The Londown | 13 May | with Maddie Kessler
Curator Maddie Kessler talks about The Garden of Privatised Delights, Britain’s Venice pavilion opening next week.
The Londown | 6 May | With Owen Hatherley
Our London mayoral election coverage concludes with journalist and author Owen Hatherley and Open City’s Zoe Cave
The Londown | 22 April | With Dave Hill
An in-depth comparison of the election manifestos of London's mayoral election candidates, NLA survey shows no slowdown in skyscraper approvals despite the pandemic, and why drivers so often seem grumpy – could it be down to how cars taint perceptions of the environment around us?
The Londown | 15 April | With Amanda Baillieu
National Gallery shortlist, Antepavilion winners, Ealing council 26-storey tower controversy and the future of night clubs — special guest Amanda Baillieu joins the show.
The Londown | 7 April | With Phineas Harper
London architect hit with online abuse for criticising Georgian new builds, Square Mile skyscraper set for record £1.8bn sale despite the Work from Home boom, architecture organisations left with slim pickings from the Government’s cultural recovery fund, the Barbican Centre announces a new exhibition on radical 1980s feminist architecture cooperative Matrix, and a new National Covid Memorial takes shape on the Southbank. Zoe Cave and special guest Phineas Harper round up this week’s top London architecture news.
The Londown | 1 April | With Ewa Effiom
Parliament launches a major inquiry into whole life carbon, the slavery links of City landmarks explored in a new Open City Podcast, Stirling Prize winner Haworth Tompkins designs an industrial estate, and reflecting on Zaha Hadid’s legacy five years since she died. Merlin Fulcher and special guest Ewa Effiom round up this week’s top London architecture news.
The Londown | 24 March | With Ella Jessel
Architectural assistants speak out over working conditions, government launches permitted development inquiry and Assemble win ‘Festival of Brexit’ commission