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Agatha Christie and the modernist war years

Agatha Christie lived at Hampstead’s Lawn Road flats – also known as the Isokon building – from 1941 until 1947. Watch this fascinating film made for the 2020 International Agatha... read more

Canonbie Road planning approved

Our housing scheme for temporary accommodation homes for Lewisham have obtained planning consent with unanimous approval at committee. The planning committee praised the level of design quality for these much-needed... read more

Wells Coates talk at Isokon Gallery

Wells Coates talk at Isokon Gallery... read more

The Makers – site update

The Makers mixed-use development in Shoreditch - progress on site... read more

New Framework Appointments

We have recently been appointed to deliver masterplanning services for a range of residential, healthcare and mixed-use projects under the NHS SBS Framework. The NHS SBS Framework is a UK-wide... read more

100 UK CLT Projects

CLT (cross-laminated timber) is a precision-engineered, sustainable for of construction that Avanti have employed in a number of projects including Ickburgh School which has been included in Waugh Thistleton’s new... read more

Dover housing submitted for planning

Avanti Architects have submitted a planning application for 65 mixed-tenure housing units in central Dover for Dover District Council. This mid-rise scheme for two sites within view of Dover castle... read more

Video tour of Cherry Hill

A Grade II listed modernist house designed by Oliver Hill in the 1930’s which has been sensitively restored. You can read about the project here.... read more

VIDEO – Hinterland

Video describing the vision developed by NVA with Avanti Architect for Kilmahew/St Peter’s, Cardross. Follow the link here to the full article on our website.... read more

Williams and Tsien at the Royal Academy

Todd Williams and Billie Tsien gave an inspiring talk at the Royal Academy on the evening of 20th November, providing a masterclass in humane and ethos-driven architectural storytelling. That story... read more

Ulster Hospital wins top prize at CEF awards

The new Inpatient Ward block at Ulster Hospital won the top accolade of overall winner for the most outstanding entry at the Construction Excellence Awards last week. The team also... read more

The Japanese House at the Barbican

On 21st April a group of Avantians went to check out The Japanese House at the Barbican, an exhibition on Japanese domestic architecture from the end of World War II... read more

Façadism: Preserve or Renew?

Director Amir Ramezani will be part of an eclectic panel debate on the topic of “Façadism: Preserve or Renew?” at the RIBA on Tuesday 22 November 19:00 – 20:30 Fellow... read more

#buildingsthatcare debate

Avanti’s Claudia Bloom will be joining the AJ expert panel for the #buildingsthatcare debate on Wednesday 9th November. She will be sharing our top tips for delivering successful healthcare projects including... read more

Avanti at the Higher Education Design Quality Forum

Amir Ramezani spoke to the Higher Education Design Quality Forum (HEDQF) on ‘Listed buildings in universities: opportunities and challenges’ on 1st November 2016 at the Royal Naval College, University of Greenwich. Dr Roger... read more

2017 Civic Trust Awards Regional Finalists Revealed

Trumpington Community College , Cambridge and Banbridge Health and Care Centre have been revealed as two of the regional finalists for the 2017 Civic Trust Awards. The winners will be announced... read more

Avanti at London Build Expo 2016

At this year’s event, Avanti Architects will showcasing a 3D model of our current high rise mixed used project at The Architects Hub , and the Digital Architects Wall will be showing... read more

Health and wellbeing week at Avanti

As part of Great Britain health and wellbeing at work week, Avanti offered all members of staff a free introductory Iyengar Yoga Class. Iyengar, is a form of Hatha Yoga... read more

Sheffield Children’s Hospital case study: Q&A with Claudia Bloom

The Architectural Review has issued an article focusing on the recently launched RIBA competition for the next phase of redevelopment at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) in central... read more

Avanti attending IHEEM 2016

Claudia Bloom Managing Director of Avanti Architects will be attending this year’s Healthcare Estates Exhibition and conference on 4 and 5 of October. Claudia will be chairing the ‘Design and Construction’... read more

AJ100 2016 result

Avanti once again featured strongly in the Architect’s Journal’s list of Britain’s 100 largest architectural practices moving up to 2 places to a creditable 63rd ranking this year. This year’s... read more

VIDEO – Banbridge aerial footage

Video of Banbridge Health and Care Centre taken from an aerial drone following recent completion of the project. For further information regarding the RIBA Award shortlisting of the project and... read more

