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JRA Finalist for the Inspire Future Generations Awards, Social Value category

We are delighted to announce that JRA has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 Inspire Future Generations Awards’ Social Value category for our 2024 London Festival of Architecture StudioLates: ‘London: A Symbiosis of Urbanity and Nature’ that gave voice to our local communities and expert collaborators on reimagining London as a city where […]

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Brindley Place featured in SDC – Sustainable Design Collective magazine

JRA’s Birmingham project with x+why and Lloyds banking group, Brindley Place, featured in this months SDC – Sustainable Design Collective magazine. Check it out here

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JRA Director Festus Moffat participates in panel at London Build Expo 2024 on The Building Safety Act

We are delighted to announce JRA Director Festus Moffat will be participating in a panel tomorrow at the London Build Expo 2024 on The Building Safety Act and Building Control: Redefining Safety Standards for the UK. Details here.

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Daniel House team celebrate the building’s topping out

We are delighted to announce that last week the Daniel House team celebrated the building’s topping out, marking the completion of the highest structural point. The achievement is a testimony to the positive collaboration of the team and is a significant milestone in the construction of the refurbishment scheme where JRA is Executive Architect to […]

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JRA Directors Festus Moffat and David Magyar discuss retrofit and it’s future in CoStar’s expert opinion

JRA Directors Festus Moffat and David Magyar reflect on John Robertson Architects 30 years of retrofit and what’s next for our industry in CoStarGroup. Exploring the retrofirst approach that JRA have always led with, David and Festus provide insight into unlocking the latent potential of buildings for practical and sustainable benefits in the Expert Opinion […]

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100 Embankment featured in Archello

Check out Archello’s feature on our x+why project 100Embankment. Link here

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JRA Director Etain Fitzpatrick speaking at SHAREarchitects Skopje 2024 – International Architecture Forum in Macedonia

John Robertson Architects Director Etain Fitzpatrick will be speaking at SHARE architects Skopje 2024 – International Architecture Forum in Macedonia on November 19th. For further information please click here.

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100 Embankment featured in Absolutely Cheshire Magazine

JRA project with x+why #100Embankment featured in Absolutely Cheshire magazine. Read here!

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JRA’s London Festival of Architecture Studio Lates ‘London: A Symbiosis of Urbanity and Nature’ featured in Building Design.

JRA’s London Festival of Architecture Studio Lates ‘London: A Symbiosis of Urbanity and Nature’ has been featured by Building Design. Thanks again for everyone who participated and sent us their inspiring contributions of how they reimagine London as a place where nature takes precedence. To view article please click here Images: JRA Project Director Andy […]

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Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer talk at Orgatec, Cologne

JRA Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer was invited to join an international panel discussion at ORGATEC Cologne, Germany and shared her expertise in The Human Centric Workplace: The ambition for the office is to create a destination that fosters diversity, inclusion, and wellness, whilst inspiring collaboration, creativity and greater productivity to promote business growth. “Office design […]

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JRA Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer’s article ‘Embedded Carbon in Office Fitouts’ featured in Sustainable Design Collective Magazine. 

JRA Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer’s article ‘Embedded Carbon in Office Fitouts’ featured in the latest issue of the Sustainable Design Collective Magazine. To read the magazine please click here

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JRA Director Festus Moffat presenting at NLA Retrofit Summit

Delighted to announce JRA Director Festus Moffat will present our ongoing project, Peterborough Court, at the NLA Retrofit Summit Project Showcase, Wednesday, 09 October. For information and to book tickets please click here

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The Northcliffe shortlisted for Architects’ Journal Architecture Awards 2024 – Refurb category

Excited to announce that The Northcliffe has been shortlisted for the Architects’ Journal Architecture Awards 2024 in the Refurb category. Congratulations to the team! List of all shortlisted projects here.

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Delighted to announce the UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard has launched

The #UKNZCBS has Launched! JRA is delighted to have been involved, with our Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer providing specialist input for the office sector. Head to the @UK NZC Buildings Standard website where the Pilot Version of the Standard will be available for everyone to download 👉 www.nzcbuildings.co.uk Get your #UKNZCBS questions directly to the […]

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JRA Architect Julia Mejer attends British School at Rome’s ‘Reading Rome’ architecture and urbanism workshop

We’re excited to announce that JRA Architect Julia Mejer is participating in the ‘Reading Rome’ architecture and urbanism workshop this week at the The British School at Rome. She is attending as part of a new John Robertson Architects initiative that will promote and nurture architectural development, thought and dialogue. JRA invited our Part 1, […]

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Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer participates in Overbury’s Low Carbon Conversation podcast

Watch the fantastic first episode of the Overbury Low Carbon Conversation podcast where JRA Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer talks with Zoë Glander from Overbury and Alexia Laird from Landsec on the carbon blind spot. Link below: Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/e7u8ffNP Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eJBFq-HU

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Helix HQ Latest Press

Latest press on our recently completed workplace project Helix HQ located in Grainhouse, a former seed merchants’ warehouse in Covent Garden. JRA complemented the newly unified five building complex by designing the fit out of the ground and lower ground floors for Helix Property Advisors’ new headquarters. JRA intervened in the historic structure, creating a […]

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JRA are proud to announce our involvement in ‘Counting the upfront carbon in Cat B office fit-out’.

