New London Architecture, the capital’s built environment think-tank, has today released 100 ideas to solve the London housing crisis, the result of an international ideas competition. Organised in collaboration with the Mayor of London, the competition attracted over 200 entries from 16 countries around the world.

The 100 shortlisted ideas will be on display in a free public exhibition at the NLA galleries in The Building Centre from 15 October. Ten winning ideas, selected by a distinguished jury, will be announced in October, with winning submitters invited to join a Greater London Authority working group to examine how their ideas can be applied to real London sites to deliver future housing for the capital.

Attracting submissions from world-renowned architects including Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, Grimshaw, Farrells, dRMM, Mae Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley and SimpsonHaugh and Partners, as well as developers, consultants, local boroughs and everyday Londoners, the shortlist presents a selection of radical ideas from living on the Thames to the creation of a new mega-city.

The jury includes: Isabel Allen – Design Director, HAB Housing, Richard Blakeway, Deputy Mayor for Housing, Land and Property, Alison Brooks, Principal, Alison Brooks Architects, Robert Evans,Partner, Argent, Hilary French, Architectural Historian, Daniel Gray, Director, Engineering Excellence, Laing O’Rourke, Lord Bob Kerslake, Chair, London Housing Commission, Daniel Lovatt, Head of Property Development, Transport for London, Peter Murray, Chairman, New London Architecture

Shortlisted Ideas featured several names: A New Life Line: Densifying Housing Estates by Grimshaw, An Infinite Solution by RICL Studio & Arup Associates, Disco by Ben Adams Architects, Floatopolis by dRMM Architects, Living Arteries by Benjamin Marks, Rational House by AECOM, The Infinite House by Openstudio Architects, The Streets by NBBJ and many more...

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