We are just thrilled to have won the Dezeen Cultural Project of the Year for the 32° East Arts Centre project last night.

It was a huge team effort and couldn't have happened without our great client and architect partners 32° East and Localworks.

Shopping habits have changed, retail spaces up and down the country are empty. So what do we do?

It was great to welcome people and show them around the split level homes at Blenheim Grove in Peckham as part of the Open House Festival by Open City this weekend.

32° East Arts Centre has been longlisted in the cultural project category of Dezeen Awards 2023.

We are super excited to announce that our director, James has been selected as a jury member for the Archello Awards 2023!

A great write up from Tom Latim in Architecture Today “I saw this building going up, but it feels like it was here even before I arrived.”

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.