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LFA, Borough Talks: “Food City: How has food changed London’s built environment?” Thursday 28th June, 18:30-20:30

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Borough Market hosts debate as part of the London Festival of Architecture

When: 6.30pm – 8.30pm, Thursday 28 June

Where: Jubilee Place, Borough Market, Winchester Walk, London, SE1 9AG

 

How has food production, distribution, storage, preparation, consumption, waste and culture changed London’s built environment? How has London changed food? What does the future hold?

These questions will be debated during a thought provoking evening of discussion hosted by London’s oldest food market, Borough Market, in partnership with architects DLA Design and the Cambridge University Land Society.

As part of the London Festival of Architecture – the world’s largest annual architecture festival – Borough Market is organising a special public debate bringing together experts from the worlds of architecture and food, to explore the impact that food has on our capital city. The talk will take place in Borough Market‘s recently completed communal hub, Jubilee Place. The audience will also be invited to sample a delicious spread of food and drink provided by Borough Market‘s traders.

Donald Hyslop, Chair of Borough Market‘s Board of Trustees, said:

Borough Market has been serving the people of London for 1,000 years, and that extraordinary heritage is an important part of the market’s appeal. With architecture ranging from the Victorian, to Art Deco, to the modern day, Borough Market is an iconic space, which combines the historic with 21st Century innovation. Jubilee Place provides a stimulating setting for what we believe will be a lively and engaging discussion about the relationship between food, communities and London’s built environment.

Speakers who will bring their unique views to the debate include:

  • Carolyn Steel – architect, lecturer and writer who has combined architectural practice with teaching and research into the relationship between food and cities.
  • Kate Hofman – CEO and co-founder of GrowUp Urban Farms, which produces sustainable fresh fish, salads and herbs in cities using a combination of aquaponic and vertical growing techniques.
  • Joanna Lewis – Trustee of the Food Ethics Council and Strategy and Policy Director for Soil Association Food for Life, an award-winning national programme which is about making good food the easy choice for everyone, whoever and wherever they are.
  • Donald Hyslop – Chair of Borough Market and Head of Regeneration and Community Partnerships at TATE. Donald is also Chair of Better Bankside, the business-led regeneration body for SE1.
  • Tim Lang will act as moderator – Professor of food policy at City University London’s Centre for Food Policy, former trustee of Borough Market, and writer of numerous articles, reports and books on the politics of food production.

Tickets are £17.50 and include opportunities to ask questions at the end of the talks as well as a superb spread of food and drink provided by Borough Market traders.

Tickets are available from Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borough-talks-food-city-how-has-food-changed-londons-built-environment-tickets-45374376983

For more information:
Borough Market,
8 Southwark St,
London SE1 1TL
Tel: 020 7407 1002
www.boroughmarket.org.uk

Nearest tubes: London Bridge or Borough

For more information contact the Borough Market team at Barley Communications:
Maria Kortbech maria.kortbech@barleycommunications.co.uk, 07952 507270

About Borough Market

Borough Market is a source of quality British and international produce, but it is more than just a place to buy or sell food. It’s a place where people come to connect, to share food and awaken their senses. Borough has long been synonymous with food markets and as far back as 1014, and probably much earlier, London Bridge attracted traders selling grain, fish, vegetables and livestock. In the 13th century traders were relocated to what is now Borough High Street and a market has existed there ever since. Borough Market’s mission is to continue to provide a world class food market at Borough for the community of London and beyond. Borough Market is the only fully independent market in London. It is owned by a charitable trust and run by a board of volunteer trustees. The trust is committed to supporting the local community around Borough Market. We regularly run community events, free cookery demonstrations and we support local community projects and schemes.
#LoveBorough
@Boroughmarket
http://boroughmarket.org.uk/

About London Festival of Architecture

The London Festival of Architecture is the world’s largest annual architecture festival. From 1st to 30th June the London Festival of Architecture is hosting over 400 events across the city exploring this year’s theme ‘identity’. From exhibitions to family events, walking tours, debates and stunning architectural installations; there’s something for everyone.
https://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/

Oculus Pavilion – Invitation to Launch Event: Wednesday 13th June, 18:00-21:00

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When:  Launch -13th June 2018, 18:00-21:00 | Exhibition Continues – Thursday 14th June to Friday 13th July

Where: Rear of Learning Platform, Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

A new Oculus Pavilion, designed and built by third year Architecture students from the University of Westminster, will open Wednesday 13th June, at the rear of Westminster’s Marylebone Campus, as part of the London Festival of Architecture.

