Play with(out) Grounds is a play structure designed for teenagers on installed on Store Street, London, as part of the Garden of Privatised Delights exhibition. It alludes to the contradictions of public life faced by this 'in-between' age group and allows for interpretation and appropriation in its use. The structure will also acts as a place for young people from diverse backgrounds to engage in conversations about public space and make the ignored voices of teenagers heard.

Play with(out)Grounds - Lilly

Play with(out)Grounds - Arla

Play with(out)Grounds - Anne

Play with(out)Grounds - Pete

Play with(out)Grounds - Emma

Amin Taha, architect and co-curator of The New Stone Age exhibition, speaks to the BBC World Service about the award-winning 15 Clerkenwell Close and presents the case for carbon negative stone skyscrapers.


Image: Jason Coe

Amin Taha speaks to BBC World Service about the New Stone Age

Listen to the late, great Charles Jencks ruminate on the joint origins of healthcare and architecture. 

This soundbite is an extract from our Architecture of Maggie's event from March 2019 where Charles Jencks, co-founder of Maggie's Cancer Care Centres, spoke alongside Alex de Rijke, director of dRMM and architect of Maggie’s Oldham, and Benedetta Tagliabue, director of Miralles Tagliabue EMBT and architect of the new Kālida Sant Pau Centre in Barcelona, about the importance of architectural specificity, materiality and the fine craft of care that uniquely define Maggie’s Centres.

Charles Jencks on the Origins of Healthcare and Architecture

Nothing Superfluous is the second poem of the collection LionHeart read at an event at the Building Centre inspired by the series of residencies he carried out with architects and designers. The series intends to make built environment professionals and the public reflect on our relationship with our spaces and architecture.

Nothing Superfluous. A Poem By LionHeart

‘From a slick architect’s operation to three hippies in a shed...' EPR Architects collaborated with ceramic artist Kate Malone and potter Rich Miller on 24 Savile Row, London, a building clad in 10,000 hand-glazed ceramic tiles. Hear them talk about the design and production process, their early glaze experimentation and how, once the preferred glaze was chosen, an extensive testing period was undertaken to ensure the results formed in the potter’s studio could be replicated architecturally.

The ceramics of 24 Savile Row - Kate Malone, Stephen Pey and Rich Miller in conversation

In this podcast Mathilde Savary from the Building Centre talks to Ali Alzein, founder of Bees & Refugees in London.

Bees & Refugees

Home of the built environment since 1931 with exhibitions and events, products and materials, co-working and café.

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