Project35 News

Season's Greetings!

Wed, 17 December 2008 12:39:00 GMT

Project 35 would like to wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a prosperous New Year!

This year's Christmas card is shown on the right, showing our scheme design in Thamesmead which is now nearing completion. This same project was the subject of our 2005 card- though then in sketch form. The snowflakes remain the same...

Flood-proof houses for the future: A compendium of design

Fri, 12 December 2008 10:55:06 GMT

Project 35's entry to the Norwich Union / RIBA Flood Design competition has been published in 'Flood-proof houses for the future: A compendium of design', a document launched at the Thames Gateway Forum.

Visioning a Spa

Fri, 5 December 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Project 35 are developing proposals for a new spa complex in south-east England in collaboration with Nick Coombe. The work is currently at the visioning stage, and has led to the study model on the right. We'll post more soon.

EuRoMa London Mapping Report

Mon, 24 November 2008 13:40:26 GMT

A document containing our collaborative research to date on the European Roma Mapping project has gone online at the collective homepage. Please click on the link (right) to go to the download page.

New images of Grove Street online

Tue, 28 October 2008 17:20:24 GMT

Our scheme design in Enfield, Grove Street, completed in mid-2008. New images of the completed project have now been uploaded to the project page here.

News from Bucharest

Sun, 26 October 2008 11:23:45 GMT

Project 35 director Sue Konu has returned from her trip to Romania to attend the 'Roma(nia: Severe and Extreme Poverty' event held as part of the ongoing European Roma Mapping Project. More details can be found on the project page- see link on the right!

Another journey to Thamesmead

Fri, 24 October 2008 12:09:38 BST

Our scheme designs in Thamesmead are edging ever nearer to completion, so we took another journey over there to see progress.

ARK HOUSE AT THAMES GATEWAY FORUM

Fri, 17 October 2008 09:30:00 BST

Project 35's 'Ark House' design is to be showcased at the 2008 Thames Gateway Forum event at London's ExCel centre, 26-27th November. The project, selected as a "strong contender" in the recent RIBA/Norwich Union Flood Risk Design competition, has today been added to our research projects section of the website.

'The Rule of Regulations' at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam

Wed, 15 October 2008 13:12:39 BST

Having finished its run at the Architecture Foundation's Closet Gallery, the 'Rule of Regulations' is travelling to the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The exhibition was co-produced by Project 35 team member David Knight and Finn Williams.

It will be on display there from the 25th November to the 19th December.

Project 35 go to Bucharest: EuRoMa

Tue, 7 October 2008 12:58:52 BST

Project 35 Director Sue Konu will be travelling to Bucharest in mid October for a series of workshops and seminars, "ROMA(nia). Between Severe and Extreme Poverty", part of the European Roma Mapping project. Sue will discuss the findings of our mapping and research phase conducted to investigate the nature of Roma dwellings in London.

The image on the right is of a map produced to represent traveller sites and their capacities across the Greater London area.

The event is from 19th-26th October and we will keep you posted with its findings.

Lucy Orta at London College of Fashion

Wed, 1 October 2008 09:04:42 BST

Lucy Orta, collaborator with Project 35 on the European Roma Mapping project and Professor of Art, Fashion and the Environment at the London College of Fashion, is currently showing some recent work in the LCF's Fashion Gallery. The free event, entitled 'Survival', shows new work never before seen in the UK including some pieces from Lucy's Antarctica project.

EuRoMa at the Venice Biennale

Sat, 20 September 2008 13:10:49 BST

The Roma 'preview' Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale is open to visitors and features work by EuRoMa collaborator Lucy Orta, supported by CNCR Bucharest, ATU Bucharest, LAN Napoli and TAMA Athens. The show features specially produced tents dressed in Roma fabrics.

Important: Change of Address

Mon, 1 September 2008 15:47:09 BST

Project 35 have now formally moved into our new Herne Hill studio.

The address follows below, so please update your details accordingly and note our new contact telephone number. E-mail addresses remain unchanged.

Project 35 Architects, 77-79 Shakespeare Road, London SE24 0PT

Telephone +44 (0) 20 7733 5550

The Rule of Regulations

Mon, 25 August 2008 17:38:22 BST

Working with Finn Williams , Project 35 team member David Knight has developed an exhibition for the Closet Gallery, a temporary venue commissioned by the Architecture Foundation in a railway arch beside the Union Gallery, London SE1.

'The Rule of Regulations' investigates current UK housing legislation in a serious but playful way, applying five current policy documents, including the 'Code for Sustainable Homes' and 'Housing Quality Indicators', to Le Corbusier's famous Maison Citrohan.

The exhibition documents in detail the various iterations applied to Le Corbusier's 1927 ideal home in order for it to achieve 21st Century notions of 'quality' - along the way raising the question of whether we may well be creating a whole new 'international style' through the rule of regulations.

