The project has been designed to better connect ‘the Blue’ marketplace, introducing cut-through routes and way-finding signage, together with community
Sugarhouse Soundworks gears up for summer
A secret musical sanctuary lies in the big red barn-like building at the end of the Mad River Park in Waitsfield. Musicians come from far and wide just to have a chance to record and perform at SugarHouse Soundworks, a studio with a beautiful mountainous exterior, inspiring high-tech interior and production-savvy executors.
“We’re really busy here,” said Sugarhouse Soundworks co-founder Eric Sigsbey. “If you’ve never been here, you might now understand why we’ve become so successful over the past few years.” Advertisement
Sugarhouse Soundworks has worked with musicians such as Cabinet, Twiddle, The Wesli Band, Laura Love, The Grift, Soule Monde, Walk that Walk and Guy and Jeska Forsyth for starters.
You have to admire Judah Armani’s determination. The 50-year-old, Tehran-born, London-bred designer dedicates his expertise to long-term projects aimed at creating “safe and enabling environments” and promoting self-improvement within vulnerable communities.
After a decade of working in homelessness, and frustrated at the lack of impact his work was having, in 2015 he turned to another overlooked demographic: the staff and residents of English prisons. Starting out by researching and best practice-sharing with guards, probation officers, governors and residents, and after input from all participants, he presented music as a powerful basis for interventions. After a two-year process, Armani launched InHouse Records: the world’s first label recruiting its roster through workshops behind bars.
AJ 40 under 40: Assemble
16 December 2020 By Merlin Fulcher, illustration by Simon Hayes
The AJ 40 under 40 multidisciplinary collective has followed its Turner Prize-winning Granby Four Streets regeneration with a variety of community-focused schemes
Assemble is a 22-strong multidisciplinary collective of architectural creators, researchers, designers and artists. Featuring in the 40 under 40 are 16 of its members – aged 31 to 34 years old – Anthony Engi Meacock, Alice Edgerley, Amica Dall, Adam Wills, Fran Edgerley, Giles Smith, James Binning, Jane Hall, Joe Halligan, Karim Khelil, Louis Schulz, Mathew Leung, Maria Lisogorskaya, Paloma Strelitz, Holly Briggs and Lewis Jones.
Founded in 2009 shortly after several Assemble members graduated from the University of Cambridge, the studio has achieved a lot in just 11 years. This youthful collaborative team was awarded the 2015 Turner Prize for its work regenerating the Granby Four Streets area of Liverpool and co-cr