- “I’ve wanted to be an architect since I was four years old.”
- Make–ReMake
- From listed buildings to 21st-century schools [2/2]
- Inspired by “art built” – an interview with Marc Brousse
- Reducing embodied carbon isn’t all about materials
- Hospitality: The Non-Issues
- “Tall buildings mesmerise me.”
- Make models: metal etching
- “I’m the first one in my family pursuing architecture.”
- “What can you see behind this building?” – an interview with Chenglin(Able) Jin
- My next getaway
- Make models: 80 Charlotte Street
- “I want to build things that will explore new depths of the sea.”
- Winner of The Architecture Drawing Prize 2020 – an interview with Clement Laurencio
- Restoring Hornsey Town Hall’s clocks
- From listed buildings to 21st-century schools [1/2]
- Comparing embodied carbon in facade systems
- Designing in the wake of coronavirus
- University tech
- Musings on The Architecture Drawing Prize 2020
- Living employment
- Bridging the gap
- Stephen Wiltshire
- International Women’s Day 2020
- Inspiring Girls
- Post COVID-19 – What’s next for higher education design?
- Four ways residential design might change after COVID-19
- Make models: The Cube
- One Make
- Atlas – Tech City statement
- Architectural Drawing: States of Becoming
- Bringing the brand back to life
- Interview with Sarah O’Hara
- The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition reviewed
- Coal Drops Yard – creating a new retail destination
- Jack Sallabank interviews Ibrahim Ibrahim, Managing Director of Portland Design
- ‘Architecture in the frame’ – London Art Fair
- The future of retail and workplace
- Post-COVID
- A Hong Kong perspective on a post COVID-19 society
- Chadstone Link: Making new connections
- Design narratives and community bonds
- Education Q&A
- Behind the scenes at the 2019 World Architecture Festival
- Drawing on the culture that makes the buildings
- Future modelmakers 2020
- After coronavirus, how can we accelerate change in workplace design to improve connection and wellbeing?
- Ask the Makers
- Improving social ties in our cities
- Q&A with our student modelmakers: Theodore Polwarth
- Q&A with our student modelmakers: James Picot
- The Teaching and Learning Building model by James Picot
- The City is Yours
- Pablo Bronstein
- Campus and the City
- Hospitality: Business as usual, or is it?
- Encouraging spaces of conviviality
- The importance and passion of heritage in the built environment
- No show, so what next?
- The Madison model by Theodore Polwarth
- Choosing architectural modelmaking
- The Big Data Institute model by Finlay Whitfield
- Q&A with our student modelmakers: Finlay Whitfield
- Make Roundtable
- Exchange Issue No. 3 Education and Research – Foreword
- State of the market – Hong Kong
- World Heritage Day 2020
- Make models: Agora Budapest
- Knowledge Exchange and Social Connection
- Interview with Peter McGeorge
- Photo Essay
- Interview with Julian Robinson
- Interview with Siu-Man Fung
- The university of the future
- Drawing in Architecture
- Draw in order to see
- Interview with Hong Kong Design Institute’s Joseph Wong
- Our commitment to sustainable design
- Universities reshaping London
- Asta House – Local living in Fitzrovia
- Project delivery at 80 Charlotte Street
- Students speak
- The next generation of retail brands
- Interview with Dr Julie Wells
- Make models: Chadstone Link
- Langlands and Bell – Observing and Observed
- Telling Stories: The power of drawing to change our cities
- Interview with Stephen Talboys
- Wellbeing in the university landscape
- Wellbeing in the university landscape
- What role will hotels play in our society after COVID?
- Sketchbooks: draw like nobody’s watching
- Transparency and a sense of investment
- Honest, in-depth learning
- Interview with Argent’s Nick Searl
- Leaving a mark
- Interview with Chinachem’s Donald Choi
- The hand does not draw superfluous things
- Interview with Lendlease’s Natalie Slessor
- Make models: 20 Ropemaker Street, part 2
- Balance
- The value of the drawing
- Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin
- Make manifesto
- Prized hand-drawings return a building to an organically conceived whole
- Interview with Brookfield Properties’ Stuart Harman
- Drawing details – technical and poetic
- Draw to Make
- Interview with Frasers Property Australia’s Joanna Russell
- Music and the workplace
- Living with loneliness
- Betts Project
- Wellbeing and the workplace
- Interview with Lendlease’s Kevin Chapman
- Interview with Brookfield Properties’ Peter Clarke
- An update from Sydney
- Combatting loneliness in the built environment
- Make models: 20 Ropemaker Street, part 3
- Sydney born and razed
- Make Roundtable
- Make models: 20 Ropemaker Street, part 1
- Interview with Vicinity Centres’ Rachele Godridge
- The smart workplace
- Architecture and Creativity
- Retail innovation beyond the shop door: Lessons from the USA (part 3)
- Retail innovation beyond the shop door: Lessons from the USA (part 2)
- Retail innovation beyond the shop door: Lessons from the USA (part 1)
- Connecting people and places
- Interview with General Projects’ Jacob Loftus
- Drawing to an end?
