring Kampala’s 32º East Arts Centre - the city’s first purpose-built community arts space

Laura has been a mentor for the brilliant Women in Architecture. She was recently asked: what would you go back and tell your younger self? And gave some great advice!

Amazing! First images in the Architects’ Journal today of the Arts Centre - wonderful photos from Timothy Latim. And thrilled to get a huge double spread!

It’s launch day today at 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust!

Laura will be joining Steve Webb (Webb Yates Engineers) and Andrew Waugh (Waugh Thistleton Architects) in a conversation on ‘Earth Building: what can the planet provide?’ chaired by Vanessa Norwood.

Welcome to the Spring edition of NMB News. It’s been a fine start to 2023…. and we’ve got a spring in our step (sorry)…. so, where to start…. perhaps a few ‘firsts’…. we’ve: finished our first building (our rammed earth arts centre in Kampala); won our first competition (the Architect Pitch see below) and have our first off-grid house project just going into planning.

RIBA Exhibition at the Architecture Gallery - Ground floor, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD, runs until 29th April 2023.

Last night we won the Architect Pitch for The Net Zero Neighbourhood!!!Hosted by Archiboo and Max Fordham LLP the brief asked for architects to re-imagine the future of neighbourhoods in the face of the climate and biodiversity emergency.

Some drone film of the wonderful earth textures at the Arts Centre.

We’re holding a public consultation for our York Road scheme next week - if you live locally and want to know more get in touch.

Happy New Year from all of us at New Makers Bureau!

To celebrate the new year - we asked a few quick-fire questions to our founding director, James Hampton, about what NMB were up to in 2022, and what is to come in 2023!

Two years after we started out, we’ve now got lots to talk about - after much hard work, projects are nearing completion. We’re fulfilling our mission to make low carbon buildings.

So, here’s the first of our NMB News. We will make them: insightful (sharing our knowledge as we learn), outward-looking, provocative (in a good way) and occasional (quarterly at most). And, above all, with a healthy dose of climate optimism. Surely much needed at the moment?

Last Friday we joined Architects Declare & ACAN and marched from the Building Centre to Parliament Square, as part of the global ‘Fridays for Future’ climate strikes.

Come and learn about the project next week.

NMB Meets with Gus Zogolovitch: we chatted about custom build homes, embodied carbon and what needs to happen to grow the self build market.

James, our director, will be discussing the Art Centre project along with our client Teesa Bahana 32degreeseast and Felix Holland from Localworks (contractor and technical design team).

To celebrate our second year anniversary we posed a few questions to our director, James, about what's been happening at New Makers Bureau and what's to come….

James has been talking to ‘Design for Me’ about embodied carbon.

Listen to the BoA podcast: ‘Designing My Practice’ with Britta Siggelkow & James Hampton from New Makers Bureau and hosted by Rion Willard.