Office & News
Oct 2023
Housing Design Awards double win
East won two awards at the Housing Design Awards 2023 event. Both Bream Street housing and public realm and Custom House Kickstart sites were selected as winners.
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Apr 2023
Barbican Tree Talks
Julian will present East’s work under the heading ‘Rates of Interest’ at the next Tree Talk in the Barbican on 15 May 2023. Titled Money Trees the event will compare practices and policies in different European countries and discuss limits of growth.
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Feb 2023
A+U Panel Inclusion
East is included as one of 10 practices in Lot 4 of the A+U Framework for Landscape, Green Infrastructure & Public Realm awarded by the Mayor of London.
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Feb 2023
Drawing the Urban
Julian Lewis will attend as keynote speaker at the “Drawing the urban” Symposium taking place on the 16th and 17th November at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland.
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Feb 2023
RIBA Awards London Region
Bream street has been shortlisted for the RIBA Awards London region. East’s affordable housing and public realm at Bream Street, Hackney Wick is part of a larger development led by AHMM. The project also won the Housing Project of the Year category in this years Building Awards.
Jan 2023
Notting Hill Genesis framework inclusion
East have been included in the Notting Hill Genesis development consultants framework for new housing, following a rigorous selection process with an emphasis on quality, as well as equality and diversity.
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Dec 2022
Architecture Foundation’s Research Fellowship
Judith has received the first Architecture Foundation’s Research Fellowship.
Tree Talks, an event at the Barbican on 25th January 2023 will act as the starting point for the London Arboretum, a programme of residencies talks and publications around the cultural and social role of trees in London.
Dec 2022
NLA and World Architecture Festival Awards Win
The redevelopment of the site at 330 Grays Inn Road has won the New London Awards 2022 in the Mixed Use category, and the World Architecture Festival (WAF) Award for the “Commercial Mixed-Use” category.
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Nov 2022
Best Housing Project 2022
Bream Street has won the Building Awards for Best Housing Project 2022. East designed the affordable rent building alongside the public realm and landscape. The wider development for residential and workspace uses was led by AHMM. The client was Housing Association L&Q
Nov 2022
Meanwhile space at Finchley Road
East have completed a meanwhile space at the entrance to the 02 Centre.
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Sep 2022
Housing Project of the Year shortlisting
East’s affordable housing at Bream Street, which is part of a larger development led by AHMM, has been shortlisted for the Housing Project of the Year category in this year’s Building Awards.
Aug 2022
330 Gray’s Inn Road, (WAF) Award shortlisting
The mixed use development at the site of the former Royal National Nose, Throat and Ear Hospital in King’s Cross designed for Groveworld has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Award in the category of Future Project: Commercial Mixed Use.
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Aug 2022
JoCA Issue 9
East’s work has been published in the Journal of Civic Architecture, published by Canalside Press.
Aug 2022
Two Award shortlistings at Bream Street
The mixed use development at Bream Street designed for London and Quadrant has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Award in the category of Completed Buildings: Housing 2022, as well as for Development Of The Year for the British Homes Awards 2022.
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Jun 2022
Imagining The Present
The essay ‘Imagining The Present’ by Julian Lewis is included as part of the new Routledge publication ’The Everyday In Visual Culture’, edited by François Penz and Janina Schupp. The piece describes an approach to designing in cities and includes examples of East’s work to illustrate the approach.
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May 2022
International Metropolis Conference
Julian Lewis was invited to participate on the 20th May at the International Metropolis Conference “London-Berlin” at Studio Behrensbau in Berlin-Oberschoeneweide.
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May 2022
Mayor of London's Design Advocate
Julian Lewis has been appointed as one of the Mayor of London’s 42 new Design Advocates
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Apr 2022
First Wednesday Lecture Series
On Wednesday 20th April, architect, educator and writer Aslı Çiçek will give a talk at East on the idea of scenography in her work.
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Apr 2022
Bromley-by-Bow
Our designs at Guinness Homes new Imperial development at Bromley-by-Bow are coming forward. Spaces for new and existing communities will include river rafts, park, square and ‘vestibule’ steps.
Apr 2022
TU Delft Lecture
Julian Lewis was invited to give a lecture on East’s work and review the work of the graduation studio at TU Delft by Chair of Urban Architecture Paul Vermeulen.
Mar 2022
First Wednesday Lecture Series
Elia Zenghelis – renowned educator and original co-founder of OMA – will give a talk at East on his park projects pursued over the last forty years. The talk on 9th March 2022 is part of our ‘First Wednesday’ invited lecture series.
Feb 2022
East on stage at the Barbican
Julian Lewis, Dann Jessen and Judith Lösing will present recent London projects by East alongside some earlier work, and speak about architecture and landscape as a combined project.
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Feb 2022
East won the Hawley School Competition
East won a small competition to remodel Hawley School into a London Underground escalator maintenance and repair workshop.
Jan 2022
First Wednesday Lecture Series
Irina Davidovici will give a talk at East as part of East’s ‘First Wednesday’ invited lecture series, on 2nd February 2022, 5pm.
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Nov 2021
New London Awards 2021
The NLA International Jury selected East as the winner for the Meanwhile Category at the NLA Annual Lunch on Friday 26th November.
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Oct 2021
Architect of the Year Award 2021
East have won the AYA Public Realm Architect of the Year Award. Brent Cross Exploratory, for Argent Related, was one of the key projects submitted along with Bollo Lane, for TfL, and Beckenham High Street improvements, for Bromley Council.
Oct 2021
Frampton Park Housing won planning
Our project for 69 new residential units In LB Hackney has been approved and is going on site in 2022.
Oct 2021
Extra Care Homes on site
East’s 60 unit Extra Care building for Barratt London is on site at the Kodak site in Harrow; joining other projects underway by East and others including PTE.
May 2020
100 Day Studio Lecture
Julian Lewis was invited by the Architecture Foundation AF 100 Day Studio to give a talk on the work of East.
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