In February, we hosted two Open City Accelerate students as part of this year’s theme, 'Resilience'. They developed ideas for a public toilet in Gillette Square, Hackney - showing bold thinking through models and collage, responding to the ad-hoc nature of the space.
We’re excited to see theirs and all of the other Accelerate work featured at the summer exhibition (check the Open City links below for updates on that). It was a pleasure to explore what resilience means in practice and for young people, to design small scale, civic, public infrastructure, while understanding the history and evolving role of public toilets within a diverse city.
22.04.2026
Open City Accelerate 2026
16.04.2018
The Byron Park Plan
Periscope has been commissioned by Harrow Council and Friends of Byron Park to produce a Framework Plan for Byron Park. This new piece of work is jointly commissioned and will involve close collaboration with the Friends of the park, Harrow Council, Harrow Parks Forum as well as the Environment Agency and Thames Water. The process kicked off with a resident's consultation event in Harrow Leisure centre, almost 100 people came to have their say providing the design team with really valuable insight into their local area and their hopes for the park.
06.02.2018
Concrete prototyping
We've been casting concrete for our latest project in Barking. This is the second prototyping phase using site won aggregates supplied by our client Barking Riverside Ltd. The tests aim to establish the performance of various aggregates including knapped flint, incinerator bottom ash and crushed concrete. The next test phase is a full-scale accelerated pavement test on site ahead of the project construction phase commencing in 2019.
15.01.2018
Mandeville Street planning consent
We've been collaborating with Al-Jawad Pike on their Mandeville Street project which has just received unanimous consent at committee.
12.01.2018
Bury Street West planning consent
Our project to build 50 homes in Enfield in collaboration with Karakusevic Carson Architects has received planning consent.
04.12.2017
A bridge too far?
Here's our contribution to this year's Gingerbread City - a Periscope Ponte Vecchio. London's finest gingerbread Architects have been pulling out all the stops in time for the opening on Wednesday 6th December.
Find our more at https://www.thegingerbreadcity.com/.
28.09.2017
New projects
We've added some new projects to the website. Take a look here.
20.06.2017
Prescot Market Place competition shortlist
We've been shortlisted, as one of five, for the Prescot Market Place competition. The project will re-energise the historic market square and is part of the wider regeneration plans for the town, which include the Shakespeare North Playhouse. Read the full article in the Architects Journal here.
24.04.2017
Kampala talk
Come and join us at The Biscuit Factory on 3rd May for a talk about our recent trips to Uganda and our ongoing Kampala Arts project, see details here.
Please rsvp to hello@periscopestudio.co.uk
