John McAslan + Partners has appointed Robert Torday as Director of Marketing & Communications, effective from 1 February. Robert will have a broad remit, covering new business development, media relations and digital communication, as well as

In a successful week for the practice, JMP has won three RIBA Awards and climbed 49 places up to 17 in the AJ100 ranking, which lists the UK’s most successful architectural practices.   At the AJ100 awards dinner last night, the RIBA Aw

Classrooms, assembly halls and libraries are the key elements which often come to mind when considering school design.  Typically, the spaces surrounding a school mostly conjure up images of grey asphalt deserts, decrepit sports facilities, c

An unbroken stream of redevelopment projects at Lancaster University’s campus by John McAslan + Partners (JMP) have formed a remarkable design odyssey. The practice has designed and delivered campus masterplans and individual buildings for sever

JMP has won a raft of awards this week including 3 RIBA Awards for the Charles Carter Building, Lancaster University, the Iron Market, Port-au-Prince, and Stanislavsky Factory, Moscow. The Independent, 19 May 2011
The Guardian, 19

Crossrail has been granted its third and final planning consent for the new Crossrail station at Bond Street in the West End of London. The latest approval to be granted by Westminster City Council is for a masterplan station around the eastern si

Building magazine has published a  six-page article on the redevelopment of the Grade I-listed King’s Cross Station, with the new Western Concourse roof featured on its front cover. The article is the most extensive feature on the £500m re

As part of AF 2011 (North West Architecture Festival) John McAslan + Partners will be hosting tours of the practice’s award-winning Charles Carter Building at Lancaster University.   This will be an opportunity for festival goers to vis

Models of John McAslan + Partners’  work on the £500m transformation of King’s Cross station and the practice’s restoration of the Iron Market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, are on show at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, which open

John McAslan + Partners'  bold new addition to Lancaster University Campus has been opened by HRH Princess Alexandra, in a ceremony that also involved the university’s Chancellor Sir Christian Bonington. Building Design, Tuesday 26

John McAslan + Partners' (JMP) bold new addition to Lancaster University Campus has been opened by HRH Princess Alexandra, in a ceremony that also involved the university’s Chancellor Sir Chris Bonington. The 4,000 sqm Charles Carter buildin

Building Design (BD) has included John McAslan's RSA Bossom Lecture, 'Building Better Communities'  in its best architecture videos of the week. Please click here to be taken to the article and video.  

John McAslan + Partners has won a competition to produce a masterplan for Dulwich College, London. The £20m project will transform the famous independent school’s 75 acre campus in time for its 400th anniversary in 2019. Building Design, Mo

John McAslan + Partners (JMP) has won a competition to produce a masterplan for Dulwich College, London. The £20m project will transform the famous independent school’s 75 acre campus in time for its 400th anniversary in 2019. JMP’s desig

Work has started on John McAslan + Partners’ transformation of Darwen Vale High School in Blackburn.  When completed in summer 2012, the project will create a new campus for the 1200-place community school, sensitively merging the existing

The Independent has published an article on the redevelopment of King's Cross Station, including an image gallery and a time lapse video, which charts the construction of the new western concourse. A virtual walk through video also illustrates

John McAslan + Partners’ (JMP) Void Practice Rooms at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) have been shortlisted for the RIBA Awards for London 2011. Completed in 2009, the £1.3 million building is a bronze-clad extension to the Royal Academy o

More information on this major new development can be found on the Architects’ Journal and Building Design websites.
 

Managing Director, Tony Skipper and Director, Kevin Lloyd will be attending MIPIM in Cannes, France, this week. Please contact us at +44 (0) 20 7756 8541 for more details. The John McAslan + Partners MIPIM 2011 brochure can be downloaded here.

Westminster City Council has granted John McAslan + Partners' Bond Street Crossrail east station planning permission. JMP's design is an integral part of the Crossrail development and when completed in 2018, passenger numbers are expected to i

Building Design (BD) has published a four-page feature on JMP’s ongoing work at Lancaster University as part of a BD Review on Higher Education.