Championed by Zoë Glander, Overbury brought together thought leaders across the industry to establish the current upfront carbon level of Cat B office fitout. Notwithstanding the enormous progress of measuring carbon emissions in the built environment, fit-out remains a significant carbon blind spot in the workplace industry – exacerbated by ever shorter lease terms and […]

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Our LFA project in collaboration with Hoare Lea is featured in this week’s NLA newsletter

Our London Festival of Architecture Studio Lates collaboration with Hoare Lea ‘Reimagine London: A Symbiosis of Urbanity and Nature’ video is featured in this week’s NLA newsletter NLW. You can see it here   Special thanks to Arper, Artiq, Dzek, Eckersley O’Callaghan, EH Smith Architectural Solutions, Erthly, Grown.bio, Hoare Lea, Mammal, Stora Enso, Tomas & […]

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The Northcliffe shortlisted for the Architects’ Journal Retrofit & Reuse Awards 2024

Delighted to announce that The Northcliffe has been shortlisted for the Architects’ Journal Retrofit & Reuse Awards 2024 in the Positive Addition (£5 million and over) category. Congratulations to the team! View the shortlist here

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JRA Director Nathalie Bergvall participates in the Mix Interiors Specialist Group roundtable ‘Creating for Disassembly’

JRA Director Nathalie Bergvall participates in the Mix Interiors Specialist Group roundtable discussion ‘Creating for Disassembly’, exploring if how design comes apart is as important as how it’s put together. Fellow panelists Jonny Wong, dMFK, Mitch James, BDG architecture + design, Enrique Soler, Willmott Dixon, Ciaron Mullarkey, tp bennett, Jack Lewis and Ciaran O’Hagan, Specialist […]

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The Northcliffe wins BREEAM Award Best Refurbishment & Fit-out Project

Excited to announce that the Northcliffe has won the BREEAM Awards Best Refurbishment & Fit-out Project. Congratulations to the team! BREEAM has been the world-leading sustainability assessment method for planning projects, infrastructure and buildings for over 30 years. There are now 2.33 million BREEAM-registered buildings across 102 countries, with 610,000 having received certification to date. […]

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In Memory of of our dear friend and colleague Alan Rafter-Phillips

It was an honour to commemorate the life of our late friend and colleague Alan Rafter-Phillips. The evening was a fitting tribute to such a talented designer at one of the many projects he worked on, Grocers’ Hall. Alan was a valued member of the JRA family whose exceptional talent as a designer contributed to […]

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JRA Director Mark Wibberley’s article on CMT featured in Property Week

JRA Director Mark Wibberley’s article ‘Compliance Monitoring is the Key to Success’ is featured in Property Week. To read the article please click here

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JRA studio visits Peterborough Court, our currently under construction retrofit project.

Our team thoroughly enjoyed the latest of our ‘Thursdays with Purpose,’ where we visited our project, Peterborough Court. Led by Director Festus Moffat and Project Director Stephen Morey, the team saw behind the scenes of the impressive office refurbishment, which is currently under construction. Thank you to Mace for generously hosting. We can’t wait to […]

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100 Embankment wins Architizer Award for Best Remote Working & Co-Working Space

We’re delighted to announce our project with x+why, 100 Embankment in Manchester, has won the Architizer Awards Best Remote Working & Co-Working Space for 2024 Internationally. Congratulations to the team! More details here

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JRA Director Etain Fitzpatrick nominated for AJ100 Mentor or the Year Award

Congratulations to Director Etain Fitzpatrick on being shortlisted for AJ100’s Mentor of the Year Award! This is an outstanding achievement that recognises her contribution to knowledge sharing and empowering others, both in our practice and the wider community. For more information please click here

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JRA participating in London Festival of Architecture 2024

We are excited to be participating in this year’s London Festival of Architecture! In collaboration with Hoare Lea, we are opening the doors to our studios on 6th June (King’s Cross) and 20th June (Southwark) for ‘London: A Symbiosis of Urbanity and Nature.’ The Studio Lates will screen a video installation, composed of designers, clients, […]

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100 Embankment Manchester wins BCO Award – Fit Out Workplace category

Our project with x+why, 100Embankment in Manchester, has won the British Council for Offices Award in the Fit Out Workplace category. JRA Director Angela St Clair-Ford and architect Anna Rogowska where there with the team last night to pick up the award. Congratulations! See full list of winners here    

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Project Director Irek Kurowski’s 20 year anniversary at JRA

Today we celebrate Project Director Irek Kurowski’s 20 years at JRA! Irek is loved by everyone in the studio – his wonderful easy-going manner, fantastic sense of humour and first class architectural skills, with a particular strength in technical design, make him a person that everybody wants on their team. Irek is woven into the […]

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100 Embankment Manchester finalist for the A+Awards, Remote Work and Co-Working Space category

