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Other Plans #6: Briggate Burgages
Narrow plots, rented out to merchants as growing space, which evolved to house the city’s nightlife and culture.
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Sidcup Storyteller
A study of DRDH's hybrid cinema, library & residential building in Sidcup exploring whether it has broader lessons and meanings for public buildings in…
Jun 29
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Marianne in Cheiron’s Cave
On group minds, the school of the future, and Marianne Faithfull.
Apr 17
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The Hand in the Wall
On the handmade in public architecture, in a new edited collection by painter Bella Bacon.
Apr 6
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The Wenlock Bollard
Rethinking repair through the work of Bernd Schmutz Architekten
Mar 12
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New collaborative writing on the contemporary relevance of the Arts & Crafts
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Other Plans #5: Hedgerow Encroachment
A linear village ‘grown’ entirely within the boundary hedge of a Great Estate.
Jan 12
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Experiments in Freedom
Advocating for the unpredictable and emergent in planning and design. An archive piece from 2011.
Jan 6
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Pop Power
On public planning and popular agency
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Other Plans #4: Portici
A public network of privately-owned covered places; created by legislation and delivered by thousands of individual acts of construction.
Oct 24, 2025
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Speaking Out: Oral History for Architects
hosted by The Architecture Foundation and The Art Workers' Guild
Oct 17, 2025
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Other Plans #3: Path & Allotment
A forest neighbourhood where the trees - wild and cultivated - are the structure.
Sep 30, 2025
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The Spring Line is a collection of illustrated writings by David Knight. It mixes fiction and non-fiction to explore the built environment and how it is made.
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