The article charts JMP’s relationship with the university, which began with the d

John McAslan + Partners’ model of the £500m transformation of King’s Cross Station has been featured in the BBC’s Culture Show, as part of  a special programme on The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, where the model is currently on sho

JMP has scooped two more awards. The practice’s RSA Academy in the  West Midlands won a RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) Award in the Community Benefit category , which recognises projects that provide excellent faciliti

Senior Heritage Architect, David Jackson, gives an update on his work on King's Cross: I started working on the redevelopment of King's Cross in March 2010. The project had been onsite since mid-2009 and looked drastically different to the sta

John McAslan + Partners (JMP) will have a strong presence at this year's World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Barcelona (2-4 November), with the practice's Heritage work taking centre stage. Both JMP’s Iron Market (Haiti) and Stanislavsky Fa

John McAslan + Partners’ Stanislavsky Factory’s scheme in Moscow was Highly Commended at this year's Landscape Institute Awards which recognises architecture projects which have responded to and achieved sustainability.  The mixed-use red

John McAslan has contributed a drawing to Article 25’s 10x10: Drawing the City project. The drawing, titled “New Life in the City”, will be auctioned by Sotheby’s on Thursday 1st  December alongside 100 artworks by prominent architect

Faces of British Architecture is a series of black-and-white photographic portraits by Timothy Soar, with commentary by Isabel Allen which have been commissioned by Icopal to celebrate the wealth of talent amongst British architects.   Th

Executive Chairman and Founder of John McAslan + Partners, John McAslan, has been awarded a CBE for services to architecture on the New Year honours list.   Commenting on receiving this accolade, John McAslan said:   “Since est

JMP's Managing Director Tony Skipper has been selected as one of the 17 newly appointed members of the Design Review Panel for the North West architecture and built environment organisation, Places Matter! The panel which offers an impartial servi

The passing last week at the age of 71 of the Nobel Peace Prize winning environmental activist and human rights campaigner, Wangari Maathai, must surely give all architects pause for thought. Prof. Maathai, who founded the Green Belt Movement in K

Eleven John McAslan + Partners (JMP) projects are participating in this year’s Open House (17 & 18 September 2011), the weekend-long event that celebrates London’s buildings by making them accessible to the public.   The full list

John McAslan + Partners’ design for a two-acre, super-prime residential development in Campden Hill, for clients Native Land and Grosvenor, has been granted planning permission by The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The 180,000 sq ft sc

John McAslan + Partners will host a British Council event, organised by the Future Cities Project, on Thursday 21st July as part of London’s Shubbak festival. The debate, titled ‘The Principled Architect: Is it ethical to take an ethical p

Independent schools often have an incredibly rich history and heritage. When it comes to the redesign of these prominent educational institutions, architects must tread carefully, preserving the historic elements of the school, whilst also ensurin

John McAslan + Partners’ (JMP) high quality office and mixed-use development at 5 Cheapside in London has won a prestigious International Architecture Award.   The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Ch

JMP has been shortlisted in both education categories for the 2011 Architect of the Year Awards (AYA), for its work spanning from Nursery to University education.   John McAslan + Partners extended its portfolio of education project

Compassion for the Kabaris: Delhi’s Wastepickers at the heart of a bold new green initiative.   The eminent Indian photo-journalist Raghu Rai's exhibition, Compassion for the Kabaris, is now open at John McAslan + Partners’ William Ro

Recognising John McAslan + Partners’ (JMP) broad portfolio of international work, four of the practice’s projects have been shortlisted  for the World Architecture Festival Awards.   Both JMP’s Iron Market (Haiti) and S

John McAslan + Partners’ Charles Carter Building for Lancaster University is a finalist in this year’s Roses Design Awards in the Education Building category.  The project has received numerous accolades since opening earlier this year, i

All the scaffolding has now been removed from the interior of the Western Concourse at King’s Cross Station, unveiling the dramatic space for the first time.   Commenting on this John McAslan said:   “It’s incre

On Saturday 29th January 'From Haiti's Ashes', a BBC documentary following John McAslan + Partners' ten month project to rebuild the iconic Iron Market in Port au Prince, Haiti, aired on BBC Two.

