The places we live in as students
One of the first places where I lived in "London", the second one in fact, was this house. The landlady had created a very weird...
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Double decker bus
Sometimes, when you catch a bus , go upstairs and the front seat is free, you want to celebrate. Thought maybe it is just me.
Maggie’s at St Bartholomew’s
Designed by Steven Holl Architects , the Maggie’s Centre at St Bartholomew’s, London , clearly stands out from its surroundings. Wrapped i...
Blue sky memory
I don't know about you but I have been woken up multiple times during the past night. The weather in London has been quite temperamen...
Sir Gilbert Scott
Did you know that despite having been designed by Sir Gilbert Scott (architect of Battersea power station, Liverpool cathedral and Cambrid...
Water front
This is the view I found when I left the university building yesterday After a long day working with the @ma_interior_design_kingston stu...
Awe-Inspiring Architecture
A month or so ago, I encountered an article titled “Exploring the role of Awe in Architecture as a pain disruptor” by Miriam Hoffman ( htt...
Are the city's arteries forgotten when it comes to design?
As the weather gets colder, cycling can become challenging in London and the tube unavoidable. It is in those days, as one tries to pay le...
Rathbone
Story time: This is a development called Rathbone place. It is in central London, north Oxford street and each time I walk past it I think o...
Legacy beyond our time
Last weekend, I was walking down Tottenham court road when I spotted this window that raised the question in my mind of the commercializatio...
Small is preferable
It is known that the construction industry in the UK has been losing skilled workers to retirement faster than it has been able to attract n...
Blast from the past
Last night I went out with a dear friend who I worked with over twenty years ago. Strangely enough, only a couple of days earlier, I had ...
La Gamba
What does an architect do? This was a question a person waiting for a bus at Kingston station asked me back in 1999. It was a surprising q...
The value of the unusual : jewellery making workshop
(post from NAWIC.london) Earlier in the week , architect and designer Cristina Lanz Azcarate delivered this sold out workshop as part of N...
Visions of Orisha
I don't know if you are familiar with Flannels but they are a rather cool outfit full of well known high end brands curated with a very ...
The Value of the Unusual: Jewellery making workshop
Our industry is one of the biggest contributors to waste on the planet and there are many things we can do to help reshape the way we plan o...
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Liverpool
I had wanted to visit Liverpool for a long time and ,as I mentioned a few pos…
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
It was 2017 when we decided to visit NYC for a few days. We had started to wo…
Wibexpo
Earlier in the week, I was able to attend the first edition of Wibexpo with f…
La Gamba
What does an architect do? This was a question a person waiting for a bus at …
Could the "Metaverse" become the only connection to the world many are left with?
Why unless we change our approach to the public realm, the "Metaverse&qu…
100percent design
Visiting 100percent design gave me the chance to catch up with some new ideas b…
Bank
One of the best things about cycling in London is that you can jump off your …
Zanele Muholi
Happy Saturday! Have you found that since restrictions started each day blend…
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Story Garden, Kings Cross
Behind the British library there is a place called Story Garden, a community …
Cinnamon rolls
Northern European bake goods have become very popular in London and while yea…