Excited to announce JRA project with x+why, 100 Embankment, Manchester is finalist for the Architizer A+Awards in the Remote Work and Co-Working Space category! Please vote for us in the Popular Choice Voting. You can vote here

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JRA Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer talk at the Sustainable Design Forum in Clerkenwell

Carbon in Workplace Fitout and Circular Design Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer gave two inspiring presentations last week at the Sustainable Design Forum in Clerkenwell on ‘Carbon in Workplace Fitout’, supported by JRA Head of Sustainability Michael Macias, and on ‘Circular Design’ together with Asif Din and Deborah Allen. For more information please click here

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Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer and Project Director Kuros Sarshar attending FOOTPRINT+

Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer and Project Director Kuros Sarshar will be attending FOOTPRINT+ on 8-9 May. Let us know if you’ll be there! For more information on the conference please click here

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JRA studio visits our recently completed project 30 Golden Square in Soho

JRA Director Festus Moffat and Project Director Kamel Achrafie took JRA staff last week to visit our recently completed project 30 Golden Square in Soho. More details of this exciting new project coming soon!

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JRA team in attendance to the 2024 BCO Conference in Birmingham

John Robertson Architects Directors’ David Magyar, Angela St. Clair Ford and Associate Harshini Sampathkumar are heading to the British Council for Offices Annual Conference in Birmingham from May 22-24. Get in touch if you’d like to meet up! For information on this years conference click here

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100 Embankment in Manchester shortlisted for the North West Property Awards

Delighted to announce that our recent project with x+why, 100 Embankment in Manchester, has been shortlisted for the North West Property Awards, Workplace Fit-out category. Congratulations to the team! More information on shortlisted projects here

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Anja Schellenbauer’s article ‘We must avoid carbon tunnel vision in workplace design’ in Building Magazine

Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer’s article ‘We must avoid carbon tunnel vision in workplace design’ published in Building Magazine. To read the article please click here

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Three JRA projects featured in NLA’s new publication ‘Great Estates: Models for Modern Placemaking’

JRA projects Frederick’s Place, Kings College London and 199 Bishopsgate featured in NLA’s new publication ‘Great Estates: Models for Modern Placemaking’ ( the second edition – produced with RIBA Publishing by Peter Murray OBE and Sarah Yates). Thanks to NLA for inviting us to the launch, with great speeches by Peter Murray OBE, NLA, Hugh […]

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100 Embankment Shortlisted for the BCO Awards, Fit Out Workplace category

Our recently completed project 100 Embankment in Manchester has been shortlisted for the BCO Awards, Fit Out Workplace category! Congratulations to the team!

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JRA Material Research Group

Sustainability is at the heart of everything that we do at JRA. As one of many initiatives, we launched the Material Research Group last year. The MRG stays on top of cutting-edge material innovation and verifies the green credentials of materials we specify. Our continuously expanding Materials Database ensures our teams have all necessary data […]

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Rossella Faraci promoted to Project Director

We are pleased to inform you that Rossella Faraci has been promoted to the position of Project Director. Rossella has consistently demonstrated her considerable design and project delivery capabilities on a number of projects since she has been with the practice, notably and most recently on Skanska, Brindleyplace, 20 Gresham Street and Peterborough Court but […]

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The Northcliffe Shortlisted for BCO Awards 2024

We are pleased to announce that The Northcliffe has been Shortlisted for the BCO Awards in the Recycled Workplace category. Congratulations to the team!  

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JRA Directors Kerri Cooke & Etain Fitzpatrick selected as WIA mentors

JRA are thrilled to announce that Kerri Cooke and Etain Fitzpatrick have been selected to be mentors as part of the 2024 Women in Architecture (WIA) Mentoring Programme. WIA is committed to supporting women and people of marginalised genders in the architectural profession to progress fulfilling careers. As mentors Kerri and Etain will draw on […]

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100 Embankment featured in BD

100 Embankment in Manchester, JRA’s recently completed flexible workspace for x+why, featured in Building Design. To read the article please click here

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JRA Director Festus Moffat on the Building Safety Act 2024

JRA Director Festus Moffat explains the challenges posed by the Building Safety Act’s 2024 changes for the architectural profession in CoStar Group’s newsletter. To read article please click here

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JRA Director Angela St Clair-Ford speaking at NLA’s Sustainable fit-out webinar

JRA Director Angela St Clair-Ford will be speaking at NLA’s Sustainable fit-out webinar on January 16th. For more information and to book please click here

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100 Embankment, Manchester featured in Mix Interiors

Our recently completed project with x+why, 100 Embankment, Manchester  featured in Mix Interiors. To read full article please click here

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The Northcliffe awarded AIA International 2023 Design Award

We are delighted to announce The Northcliffe has been awarded the Commendation of Architecture award at the prestigious AIA International 2023 Design Awards. Congratulations to the team! Details here

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JRA Work Experience Programme

JRA is delighted to share with you the work of our 2023 work experience students. This year the students were mentored by architect Ayaz Shah.   About the Programme: The JRA Work Experience Programme is a 1-week work experience programme designed for secondary school and college students (Year 10-13) who are interested in getting valuable […]

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Andy Thomas promoted to Project Director

We are delighted to announce that Andy Thomas has been promoted to Project Director. Andy has consistently demonstrated his leadership qualities on a number of projects, most recently on The Northcliffe, and we are excited to continue working with him winning new work, designing and delivering projects of the highest standards. Congratulations Andy!

