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.
Accelerate Design and Construct Challenge
Accelerate students gathered at the architecture studios of London South Bank University to undertake a collaborative design construct challenge.
Slavery and the City Episode 1: The Royal Exchange
In this series of the Open City Podcast, we confront the City of London’s historical links with the transatlantic slave trade.
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
Accelerate students join the Landscape Institute to make ‘Lockdown Landscapes’
Open City teamed up with the Landscape Institute to deliver 2021’s first face to face workshop at Oasis Farm Waterloo.
AHMM first to join Open City’s new Partners Programme
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris helping to reopen London for all.
The Londown | 18 March | This week in architecture with Oonagh Ryder
Hettie O’Brien joins Merlin Fulcher to discuss the week’s big architecture stories
The Londown | 11 March | This week in architecture with Hettie O’Brein
Hettie O’Brien joins Merlin Fulcher to discuss the week’s big architecture stories
The Londown | 4 March | This week in architecture with Jonn Elledge
Jonn Elledge joins Merlin Fulcher to discuss the week’s big architecture stories
The Londown | 25 February | This week in Architecture
Merlin Fulcher and special guest Lucy Watson of the Financial Times round up this week’s top London architecture news.
Open City spotlights: Ernö Goldfinger collection
This week we are spotlighting Erno Goldfinger in a new blog post series celebrating our explorations of architecture through the Open City films and Model London series.
The Londown: This week in London architecture
Merlin Fulcher and special guest Catherine Slessor round up and digest this week’s big architecture stories in London.
Three new trustees and three members of staff join Open City
Matea Vlaskalic, Elis Shin and Marcela Escobar join Open City’s staff team while Albert Williamson-Taylor, Ruth Daniels and Deborah Denner join the Open City trustees.
‘Her lasting legacy is opening doors for women all over the UK’
Victoria Thornton says farewell to the late, great Jane Priestman
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