It has been a year of many highs for the practice – being nominated for Mixology Design Practice of the Year and a finalist in the INSIDE World Interiors Awards in Berlin.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas 2017
LOM’s cordon bleu Christmas Party
Tagliatelle, turkey and tartlets were the tasty treats that we learnt to make at the Underground Cookery School for our annual Christmas party.
LOM raises £150 for Save the Children
In aid of Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day, we raised £150 on Friday 8 December 2017, by dressing in our Christmas knits and holding a bake, and mulled wine sale. An impressive spread of tasty treats including sausage rolls, mince pies, parkin, quiche, muffins, brownies and honeycomb was handmade by talented members of the…
The facilities manager as design champion
This article by Simon Marett, Director, LOM Architecture and Design, originally appeared in FX Magazine’s October 2017 issue. We work in an age where the facilities manager is now a key client contact. I remember turning around in a meeting several years ago to see a Facilities Manager emerge from behind the meeting room door,…
LOM’s hub for NatWest Entrepreneurial Spark launches
The world’s largest free business accelerator for startups, Entrepreneurial Spark Powered by NatWest, opened its first London hub on 5 September 2017.
Our Tesco campus part of Workplace Week 2017
Tesco’s Shire Park campus is one of the exemplar workplace tours on offer as part of Workplace Week 2017. Over the last 18 months, the campus has experienced a radical overhaul, with LOM architecture and design’s support to create a smarter flexible workplace that encourages colleagues to work collaboratively.
LOM summer social takes to the rapids
For our annual summer social Team LOM headed to the Lee Valley White Water Centre near Waltham Cross on 1 September 2017 for an afternoon of white water rafting. It was the ride of our lives on the 300m Olympic standard course that is fed by 13,000 litres of water a second! Purpose-built for the…
John Avery to speak at Cityscape Global 2017
John Avery, will be representing LOM at Cityscape Global in Dubai, the largest real estate exhibition in the Middle East, for a second consecutive year. On September 13 John will be delivering a Cityscape Talk on behalf of the RIBA, discussing how the public realm can add value to commercial development. John is an award winning architect who…
Tech campus redefines collaborative workspace
With RocketSpace’s new London tech campus LOM has sought to redefine the collaborative workspace. Chris Pyle talks design, interiors and a two year journey! In a city vibrating with young and ambitious start-ups, fuelled by disrupter mind-sets and boundless by technology, the physical spaces we inhabit too often fall desperately short of expectation. We continue…
Arrival of timber beams to Tesco staff academy
LOM’s 6,500sqm new build staff academy for Tesco, the British multinational grocery retailer, will start to take on its distinctive oval shape, on Thursday 10 August 2017, as the 28 metre laminated timber beams, arrive on site.
Northwold Primary shines at Open City final
Year 4 from Northwold Primary School in Hackney have won ‘Best Class Effort’, with a little help from LOM, as part of Open-City’s Architecture in Schools summer programme. Chiara, Silvia, Maliha and Kim helped the pupils create different areas of a city based on sketches and ideas the class had developed for the brief ‘Design your own open city…
LOM Architecture in Schools film
This year LOM architecture and design were partnered with Brazil Class, Year 4 from Northwold Primary, for Architecture in Schools: Primary 2017. The annual programme, run by Open City, the educational architecture charity, challenged the pupils to design an open city neighbourhood. The programme includes a building exploration visit, class room model making workshop and…
INSIDE World Festival of Interiors finalist
Our tech campus for RocketSpace is a finalist in this year’s INSIDE World Festival of Interiors in the ‘Offices’ category. RocketSpace’s co-working accelerator campus in Angel, London, is designed specifically for high-growth tech start-up businesses. The fit-out and restoration at Regents House in Angel, north London, provides RocketSpace with flexible working spaces for up to 1,500. Set over three…
Sponsor of Welsh School of Architecture
We are a proud to be supporting the next generation of architects as a sponsor of the Welsh School of Architecture’s (WSA) summer student shows.