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x+why Foundry, Brindleyplace shortlisted to FX Awards

Excited to announce our project for x+why Foundry, Brindleyplace in Birmingham, has been shortlisted for this year’s FX Design Awards in the ‘UK Workspace (any size)’ category.

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JRA Promotes Three New Directors

JRA is delighted to announce the promotion of three new practice Directors: Angela St Clair-Ford, Etain Fitzpatrick and Mark Wibberley. Angela, Etain and Mark have been promoted from their roles at Associate Director level. They join Directors Festus Moffat, David Magyar, Nathalie Bergvall and Smita Bhat, and will continue to contribute to the success of […]

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The Northcliffe latest Press

Latest press on The Northcliffe: Architecture Today Article here Building Design Article here Architecture Magazine (UK) August/September Issue here

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JRA Sketch Club

JRA Sketch Club: created to practice our ability to visually communicate our ideas through sketches, but also to take a well-deserved screen break and socialize with colleagues. This latest session Ayaz Shah, Anastasiia Kruch, Alan Rafer-Phillips, Claudio Valbuena, Sean Young and William Cook, started at the nearby Tate Modern, then Shakespeare’s Globe and ended at […]

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The Northcliffe featured in Architect’s Journal

John Robertson Architects (JRA) our redevelopment of the former Daily Mail Headquarters in the City of London is featured in Architect’s Journal. To read article please click here

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Skanska UK HQ Featured in Mix Interiors

JRA recent project Skanska’s new UK HQ in Hertfordshire is featured in Mix Interiors. Link to article here

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JRA30 Staff Party

Celebrating 30 Years! London, Edinburgh, and Lodz studios came together last week for our JRA30 staff celebration at JRA’s project Frederick’s Place. Such a great occasion to have the whole team together!

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NLQ Interview with JRA Directors

NLQ’s latest issue features JRA Directors Festus Moffat, David Magyar, Nathalie Bergvall in discussion with NLA’s Louise Rodgers on the practice’s 30 Year Anniversary, the future of JRA, the legacy of Founder John Robertson and how they envision the role of architects in the next 30 years. For more information click here

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JRA 30 Year Anniversary

Happy Anniversary JRA! Established as a practice focused on architectural work in cities, and committed to making thoughtful and innovative interventions in response to location and context, it has been one of our founding principles that we embrace the refurbishment and re-purposing of buildings and not just new construction. Over the last three decades, we […]

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Building 9, Devonshire Square featured in Architect’s Journal

JRA’s refurbishment of Building 9, a 7,300sqm grade II listed office building within the Devonshire Square Estate, located in the City of London is featured in the Architect’s Journal. This is JRA’s third project within the Devonshire Square Estate. We created a new boutique reception on the ground floor that features a rich palette of […]

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X+Why Foundry finalist BCO Awards 2023

X+Why Foundry is finalist for the BCO Awards 2023 in the Recycled Workplace category. Well done team! JRA was commissioned by x+why / Hines to rebrand and repurpose three floors of 6 Brindleyplace at ‘Foundry’ in Birmingham. Inspired by the city’s canals, historic architecture and environmental trajectory our design solution was to create a unique […]

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Bloom Clerkenwell finalist BCO Awards 2023

Bloom Clerkenwell is finalist for the BCO Awards 2023 in the Commercial Workplace category. Well done to the team! JRA designed offices for HB Reavis, situated above the Farringdon Crossrail station, features office space, landscaped roof terraces, an in-house gym, and amenity retail. The project has achieved BREEAM Outstanding, Wired Score Platinum, an EPC ‘A’ […]

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Northcliffe House has achieved a BREEAM Outstanding certificate

Excited to announce that JRA project Northcliffe House, our redevelopment of the former Daily Mail Headquarters in the City of London, has achieved a BREEAM Outstanding certificate for the Interim (Design) stage assessment. Outstanding rating ‘makes up less than (the) top 1% of all UK refurbishment or fit-out projects. This recognizes our consistently high performance […]

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Nathalie Bergvall promoted to Director of JRA

We’re excited to announce the promotion of Nathalie Bergvall to Director of JRA after four years at our practice. A key member of our senior design team, Nathalie has been working on master planning, educational, residential, mixed-use, and retail schemes for over 20 years, and she brings a wealth of expertise and guidance to all […]

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JRA commended for Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge 2021

JRA is proud to have been recognised for the Mayor’s Business Climate Challenge 2021, by reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.

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Great Arthur House featured in The Sustainable City

JRA’s Great Arthur House has been featured in new book 'The Sustainable City' for Hoxton Mini Press.

