Nadia Broccardo is Chief Executive for Team London Bridge. In this piece Nadia explores her thoughts on this year’s theme of ‘Power.’ Power – aggression, arrogance, force, control. These were the words that came to mind when the theme…
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When I heard that LFA 2020’s theme was Power – the first image that came to mind was the animation of the creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel which was used for many years for the opening credits of…
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Kingston Smith is a firm of Chartered Accountants and leading business advisors to entrepreneurial businesses, not-for-profit organisations and private clients as well as being one of our fantastic benefactors. In this piece, partner Jamie Sherman reflects on the variety of events…
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Fliss Childs is the Head of Communications at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. In this piece Fliss with the FCBStudios team explore the theme of boundaries in relation to their exhibition The Places Between, which ran as part of the LFA 2019. ‘More important…
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For our Views Section, LFA Patron Ft’work presents a series of three, hard-hitting short films, produced in collaboration with Sarah Wigglesworth Architects and community-based organisations. These videos each explore this year’s LFA theme of boundaries. Each film explores boundaries from…
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To celebrate the London Festival of Architecture 2019 and this year’s theme of ‘boundaries’, architectural practice BPTW, artist Chris Tipping and public art consultantsFrancisKnight are delving deeper into the creative and working processes involved in artists and architects’ practice, exploring…
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Matthew Morgan is a consultant for Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and has been crafting stories in magazine journalism, book publishing, branding and communications for over 20 years, primarily for architects and designers. Matthew attended the Thames Connection debate hosted by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands at Body…
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In an exciting collaboration with the Design Museum, ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation’ highlights the work by 10 emerging voices in architecture, who have each been nominated by established names in the profession, for their impact on shaping a new future…
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For our Views Section, LFA Patron Ft’work presents a series of three, hard-hitting short films, produced in collaboration with Sarah Wigglesworth Architects and community-based organisations. These videos each explore this year’s LFA theme of boundaries. Each film explores boundaries from…
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In an exciting collaboration with the Design Museum, ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation’ highlights the work by 10 emerging voices in architecture, who have each been nominated by established names in the profession, for their impact on shaping a new future…
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In an exciting collaboration with the Design Museum, ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation’ highlights the work by 10 emerging voices in architecture, who have each been nominated by established names in the profession, for their impact on shaping a new future…
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In an exciting collaboration with the Design Museum, ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation’ highlights the work by 10 emerging voices in architecture, who have each been nominated by established names in the profession, for their impact on shaping a new future…
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In an exciting collaboration with the Design Museum, ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation’ highlights the work by 10 emerging voices in architecture, who have each been nominated by established names in the profession, for their impact on shaping a new future…
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In an exciting collaboration with the Design Museum, ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation’ highlights the work by 10 emerging voices in architecture, who have each been nominated by established names in the profession, for their impact on shaping a new future…
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In an exciting collaboration with the Design Museum, ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation’ highlights the work by 10 emerging voices in architecture, who have each been nominated by established names in the profession, for their impact on shaping a new future…
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The Passage is a charity based in Westminster that supports people who are street homeless or living in insecure accommodation. In this piece they explore how they help homeless people transform their lives and overcome the boundaries of homelessness.…
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In an exciting collaboration with the Design Museum, ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation’ highlights the work by 10 emerging voices in architecture, who have each been nominated by established names in the profession, for their impact on shaping a new…
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In an exciting collaboration with the Design Museum, ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation’ highlights the work by 10 emerging voices in architecture, who have each been nominated by established names in the profession, for their impact on shaping a new…
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In an exciting collaboration with the Design Museum, ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation’ highlights the work by 10 emerging voices in architecture, who have each been nominated by established names in the profession, for their impact on shaping a new…
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Ilaria Vignolo is Marketing and Communications Coordinator at New London Architecture. In this piece she shares her first impressions of ‘The Colour Palace’, an installation designed by Pricegore with Yinka Ilori for the London Festival of Architecture, the second…
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In his first essay for our Views section, KB Yeoh explores how apps are affecting the space between our buildings and how infrastructure is failing to keep up. KB is an associate and project manager at Jackson Coles. Deliveroo, Uber…
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For our Views Section, LFA Patron Ft’work presents a series of three, hard-hitting short films, produced in collaboration with Sarah Wigglesworth Architects and community-based organisations. These videos each explore this year’s LFA theme of boundaries. Each film explores boundaries from…
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Jamie Sherman is a partner at Kingston Smith. Kingston Smith’s origins go back 95 years and many of our client relationships span decades. Our partners have unparalleled knowledge of compliance needs, international and UK accounting standards (IFRS and FRS102) and SRA…
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As part of the LFA Opening Party, Design Concept Store RB12 kindly decorated the beautiful Minster Building in London. In this essay, Kate Nannery, from the RB12 Design Space & Showroom, explores the theme of Boundaries. The theme for this…
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How Frida Escobedo joined forces with Maestro DOBEL® Tequila to break boundaries and elevate the tequila drinking experience. Kindly sponsoring cocktails at the LFA reception at Burlington Arcade on Friday 14 June, Maestro Dobel® tells the story of their collaboration…
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AWMA are an experimental design collective whose work tells stories through art and architecture. Squire & Partners is an award winning architecture and design practice with a reputation for architecture informed by history and place. Both are based in Brixton.…
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LFA Patron, ft’work, is partnering with leading contemporary dance company Shobana Jeyasingh Dance in public dance responses to the festival theme of ‘boundaries’, bridging the gap between physical, social and cultural barriers. ft’work founder, Clare Richards, has been watching the…
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Andy Downey, one of the directors at Elliott Wood, explores what it means to break boundaries and foster collaboration in the new Elliott Wood powered space – “The Building Society”. The rate of change affecting the environment and…
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Alessandro Chiola is an architect at BPTW, one of our Festival Club members. His piece was one of 2 chosen entries selected by the practice following an internal ‘Boundaries’ competition run for its staff. In this essay, Alessandro discusses…
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Charles Holland is an architect and lecturer who was one of the leading partners of the seminal collective FAT (Fashion, Architecture, Taste). In this essay, Charles shares his thoughts on our our 2019 theme of boundaries. My former practice…
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Sainabou Jack is an architect at BPTW, one of our Festival Club members. Her piece was one of two chosen entries selected by the practice following an internal ‘Boundaries’ competition run for its staff. “‘Boundless’ is a poem…
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Emily Gee is Regional Director for Historic England,London & South East. In this essay, Emily shares her thoughts on our our 2019 theme of boundaries. At Historic England we talk a lot about how London’s cherished views belong to everyone,…
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Ros Morgan is Chief Executive of the Heart of London Business Alliance. In this essay, Ros talks about the important challenge of choosing which boundaries to celebrate and which ones to obscure. The Heart of London Business Alliance is…
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The more I think about the abstract concept of boundaries, the more I become confusingly ambivalent. I’ve always thought about them as wholly negative. A boundary is like a border or a wall (concepts which have been…
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LFA Patron, ft’work, is partnering with leading contemporary dance company Shobana Jeyasingh Dance in a public dance response to the Festival’s theme of ‘boundaries’, bridging the gap between physical, social and cultural barriers. Here’s our first update. SJD has…
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Living and working in Spitalfields, I have seen the boundaries of time change a neighbourhood for the better. Commercial Street used to be a major division between the City of London and the poorer parts of our neighbourhood, carved out…
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