Rescuing Ruins

John Allan and Fiona Lamb of Avanti Architects will talk about and show images of some of their high profile restoration projects, including the Isokon Building and The Penguin Pool,... read more

St Peter’s Seminary to get £4.2m lottery-funded revamp

Creative Scotland reports today that the Heritage Lottery Fund announced £4.2m funding to breathe new life into the derelict St Peter’s Seminary transforming it, and the estate surrounding it, into a truly... read more

Penguins at the Isokon

Each year the Gallery features a special display on an aspect of the Isokon story and its many connections. This season we focus on penguins – the publishing house founded... read more

Iyengar Yoga Classes at Avanti Architects

Our regular and hugely beneficial classes attended by many from the Avanti office and others from further afield continue to run on Mondays beginning at 18:45-20:15. If you would like... read more

Highly Commended at the RICS Awards London

Ickburgh School was Highly Commended at the RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) Awards London in the Design through Innovation category. Announced on 30 April the category assessed how specific... read more

Supporting people-led innovation in the NHS

Claudia Bloom and Duncan Finch, directors of Avanti Architects were delighted to be invited to take part in a Quality Improvement Sprint at Imperial College Healthcare this month. These exciting... read more

Ickburgh School Cover Story

In the latest edition of the quarterly Inform magazine, part of Architecture Today, Ian Latham reviews Ickburgh School.... read more

Cambridge Architecture Gazette features Trumpington School

Avanti’s Trumpington Secondary School has been reviewed by Keith Watson of BDP in the Cambridge Architecture Gazette CA68. Read the full article here: http://issuu.com/ribacaa/docs/ca68/1... read more

Beatrice Tate up for a BREEAM Education Award

BREEAM sets the standard for best practice in sustainable building design, construction and operation and has become one of the most comprehensive and widely recognised measures of a building’s environmental... read more

Two Avanti Schools make RICS Awards Shortlist

Both Ickburgh School and Thomas Fairchild School have been shortlisted in the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) London Awards. The projects have been selected for the ‘Design through Innovation’... read more

The Institute of Hepatology Moves to Kings College Research Campus

Led by Professor Roger Williams CBE since 1973, the Foundation for Liver Research supports research programmes into liver disease including much of the pioneering work into liver transplantation and acute liver... read more

Site-update – Ulster Hospital

The new 288 bed Inpatient Ward Block at the Ulster Hospital is currently in the 18th Month of a 38 month construction programme. On Wednesday 3rd December 2014 Northern Ireland... read more

NLA Awards 2014

Thomas Fairchild Community School has been shortlisted in the Education category of the New London Architecture Awards 2014. Winning schemes will be announced on 9 July at NLA’s Annual Lunch... read more

AJ100 2014 result

We ranked 61 in the list of Britain's 100 largest architectural practices compiled by the Architect's Journal.... read more

Avanti celebrates 33 years

The Avanti team, partners and friends celebrated their 33rd birthday sipping champagne and cocktails watching the sun set over the west end from the Paramount bar at the top of Centrepoint.... read more

Amir Ramezani in AJ house-building report

Amir Ramezani was invited to contribute to an Architects’ Journal report concerning the growing number of regional housebuilding planning consents compared to London. The AJ reported that: ‘The number of planning consents rocket... read more

Finnish delegation visits Ickburgh School

Senior Government representatives of the Finnish city of Espoo (Finland’s 2nd largest) visited London as part of a fact-finding mission to better understand the use of timber as a structural... read more

Avanti on AfH Student Design Awards 2014 Winning Team

Avanti Architect’s nominated year out students Eduard Tipaldo and Yuntong Mu to participate in the 2014 annual charette organized by Architect’s for Health in collaboration with London South Bank University... read more

The Guardian reports on St.Peter’s seminary

The Guardian has produced an in-depth report on NVA’s work at St. Peter’s seminary and the proposals developed by Avanti and ERZ landscape architects to reclaim the buildings and surrounding... read more

DesignCurial Blog on Haggerston

James Borley writes on the DesignCurial Blog about the continuing relevance of Erno Goldfinger’s Haggerston School refurbished and extended by Avanti Architects in terms of educatonal design concepts. http://www.designcurial.com/blog/inside-ern-goldfingers-haggerston-school/... read more