Building Communities (from Moscow’s Rusakov Workers’ Club to Finchley Road’s JW3)
On Monday evening I visited the JW3 on Finchley Road for a talk on ‘Building Communities’ as part of LFA…
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Ash Sakula – Inventing Communities
With bottomless tea and biscuits flowing, this open studio felt more like visiting a close friend’s home rather than attending…
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The Bartlett Summer Show 2016
What – The Bartlett Summer Show 2016When – Friday 24 JuneWhere – The Bartlett School of Architecture, 140 Hampstead Road,…
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Community Consequences: an interview with Projects Office by Sumitra Upham
‘Community Consequences’ is a new exhibition by Projects Office commissioned by Coin Street Community Builders for The London Festival of…
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AA Projects Review
Fridays are normally joyous things: the celebratory wrapping up of a working week, the harbinger of a weekend. Last Friday…
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The Last Summer Before Something Happens
Degree shows contain a heady mix. A years work, distilled. Proud parents quietly despairing. Tutors with ambitions leaking all over…
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London School of Architecture Open Studio
London School of Architecture generously opened their doors in Greek Street, Soho last weekend. On my way there, I stopped…
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Transforming Post War Estates
What – Transforming post-war estatesWhen – Tuesday 21 JuneWhere – The Building Centre, 26 Store Street WC1E 7BTWho – Lewis…
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City Farms and Community Well Being
This week I visited two inner city community farms one well established – the 40 year old and going strong…
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Flotel Europa
Dashing through the summer storms, an eager gathering huddled inside Barbican Cinema 3 for the London premier of Vladamir Tomic’s…
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RIBA Open Studios and The Great Architectural Bake-Off
Rodić Davidson ArchitectsCelebrating Pied Bull YardWhere – Pied Bull Yard, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 2AE Rodić Davidson Architects opened their studios for…
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East London Open Studios
We travelled to East London in the third weekend of Open Studios. The East Hub brought together the largest concentration…
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Streets of Doha on Southwark Street
The London Festival of Architecture is looking at a series of international comparators this year, places abroad where we can…
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Papers Festival: Place-making in Calais Jungle
Papers Festival has been a full-day celebration of the art, the culture and the architecture of refugees, held in the…
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Show Time! – University of Westminster Degree Show
The third week of the London Festival of Architecture has been fruitful in delivering Final Degree Shows across the Capital.…
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Building Community Participation
Can social issues in Caracas and difficulties in London really be solved using the same intervention – gardening? Though approaches…
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“Let me take you back to Saturday 1st September 1666…”
That was the introduction from Adrian Tinniswood on Tuesday night as he took the audience of St Brides through the…
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Man About 2 Willow Road
Monday for me started with a solitary walk at 5.30am to look at Brunel’s Maidenhead bridge which carries trains out…
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