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The first major Passivhaus buildings in Cambridge, we have recently completed new graduate student accommodation for King's College at Cranmer Road. Won through a design competition, the project creates a 'graduate campus' for the College, delivering 59 graduate rooms within two new distinct buildings: a Garden Building and a Villa Building.

With a design life of 100 years, quality and longevity are of paramount importance. Located within the West Cambridge Conservation Area, the new buildings are contextual and quietly assured in their design, but nevertheless outstanding and pioneering in their performance.

First Capital REIT has announced the appointment of Allies and Morrison, in association with Adamson Associates, to take forward the first phase of 2150 Lake Shore, a significant mixed-use project on the Humber Bay Shores in Toronto, Canada.

2150 Lake Shore reimagines an 11.5-hectare site, that of the former Christie Cookie Factory in the west end of Toronto, to create a new neighbourhood that offers the best of city life with access to green spaces and in close proximity to ravines and Lake Ontario. A range of building types will shape a network of public spaces anchored by two squares, a large new park and a year-round covered galleria. One of the largest developments underway in Toronto, its urban design aspires to create a lasting place, the last piece in the puzzle for the development of Humber Bay Shores. In 2018, a team led by Allies and Morrison was selected to draw up a masterplan for the site following an international search.

While towers are sometimes conceived as freestanding buildings, the recently completed 100 Bishopsgate has been designed to contribute to the matrix of the city fabric and be firmly embedded within it. Today, its architects release new images showcasing the development, which includes the City of London's newest skyscraper. Providing just over 950,000 sqft of lettable space across 40 storeys, together with a 55,000 sqft contained building at St Helen's Place, the project is owned by Brookfield and has been designed by Allies and Morrison in association with Arney Fender Katsalidis (AFK).

100 Bishopsgate's architecture signals a new generation of tall buildings in the capital positioning ultra-flexibility for tenants and wellbeing at the forefront of its design. The tower is anchored by five super-sized contiguous podium floors in excess of 44,000 sqft each and half an acre of new public realm creates new connections and walkable routes at street level. Neighbouring 16 St Helen's Place provides additional commercial space at a more intimate scale.

At the recent 2020 G20 Riyadh Summit, the Leaders' Declaration not only recognised but endorsed the AlUla Framework for Inclusive Community Development through Tourism to facilitate the travel and tourism sector's recovery from the pandemic - an inclusive recovery that will tackle inequalities.

Under the leadership of the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), Allies and Morrison together with Buro Happold, Prior and Partners and AS Urban helped to develop the AlUla Framework Plan to guide sustainable development of AlUla, a region in the northwest of Saudi Arabia. AlUla contains remarkable heritage dating back more than 200,000 years including the Nabataean tombs of Hegra, Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The work aims to protect and safeguard this precious heritage while further advancing the contribution of the tourism sector as an effective means towards fairer growth and advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Canary Wharf Group today set out plans for a 3.8 million sqft (GIA) development on the 3.2-hectare North Quay site at Canary Wharf, masterplanned by Allies and Morrison. These have been submitted to the local planning authority, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

The site, which is immediately adjacent to Crossrail's new Elizabeth Line station on the north side of Canary Wharf will create a vibrant mixed-use district and accommodate up to 2.5 million sqft of diverse commercial office space and up to 1.6 million sqft of residential space, within a flexible framework to suite the demands of future London.

Allies and Morrison is delighted to share our work on a new building at the 1.2 hectare Zeus site within the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. The new science and technology building will provide around 32,000 sqft (3,000 sqm) of R&D, laboratory and office space for multiple occupiers. Won through an architectural competition, the project broke ground in February of this year.

Harwell Campus is a global science and technology centre providing a home for numerous organisations of national and international significance, mostly working within the space, healthtech and energy technology sector. Designed to nurture innovation, the new Zeus building will sit within this dynamic environment, a flexible, hybrid place that can adapt to the needs of the businesses and the people who will inhabit it.

Plans to transform Landmark Court, just a stone's throw from our own studios, have been given the go-ahead at a virtual planning committee. Proposals designed by Allies and Morrison for U+I and Transport for London (TfL) for a well-located site next to Borough Market will include more than 200,000 sqft of commercial space, including affordable workspace and retail units, and 36 new homes.

The project offers a very rare opportunity to design and deliver an exceptional development within vacant, brownfield conditions within London's Zone 1, the Central Activity Zone and an Opportunity Area with unparalleled public transport connections. And its Bankside setting is special too, offering a rich mix of surrounding land uses, businesses and residents - and a historically significant tapestry of buildings and spaces.

Allies and Morrison has been appointed by Native Land as one of four architectural practices to develop designs for new buildings within Eastern Yards, part of the £1 billion Bankside mixed-use development, in Bankside London SE1.

Eastern Yards, on the former Sampson House site, makes up 550,000 sq ft of the 1.4m sq ft Bankside Yards development, and will comprise five buildings in total. Allies and Morrison will develop designs for Building 7, comprising 184 residences, a mixture of private and affordable homes, and a retail offering at the base.

In October, 137 second year students became the inaugural tenants at the Dorothy Wadham Building, a new residential project for Wadham College, Oxford designer by Allies and Morrison.

Situated in south-east Oxford, a 20-minute walk from the historic College campus in the city centre, a key challenge for the project was to create an appropriately collegiate set of buildings that would also sit comfortably on the edge of a residential conservation area.

Laid out in the form of a traditional college quad, the Dorothy Wadham Building houses the entire year group in one place for the first time. The design prioritises a strong sense of community by orienting shared and communal spaces so they overlook the internal courtyard, providing a backdrop of activity to the landscaped central garden.

Allies and Morrison has been appointed by the Victoria Business Improvement District (BID) working closely with Westminster City Council, to develop a concept masterplan for the area around Victoria Station. The Strategy is intended as a catalyst for wider improvements, supporting job creation, housing delivery, the improvement of the public realm and pedestrian accessibility.

Allies and Morrison is leading a consultant team including Weston Williamson + Partners, Mott MacDonald, Avison Young and Snapdragon.

Allies and Morrison has submitted plans for the transformation of the empty 11.5 ha site of the former Christie Cookie factory in the Humber Bay Area of Toronto. Commissioned by First Capital Realty, the project constitutes one of the city's largest sites of urban regeneration. The masterplan, which will deliver a new high-density piece of city with a rich mix of uses, both urban and green, has been shaped by extensive stakeholder engagement.

The AELTC's world famous club grounds at Wimbledon, south west London are set to expand following the club's acquisition of Wimbledon Park Golf Club. Allies and Morrison has been appointed to produce a masterplan to guide the evolution of the site that considers the potential to accommodate the Championships Qualifying Competition within the newly extended grounds; ways to improve the spectator experience during the championships, in particular the visitor arrival experience; and how the local community might use the land in the future.

Finding themselves with a building that was no longer fit for purpose but short of the funds to redevelop, Westbourne Park Baptist Church partnered with Dolphin Living to expand their offer and accommodate housing and community facilities on this small site in West London.

Our recently completed building combines a new church, community hall, children's library and 33 units of much needed affordable housing in a new corner building on Porchester Road, Westminster - a model for high-density development.