Our latest edition of The Brief features Tom Dollard of @goodhomesalliance.bsky.social discussing the £15bn Warm Homes Plan, Westminster retrofit first, ARB protection of function, and the 2026 Serpentine Pavilion. Listen and subscribe here open.spotify.com/episode/6jKg...
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📢In this month's edition of InterCities podcast Owen Hatherley is joined by the academic Dr Yair Wallach to discuss his 2020 book: A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem' with a focus on ephemera and urban text during the British Mandate 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2pHF...
📢 This week's The Brief podcast features guest Billy Reading with host Sahiba Chadha discussing housing targets, St Pancras' upgrade, Central YMCA and Norman Foster's 90th 🎙️🎧 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
📢Our latest edition of InterCities podcast focusses on Kharkiv -- featuring architect and author Ievgeniia Gubkina in conversation with Owen Hatherley 🎧🎙️🏙️ shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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📢 our latest The Brief podcast is a special on location recording inside Geology of Britannic Repair: the British Pavillion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale with co-curator Stella Mutegi. Available for early listening now 🎧✨ shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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📢 this month's InterCities podcast focusses on Energoprojekt and the transformation of postwar Belgrade featuring guest author Dubravka Sekulić with host Owen Hatherley. Listen 2pm today on Resonance FM 🎧 www.resonancefm.com
🎧"These buildings were ahead of their times" 😢
Vickie Hayward joins me on this week's The Brief podcast to discuss @c20society.bsky.social's latest Risk List of architectural heritage facing demolition, plus AI concerns, agroforestry and community housing... 🏘️
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“They’re fun, inventive…they were ahead of their time in terms of their purpose. These are concepts we’d want to see now!”
Vickie Hayward speaks to @merlinfulcher.bsky.social about Millennium buildings on the #C20RiskList, for The Brief by @opencity-uk.bsky.social
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📢In the latest Deconstructed podcast, host @matthewlloydr.bsky.social R discuses the past, present and future of London's troubled Euston station with architectural historian Ewan Harrison🎙️🎧 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
Fascinating to visit the restored Space House for @c20society.bsky.social's top 10 buildings at risk of demolition lauch. In awe of the views AND C20's tireless campaigning for amazing architectural heritage, now embracing some 1990s gems 🙏🌿🌻
A great evening at the @c20society.bsky.social Risk List launch, held in Seifert’s fabulous Space House. Reuse them or lose them! 💥
A smarter use of public funds? 💸🏘️
'It would cost £205bn to eliminate the social housing waiting list... and there would be savings to the [£15.6bn annual] housing benefit bill'
Peter George on the true cost of fixing the UK's broken housing system shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
Great to see the narrative around office-to-resi conversions turning around for the better. The most sustainable buildings are always the ones already standing 🙏🌿✨
You can hear Peter and Fran review the news plus all our other built environment shows on the Open City Podcast channel. Sign up as a subscriber via your favourite podcast channels or Acast ✨ shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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📢 Our latest The Brief podcast features Peter George of Ealing Council with AJ's Fran Williams discussing office-to-resi conversions and the challenges of delivering zero carbon affordable homes. You can listen on our channel and at 2pm on Resonance 104.4FM 🎙️🎧 www.resonancefm.com
There will be a complimentary crusher and trolley system so drivers can take their vehicle as luggage on the cable car instead?
That's really interesting, I've taken a break from socials other than to flag new podcasts going live (which I do here, on X and IG). I'm interested to see what happens next as it feels both X and Bluesky are simply 'legacy Twitter'... space for something new/offline?
Yeah, he is on Insta. I'm not so active on Bluesky. Just posting occasionally. Is it going well?
📢 Our second edition of InterCities podcast with Owen Hatherley features Johny Pitts discussing the social and architectural transformation of Sheffield since the 1990s 🎙️🎧 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
You can also listen and subscribe via Acast and other podcast platforms... Thank you to everyone who supports the channel by following and participating 🙏🌿🌟 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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📢 Our latest The Brief podcast features Robin Nicholson of Cullinan Studio with host Fran Williams discussing Norman Foster's new Man Utd stadium plus planning reform and more. On Resonance 104.4 FM at 2pm today 🎧🎙️ www.resonancefm.com
Such a marvellous addition to the wonderful architecture of Oxford. Well done David Kohn Architects and New College 🙏✨ www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/ci...
In 4 years, we've covered memorable architecture from Thamesmead to Chelsea, Blackheath to Barbican with authors including Owen Hatherley, Siufan Aidey, Rosamund Lily West, and Ewa Effiom. Thank you to all our subscribers and authors who made it possible 🙏🌿 shop.open-city.org.uk/collections/...
📢 This March we are celebrating our 50th edition of Open City's Pocket printed tour series with a journey through the towering, highly speculative redevelopment of Nine Elms! Highlights include Kieran Timberlake's US Embassy and the newly restored Battersea Power Station...🏙️💸
Very sorry to hear that, please email sales@open-city.org.uk for an update on where it is. Best,M
Hi this is the March edition. Cheers,M
Announcing our 50th Pocket Printed tour exploring the speculative regeneration of Nine Elms, authored by our series editor @merlinfulcher.bsky.social ! Launched in 2021, our monthly self-guided tours focus on London’s most compelling neighbourhoods. Shop here: shop.open-city.org.uk/collections/...
Thanks! That layout was by Surrey model railway club and for me captures a very familiar moment in history. There were some really impressive artworks on display, a unique event!