Modular office lands at Batchworth Depot
Off-site manufactured building craned into position
Lewisham Sports Consortium collaboration
Plans for a community sports hub reignited
Black Box
2021 ends with an endorsement from the BSI for our Quality Assurance system – Black Box
Canal side living
The technical design of the refurbished Flora Hotel public house starts with an underwater survey
COP26 Built Environment Day
The Build Better Now Virtual Pavilion continues to present both practical and innovative ideas on how we can deliver meaningful change to achieve net zero carbon.
Hertfordshire Building Futures Awards
Hemming Way highly commended for urban design at the Hertfordshire Building Futures Conference awards dinner.
CRASH outstanding achievements celebrated
Special Recognition awarded to Black for their ongoing work with both homeless and hospice charities.
LETI standards mews house completed
Project delivered to the concept environmental target
UK COP26 Leadership action
UK Business Group Alliance for Net Zero publishes letter urging the Prime Minister to deliver coherent climate strategy
Morley Gallery Opens
Inaugural exhibitions held at the newly remodelled art gallery
Croxley View update
Phase 2 construction works progressing on site to deliver new affordable homes in west Watford
Chapel conversion
Black appointed to repurpose a former chapel into a series of community arts spaces in Bedfordshire

COP26 Built Environment Day
The Build Better Now Virtual Pavilion continues to present both practical and innovative ideas on how we can deliver meaningful change to achieve net zero carbon.

Hertfordshire Building Futures Awards
Hemming Way highly commended for urban design at the Hertfordshire Building Futures Conference awards dinner.

CRASH outstanding achievements celebrated
Special Recognition awarded to Black for their ongoing work with both homeless and hospice charities.

LETI standards mews house completed
Project delivered to the concept environmental target

A clean, inclusive and resilient recovery plan
Along with other leading built environment organisations Black are a signatory to the UKGBC’s letter to the Prime Minster on a Covid-19 recovery plan

Batchworth Depot
Key worker refuse collectors in Rickmansworth will soon get a new home in a bespoke facility at their Batchworth Depot site

Morley Gallery tender
Tender documentation has now been submitted to contractors for the new remodelled gallery space at Morley College

Looking after the homeless
A new dining space is proposed for Caritas Anchor House following the completion of the lounge in 2019

TM40: Health and wellbeing in building services
CIBSE revisit the 8 Storey’s Gate project as part of a new edition of this guide to environmental design

Product of the month
Liquid Linoleum is selected as the latest Product of the Month to be assessed as part of our ongoing material research programme

Rodmill Lane
Construction reaches the halfway stage for new homes tucked away on a site behind the South Circular

IRMO
Remodelling Warrick House to support a south London charity better serve it’s community

Marchmont and Ashford
The practice has been appointed to design new homes at the edges of two established, but contrasting residential communities

Morley Gallery
Detailed design commences to transform the gallery into a fully accessible space to engage with art

Fairwood Place
New homes handed over in Borehamwood after the completion of a two year BIM design process

New website launched
New year, new website. An update that reflects the work Black have been designing over the past year

Helen and Douglas House
A children’s hospice in Oxford has benefitted from Black’s philosophy of challenging the brief to deliver the client with something they didn’t expect

Wilcox Road
The scene of My Beautiful Laundrette to be redeveloped following planning approval from Lambeth Council

Centrepoint Community Centre
Centrepoint Community Centre and social rent housing scheme receives planning consent from Watford Borough Council

Morley Forward
Joanna Lumley launches the £18M capital fund campaign for the Morley Forward masterplan at County Hall

Morley College
Work recommences at Morley College on the new level access courtyard entrance to the reception

Croxley View
Detailed planning consent granted for the second phase of a 400 unit master plan in West Watford

Batchworth Depot
A new sustainable home for Rickmansworth’s refuse collection team is approved by the District Council

Hope Green
Four new social rent houses approved by Watford planners on a back-lands garage site

Good Homes Alliance
A new low tech assessment tool offers architects an early overheating warning at feasibility stage

CRASH
Hospices in Bexley and Oxford in line for refurbished dining facilities and respite bedrooms

Fellowship Inn opening
Phoenix Community Housing open a new community pub down the road from the Green Man headquarters

Product of the month
Back to basics for this Product of the Month winner delivering good value, thermal and fire performance

Homelessness
Caritas Anchor House homelessness hub in Newham reopens after a summer refurbishment

Morley Radio launches
Tune in to learn about the ambitious masterplan for Morley College

Hemming Way
A return visit to Hemming Way by the project architect sees residents enjoying their new affordable homes

All electric housing
A full sustainability assessment addresses the social and economic impact of all electric housing

Frameworks
Collaborative working and the development of long term relationships are delivering better homes

Kingston Guildhall
Edward Bawden tiles reused in an arts collaboration between Black, Morley College and Kington Council

MMC
Modern Methods of Construction remain under pressure from traditional brick and block building techniques