Broadcasting the voice of architecture to a global audience.
Sebastien Ricard - Wilkinson Eyre Director
Mic Patterson, the Ambassador of Innovation & Collaboration at the Facade Tectonics Institute, Inc.
Karen Bala, Design Director at Boston based Dyer Brown and Jack Pringle, Principal at Perkins and Will London
Geoffrey West, Leading physicist and distinguished professor at the Santa Fe Institute
Richard Coutts Richard founder of Baca Architects
JULIE PAYETTE, CHARLES CÔTÉ & JEAN-SÉBASTIEN HERR
Property values driven up by London's new transport infrastructure
Andrea Leers and Tom Chung, Principals at Leers Weinzapfel
The Pritzker Prize is often referred to as the Nobel Prize for architecture. To become a Laurate is one the highest accolades possible for an architect. Today's guest has the awesome responsibility of nominating the jury panels and overseeing the process.
The world’s population is relentlessly migrating into cities, the 50% marker was passed in 2007, the UN is forecasting that this figure will increase to 68% by 2050. This massive increase puts an immense pressure on all aspects of a city’s infrastructure. Transport is clearly in the front line, moving people around the city, new metro lines, autonomous vehicles, expanded airports..
Over the past century, the human population has increased by over 5 billion. With over half of us currently living in cities, and migratory patterns suggesting that this number will only increase over time, cities are beginning to choke under the strain. Kai-Uwe Bergmann, a partner at BIG, believes that the solution to this problem is infusing urban environments with reinvigorating natural spaces.
This week we go live to CDW in London, the UK’s architecture hotbed. We talk to Max Fraser the events content editor who takes us along the pink line wiggling through the historic district passing cafes, pubs, bars, coffee shops and of course over 100 showrooms featuring the latest interior products and materials. Along the way are pop-up events, a series of lectures and discussions on design and trends… If it’s May, it must be Clerkenwell, don’t miss the great weather and head there now.
The world is shrinking, as the urban population steadily rises, cities are constrained by the inability to create new space. “Elastic Spaces” in the words of Dara Huang, Co-founder of Vivahouse could be the solution. Elastic Spaces are designed with flexibility of purpose in mind, with malleability being key.
Back in the day, February 2012 to be precise, the newly re-opened Exhibition road in west London was being hailed as the way forward in street design. Farewell to pavements, the UK’s Guardian newspaper headline rang out. The project was rolling out a brave vision to usher in a new progressive age of traffic-sharing streets.
59.9 deg north seems an unlikely latitude to be pushing the frontiers of the green agenda but Oslo recently beat 13 other cities to win the mantle of European Green Capital for 2019 has set itself some pretty ambitious targets. Oslo claims to be a city that puts its people first. Many central areas are now traffic-free, which means that streets and squares bustle with people who can enjoy a meal or who just want to get where they’re going on foot or by bike.
This week we go in search of the dream team, we try to eke out those intangible elements that make a successful project. I have asked this question many times to leading architects, and the answers often cite the client, the site, the budget, close collaboration and of course the all-important brief.
The past decade has seen co-working transform workplaces in many of our cities, riding the wave of the sea-change in working practices sweeping through the commercial world.
If a week in politics is a long time, a decade to bring a workplace project to reality must rank as a lifetime in this sector. But when the client knows what they want, a small thing like social change wasn't going to get in the way
In this episode, we look at the City of Angels in the run-up to LA 2028. We talk to Christian Derix head of Woods Bagot's think tank SuperSpace about his ambitious vision to transform underused parking lots into much-needed, large scale housing developments. The podcast covers topics from pollution, the sharing economy, autonomous cars, ethnic communities, and how the city may be returning to its pre-1930's roots as a scion for public transport
We are approaching the end of 2018 and London's housing targets have been missed again. The pressure to deliver more homes has been rising relentlessly for years now, something had to give. Last week it did. Even with all the modern construction techniques, we have at our disposal today, all the money washing around the capital, we haven't been able to deliver homes at anywhere near the rate we did in the 1930s. So what's was different then? We talk to a panel of experts for their response to last week's announcement that the borrowing cap placed on London's 33 boroughs, effectively stopping them building, has been lifted. This game-changing move will have dramatic and far-reaching consequences for the whole supply chain. Featuring; Jo McCafferty, Director at Levitt Bernstein, Rolf Neilsen Associate Partner at CF Moller, Anthony Thistleton Director at Waugh Thistleton Architects, and finally John Boughton, author of Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
Two must-go-to events are approaching; the Council for Tall Buildings conference in Dubai on PolyCentric cities and WAN's Reclaiming the Streets Symposium in London. Both events seek to exploit the opportunities being created by new technology and to share knowledge and visions for safer, cleaner, more efficient cities. But are these visions compatible? We ask Antony Wood, CEO of the Council for Tall Buildings whether the future is in the sky or in the street..?
