Introducing the all-new Open City Podcast

We are starting 2025 with a major refresh of the Open City Podcast introducing a new line up of shows and hosts

Providing you with essential listening, inspiring voices and built environment insights – the Open City Podcast will now cover news and current events as well as in depth studies of landmark buildings, and cities around the UK and world.

At the centre of our line-up remains our flagship show The Brief – an award-winning review of the big stories in architecture, planning and housing news – hosted by Sahiba Chadha and Fran Williams on a fortnightly basis.

Alongside this is Deconstructed – a new monthly podcast hosted by Matthew Lloyd Roberts taking apart the architecture of individual buildings piece by piece to better understand what makes them so compelling. Our opening episodes profile Finsbury Health Centre with Eleanor Marshall and St Anne’s Limehouse with George Saumarez Smith.

We have also launched InterCities – a new monthly podcast hosted and edited by Owen Hatherley which celebrates the unique qualities of enigmatic municipalities across London, the UK and the world. Our opening episodes looks at how Span housing transformed Greenwich with Ana Francisco Sutherland.

All three shows are produced by Hunter Charlton of Ember Audio and Paige Reynolds and will continue our tradition of profiling new, expert and diverse voices from across industry, journalism, academia and beyond.

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The Open City Podcast is supported by Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app and produced in association with the Architects’ Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage.

The Open City Podcast is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in Bureau. Bureau is a co-working space for creatives offering a new approach to membership workspace. Bureau prioritises not just room to think and do, but also shared resources and space to collaborate.

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