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Arup calls for ‘queering’ of public space
Arup and the University of Westminster have co-authored a report calling for the ‘queering’ of public space to promote the inclusion of LGBTQ+ people
The document, published this morning (17 May), calls for a fresh approach to planning and design to ensure cities are both safer for LGBTQ+ people and better mark and celebrate queer heritage in public places.
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The reports suggests that attention to the scale of mass of buildings, lighting features, colours and façades of buildings, as well as the addition of curvilinear aspects to buildings, are among design techniques which can help promote inclusion and, through passive surveillance, prevent hate crime.
Tarek Merlin launches architecture film series promoting design and accessibility
Tarek Merlin launches architecture film series promoting design and accessibility
Architect Tarek Merlin is launching a new film series, Behind Closed Doors, focusing on buildings and interiors in London that are lesser known or not open to everyone, from offices to bars and industrial spaces, celebrating diversity, architecture for all, design and accessibility
Merlin at the Bottle Factory.
Image: Sam Wordsworth, DGTL Concepts
Tarek Merlin, architect and co-founder of Peckham-based studio Feix&Merlin, feels ‘there is a problem with how architecture and design is being represented in the media right now.’ While our attitudes to content consumption are changing, there is still little offering for the discerning viewer who wants something interesting and informative, but at the same time snappy and open, addressing design and accessibility. ‘If you have ever watched how kids view media
Feix&Merlin gets go-ahead to upcycle DSDHA Broadgate containers
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Feix&Merlin Architects has won approval for a two-storey pavilion at Regent’s Place off London’s Euston Road re-using shipping containers from a temporary installation by DSDHA at Broadgate
The south London practice said its scheme near Regent’s Park would accommodate a variety of uses, including cafés and bars, workspace and community functions.
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As well as the containers, items such as windows, doors and cladding have been salvaged from the pop-up DSDHA scheme which made its appearance in the City in 2018 and is now in storage.
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Source: Darc Studio
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Feix & Merlin has won planning for its proposals to turn a grade II-listed former town hall and library in south London into a community hub.
Construction at Walworth Town Hall is expected to start in the second half of next year after the design was given the green light by Southwark planners last week.
The bulding was hit by a blaze seven years ago and has been vacant ever since.
But plans to give the site on Walworth Road and the neighbouring Newington Library a new lease of life were submitted over the summer by Marylebone developer General Projects, which is behind Buckley Gray Yeoman’s makeover of James Stirling’s grade II -listed No1 Poultry.