May 2012
25 posts
Details of Sunday's Urban Birds Walk announced
Citizen scientists, bird lovers and friends, Do hope you will be minded to brave the early start to join us Sunday morning for our 2012 Birds of Bankside Walk. Though we have now filled places for the monitoring project, please do pass this on to friends who might be interested just in joining the walk as it will be a good opportunity to see an often hidden side of the city up close. Our early...
Looking forward to hearing from Peter Holden MBE...
Peter has been passionate about birds and wildlife for as long as he can remember. He was a senior manager for the RSPB for over 40 years, where he devised the ever popular Big Garden Birdwatch which has grown into the largest wildlife survey in the world!
Peter’s activities are dedicated to taking the magic of wildlife to new audiences. For many years he advised BBCs Blue Peter and often...
The Urban Birds Walk, Sunday 20th May, Bankside
51% Studios, Peter Holden MBE and Architecture for Humanity London are delighted to invite you to the launch event of their Urban Birds Monitoring project.
51% studios’ Nestworks are assisted readymades for the Birds of Bankside in the guise of blocks, boughs and bushes. Using the urban fabric as its canvas, Nestworks is a site-specific project commissioned by the Architecture Foundation to...
51% studios, Peter Holden MBE and Architecture for...
Urban Birds: a call for Public Participation
51% studios’ Nestworks are assisted readymades for the Birds of Bankside in the guise of blocks, boughs and bushes. Using the urban fabric as its canvas, Nestworks is a site-specific project commissioned by the Architecture Foundation to provide nesting habitats for the birds we share our cities with – including Starlings and London’s House...
Come along to our Urban Animals talk tomorrow...
All will be revealed on Wednesday!
Read up on Urban Habitats and Ideas on a Postcard...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/beekeeping/9239427/Building-homes-for-Londons-wildlife.html
To see the Habi Sabi project come to our Ideas on a Postcard Please Exhibition
And to hear more about it from 51% Studios, join us at their talk, Wed at 1830.
Cathi du Toit and Peter Thomas will be speaking at...
Like what you see? Come along and learn about their Architecture Foundation Competition winning entry Habi Sabi, and become involved in their latest Citizen-Science project.
Book free ticket on Eventbrite
Want to work with Architecture for Humanity...
If you would like to find out more about collaborating with us, drop by Rivington Street from 10.30 to 12.30 tomorrow. Our trustee Katherine will be on hand to answer all of your questions.
Should you not be able to make it, please email your questions to events@afhuk.org and we’ll be in touch.
Want to work with Architecture for Humanity...
Whether you want to collaborate with Architecture for Humanity London as a client, partner, consultant or volunteer, we’ll talk you through what we do and how we deliver our projects. All your questions about community-engagement and humanitarian work, both in the UK and abroad, answered!
Just drop in anytime between 10.30 and 12.30 and find out how we can help you.
Update: New Format Announced! : Katherine's...
Join us tomorrow, Tuesday 8th May from 10.30 - 12.30 when our Trustee Katherine McNeil will be hosting a drop-in surgery to discuss collaborative opportunities with one and all.
Whether you want to collaborate with Architecture for Humanity London as a client, partner, consultant or volunteer, we’ll talk you through what we do and how we deliver our projects. All your questions about...
LOVE MONDAY - become a friend of Architecture for...
Today, we will be playing three-way ping-pong with the inimitable Cameo Musgrave and RARA.
But we’ll also be launching our Friends’ Scheme which entitles you to free entry to our events, our quarterly newsletter, and most importantly to being part of our humanitarian design community – where else would you get a chance to play three way ping pong?
Happy Bank Holiday weekend!
Come celebrate the bank holiday at Greenhouse Saturday with heaps for urban growing workshops and guerilla gardening. With Inkling, the Pothole Gardener, What if: projects, and JAILmake. We’ll be on Rivington Street from 12.00 onwards just drop by, and join in!
Design Like You Give a Damn [2], reviewed
Design Like You Give a Damn [2] has received brilliant reviews from the Independent and the Wall Street Jounal (Europe) today. Get your copy at Ideas on a Postcard Please!
Are you on your way to our Launch Party?
See you in 40 minutes! Drinks aplenty.
Launch Party -3h
Can you spot the Peter Barber Postcard?
Love Monday! Come out and play
Here’s for all those of you who have been asking what ping pang pong is
From the Telegraph: Building homes for London's... →
Ideas on a Postcard-featured project wins...
We are positively thrilled to announce that 51% Studios’ Habi-Sabi project has just WON the Architecture Foundation’s inmidtown Habitats competition.
Habi-Sabi is featured in Ideas on a Postcard Please, and 51% Studios will be are presenting the project at Urban Animals Wednesday, our closing event.
Habi-Sabi is a swift & bat box, beehive and planter with a tiny pool, log...
Guess who has the number one architecture book in...
Thank you all…
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0810997029
Be sure to come get your copy at the Ideas on Postcard Please opening party, this Thursday 1830 onwards.
Design Like You Give a Damn [2], contributor's...
Just so you know, it features works by:
./Studio3 University of Innsbruck 2012Architecten AHT Group AG Anderson Anderson Architecture Architecture for Humanity Area Designs ARUP Brick City Nestor de Buen Center for Court Innovation Center for Health Design City of Cape Town City of Malmö Planning Office Commonweal Conservancy Convic Designs Cook + Fox Architects Cornell University Food and Brand...
Can't wait until Thursday to look through Design...
Download the taster version profiling a couple of the projects and including loving quotes from Brad Pitt… [warning 10mb PDF]
Get Architecture for Humanity's Book - Design Like...
It has been 6 years since the release of Design Like You Give A Damn [1] and we are honored to announce the release of a follow-up companion artfully titled Design Like You Give A Damn [2]. Packed with more than 100 case studies, one-on-one interviews, an extensive ‘how to’ financing section and the history of Architecture for Humanity 2006-2011. Like the first, ALL PROCEEDS will go to...
