3 October 2012
Site progress
Our gallery project in Kuala Lumpur is taking shape. The stepping angled wall which wraps the lower part of the building is in place, with piers ready to receive the glazing. The raised volumes will be clad in expanded metal mesh internally and externally.
1 October 2012
The Cass
Our studio this year at the School of Architecture at The Cass will investigate London City Airport. As debate rages about the aviation capacity of London, the busiest city airport system in the world, and the conflict between the economic benefits and environmental costs of air travel, we will explore the potential for an expanded and developed London City Airport to benefit the people of Newham, one of the most deprived areas of the UK.
Read more here.
9 August 2012
On site in Singapore
Our gallery pavilion project in Singapore has started on site. The ground slab has been poured and the steel frame is being erected. The finished building will include two gallery spaces and two captured garden courts, linked by an open covered walkway. More to follow.
6 July 2012
Urban Reasoning
We have been working with We Made That on a collaborative publication called "Urban Reasoning", which we will be presenting today at the UCL Urban Lab Cities Methodologies event.
The document was funded by UCL Urban Lab and AHRC as an output of the Creative City Limits research network.
The Urban Reasoning project aims to engage with a number of unanswered questions about the relationship between theory and practice and expand on the network's discussions meaningfully, critically and playfully.
28 June 2012
After Shopping
The Summer Show opens today at The Sir John Cass Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design and runs until 12th July. Studio 8, which we teach, has been investigating the potential of urban shopping centres after shopping. You can see the online exhibition here.
1 February 2012
Site Progress
Work has begun on the interior of Britannia House in Spitalfields. The ground floor space is being opened up by removing old storage mezzanines and the columns are being stripped back to the concrete.
28 January 2012
Planning Permission
The second phase of our project at Britannia House in Spitalfields has won Planning Permission. The ground floor unit, which is currently a warehouse unit enclosed in a storey-height brick wall, will be opened up by inserting a new glazed screen and entrance stair.
19 December 2011
Kuala Lumpur
We have started working on a residential project in Kuala Lumpur in collaboration with a local practice. The project includes the public realm strategy for a large residential development and the design of a stand-alone gallery pavilion. More to follow.
16 December 2011
CultuurStraat
We are now able to publish our entry for the Eindhoven University competition, completed in June. We suggested linking a series of cultural facilities to form a new route through the campus. Double Height communal spaces were cut through the existing residential blocks.
27 November 2011
Singapore
We have started work on our first international project, a new residential block in Singapore. More to follow.
8 November 2011
The Unlimited Edition
Our project for a "Garden of Remembrance" has been featured in Issue III of The Unlimited Edition, a newspaper edited by Holly Lewis and Oliver Goodhall of We Made That as part of the High Street 2012 initiative. Contributors were asked to imagine new uses for the London High Street to form part of a Pick'n'Mix selection.
In our proposal, a national "chain" of parks inhabits the shells of bankrupt chain stores. The shop is stripped out and the terrace stabilised with an open steel frame. The plot is planted with trees, and the defunct signage made into park benches and picnic tables.
The High Street 2012 initiative is an ambitious programme to enhance and celebrate the ribbon of London life that connects the City at Aldgate to the Olympic Park at Stratford.
30 September 2011
Studio 8
This year we will be starting to teach Undergraduate Studio 8 at the London Metropolitan University Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design. We are investigating the lost shopping centres of London; the utopian dreams that created them and the spatial and social opportunities opened up by their obsolescence. Read more
Image: Competition drawing for Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, Boissenvain & Osmond, 1963
16 September 2011
Site progress
Work is progressing on the interior of Britannia House in Spitalfields. The existing entrance area has been opened up by removing unnecessary walls and stripping the space back to the concrete frame, with a new glazed door screen.
30 August 2011
Planning Submission
We have made a planning submission for a second phase of work for a mixed-use former warehouse off Brick Lane. The existing ground floor unit is enclosed by solid brick walls at street level; these are proposed to be removed and replaced with glazing with perforated ventilation panels, to allow light into the unit and animate the streetscape.
11 August 2011
Architect in the House
This week we have given our time to two consultations with local householders in exchange for donations to Shelter, as part of the RIBA "Architect in House" scheme.