The Closet Gallery, Union Gallery, 57 Ewer Street, London SE1 0NR; Monday - Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 12-5pm

Journey to Thamesmead

Mon, 21 July 2008 11:02:21 BST

Our two scheme designs in Thamesmead are nearing completion, so at the end of last week we took a journey over there with a camera to see how they're progressing. Though both are still partially wrapped in scaffolding, we managed to get some photographs that give a flavour of the finished schemes. Here is a small selection- more soon!

EuRoMa at Project 35 Studio

Wed, 25 June 2008 15:17:19 BST

Following its one night in Conway Hall as part of Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, the 'Euroma' exhibition was shown again at our new offices this week.

The event also served as a kind of housewarming for our new studio in Herne Hill. Thanks to all those who came along to see the show and finish our Prosecco stash.

The exhibition will have its third and final showing at the GRTHM event in Leeds on Saturday 28th, so it's now off travelling again.

EuRoMa at Conway Hall W1

Thu, 5 June 2008 14:32:20 BST

Last night we opened an exhibition for Roma Support Group as part of their celebratory concert at Conway Hall. The exhibition, for one night only in London, tells the story of contemporary Roma experience in relation to the work of the RSG, and takes the form of a series of themed travel boxes and supports.

The night was a delight, with Roma and traveller bands playing together in the main hall at Conway and on the surrounding pavements.

Our work was developed with Lucy Orta at the London College of Fashion, with graphic designers Europa, in close collaboration with the RSG, and is part of Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month.

It will next be on display at the end of the month in Leeds.

Urban Public Space prize for Froetscher Lichtenwagner

Mon, 5 May 2008 15:42:43 BST

At the end of April, our Austrian collaborators Froetscher Lichtenwagner won a special mention in the 2008 European Prize for Urban Public Space. The prize was for their centrum.odorf project in Innsbruck. Congratulations, guys!

Collage Urbanism

Wed, 30 April 2008 18:00:00 BST

We're masterplanning a large site outside London.

In order to get the creative juices flowing on this big, blank site, we started with a pile of scaled plans and aerial photographs. More to be posted, meanwhile here is a photo of the work in progress.

Somewhere in here, there's some butterfly-roofed Islignton townhouses, the circulation routes from Corbusier's Venice Hospital, a Borromini church and even our local pub.

I'm pretty sure this isn't what Colin Rowe meant by 'collage city', but it's fun all the same.

Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month at Conway Hall

Wed, 23 April 2008 17:30:00 BST

As part of our work for European Roma Mapping, we're currently working with the Roma Support Group towards a celebratory concert and exhibition at Conway Hall in central London.

More soon.

Thamesmead: 40 years on

Wed, 16 April 2008 15:00:00 BST

The Guardian website currently features a video by Michael Collins entitled 'Thamesmead: 40 years on.' Collins speaks to a variety of residents, young and old, and near the end touches upon new developments in the area, chiefly Project 35's two scheme designs in Poplar Place.

'Phoenix Point' scheme topping out ceremony

Mon, 31 March 2008 14:12:46 BST

Our scheme design in Thamesmead, now named 'Phoenix Point' as it nears completion, was 'topped out' on Friday 28th March.

Ian Beckett, Director of Development at client Gallions Housing Association, said that the scheme will "be a new focal point for Thamesmead, not only due to its locating, but also its eye-catching design. We are aiming to create homes and communities that people are proud of. This new development will go a long way to help achieve that."

The ceremony follows a prior ceremony for 'Ringside Court', our other Thamesmead scheme design, which happened at the end of 2007.

Completion for both schemes is now due for October 2008.

Tomorrow's Garden City at the Architecture Centre

Tue, 18 March 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Our prize-winning entry for the ‘Tomorrow’s Garden City’ competition will be displayed as of today at the Architecture Centre, Bristol, alongside other shortlisted entries. The temporary exhibition is shown alongside ‘Suburban Futures: Designing sustainable neighbourhoods’ as part of the ‘Spring Green’ season, and runs until 20th April.

Planning achieved for Limehouse scheme

Thu, 13 March 2008 17:00:00 GMT

We're delighted to announce that our scheme in Limehouse has just achieved full planning approval!

The scheme was developed for Rooff Ltd. on behalf of Bethnal Green & Victoria Park HA and Providence Row HA.

The project is now on site with a current completion date of July 2009.

European Roma Mapping

Wed, 20 February 2008 00:00:00 GMT

We are delighted to announce that Sue Konu and David Knight of P35 have been chosen to collaborate with artist Lucy Orta and the London College of Fashion on the ‘EuRoMa’ (European Roma Mapping) project. Within this Europe-wide programme we will be focusing on the issues and specifics of Roma experience in London.

The aim of the programme is to “mobilize and cross-fertilise knowledge and experience from different domains like urban arts, architecture, humanities, sociology and human rights.”

Further details of the project will be posted when we know more.