The circular structure with a view into the sky was inspired by architect Vladimir Tatlin’s 1919 design Tatlin Tower, a design not realised until a sculpture was built in 1971 as part of the “Art in Revolution” exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. The 1971 sculpture was reconstructed at the rear patio of the Marylebone Campus, the same location where the students’ Oculus pavilion will be exhibited this year.

The project was funded by the Quintin Hogg Trust and led by Westminster Architecture Lecturers Maria Kramer and Eric Guibert.

London Festival of Architecture: “Does identity matter?” A symposium on architecture and identity, Friday 15th June, 11:00-18:00, Royal Academy of Arts

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When: Friday 15th June 2018, 11:00-18:00

Where: Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House entrance Piccadilly London W1J 0BD / 6 Burlington Gardens entrance, London W1S 3ET

Tickets: free tickets available for Westminster students (worth £15). Email rosa@londonfestivalofarchitecture.org

The London Festival of Architecture is proud to present Does Identity Matter? – the inaugural LFA Symposium on Friday 15 June. The event offers a rich exploration of identity in the context of individual and collective expression, place-making and architectural practice, and takes place at the Royal Academy – newly re-opened following a major expansion project designed by Sir David Chipperfield.

Identity can be seen as the intangible patina that has formed upon places over decades or centuries, or as a more synthetic recent invention by marketers and developers: either way it is fundamental to our understanding of the buildings and spaces around us. Does Identity Matter? will bring together prominent architects, academics and commentators to explore how identity acts as a potent architectural force in shaping London. We will challenge how people connect and identify with their homes, workplaces and neighbourhoods and the city as a whole.

The highlight of the day is a keynote address by Mary Duggan. In a talk entitled The identity of the profession: starting again, Mary will share her experience of setting up two successful practices and the role identity plays in forging a successful presence in a marketplace that is abundant in talent. Having initially founded Duggan Morris Architects, she will reflect upon its commercial success and the lessons she has taken from it in establishing Mary Duggan Architects, and the role identity has played in creating her own distinct profile, focus and skillset.

Panel 01 – Destruction of City’s Identity (chaired by Rob Bevan, architecture critic)

  • Verity Jane Keefe (visual artist working predominantly in the public realm) – ‘Outer London love affairs’
  • Clare Melhuish (director, UCL Urban Laboratory and an anthropologist specialising in architecture and the built environment) – ‘Universities as agents of change in urban identities’
  • Maya Ober (founding editor of the practice-led research platform Depatriarchise Design) – ‘Antagonised identities of South Tel Aviv neighbourhoods of Shapira and Neve Sha-anan’
  • Rhiannon Williams (poet, currently studying MA Narrative Environments at Central St Martins) – ‘Fracture Edit: recoding the Cypriot buffer zone

Panel 2 – Production of City’s Identity (chaired by Shumi Bose, senior lecturer in architecture, Central St Martins, UAL)

  • Adam Greenfield (London-based writer and urbanist) – ‘Inhospitable Soil: destination London and the difficulty of the commons’
  • Mustafa Chehabeddine (design principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox) – ‘Iconic architecture and the city identity’
  • Emily Gee (London planning director, Historic England) – London’s identity on the (sky)line’
  • Morag Myerscough (designer/artist fascinated how colour, pattern and words can change urban environments and perceptions of spaces into places) – ‘Can we together make belonging?’

Full programme for the day and booking info can be found on the following link:
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/does-identity-matter

Featured image copyright: Mary Duggan Architects

New London Architecture Annual Lecture: Amanda Levete CBE, Wednesday 6th June, 18:30-20:00

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When: Wednesday 6th June, 18:30-20:00

Where: Ondaatje Theatre, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2SR

This year’s Annual Lecture is one of the highest profile events in the NLA calendar and a headline event of the London Festival of Architecture in June.

