Architecture & Design Community
July 21, 2023
Our move to Shoreditch during the pandemic has given us a new home within a creative community and the opportunity to experience the area’s continual transformation – as London’s neighbourhoods continue to adjust to life post-Covid. Nestled between the overland rail link and surrounding warehouses, the view from the fifth-floor terrace of our studio provides […]
February 14, 2023
I am in the reception of The Old Rectory, our newly refurbished Grade II listed building where we moved our office recently. While the morning sun is touching the floor and reaching to the artwork on the wall, I find myself acknowledging this experience. Day-to-day use of a space we created added a new perspective […]
January 24, 2023
Nimi Attanayake and Tim O’Callaghan of nimtim architects see their home office/playroom as a space that reflects the challenge of juggling raising children and running a practice. We have two young children and the pandemic was a particularly challenging time to be running an architecture practice. We wanted our photo to capture the way the […]
January 17, 2023
As I find myself being photographed by Tim Soar at The Rowe, a building that I have contributed to over the past five years, it reminds of the privilege I have had to be part of a significant London project. The design concept leans into the tension between old and new, raw and polished, turning […]
January 3, 2023
Developer Gus Zogolovitch reflects on the benefits of, and the many challenges involved in, delivering projects that give people agency in the design and build of their own home. Being the son of an architect, I was taught from a young age that buildings have a lasting legacy and we have a responsibility to the […]
December 19, 2022
Aline Knowles has discovered that initiating her own projects and acting as her own client gives her a level of freedom, satisfaction and self-confidence that eluded her in practice. I always wanted to believe that architecture could work for me, but there are so many obstacles that make it difficult for women to be fully […]
November 23, 2022
Sandy Rendel is inspired by the cobbled mews where he works, a Victorian example of live/work space that is now home to a thriving community of makers and designers. We are fortunate to work from a small studio in a cobbled mews behind Elephant and Castle in London. Built in the 1880s it is part […]
October 20, 2022
Narinder Sagoo attributes his creativity to his childhood, where nothing came in abundance and everyone made ends meet by making everything themselves. It is only now that I appreciate the fortune of growing up in a household where nothing came in abundance, where everyone made ends meet by making everything we needed. It could be […]
October 6, 2022
Julia Barfield explains how Marks Barfield Architects has built on its entrepreneurial activist roots to redirect its energies towards becoming a regenerative practice. ‘For us design is a powerful tool for good, both social and environmental. At its best it improves the quality of people’s lives and lifts their spirits while drawing on a minimum […]
September 22, 2022
As both resident and curator at Walmer’s Yard, Laura Mark is acutely aware of the boundaries between dwelling and gallery, public and private, home and work. The term Keeper refers to someone who looks after and cares for a collection within a gallery or museum space. At Walmer Yard my collection is the four houses […]
September 8, 2022
For Shahed Saleem migration, identity, heritage and narrative are the common threads that weave together practice, curation, teaching and research. Over many years of what has felt like being pulled in different directions, it now seems that the various strands of my work are starting to come together. I founded my architectural practice in Bethnal […]
August 25, 2022
The green and blue spaces on Maria Westerståhl’s urban doorstep are helping her to rebuild her confidence and sense of adventure after Lockdown and a battle with long Covid. Serendipity brings Tim to my home desk on International Women’s Day. (Is it a wink from the universe to stay in the frame?) A decade has […]
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