'From Haiti's Ashes' is now availa

The British Embassy in Algiers, the first contemporary Modernist architecture in the Algerian capital, is featured in this month's Architecture Today. http://www.architecturetoday.co.uk/?p=12325

Building Back Better Communities, Port Au Prince, Haiti - 17 June 2010
Malcolm Reading Consultants, on behalf of the Government of Haiti, is delighted to announce the launch of an international competition to assist the rebuilding pro

JMP architect Hannah Lawson writes about her work in Africa…

Today, John McAslan + Partners and Allied London have announced the winner of an international student competition to design a music studio in Cité Soleil (Port-au-Prince), Haiti, on behalf of Wyclef Jean and his charity Yéle Haiti. The Royal In

Building Magazine covers JMP's Energy Centres project in an Olympic special.

Aidan was interviewed for London Story, a BBC Radio 4 programme on how cultural changes in London led it to become a world city. His contribution focuses on the regeneration of the King's Cross area. It will be available to listen to on BBC iPlaye

Station to station: the new power generation

The architecture of Britain's latest wave of energy plants is the finest since Bankside in the 1940s

By Jay Merrick
 

Leading architectural practice John McAslan + Partners (JMP) has won the prestigious Heritage Award at this year’s Network Rail Partnership Awards for the practice’s transformation of the Eastern Range building at King’s Cross station. �

Hornsey Town Hall is set for a face-lift which could pave the way for a cultural renaissance in the heart of Crouch End.

Haringey Council’s planning committee last night gave the green light to ambitious plans to restore the mu

JMP listed in Hot 100 of fastest growing companies. Real Business

Architectural Record
26 April 2010 Earlier this year, the well-regarded UK architect John McAslan stopped by RECORD’s offices to chat about his recent work in undeveloped countries. One such project is the rebuilding of the hist

John McAslan + Partners (JMP) has completed the extension to Bexhill Museum, creating a new cultural hub for the seaside town and a home for a range of exhibitions, including Costume and Motor Racing heritage, as well as local archaeology, natural

John McAslan + Partners has won a 2009 RIBA Award for extending the Charles Rennie Mackintosh arts facility in Northampton by conserving and adapting a Grade II Georgian building .  82 Derngate forms the third phase of a multi-functional

The John McAslan Family Trust is currently heading the transformation of the derelict, Grade B-listed Burgh Hall in Dunoon, a gem of Victorian civic architecture by Glaswegian architect Robert Bryden. Still regarded as Dunoon’s most significant

The new British Embassy building in Algiers, designed by John McAslan + Partners, has created an elegantly composed focal point for cultural, political and commercial contact between Britain and Algeria. It is unquestionably the first example of t

John McAslan + Partners has picked up the World and Transport Architect of the Year Awards at a ceremony held last night, 5 November, at the Intercontinental Hotel, Park Lane, London. Tony Skipper, Managing Director at John McAslan + Part

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From their new bright white HQ in central London, John McAslan and his team have certainly had a busy year. While the large Kings Cross development commission is ongoing, several smaller-scale projects around the globe have

JMP director Hannah Lawson gives an account of developing schools in Malawi. In 2007, we were invited to develop the prototype Malawi Schools because of a chance meeting between John McAslan and Rob Stoner from the Clinton Hunter Development I

John McAslan writes an opinion piece on Haiti in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/opinion/17mcaslan.html

Building for diplomacy: Our men in a mess

The new British Embassy building in Algiers is a striking piece of modernist design. But cutbacks mean it could well be the last of its kind, warns Jay Merrick