Amanda Levete CBE is a RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architect and recent recipient of the prestigious Jane Drew Prize, recognising her talent as a leader in international design. Through her own practice, AL_A, she has created award-winning projects around the world, including the Victoria & Albert Museum Exhibition Road Quarter in London; the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon; and Central Embassy in Bangkok.

This event is part of the London Festival of Architecture 2018 @LFArchitecture #LFA2018

To book tickets: http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/whats-on/events/2018/june-2018/nla-annual-lecture-2018-amanda-levete-cbe

London Festival of Architecture: “London Bridge Public Realm Competition”_Deadline 5th June 2018

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London Festival of Architecture and Team London Bridge announce London Bridge public realm competition

The London Festival of Architecture and Team London Bridge have announced a design competition to improve a pedestrian triangle outside London Bridge station.

As London Bridge becomes one of the focus areas for this year’s London Festival of Architecture, the competition will create a lasting legacy for the area: improving the appearance of the streetscape and assisting wayfinding in front of the station, which has recently undergone a £1bn redevelopment.

The design competition is aimed at architects, designers and artists, who are invited to submit a design concept that will use visual clues and public realm infrastructure to transform the busy but unremarkable space on Tooley Street. The site is on routes to several major London landmarks: the riverside, City Hall, Southwark Cathedral and Borough Market. However, none of these key locations are immediately visible, and many people need to re-orientate themselves. In the context of funding from the Mayor of London, the project will promote clean air routes that people can easily choose to use over major routes that are more polluted.

The competition will be judged by a panel including Jonas Lencer (director, dRMM), Jack Skillen (placeshaping director, Team London Bridge), Tamsie Thomson (director, London Festival of Architecture) and Matthew Hill (head of highways, Southwark Council).

Following a public exhibition of shortlisted entries in June, the winning team will be revealed in July 2018 to develop a fully costed, feasible design that can be installed subject to planning consent. The total project budget is £23,000 + VAT.

The deadline for submissions is 3.00pm on 5 June 2018.

Further information for entrants is available at www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org

Hundreds of people pass through London Bridge station every day, and this competition is an opportunity to demonstrate how good design can make a difference even in everyday spaces. We are grateful to Team London Bridge for creating a brilliant opportunity to champion design talent in London, and to foster positive and lasting change to London’s public realm.

Nadia Broccardo, executive director of Team London Bridge, says:

As people navigate their way around the new London Bridge station, we have a chance to alter their preferred routes and behaviours through clever public realm design. This competition offers someone the chance to have their design seen by millions of people every year, and encourage people to use routes with cleaner air while providing more pleasant ways to explore London Bridge.

Featured image by LFA.

London Festival of Architecture: “Knowledge Territories”, Italian Cultural Institute, Monday 4th June, 19:00-20:30

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As part of the London Festival of Architecture programme, Davide Deriu (Director of Research and MA Architecture course leader) will be chairing a panel on Knowledge Territories at the Italian Cultural Institute on the 4th June.

The authors of a recent book about the architecture of higher education will discuss (in English!) university buildings and the politics they reflect.

The event will consider how university architecture should respond to the new conditions under which higher education operates, as well as how architecture may be conceived as central to a substantial contemporary redefinition of higher education comparable to that of 1968, when Joseph Rykwert described the new universities of the time as archetypes of combined urban and educational values for their age.

They will be joined in conversation by Dr Clare Melhuish, Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory.

When: 4th June 2018, 19:00-20:30

Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8NX

More info and booking (free):

https://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/event/knowledge-territories/

Featured mage: Photo by Stefano Graziani from LFA’s web-site

London Festival of Architecture and Wandsworth Council Announce Competition for Public Realm Revival – Deadline (first stage submissions): 23rd February

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The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and Wandsworth Council have launched a competition to improve the appearance and feel of Thessaly Road Railway Bridge, and important gateway to the Nine Elms regeneration area near New Covent Garden Market. The competition, which is open to architects, designers, artists and students, is an opportunity to transform an ugly and unwelcoming underpass into an attractive and user-friendly route for pedestrians and cyclists, and a gateway to the redevelopment taking place around Nine Elms Vauxhall.

