This festive season Periscope is raising money for a cause close to our hearts; we will be taking part in Shelter's Walk for Home. All funds go towards building a future supporting people who are living in unsafe or unfit housing or with no permanent place to call home. ⁠

If you'd like to support us and donate, please click here, anything you can give will make a real difference to Shelter's efforts to address housing issues across the country.

Next week our director Daniel Rea will join a panel discussion hosted by Kjellander Sjoberg⁠ in Stockholm. The subject is ‘What does the best of urban design and the future of towns & cities mean to us?’ Daniel will be discussing Periscope’s mission and their recent regenerative masterplanning work in the UK.⁠

Find out more here.⁠

Photograph by Kristina Sälgvik.

Welcome to William Pattison who recently joined the practice as a Part Two Architectural Assistant. Will joins us from Maccreanor Lavington following completion of his Masters at TU Delft, he previously worked at Mcmullan Studio, Studio Egret West and Bjarke Ingels Group.

Last week our team decamped to Utrecht and the central Netherlands for our annual study trip. We spent a busy few days cycling around the Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht centre and De Veluwe looking at deserts, forests, circular buildings, parks on tunnels, adaptive reuse sheds and new housing projects. Intense as they are these study trips allow for a moment of reflection with learnings tuned to current projects; we return refreshed and ready for new challenges.

Rebecca and Will have added some curiosities on circular building and drifting forests to our Research Atlas, link here.

We’re pleased to announce that Sandy Rompotiyoke has been promoted to Regenerative Advocacy Lead. Sandy will be responsible for social and environmental advocacy inside and outside Periscope, playing a key role in the practice’s work towards equity, diversity and inclusion together with environmental and social responsibility. Sandy continues in her role as Architect in which she is coordinating our work on garden communities in Essex and regeneration projects in London and Sussex.