We’ve won Capital and Centric’s competition for St George's Wolverhampton!
Working with our friends Mikhail Riches we’re excited to be co-masterplanning the repair of this historic city district. We’ll also be looking after the design of a glorious new city park, a network of new public spaces and the remaking of several historic streets. While we’re doing that Mikhail Riches will be busy adapting the former Sainsburys building into high performance new homes while other parts of the site will host family housing at a variety of scales. The eponymous church will be re-proposed into community and work spaces surrounded by independent businesses at the heart of the scheme. Find out more here.
Over the weekend we hosted ecology object workshops and practice talks in our office as part of the Open House Festival 2024. Alberto, Ellen and Jessie led the team in the build up and on the day, we thoroughly enjoyed the conversations, the energy of making and are looking forward to participating again in 2025.
This week our clients in LB Redbridge and in LB Lewisham have been awarded £3m and £2.46m respectively for their projects 'Ilford Arrival' and 'Room for Rivers, A Place for People'. The image above is from a Pilot Engagement 'Dramawalk' with Lewisham Youth Theatre, photography by Jason Baney.
This week we've been in Wolverhampton with Mikhail Riches presenting our ideas for the St George's neighbourhood. We were also fortunate to spend time with the Regeneration Brainery and Wolverhampton Youth Council working through their wishes for the future of the city.
In February 2024, we had the chance to mentor two brilliant students, Humayra and Shamun, as part of the Open City Accelerate Programme. Their project theme was Rituals, translating the spectacular and mundane into celebratory designs for an overlooked site in Dalston.
You can check out their amazing final work of sketches and models at the Accelerate Summer Exhibition from 11-14 July. More info here.