LATEST INTERNAL BLOG

Jayden Ali reflects on how the rituals of immigrant communities can shape cities and their design for Art Review.

Opening on 8 June, Wellcome Collection will present a major exhibition of collaborative video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, videogames and ancestry DNA.  

The commissioner, curators, and artists were the team to receive a Special Mention for National Participation at this edition of the Biennale.

The newly designed canopies by JA Projects for the front of Queens Market and the new floor at Queen's Square is now finished.

Jayden Ali Pavilion Co-curator and JA Projects present ‘rituals’ exhibition at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition –La Biennale di Venezia

Work begins on the new scheme as contractors break ground on JA Projects’ scheme for two new streets of infill terrace housing.

JA Projects has been appointed by Mayoral Development Corporation OPDC as part of the multi-disciplinary team led by Gort Scott to help make Old Oak West a place for everyone.

Jayden Ali and his fellow Venice Biennale co-curators discuss how key bell hooks’s Art on My Mind has been to their research.

Initial plans for the UK at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia have been revealed.

A total of 55 places on the framework – representing 57 per cent of appointments across all ten lots – were awarded to ‘diverse-led’ enterprises. JA Projects one of only six teams to feature more than twice on the framework.

As a Mayor’s Design Advocate, Jayden Ali was on the sounding board for the Good Growth by Design report and is part of a larger programme of work which will support and guide the design sector, test and trial design and engagement approaches across London.

The collaborators talk curatorial and spatial design practices at DCA Symposium.

Hackney Council selects a team to regenerate a series of council-owned sites in Dalston and Hackney Central, including Hackney Central station.

Architect & East London native Jayden Ali on the transformative spirit of the East End. ‘Meeting Ground’, a series by Trippin telling the stories of preservation, progression, and identity from those that are living, working or making in East London.

Wallpaper* features Rising Green by Freehaus and JA Projects who have transformed an unused retail unit into a thriving, colourful youth hub for a north London community.

‘An expanded conversation around representation’. Read about how Studio Hugo Blanzat’s new logo for JA Projects makes space for many identities.

JA Projects has won a competition to reimagine Redchurch Street, the historic thoroughfare connecting Shoreditch High Street to Brick Lane in London’s East End.

Ali tells US Vogue about his fascination with the evolving possibilities of the museum, his unorthodox approach to running an architecture practice, and the community-led approach he’s taking to the British Pavilion in Venice next year.

JA Projects with dRMM and Adam Khan Architects have been handed permission for an estate regeneration project on the Old Kent Road in south London.