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JRA appoints new Associate Directors to its Board

John Robertson Architects (JRA) confirms the appointment of five new Associate Directors. The new Associate Directors – who between them bring almost 50 years’ experience of working at JRA – are Angela St Clair-Ford, Etain Fitzpatrick, Kerri Cooke, Mark Wibberley and Nathalie Bergvall. Their industry expertise ranges from office, residential, education and mixed-used schemes to […]

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Bloom Clerkenwell Reaches Practical Completion

Innovative office Bloom Clerkenwell reaches practical completion, on target for certifications recognising sustainability and wellbeing.

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One Westferry Circus Project Completes

JRA has completed the modernisation of One Westferry Circus in Canary Wharf

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Work Starts On Site at The Northcliffe

Work starts on site following planning and listed building consent for The Northcliffe

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John Robertson Reselected for NLA’s Expert Panel

John will use his expertise in the design and delivery of buildings to advise on technical competency for New London Architecture.

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Rooftop Reconnection Drinks

JRA and Civic Engineers welcome clients back to the City at Cannon Green

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JRA Featured in AJ100 Rankings

JRA is delighted to be featured in the Architects' Journal's 100 biggest UK practices

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JRA Designed 51 Moorgate First Building Awarded WELL Platinum

51 Moorgate, JRA’s flagship London office for client and occupier Skanska, is the first building to be awarded WELL Platinum through the v2 pilot.

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John Robertson Interviewed on the Future of Offices

New London Architecture’s Peter Murray interviewed John Robertson about the future of central business districts and office design post COVID.

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Bracken House Shortlisted for AJ Retrofit Award 2021

Bracken House has been shortlisted for an AJ Retrofit Award in the ‘Listed Building £10 million and over’ category. The awards are held by the Architects’ Journal to recognise and celebrate well-designed sustainable projects and promote material and structural reuse in the built environment. JRA carried out the major retrofit of grade II* listed Bracken […]

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JRA Completes Refurbishment of Ludgate, London

JRA has completed the refurbishment of the office building Ludgate, London for Greycoat and Goldman Sachs.

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JRA has been appointed Monitoring Architect at Exchange Square, Broadgate

JRA will provide compliance monitoring for the landscaped park and events space in the City of London on behalf of British Land.

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Great Arthur House is a finalist in the 2021 Civic Trust Awards

More exciting awards news for our re-cladding of the grade II listed Great Arthur House.

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Bracken House Shortlisted for the NLA Awards 2020

We were delighted to hear that our redevelopment of Bracken House has been shortlisted in the 'Conserving' category at the 2020 NLA Awards.

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JRA Specialist Sustainability Services

JRA now offers stand-alone sustainable design services.

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JRA Reopens London Office

We have now reopened the JRA headquarters in Bankside to welcome back staff and clients.

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JRA Shortlisted for the 2020 ‘Architect of the Year’ Awards

For the second year running JRA has been shortlisted for the Architect of the Year Awards!

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JRA & The Future of the Workplace

JRA has produced a report analysing the post-Covid19 workplace

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The Challenges of Working During Covid19

Working remotely from the office and the construction site.

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JRA Completes First Phase of Frederick’s Place Masterplan

JRA has completed 7 & 8 Frederick's Place and 35 Old Jewry for The Mercers' Company.

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JRA joins Architects’ Journal’s RetroFirst campaign

JRA has joined Architects' Journal’s RetroFirst campaign, advocating for the reuse of existing buildings in response to the climate emergency.

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Bracken House Shortlisted for the 2020 BCO Awards

JRA's Bracken House project has been shortlisted in the Refurbished / Recycled Workplace category of the 2020 BCO Awards

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JRA and the LETI Climate Emergency Design Guide

JRA was delighted to attend the launch of the LETI Climate Emergency Design Guide at New London Architecture.

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Great Arthur House wins a ‘Society of Facade Engineering’ Award

Great Arthur House has won the 'Refurbishment' category at the 2019 SFE Awards.

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Paula Gonzalez wins the BCO’S NextGen Rising Star London and South East Award

These awards celebrate the achievements and successes of under 35 young professionals in the commercial property sector.

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Bureau, 90 Fetter Lane Shortlisted in the AJ Retrofit Awards 2019

Bureau, 90 Fetter Lane has been shortlisted in the AJ Retrofit Awards.

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Cannon Green Awarded WCCA Refurbishment of the Year

Cannon Green has been awarded the City of London Best Refurbishment Building of the Year by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects.

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JRA Wins National RIBA Award 2019

JRA has won a National RIBA Award 2019 for Great Arthur House.

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UK Architects Declare Climate and Biodiversity Emergency

JRA has signed an open letter declaring a climate and biodiversity emergency and calling for the construction industry to commit to positive action.

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UCA Epsom Competition Win

JRA has won a competition in collaboration with UNStudio to design the new business school for the University of the Creative Arts Epsom campus.

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JRA Cyclist Completes PedElle 2019

JRA architect Becky Grigor has taken part in the Club Peloton pedElle cycle 2019, a charity ride for female cyclists across the property and construction industry.

