Wood Work is the Building Centre’s online lunch-time talks series, featuring international designers and their wood inspired projects. Our Associate, Ingrid Petit, will be kickstarting the series by presenting our project, Waterloo City Farm in London, on Wednesday 10 February. A link to the lecture and more information here.

Our project, The Weston, a gallery and visitor centre at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, has been nominated alongside many amazing entires for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Check out all the projects here – finalists to be announced in March.

We are very proud of our Associate Ingrid Petit who has been nominated for the prestigous MJ Long Prize, named in memory of inspirational architect, lecturer and writer Mary Jane (MJ) Long, as a part of the AJ/AR’s W Awards 2021. Ingrid has demonstrated her incredible talent, patience and persistence particularly as Project Architect on two of our recently completed works, The Fratry in Carlisle, and Pinewood School in Wiltshire.
The prize winners will be honoured during the virtual W Awards week which commences on Monday 8 March to coincide with International Women’s Day.

It is an honour to be included on the AJ 40 under 40 list alongside an incredible cohort of inspiring and energetic, young architects.
Launched in 1985, the inaugural 40-strong list of budding stars included David Chipperfield, Sunand Prasad, Will Alsop, Amanda Levete – then as co-founder of Powis & Levete – and Allies and Morrison founders Bob Allies and Graham Morrison.
Other up-and-coming names chosen over the years for the prestigious list include Denise and Rab Bennetts of Bennetts Associates, Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch of Sauerbruch Hutton, and the founders of what was then Feilden Clegg Design. The last 40 under 40 cohort, 15 years ago, included David Adjaye, Amin Taha, AOC, DSDHA, Anna Liu and the late Gareth Hoskins.
See all those selected for 2020 here.

We are enormously proud of our brilliant Associate Ingrid Petit who has been named one of the 2020 RIBA J Rising Stars. Ingrid has recently delivered two key Feilden Fowles projects, the Fratry and Pinewood School, during the pandemic; has led many of our winning competition bids including Central Hall for the National Railway Museum earlier this year, all alongside her management and leadership duties within the practice. Congratulations Ingrid! Read more here.

We are so excited to be shortlisted for this amazing opportunity to design the Highline Park in Camden alongside an amazing team comprising of J & L Gibbons Landscape Architects and supported by Goddard Consulting; Arup; Max Fordham; Deloitte; Michael Grubb Studio; Nomad Projects; Fossil Plants; Fanshawe; Sarah Couch Historic Landscapes; A Practice for Everyday Life; The Ecology Consultancy; JA Projects and Shared Assets. Check out all the finalists’ teams and more information on the project here.

We are thrilled to announce that Natural History Museum was today given the go ahead from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with unanimous approval, to transform its five-acre gardens into an exemplar of urban wildlife research, conservation and awareness – galvanising a far reaching, national drive to reengage people with the natural world and urban biodiversity, which it warns is under threat like never before. A huge congratulations to our wonderful team who have contributed to this special project, and to our fantastic project landscape architects J & L Gibbons. More on the project here.

We are pleased to feature our work for the Natural History Museum’s Urban Nature Project in conjunction with talented landscape architects J&L Gibbons, as part of an engaging and dynamic show at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, curated by Eva Jiricna. There are some really inspiring works of art and architecture on display until the end of the year so we hope you have a chance to go and check it out!

We are so excited to launch the press view of the Fratry in Carlisle today, despite a difficult few months with project completion coinciding with the escalting impact of coronavirus. We are thrilled the cafe is open and able to welcome visitors in a safe manner. Thanks to an incredible project team who have helped deliver this amazing community building over the last six years! If you are in the area come and have a look, and grab a coffee in the new cafe. More on the project here.

It was fantastic to take part in the LIVING WITHIN: Architectural Symposium 2020 at Messums Wiltshire alongside a fantastic panel. The corresponding exhibition is on until the 18th October.