Last month Freya, Fran and Dom took part in a design charette with Architecture Today to address innovation in office design. Feilden Fowles’ proposal explored a critical approach to the brief of ‘Kitchen meets the Workplace’ in order to challenge the paradigm of the ‘consummate’ workplace, with a view to shifting towards a choice-enabling, cooperative initiative. Find out more here.
Feilden Fowles at The Aram Gallery
The Prototypes and Experiments exhibition at The Aram Gallery continues and will be open until the 1st September. We’re delighted the 1:20 model of our studio made the cut, it’s alongside some fantastic pieces.
Ed Fowles on the BBC London News tonight, from 6pm.
Watch the BBC London News this evening from 6pm as Ed discusses the successful collaboration between Oasis Waterloo, Jamie’s Farm, Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital and Feilden Fowles. Waterloo City Farm has demonstrated the fantastic opportunity a Meanwhile Use Lease can bring to underused sites in London.
“The architects who put animals on the team”
Visit the Guardian to read Olly Wainwright’s article on our uplifting and aspirational working environment; Waterloo City Farm. Find out more on the project here.
Casting 1:20 concrete columns for Homerton College, Cambridge.
We’re testing the Dining Hall and Buttery at Homerton College, Cambridge, at 1:20, including the curved concrete columns that sit beneath the faience facade. See the faience samples here.
The never ending summer!
We’ve enjoyed another studio lunch in our sun filled garden. Thanks to Akshara and Freya for putting together a feast!
Concrete creation: Double curvature stair!
This extraordinary in-situ stair has recently been poured at Abbotsbury Road, a renovation of a 1950s London townhouse. Find out more about the project here and follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with progress.
Back on site at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park!
We’ve been back on site with our new Visitor Centre at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The timber frame is up and the internal fit out has commenced – check back later this Summer to find out more about its progress.
Waterloo City Farm in AJ Specification (plus a sneak peek of our new Garden Room!)
Details of Waterloo City Farm are featured in the AJ Specification this week alongside some great new photography of the farm. More details on the latest addition to the evolving site – the Garden Room – will follow later this month.