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JRA Completes First Hotel at West Smithfield

JRA has completed its first built hotel project at 24-30 West Smithfield, providing a 326 bed Premier Inn branch for client Whitbread.

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JRA Wins RIBA Award

JRA has won a RIBA London Award for Great Arthur House.

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David Magyar on Monocle Radio

Director David Magyar spoke to Christy Evans about JRA’s Bracken House retrofit for the Monocle on Design podcast.

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JRA race in HD5K for charity

Staff from JRA ran in the annual Hayes Davidson 5 kilometre race to raise money for motor neurone disease.

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JRA Wins BIM Project of the Year at Graphisoft Awards

JRA has been recognised for BIM use at Bracken House by Graphisoft.

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JRA Completes Bracken House Retrofit

The retrofit is complete at Bracken House, now fully upgraded for the next generation of occupiers.

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JRA Shortlisted in the AJ100’s Sustainable Practice of the Year for the Second Year Running

JRA has been recognised for the second year running for its track record of sustainable design.

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John Robertson gave a talk on Sustainable Workplaces at The City Centre

Director John Robertson gave a talk on Sustainable Workplaces at The City Centre on Wednesday 24th April, 8am-9.30am.

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Construction Starts at Farringdon West

Construction has begun on site at Farringdon West, a seven storey Crossrail Over-Site Development designed by John Robertson Architects.

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Great Arthur House Shortlisted for RIBA Awards 2019

JRA is pleased to announce that Great Arthur House has been shortlisted in the RIBA London Regional Awards 2019.

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JRA Shortlisted for BD’s Office Architect of the Year

JRA has been recognised by BD for ongoing and extensive work in the office sector.

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JRA Wins the BREEAM Professional Champions Award

JRA is delighted to have won the BREEAM Professional Champions Awards for Architects. The award recognises architectural practices and M&E consultancies who achieve consistently high performance and positive results.

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10 Park Drive Progress On-Site

10 Park Drive at Wood Wharf is progressing quickly on site with external cladding reaching completion and the entrance to the 43 storey ‘A3’ tower expected to start on site next week.

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Academy House Winners at AJ Specification Awards 2019

Academy House has won the Facades and Cladding category at the inaugural AJ Specification Awards.

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JRA is attending MIPIM 2019

John Robertson Architects is delighted to be attending MIPIM 2019 in Palais des Festivals, Cannes as London Club delegates from 12th to 15th March.

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Winning Cycle Club Jersey Announced

JRA's cycle club announced the winning design for their annual jersey competition

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Bureau Building Shortlisted for BCO Award

JRA’s Bureau building at 90 Fetter Lane has been shortlisted for a British Council for Offices award in the Recycled Workplace category.

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JRA Launches Cycle Club

JRA has launched an in-house cycle club, promoting wellbeing and team spirit whilst raising money for good causes.

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Academy House Shortlisted for AJ Specification Awards

JRA is pleased to announce that Academy House has been shortlisted in the AJ Specification Awards 2019.

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Pavilion completes at KCL Strand Campus

JRA’s comprehensive redevelopment has transformed the historic Aldwych Quarter to create a brand new university campus for KCL.

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JRA completes Smithfield Square in Hornsey

JRA has completed their work on the largescale residential scheme Smithfield Square for St James.

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Bureau 90 Fetter Lane Launches

Last night saw the launch of JRA’s recently completed refurbishment and repositioning of Bureau at 90 Fetter Lane.

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Re-cladding of Grade II Great Arthur House completes

JRA has completed the re-cladding of the iconic grade II listed Great Arthur House on the Golden Lane Estate.

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JRA Summer Party

Last night saw JRA’s annual summer celebration. Staff competed in a company wide softball match on Clapham Common before enjoying dinner in a local beer garden.

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Academy House Finalist in AJ Retrofit Awards 2018

Academy House has been shortlisted in the AJ Retrofit Awards in the Office 2,000 - 5,000m2 category.

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JRA Shortlisted for AJ100 Sustainable Practice of the Year

JRA has been shortlisted for our work on 33 King William Street and our continued dedication to sustainability.

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Dr Colin Beattie now JRA’s in-house WELL AP

Dr Colin Beattie has qualified as a WELL Accredited Professional (WELL AP) after successfully passing the exam through the International WELL Building Institute.

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International Women’s Day and #SeeTheElephant

JRA is celebrating International Women’s Day today. This year’s campaign #PressforProgress focuses on narrowing the gap between gender parity.

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Life Cycle Services

JRA is championing Life Cycle Assessments and Life Cycle Costings as services that add value for our clients and reduce carbon in our buildings.

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JRA Cycling to MIPIM 2018

In March, Director David Magyar, Project Director Kuros Sarshar and Associate Mark Wibberley will be joining the Legal & General Real Assets Cycle to MIPIM.

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33 King William Street finalist at BCO Awards 2018

33 King William Street, our new landmark office building is a finalist in this year’s BCO Awards in the Commercial Workplace category.