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Doing the practical
John McAslan and Partners’ RSA Academy is a model of intelligent design: no showy architectural statements but full of features to advance the radical curriculum, prevent bullying and boost harmony By Hu

JMP's new website launched today. Designed by 3 Fish in a Tree, with web development by Fat Man Collective, it responds to a very challenging brief. JMP wanted to create a site that instantly communicated the breadth of its offering and the mo

Architects have a responsibility to promote wellbeing in the communities they serve, argues John McAslan in the Royal Society of Arts Journal. http://www.thersa.org/fellowship/journal/features/features/beyond-bricks-and-mortar

John McAslan + Partners (JMP) has appointed Andy Harris as the new Head of Landscape Design. Bringing 13 years of experience in designing major schemes in the UK and internationally, Andy has joined JMP to head-up the practice’s in-house landsca

''John McAslan + Partners has opened the doors to its new £25 million academy building in Tipton, the west Midlands'' http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/mcaslan-completes-tipton-academy/8608909.article

John McAslan + Partners (JMP) was appointed as masterplanners for Manchester Science Parks (msp), helping the facility forge new connections with the city centre.

The masterplan will reshape msp’s 9.3 hectare Corridor site, crea

The redevelopment of King's Cross Station was highlighted by The Independent as a key project to watch out for in 2011. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/the-supersize-skyline-why-2011-will-be-the-year-architecture-t

John McAslan + Partners is proud to be a part of the completion of the historic Iron Market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Below is a selection of media coverage related to the opening attended by John McAslan, President Bill Clinton, Digicel founder D

President Bill Clinton opened the Iron Market on Tuesday 11th January 2011, breathing new life into one of Haiti’s most important cultural and economic landmarks. The structure was destroyed  by fire in 2008 and then by the catastrophic ear

John McAslan + Partners released their new vision for Manchester Science Park, a masterplan in the city centre that will nearly double the total lettable space and change the business community and key cultural institutions are connected. Belo

John McAslan + Partners’ (JMP) new buildings at the RSA Academy in Tipton, West Midlands, have been opened by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, president of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). The £25 mill

John McAslan's lecture at the RSA is featured in The Architects' Journal http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/mcaslan-speaks-on-building-better-communities/8608856.article

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/uk/mcaslan-completes-olympic-energy-centre/5007553.article

Bill Clinton, in an interview with NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff, discusses the rebuilding effort in Haiti, including the challenges facing the improvement of the country’s housing. The former US president identifies the JMP-led Building Back Bette

Westminster Council has approved John McAslan + Partners’ proposals to redevelop St John’s Wood Barracks, London.   The project consists of 12 apartment blocks and will create 133 new homes, 59 of which will be affordable hou

The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) invited John McAslan to give the prestigious Bossom Lecture on Wednesday, 24 November 2010. The lecture, entitled Building Better Communities, discusses the changing approaches to architecture in relation to increas

Bexhill Museum and the British Embassy, Algiers, have won awards at the International Property Awards 2010 in association with Bloomberg Television. JMP’s Bexhill Museum received the Architecture Award (Leisure/ hospitality) of the UK Prope

''Architects working on Crossrail’s eight central London stations have achieved £300 million worth of savings as part of a “value-engineering” drive demanded by the government'' http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/crossrail-architects-engine

JMP's Initiatives work featured in The Architects' Journal http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion/business-management-is-not-the-dirty-side-of-architecture/8608522.article
 

The redevelopment of the Grade I-listed King's Cross Station is featured in the London Evening Standard http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23900962-new-roof-puts-kings-cross-on-track-to-be-world-class.do

John McAslan + Partners’ design of Crossrail Bond Street Station was unveiled to Londoners yesterday as the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, and Rail Minister Theresa Villiers, revealed the designs of eight Crossrail stations to be built across ce