Arbor has been shortlisted for the Society of Façade Engineers’ 2024 awards. This recognition highlights the innovative design and sustainability features of our all-electric workspace at Bankside Yards.
The penthouse at Park Modern, on the ninth floor of a new £530m development in Queensway, is now on the open market – making it one of the biggest apartment listings of the year at £60m.
HaenSuk Yi, Director at PLP, was a guest on Seoul Property Insight’s podcast, from South Korea’s leading real estate publication.
Andrei Martin, Partner at PLP Architecture, spoke with the Architects’ Journal about the co-living sector and where he sees its future.
Andrei has a wealth of experience in designing co-living buildings and has spearheaded the evolution of their design. He led the design of world’s first large-scale co-living building, The Collective Old Oak in west London, and since then has been working to develop the typology.
In a world-first for the real estate sector, a laboratory designed specifically for businesses undertaking AI R&D has opened in Shanghai, China. As the use of AI within business, science and technology grows, demand for R&D is expected to accelerate, and the AI Lab represents a potential new real estate asset class to satisfy this demand.
PLP Architecture has secured the design rights for an office development project, being developed by SK D&D in Seongsu-dong, Seoul. The project involves transforming the existing SK Gas charging station site into a state-of-the-art office space, with local architect DMP Partners.
Deepthi Ravi, PLP’s Sustainability Coordinator, has been chosen to join the Steering Group of Architects Declare, the climate action group dedicated to improving the built environment’s impact on the planet.
Tower Ten, PLP’s latest addition to the World Trade Center in Amsterdam, has been awarded a Platinum ActiveScore. The building is quoted by the awarding body as offering ‘the highest quality and comfort in both the individual offices and communal areas’.
Tina Qiu spoke at this year’s Asia Infrastructure Forum in Singapore, about how PLP Architecture and PLP Labs are driving towards creating more circular economies and circular cities.
Her talk is the latest in a series that she is giving across Southeast Asia, where she is speaking to audiences about the importance of designing with circularity in mind.
To accompany her talk, we created the film below to drive home the message that our industry needs to do much more to limit our impact on the planet.
Alongside this, Tina spoke about some of PLP’s landmark sustainable projects, including The Edge in Amsterdam, which was the most sustainable office at the time, focusing on green, smart, and healthy designs, operating nearly carbon-neutral with minimal costs. Also, our Bankside Yard Masterplan in London, which uses a 5th generation energy network to drastically lower the energy requirements through systems that, for example, reuse heat from offices to heat residential water.
Veanna Chan, a Director at PLP Architecture, is a judge at this year’s Inspiring Women in Property Awards.
The prize aims to highlight those working within property, who are championing gender balance and creating a more diverse and inclusive industry.