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JRA is attending MIPIM 2018

John Robertson Architects will attend MIPIM 2018 in Cannes as London Club delegates from 13th to 16th March. This year, Director Festus Moffat will attend together with Project Director Kuros Sarshar and Associate Paula Gonzalez.

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JRA Shortlisted for BREEAM/Ecobuild Champions Award

JRA has been shortlisted for the BREEAM/Ecobuild Champions Award for the BREEAM Awards 2018. The award recognises architectural practices and M&E consultancies who achieve high performance and positive results working on behalf of BREEAM clients.

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33 King William Street New Offices Complete

JRA has completed the new office building at 33 King William Street for real estate developer HB Reavis and it has been announced that the building has been purchased by US bank Wells Fargo & Company.

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Blog: How many planets do you need to live?

How many planets do you need to support your lifestyle? JRA took on the One Planet Living Challenge to find out.

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World Green Building Week

JRA is promoting Life Cycle Assessment and Whole Life Carbon services for World Green Building Week taking place from 25th September to 1st October 2017.

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JRA Summer Celebration

Yesterday evening saw JRA’s annual summer party, enjoyed by staff in London and Poland.

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Academy House Tops Out

Topping out ceremony held to celebrate completion of concrete works to the envelope at JRA Oxford Street refurbishment.

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JRA launches #johnremembers for London Festival of Architecture

JRA is running the #johnremembers Instagram campaign, encouraging the creative community and members of the public to post their stories and photos of special places in London to win a prize and feature in an exhibition

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Blog: Oh baby! The gender Imbalance

Blog post commenting on the Architect's Journal annual survey on Women in Architecture by Babita Ram.

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A Smarter City Exhibition at the City Centre

JRA is shortlisted in the first part of the The City Centre ideas competition.

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John Robertson Architects announced as Patron to the London Festival of Architecture

JRA is an official Patron to the London Festival of Architecture 2017, supporting the programme of celebrations and promoting architecture within the city.

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JRA celebrates International Women’s Day

Staff across studios photographed to mark commitment to equality.

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JRA is attending MIPIM 2017

John Robertson Architects will attend MIPIM 2017 in Cannes from 14th to 17th March. The JRA team attending the property fair this year includes Director Festus Moffat together with Project Director Nathalie Bergvall and Associate Paula Gonzalez.

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JRA’s Dr Colin Beattie to give talk at NLA conference

Colin will give a talk on the adaptability of buildings for the NLA’s half day conference on 26th October 2016 as part of their WRK / LDN programme.

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JRA designs Mix Interiors logo

Designers at John Robertson Architects have produced this month’s Mix Interiors magazine cover logo.

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WRK / LDN launch

New London Architecture launches WRK / LDN: Shaping London’s Future Workspaces, opening their exhibition to the public.

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Another rise for JRA in Building’s 150 Top Consultants

JRA has moved up the rankings in Building magazine’s top firms and practices for 2016.

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Fast progress at 33 Central

King William Street project reaches construction milestones.

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Great Arthur House new cladding starts going up

The first new golden yellow cladding panels are being installed on the building’s West elevation.

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Blog: Weaving Green into the City – London Design Festival

London Design Festival has so many exciting events to choose from, it is difficult to know which to attend. Here to help you decide, I’ve picked out the best of this year’s green spaces.

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Blog: Spaces to Gather – London Design Festival

This week sees the annual London Design Festival. I looked at the prevalence of spaces to gather across the festival and questioned whether this is something we just want or actually really need.

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Blog: Architecture after hours?

Let me look in detail at one event I got involved with at this year’s London Festival of Architecture. JRA held a Pecha Kucha event entitled Victorian Industrialist vs Millennial Entrepreneur and I jumped at the chance to take part.

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51 Moorgate granted planning permission

JRA refurbishment at 51-53 Moorgate has been granted planning permission.

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JRA secure planning for West Smithfield hotel

Planning permission has been granted for JRA designed hotel in Smithfield, City of London for Whitbread Hotels.

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33 Central bought by Wells Fargo

33 Central, a JRA designed scheme for HB Reavis has been bought by American bank Wells Fargo for new headquarters.

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20th Century Society at Great Arthur House

John Robertson addressed conservators for the 20th Century Society on site at Great Arthur House.

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LFA talk by Tanisha Raffiuddin

As part of the London Festival of Architecture, JRA's Tanisha Raffiuddin presented on How the Passion Economy Fuelled the Co-Working Movement in the quick fire PechaKucha style.

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Blog: Highlights from the GRAPHISOFT Key Client Conference – Day One

GRAPHISOFT Key Client Conference (KCC 2016) in Budapest takes place every two years and GRAPHISOFT's key clients from around the world are invited to attend.

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John Robertson at NLA Awards

John Robertson presented the award for Homes at the NLA Awards following his work as an Expert Assessor.

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Blog: Highlights from the GRAPHISOFT Key Client Conference – Day Two

The opening presentation was delivered by Gabor Bojar, the founder of GRAPHISOFT, followed by Naveen Dath and Daniel Potts from Cottee Parker Architects, Australia.

