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...

iMax island

Morning everyone...  I was going through my photos and realised I had taken a photo of the iMax (Waterloo "square" I should say) o...

Serpentine Pavilion 2022

It' s been a few weeks since the 2022 serpentine pavilion closed and I just realised I never shared in a post the photos I took when I v...

Ridley Road Stories

I love finding public art that is linked to the surrounding community and feels inviting to everyone. Specially because the opposite is ofte...

Cycling in the dark

  Every autumn, just as the days get shortened and I suddenly find myself cycling in the dark , I get to appreciate how beautiful the city l...

Why you should not door to door during the day.

  A quick one today... Why do people assume (in the UK) that working classes don' t work?  I still have not worked this one out.  Roughl...

  Sometimes people find a home that they like and they believe will be able to accommodate every one of their dreams...the agents tell them ...

Who do architects think about when designing a building?

  Not an Instagram worthy. Picture right? Allow me to explain...  This is the front door of someone' s home , in a street where the bus ...

Liz Line

  The new Elizabeth line opened earlier in the year with a lot of excitement from within the industry. However, as a cyclist, I had not need...

Master Wei

  It has been a while since I shared a post outside stories and videos and this is a perfect one to break the "silence". (I hope s...

What are Protected Views?

  A fair bit is happening around #saintpaulscathedrallondon today and it reminded me of a topic I have wanted to ask about for a while ... ...

Supporting the next generation

  Yesterday we had the opportunity to share with a Japanese student who reached out to us a few of London' s best built environment exam...

Bye Debenhams

  Some of you spotted the photo I took from my bike of the dismantling of one of Oxford Street most eye catching moving facade systems: Debe...