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JA Projects and BIG alongside a wider multi-disciplinary team, have delivered Sankofa Docks, a pop-up structure conceived and delivered as part of the National Museums of Liverpool’s (NML) Waterfront Transformation competition.

JA Projects have been appointed by Newham Council and the Greater London Authority to revamp the historic East London market as part of a programme to revitalise one of the borough’s most important retail and shopping areas. Through a collaborative co-design process with local residents, Queen’s Market traders, retailers and shoppers, JA Projects will work to make this pocket of the borough better for all to enjoy what the market has to offer.

Jayden Ali joins a discussion on our recent commission to animate part of London’s Low Line, a new walking destination along the Victorian rail arches in the capital’s Bankside area.

JA Projects shortlisted to reimagine Liverpool’s Waterfront and respond to the unique ‘transatlantic history of the site and ensure black communities are engaged and represented’.

JA Projects has been selected for the latest phase in the ongoing Low Line initiative, inspired by New York’s High Line, to deliver a linear regeneration of a series of underused 19th-century railway viaducts running through Bankside, London Bridge and Bermondsey.

JA Projects, as part of a team led by Prior & Partners and Arup, has won the £8bn competition to design a new neighbourhood at Thamesmead in south-east London.

JA Projects have been appointed by the Victoria & Albert Museum to lead an interdisciplinary team to design a new retrospective on The Art of Menswear.

JA Projects has been recognised by Wallpaper* in its Next Generation issue, dedicated to the the bright minds and budding talents of the future.

A series of East London schemes has won recognition for JA Projects, in the Architect’s Journal’s prestigious AJ 40 Under 40 list.

JA Projects, as part of a consortium led by Feilden Fowles and J & L Gibbons, have been named as one of five finalists in an international competition for a £35 million raised linear park connecting Camden Town to King’s Cross.

JA Projects founding director Jayden Ali, has curated a series of broadcasts, Counter-Figures. The three broadcasts explore the new heroes of our time, tell new stories, advocate for new agendas, frame new questions and articulate new aesthetics.

JA Projects have been appointed by the Greater London Authority to deliver a research project to support the newly formed Commision for Diversity in the Public Realm. JA Project’s will connect people often not included in placemaking to contribute to crucial conversations from across the city.

Jayden Ali (Director of JA Projects and trustee of 'Open House') speaks with Robert Elms on the risks posed to London's cultural buildings as a result of the Covid-19 and cuts to funding.

JA Projects alongside Studio Weave have been named by Enfield Council as one of five finalists in an ideas contest which invited local and practices to compete for an intergenerational housing scheme at Meridian Water

JA Projects founding director Jayden Ali, joined Mayor’s Design Advocates and other practitioners from the public, private and civic sectors to discuss how London could respond to the Covid-19 crisis and address the broader challenges of representation in the built environment professions.

JA projects was highlighted as part of Manifestos - Architecture for a New Generation, an annual collaboration between the Design Museum and the London Festival of Architecture highlighting new voices who are expanding the parameters of architecture in London.

Our manifesto, “Whilst the air is light and the atmosphere electric, don’t forget to breathe” makes the case for the production of ‘cultural artefacts that have the capacity to shape the city’s spirit’ in order to ‘rethink the relationships between place, objects and people and in-turn offer reflections on the future of our city.’

Jayden Ali (JA Projects) alongside Priya Khanchandani (Icon Magazine) and Joseph Henry (Greater London Authority) were shortlisted to curate the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2020.

On March 19 JA Projects is presenting two performative works at the Royal Academy of Arts as part of their Forming Futures celebration. THE FUTURE IS A COMMON HISTORY, a collaboration with Black Females in Architecture and Dr Adesola Akinleye, conjures up an alternate history that champions the making of spaces that celebrate the full breadth of our contemporary society.