Down we go: a child laughs in a playground. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Down we go: a child laughs in a playground. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Sun 4 Apr 2021 04.30 EDT
Last modified on Sun 4 Apr 2021 04.41 EDT
‘I love slide,’ cries my son with greater emotion than he has ever mustered for me, the man who has fed and clothed him since birth, not to mention facilitated 90% of every slide interaction he’s ever had.
We’re at the playground. Not Big Playground, which is what we call the sprawling, Byzantine ludoplex in the larger park 15 minutes away, that has six slides, eight swings and little wooden forts. No, this is Little Playground, the smaller, more local one. It’s not my son’s favourite, but we like it because it’s less busy, which means he can use anything he wants – and I don’t have to talk to as many other parents.
AJ 40 under 40: NOOMA
16 December 2020 By Fran Williams, illustration by Simon Hayes
The Tottenham-based AJ 40 under 40 practice says it is founded on diversity and has a ‘co-creation methodology’. It is currently developing a construction block made from recycled waste
Formed by 36-year-old director Ramsey Yassa only last year, Tottenham-based NOOMA’s members are from ‘non-traditional backgrounds’, which, they say, make up ‘London’s cultural mosaic’.
The studio states that it is ‘founded on diversity’ and its ‘collaboration co-creation methodology is our way of making things happen’. The nine-strong collective of architects, community builders and ‘experience designers’ have backgrounds in a range of practices such as aLL Design, HOK, MVRDV, Kengo Kuma and Associates and Heatherwick Studio. Their educational backgrounds include the CASS (particularly Robert Mull’s Free Unit) and the Bartlett.