James is back from the inaugural ‘Emerging Discourses on African Architectural Practices’ conference in South Africa where he presented his paper: ‘Post colonial collaborative practice: building from the earth at the 32° East Arts Centre’. Watch the short film above to find out more!

Our Garden House Nursery project was approved for planning at committee, with a unanimous decision.

The project extends and adapts an existing nursery to accommodate the growing need for early years places. With low embodied carbon materials, a green roof and a reworking of existing space to make it flow better. We've also added an acoustic fence to help reduce any noise to neighbours.

We’re delighted to have gained approval from Dorset Council for our low carbon gallery space for Weymouth College which will be made from recycled and reused construction materials.

Lovely to get some coverage in Taiwan. We're featured in 'La Vie' magazine in their Architecture with Nature special this month. Alongside some really wonderful projects - take a look!

Join our talk at Futurebuild on Thursday at 3pm-3:45pmACAN Stage (Stand D40) Building from the earth: rammed earth and earth bricks at the 32° East Arts Centre.

We are just thrilled to have won the Dezeen Cultural Project of the Year for the 32° East Arts Centre project last night.

It was a huge team effort and couldn't have happened without our great client and architect partners 32° East and Localworks.

Shopping habits have changed, retail spaces up and down the country are empty. So what do we do?

It was great to welcome people and show them around the split level homes at Blenheim Grove in Peckham as part of the Open House Festival by Open City this weekend.

32° East Arts Centre has been longlisted in the cultural project category of Dezeen Awards 2023.

We are super excited to announce that our director, James has been selected as a jury member for the Archello Awards 2023!

A great write up from Tom Latim in Architecture Today “I saw this building going up, but it feels like it was here even before I arrived.”

We are super excited to announce that Laura Keay has been selected to be a judge for the Architects’ Journal Architecture Awards 2023!

Purpose and Place at The Africa Centre: A conversation between Teesa Bahana, Director of 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust, and James Hampton, architect and founder New Makers Bureau, exploring Kampala’s 32º East Arts Centre - the city’s first purpose-built community arts space

Laura has been a mentor for the brilliant Women in Architecture. She was recently asked: what would you go back and tell your younger self? And gave some great advice!

Amazing! First images in the Architects’ Journal today of the Arts Centre - wonderful photos from Timothy Latim. And thrilled to get a huge double spread!

It’s launch day today at 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust!

Laura will be joining Steve Webb (Webb Yates Engineers) and Andrew Waugh (Waugh Thistleton Architects) in a conversation on ‘Earth Building: what can the planet provide?’ chaired by Vanessa Norwood.

RIBA Exhibition at the Architecture Gallery - Ground floor, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD, runs until 29th April 2023.

Last night we won the Architect Pitch for The Net Zero Neighbourhood!!!Hosted by Archiboo and Max Fordham LLP the brief asked for architects to re-imagine the future of neighbourhoods in the face of the climate and biodiversity emergency.

Some drone film of the wonderful earth textures at the Arts Centre.