The design competition has been conceived by the LFA and Wandsworth Council to improve the user experience for pedestrians and cyclists on a key route between Battersea Park Road and Wandsworth Road, and to revitalise the public realm close to major new development taking place in Nine Elms Vauxhall. In keeping with the London Festival of Architecture’s mission to harness the talent of London’s architectural and creative community, the competition will bring fresh ideas to improve the built environment in this key location, and act as a valuable demonstration project for similar sites across London and elsewhere.

Following a shortlist of six practices to be announced in March, the winning team will be revealed in May and awarded £20,000 to develop a design that will be eligible to be constructed and installed as part of the London Festival of Architecture in 2019. The overall budget for the project is £200,000.

The deadline for first stage submissions is 23 February 2018.

The competition is being judged by an expert panel including:

  • Pam Alexander (chair, Covent Garden Market Authority)
  • Amy Frearson (editorial director, Dezeen)
  • Anne Mullins (head of culture, Nine Elms Vauxhall Partnership)
  • Morag Myerscough (founder, Studio Myerscough)
  • Clare Richards (founder, Footwork)
  • Tamsie Thomson (director, London Festival of Architecture)

Tamsie Thomson, director of the London Festival of Architecture said:

London’s built environment is full of overlooked and unprepossessing spaces like Thessaly Road railway bridge, and this competition is a brilliant opportunity to show how thoughtful and imaginative design can transform the mundane into something quite special. At the London Festival of Architecture we are grateful to Wandsworth Council for providing this opportunity to showcase architectural and design excellence in London, and demonstrate the power of design in transforming London’s public realm.

The Leader of Wandsworth Council, Cllr Ravi Govindia, said:

We are delighted to be working with the London Festival of Architecture in finding an innovative solution to improving the bridge space in Thessaly Road and I am really looking forward to seeing the winning design. We have a long-standing association with the LFA and it’s good to be in partnership with them again on this project.

The Thessaly Road underpass is much used by people in the local area but I think it’s fair to say that it’s definitely in need of a facelift. This competition is a great opportunity to do just that and knowing the creative talent that is out there, I am sure we will find a design that will revitalise this key route through Nine Elms.

More information for on the Thessaly Road competition is included in a briefing document – available for participants here.

www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org
@LFArchitecture
#LFA2017
#modernmaypole

Featured image source: http://londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/full-steam-ahead-for-thessaly-road-london-festival-of-architecture-andwandsworth-council-announce-competition-for-public-realm-revival/

OPEN 2017 Catalogue – Showing the Future of Architecture

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We are exactly one month away from the OPEN 2017 – the end of year exhibition, which will showcase the work of our BA, MArch, IABA and Architectural Technology students.

Every year, alongside the exhibition, a catalogue of students’ work is published. We spoke to Clare Hamman, the catalogue designer, to tell us what we can expect from this year’s edition.

Same as in previous years, the catalogue is to feature the best of students’ projects and give general insight into the type of work produced at the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment. Yet, as every architecture student and practicing architect knows, architecture is much more than just a final polished product. To highlight the importance of the design process and offer an understanding of the design trajectory, trials and errors involved, this year each studio section will be supplemented with an additional page, to show the evolution of the work throughout different design stages, from its conception to its realisation.

As a way of expanding the information on studios, a very short biography of tutors, their practices and research interests will also be included in this year’s edition.

For the first time the catalogue will feature work of students from the Designing Cities: Planning and Architecture (BA Hons) course, as well as the projects from the Architectural Technology (BSc Hons) course.

So, please join us for the opening of the exhibition on the 15th June and pick up your own copy of OPEN 2017 catalogue, as, in Clare’s own words, “it’s about showing you the future of architecture.”

OPEN 2017 is part of the London Festival of Architecture.

Opening night

Thursday 15 June 2016, 6–9pm

Exhibition continues daily for public entry: Friday 16 June – Friday 30 June, 9am–9pm (Sundays 9am–2pm)

Location

University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5LS

To view OPEN 2016 catalogue online please go to:

https://issuu.com/clarehamman/docs/open2016-digital

Simon Conder: Book Launch + Exhibition Private View

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As part of the London Festival of Architecture the WORK Gallery in Kings Cross will be holding an exhibition of Simon Conder‘s work over the last 20 years.

The exhibition will run from 1 – 30 June, and the launch of their book Small Works will take place on Wednesday 14th June, 6-9.30pm in the same space.