London's Victorian and Edwardian housing stock is one of the city's most underappreciated environmental assets. Millions of solid-walled terraced houses, built between roughly 1870 and 1914, represent an enormous quantity of embodied carbon that is already in the ground, already in the walls and already part of the city's fabric. The question is how to make what already exists perform better.

Greenwich's commercial and creative sector has grown significantly over the last decade, the borough is now home to approximately 6,000 creative and digital jobs . The creative industries cluster around Deptford and New Cross, the growing residential population across the borough and the investment in transport links have together created real demand for good quality, flexible, characterful workspace.

It is a fair question and one that is harder to answer than it should be, because the term ‘eco architect’ is applied to practices with very different levels of genuine sustainability commitment. Here is what a serious eco architect does that distinguishes them from a conventional practice with green aspirations:

Our Garden House Nursery project was approved for planning at committee, with a unanimous decision.

We’re delighted to have gained approval from Dorset Council for our low carbon gallery space for Weymouth College which will be made from recycled and reused construction materials.

The phrase eco architect gets (over) used a great deal in London. It appears in practice profiles, on website homepages and in planning statements with a frequency that has, if anything, made it harder to know what it means.

There’s much in the press about reaching ‘net-zero’ and the role the construction industry has to play. Something that is less often in focus is ’embodied carbon’.

Lovely to get some coverage in Taiwan. We're featured in 'La Vie' magazine in their Architecture with Nature special this month. Alongside some really wonderful projects - take a look!

We’re in FX Magazine, in the workplace feature all about changing workplace architecture in response to changing work patterns, post the 2020 pandemic. A big thanks to Veronica Simpson for the write up.

Join our talk at Futurebuild on Thursday at 3pm-3:45pmACAN Stage (Stand D40) Building from the earth: rammed earth and earth bricks at the 32° East Arts Centre.

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

With rising energy prices and a greater emphasis on the climate we’re finding our clients are looking more and more for how they can build their home extensions more sustainably. Here we take a look at how to build sustainable home extensions with a case study of a recent completed project in London.

Here’s the first of our new series: NMB meets. We will be meeting brilliant industry folk, innovators and futurists to discuss their views on what makes great sustainable buildings and places. In turn, helping us shape better buildings and places in response to the climate emergency.

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.”