Construction works at Hearth House have completed, with landscaping now underway.
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Royale Belge has won a European Heritage / Europa Nostra Award for Conservation and Adaptive Reuse. Overseen by the European Commission in partnership with Europa Nostra, the awards celebrate and promote the highest standards in heritage interventions, research, and education, training and awareness-raising, as well the longstanding dedication of professionals and volunteers.
Benjamin Wells was Project Architect with Caruso St John Architects. The project was a collaboration with Antwerp-based Bovenbouw.
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Hearth House is nearing completion. Here a generous rooflight is carved into the Douglas Fir roof structure.
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Hearth House is progressing on site. Masonry and steels are in place, ready for the Douglas Fir structural frame to be installed.
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Soft Monument has been shortlisted for the London Festival Architecture's Empowering Platforms competition, for Westminster City Council.
Domestic Commons - a series of conversations exploring the inbetween spaces between housing and public space. Commissioned for the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial. Click image for more.
'Biennial legacy: How Medium designed a pavilion for a Tbilisi housing district' - an interview with Peter Smisek for ICON magazine.
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8-23-VI is published on Dezeen! Click image for more.
Also on ArchDaily / Architecture Today / Építészfórum / Tbilisi Architecture / Architectural Digest / Archello
8-23-VI is up on the Future Architecture Platform among many other projects and ideas speculating on the future of Architecture. Take a look and vote for your favourite! Click image for more.
Pre-emptive Transformation' is now exhibited in 'The Library' at the Oslo Architecture Triennale, exploring the architecture of degrowth.
Exhibited until November 24th in Sverre Fehn's beautiful extension to the National Museum.
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Hearth House - due to start on site later in the summer. Click image for more.
Invited to contribute to the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale, exploring the Architecture of Degrowth. The project will include a large scale model of the project - Pre-emptive Transformation.
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8th April 2019 - Thanks to all that joined us for an exploration of the potential of Common Forms - a method for designing ‘in common’, as well as a definition for design that activates common space.
We will discuss Common Forms in the context of housing, through three projects - the architectural event, the small-scale intervention, and the holistic regeneration project - with presentations from Tina Gurgenidze (curator of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial), Benjamin Wells / Francis Naydler (Medium) and Søren Nielsen (director at Vandkunsten Architects).
CAFx Housing: Common Forms and the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, and is supported by KADK, the Copenhagen Architecture Festival and the Georgian Embassy in Denmark.
The Agonistic City is now exhibited outside the Danish Parliament! Thanks to KADK for selecting the project, as an example of how architecture can aid sustainable urban development. On display at Rigsdagsgården, Christiansborg until 30th June.
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The Great Escape: Domesticity for Nomadic Retirees by Hannah Wood and Benjamin Wells is published in the latest MONU magazine, alongside Deane Simpson and Frits van Dongen. Click image for more!
From Planning to Sectioning - a user focused approach to building optimisation
Now published in Conscious Cities Anthology 2018: Human-Centred Design, Science, and Technology, published by the Centre for Conscious Design.
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20th March 2019 - presented a selection of recent projects to current students at KADK. Thanks for the invite!
Domestic Work - a new typology of live-work spaces in Tallinn, Estonia. Click image for more.
The Innovation by Design anthology is now published and printed!
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Check out Blueprint 362 for my review of Elemental / Alejandro Aravena's exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
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Hearth House - design development for a large extension and renovation of a house in Surrey, England.
Due to commence on site summer 2019.
Delighted to receive a copy of the brilliant PLAT 7.0 - featuring my musings on the possibilities of an agonistic urbanism in Tbilisi. Click image for more!
8-23-VI (phase one) opens at the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial! Visit medium.works for more.
8-23-VI is supported by Creative Europe and KADK.
Plastiglomerate solidifies at Roskilde Festival! It combines decades-old masonry bricks with week-old plastic bricks - a mass of bricks and mortar that sits in contrast with the surrounding tents and pavilions.
The project is a collaboration with artist Veronika Geiger, mason Casper Bojsen and DTU, and will be in the Art Zone at Roskilde until Sunday.
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Read ‘The Great Escape: Domesticity for Nomadic Retirees’ in MONU # 30 - a text written by Hannah Wood and I for MONU's Late Life Urbanism issue.
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Innovation by Design
A series of five articles exploring the themes of the Danish contribution to the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale - Possible Spaces.
Commissioned by Natalie Mossin - curator of the 2018 Danish Pavilion, and the Danish Architecture Center. Published on arcspace.com
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Delighted that The Agonistic City has been shortlisted for the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA), organised by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe with the support of Creative Europe as an extension of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.
The project is exhibited at Palazzo Mora - European Culture Centre in Venice until November, as part of La Biennale di Venezia, and will then tour across Europe.
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Honourable mention for The Collaboratory in CHART 2018! Click on image for more info.
Tbilisi City Forum wins a Silver Award at the Creative Conscience Awards! The Awards recognise projects that aim to have a social impact, and build a network between 'changemakers' across a number of creative disciplines.