Today's guest is Tom Kundig, founding partner at Seattle based Olson Kundig. His firm has recently won the WAN AWARDS Tall building award with a project in South Korea. In this episode, we chart the firm's string of successes from 2010 when they won the House of the Year Award with a unique concrete house on a hillside.
In our latest Shop Talk podcast WAN's Editor in Chief Michael Hammond talks to New York based architect Andre Kikoski at the New London Architecture Centre in central London
With the deadline for the Reinventing Cities submissions extended to 31st May, we catch up with Kirsten Dunlop, CEO of Climate KIC in the Netherlands and Stefano Boeri the Milan architect successfully pioneering vertical city forests in Italy.
In this unusual programme we explore Dubai through the eyes of Sanjay Manchanda CEO of Nakheel. This burgeoning city has enabled many architects to realise some of the world's most incredible projects. Projects that otherwise would have gathered dust in the filing cabinet most architecture firms have. "Unbuilt"
A new play by Award Winning Kandinsky -6 -31st March, New Diorama Theatre, London, NW1 3BF In today's episode we talk to James Yeatman, director of a new play, Trap Street, just opened in London.
You may think the computer humming away on your desk is state of art, as good as it gets, it may well be, but not for much longer. At this moment, around the world elite groups of scientists are competing to develop the first generation of quantum computers. This new technology is not a progression, not even a game changer, more a whole new game with rules so complex that most of us will struggle to comprehend.
In this episode, we meet Stephen Van Dyke of LMN architects, recently flown in from Seattle for the WAN AWARDS. Stephen talks to us about the pioneering spirit that still exists in his hometown. A spirit that has attracted commercial giants including Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon and Starbucks to this small, former frontier town jammed up in the far NorthWest corner of the USA?
This episode discusses an ambitious initiative by Climate group C40 involving an incredible 49 sites in 19 cities creating a series of unique opportunities for architects to engage with city leaders and make a difference.
Shoptalk's Michael Hammond interviews Gordon Wright, Senior Vice President, Director of Workplace Global, HOK about their recently published report, The New Financial Workplace. Gordon's team have researched and amassed a huge of amount data to try and navigate a way forward in the design of workplaces in this volatile sector.
Flemming Rafn Thomsen and Jeppe Ecklon from Tredje Natur
In this episode, we visit the North London studio of Gustafson Porter + Bowman and talk to directors Neil Porter and Mary Bowman about the role of Landscape Architecture in tomorrow's cities.
When we start preparing these programmes, we have a pretty good idea of the story or person we want to present. Well that's the plan anyway. We're talking to architects of course, so anything can and often does happen. So it was with today's guest that as the interview progressed, a whole new narrative started to evolve, one that could or should ring twin alarm bells of danger and opportunity to every practising architect.
London’s housing market is under relentless pressure and homes are becoming ever more unaffordable, pricing out some of the key demographics that the city so desperately needs to keep growing.
Broadcasting from Munich at BAU 2017, the world’s leading trade fair for architecture, materials and systems, Michael Hammond is talking facades with the two leading lights in the industry – Ben Tranel, Principal at Gensler in San Francisco (left) and Professor Thomas Auer, Head of Technology at Munich University (right).
Deyan Sudjic, Director of London's Design Museum on the ten year quest to find a new building that would showcase the UK’s design industry.
Today's guest is one of the best known figures on the London Architecture circuit. His journey through the world of architecture started at the age of seven. Now in his seventies, his joint passions for cycling and the built environment have been harnessed in a relentless campaign to reconfigure the streets of London and provide a vision for cleaning up transport in our cities. Incredibly, Peter Murray has never practised architecture. In our exclusive interview, Peter explains how he manages to influence design through communicatio
We spoke to Russell Acton, Principal at Vancouver-based Acton Ostry Architects who were the brains behind the building, in close collaboration with structural engineer Fast + Epp, tall wood advisor Architekten Hermann Kaufmann of Austria, and Structurlam in Penticton BC.
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