Chasing Water

Today we are delighted to join our collaborators at Queens University in Belfast to officially launch a Vision for the Future of Northern Ireland's Urban Greenspaces.⁠

For the past year we've been working closely with the National Trust, Northern Ireland Environment Link, Useful Projects and Community Places on a co-created document and action plan. With inputs from over 1000 people across the country the 30 year vision seeks connects people, enhance nature and help towns & cities adapt to climate change. ⁠

For more information see the Northern Ireland Environment Link website and our project page here.

Periscope, together with Haworth Tompkins, Kjellander Sjöberg, Grounded Practice, ARUP and Exploration Architecture have won a competition to masterplan a new community near Colchester, Essex.

The project, for Latimer will be a model for 21st century sustainable living and regenerative approaches to place. We're looking forward to working with stakeholders and communities in this unique and storied landscape.

Image Credit: Haworth Tompkins

Find out more in this link.

Periscope has joined London's new A+U Framework. The Mayor, Sadiq Khan has appointed a panel of innovative and diverse built environment specialists to a new Architecture + Urbanism (A+U) Framework, this panel will support his mission to build a better London for everyone.

Our team is proud to have been appointed⁠ to the A+U; its an amazing cohort, we're looking forward to the coming years and continuing to work for the people of London and the environment in which we live.⁠

Find out more at this link.

Today a planning application was submitted for The Phoenix, a new, exponentially sustainable neighbourhood on the site of John Every's Ironworks in Lewes, East Sussex.

Periscope's role is the Masterplan Design Lead, coordinating the Integrated Design Team of Human Nature and Arup. We are also designing the public realm & landscape, the adaptive reuse of two heritage structures and the Co-Mobility Hub. Check back soon for further updates.⁠

Find out more by reading the Design & Access Statement, link here.

Image by Periscope for Human Nature.⁠

Next week Daniel Rea will be joining Jonathan Smales & Clarissa Bromelle of Human Nature, Patrick Bellew of Atelier Ten, Joanna Yarrow of M&C Saatchi LIFE and Alex Ely of Mae Architects at the opening night debate of the Surface Design Show 2023.⁠

For further information please check the link here.

Last week Kirsty Badenoch and Daniel Rea ran a drawing workshop across two sites in Liverpool. Working with Architecture students from years 1-5 in a vertical studio they recreated Granby Winter Garden inside the Reilly Room at the University of Liverpool.

The students have been invited to exhibit their work in the Winter Garden in the coming months.

Today the principle collaborators, stakeholders and communities of Lewes congregated at The Depot to launch The Phoenix Planning Application.

Chaired by Katie Derham, presentations by Jonathan Smales, Daniel Rea and Robert Sakula were followed by a panel featuring Human Nature chairman David Cowans; Cany Ash of Ash Sakula; Kelly Harrison of engineers Whitby Wood; local writer and activist Juliet Oxborrow; and Professor Raphie Kaplinsky.

The event was covered by the BBC, find out more here. Event photographs by Philip Volkers.

Welcome to Alberto Campagnoli who recently joined the practice as an Associate. Alberto is an Architect with a strong interest in regenerative processes and the civic role of landscape architecture.

Last weekend we hosted an Open City Accelerate workshop in our office, the theme for the day was stewardship and sustainability. It was a pleasure to engage with this class of brilliant young people and see Accelerate promoting different roles and routes into working in the built environment sector. Later in the academic year the practice will be mentoring two young people from Hackney.

Photograph by Siraaj Mitha.

Congratulations to Kirsty Badenoch who has been promoted to Associate Director while continuing in her role as Head of Research. Kirsty leads our Grand Challenges collaboration with UCL, a number of client facing projects including our work with BeFirst and NI Environment Link; she also continues to teach at The Bartlett School of Architecture and lecture internationally.

Photograph by Kristina Sälgvik.

Our work at Meridian Water Station has been included in Network Rail's Station design guidance as a national exemplar.

Find out more here.

Earlier this month we joined our LondonOn colleagues in submitting a proposal for Grønlikaia waterfront.

Our team is assigned a central parcel in the final phase of the dock rehabilitation on the eastern shores of the Oslo Fjord. We have been exploring how the city meets the sea and what that can mean for social interaction and underwater ecology. The results will be announced in early 2023.

Image Credit: Haptic with Gort Scott, Mae Architects, Morris & Company, Neighbourhood, Elliot Wood & Periscope.

Out team together with Nyima Murry have been out on site shooting B-roll for a film about moving rivers in Enfield. This will be a four year project documenting what it takes to move a river and recover a landscape.

Find out more here and check back in 2023 for more.

Earlier this year Periscope became one of a handful of Spatial Design practices to achieve Certified B Corporation® status.⁠

Why B Corp™? The reasons are many, here are three:⁠

1. Because B Corps™ are impact focussed.

2. Because B Corp™ is a global standard and reaches beyond architecture and design.

3. Because B Corp™ provided a framework within which to develop our practice systems in a fair, equitable, ethical and comprehensive manner.

You can view our B Corp™ entry stats on their website here.

Welcome to Ellen Nankivell who recently joined the practice as a Part One Architectural Assistant. Ellen graduated from the Bartlett and has a strong interest in the relationship between landscape, architecture and time-based design solution.

Sandy Rompotiyoke has been promoted to Architect following successful completion of the Professional Practice in Architecture course at London Metropolitan University. We're all excited for Sandy to have reached this milestone, she has been working with the practice for four years and plays a critical role in projects large and small, the team looks forward to her continued collaboration.⁠

Welcome to Stacey Lewis who has joined the practice as an Architect. Stacey joins us following a period travelling in Italy, having qualified as an Architect earlier this year. She previously worked for Adams & Sutherland and Lynch Architects.

We are excited to be opening Microscope, our new public-fronting workshop in connection with our office in Dalston. Microscope is a new investigative space for talking, thinking and testing with natural processes.

Find out more here.

Daniel Rea will be joining Rafe Bertram of Enfield Council, Pooran Desai of One Planet, Gabriela Costa of Useful Projects and Gilli Hobbs of Net Positive Solutions at Footprint+ in Brighton on 7th June. They will be discussing carbon neutral development at scale in Enfield.⁠ For more information please see this link.

Our latest research 'Earth Works' begins an investigation into material as process, and 'Volume 01: Reclamation' is released today, exploring reclamation of clay from London soils.

Now available to download from our research page here