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#johnremembers exhibition for London Festival of Architecture

View the exhibition of the #johnremembers Instagram competition at Dreamspace Gallery, Clerkenwell from 23rd June – 14th July.

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JRA #42 in AJ100

JRA has been placed at number 42 in the AJ100 ranking 2016. The list brings together the UK's top one hundred architectural practices, determined by size and number of qualified architects employed.

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Blog: GRAPHISOFT KCC 2017, Kyoto, Japan

Visiting Japan? Bucket list item. Tick. Combined with presenting at the GRAPHISOFT Key Client Conference (KCC 2017) in Kyoto? Two ticks!

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JRA PechaKucha at LFA

JRA is holding a PechaKucha evening on 15th June as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2016. Six speakers will have 20 slides, each on screen for 20 seconds to explore the theme of our title 'Victorian Industrialist versus Millennial Entrepreneur'.

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Blog: What to see at Clerkenwell Design Week if you only have one day

For the seventh year running, designers have taken over Clerkenwell. Across eight exhibition spaces and a community of showrooms, pavilions and installations.

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JRA lead on Sculpture in the City

John Robertson Architects led a Sculpture in the City workshop for Open City at JRA project One Great St Helen's.

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JRA holds workshop ahead of London Festival of Architecture

JRA has begun exploring the theme of community and the workplace in anticipation of the London Festival of Architecture.

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JRA’s Capital Idea

JRA's architect Yiannis Proestos will be presenting his 'Capital Idea' for the launch of New London Architecture's NextGen programme of events, targeted at championing the next generation of architectural talent.

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AJ100: Shortlisted for 2016

John Robertson Architects has been shortlisted for the AJ100 for the fifth year running, remaining one of the UK's top practices.

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Bombs in the City: The Aftermath of the IRA

John Robertson will give a talk to the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects on the 25th April about the impact of the IRA bombings on the City of London.

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AJ Specification Live – Cladding and Curtain Walling

AJ Specification Live: JRA will be presenting our work on the recladding of Great Arthur House - 23rd March at 6pm

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JRA attending MIPIM 2016

John Robertson Architects' Festus Moffat, Angela Jeng and Liz Wilks will attend MIPIM 2016 in Cannes from 15th to 18th March.

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My Parent the Architect

JRA Project Director Charles Ellis will give a talk to the 20th Century Society on post-war Brutalist architect Tom Ellis.

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JRA Inspiring Graduate

John Robertson Architects' Yiannis Proestos was selected as a finalist in the AJ/Curtins Inspiring Graduate Awards.

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New Ideas for Housing – Great Arthur House at the NLA

JRA's Great Arthur House features in the latest NLA Housing Exhibition.

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Top 150 Consultants

Building Magazine showing which firms have charted the highest this year.

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JRA’s white water drama

JRA complete charity challenge raising money for kids theatre.

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JRA designs City block

On 21st August Dr Rosa Urbano Gutierrez delivered a talk to the practice about her forthcoming book 'Sustainable Retrofit: Post War Residential Towers in the North-West of Britain'.

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JRA Annual Softball Match & Summer Party

Staff competed in a company wide softball match on Clapham Common before enjoying a beer garden BBQ.

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NEO Bankside nominated for Stirling Prize

NEO Bankside, a scheme by Roger Stirk Harbour + Partners with John Robertson Architects has been nominated for the Stirling Prize.

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Fantasy Skyline – A New Future! Archikids Festival 2015

Children and parents are invited to join JRA on the 26th to craft a fantasy skyline.

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John Robertson joins expert panel at NLA Think Tank on design quality

John Robertson took part in a think tank on design quality throughout the construction process at the NLA.

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Retrofit – The future of London’s Commercial Buildings

Director Festus Moffat offers insight at NLA Retrofit conference.

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Unfolding City

A collaborative Installation between John Robertson Architects and Artist, Gabby Shawcross.

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AJ120

JRA features in the AJ120 list of biggest architectural firms in Britain for fourth year running.

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Architecture + Art: LFA Open Studio Event

A presentation on how the public realm and workspaces are changing within the city as a result of collaborations between developers, architects, artists, city planners and urban designers.

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Festus Moffat to judge World Interiors News Awards 2015

JRA Director Festus Moffat will take part as a judge for the World Interiors News Awards 2015.

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Green Sky Thinking Festus Moffat – Breakfast Talk

Festus Moffat Breakfast Talk as part of Open City's Green Sky Thinking week.

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Come on Feel the Noise – FX Design Seminar

A panel of London’s top workplace designers came together to discuss the impact of noise on the working environment.

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ASCHB Society Lecture on Aldwych Quarter

John Robertson spoke to The Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings on the history and restoration of Aldwych Quarter.

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Lea Valley Primary School Careers Day

John Robertson was invited to speak at Lea Valley Primary School careers day

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MIPIM Awards

Aldwych Quarter has been shortlisted for the prestigious MIPIM Awards Shortlist 'Best Refurbished Building'.

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World Green Building Week 2014

Festus Moffat joined Greengage in hosting a breakfast talk to mark World Green Building Week.

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