- High-density living in Hong Kong
- Make’s past, present and future
- The Architecture Drawing Prize – Not just another competition
- Community connections
- My time with the BCO
- The call of the wild
- Long live the office
- The art of an art historian
- Mary, queen of hotels
- Make models: Portsoken Pavilion
- The Make Charter
- Make models: LSQ London
- Disappearing Here – On perspective and other kinds of space
- Why Brexit will see a glass half-full emptied
- Drawing and thinking
- Make models: Grosvenor Waterside
- The Hollow Man: poetry of drawing
- Above and beyond
- Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 1)
- Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 2)
- Plein air in the digital age
- A “Plan in Impossible Perspective”
- Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 3)
- The future of bespoke HQs
- World-class architecture
- Make models: The Luna
- Drawing architecture
- The future is bright but not the same
- Art Editor’s picks
- Employee ownership
- The tools of drawing
- Trecento re-enactment
- The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition review
- Lessons on future office design from Asia Pacific
- The human office
- How drawing made architecture
- Advocating sustainable facade design
- Make models: FC Barcelona’s Nou Palau Blaugrana
- Drawing as an architect’s tool
- Are you VReady?
- Cycle design for the workplace
- The Architecture Drawing Prize
- Make models: an urban rail station
- Reporting from Berlin
- City-making and Sadiq
- Hand-drawing, the digital (and the archive)
- Ken Shuttleworth on drawing
- The green tiger
- Stefan Davidovici – green Mars architect
- When drawing becomes architecture
- Make models: Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
- The role of the concept sketch
- Make calls for a cultural shift in industry’s approach to fire safety
- 2036: A floor space odyssey
- Harold on tour
- London refocused
- Hotels by Make
- Full court press
- Digital Danube
- Don’t take a pop at POPS
- The future of architecture – Matthew Bugg
- The future of architecture – Jet Chu
- The future of architecture – Robert Lunn
- The future of architecture – David Patterson
- The future of architecture – Rebecca Woffenden
- The future of architecture – Katy Ghahremani
- Safer streets for all
- The importance of post-occupancy evaluation for our future built environment
- Put a lid on it
- Designing for a liveable city
- The future of architecture – Bill Webb
- Bricks – not just for house builders
- Designing in the City of Westminster
- Rolled gold
- How to make a fine suit
- Responsible sourcing starts with design
- Is off-site manufacture the answer?
- Developing a design for the facade of 7-10 Hanover Square
- Curious Sir Christopher Wren
- Responsible resourcing should be an integral part of every project
- The socio-economic value of people-focused cities
We asked ten architects – each of whom joined Make in a different year since 2004 – to write about how they see architecture and the built environment changing over the next ten years. Here is Make partner Alejandro.
Ten years ago, I arrived in London from Venezuela – the country in which I grew up, studied and dreamt about becoming an architect. This is therefore a good time to look back and reflect both personally and collectively on all those years and what we have learned and achieved, but more importantly, on how we can make a positive impact on what we do next.
The contrast I experienced on my arrival in the UK and the juxtaposition of the two countries allowed me to develop a broader vision and a more pragmatic understanding. The fact that the Olympics were held in London made me think this was ‘the right place to be’ as an architect, as a developer and as a citizen. Everything was possible; London was not only ‘an Olympic city’ but also the model for a new type of architecture.
But sometimes too much is too much. We saw how the world economy collapsed. There was a deafening silence in the architectural discourse; fewer projects were getting built, while lots of people lost their jobs. We were in a situation similar to the place where I came from. This seemed to be a good moment to rethink creatively and act in a measured way, learning from architecture that good ideas always have limits.
I believe that these experiences have set the ground for an architecture which is more rational, collaborative and affordable. It is willing to explore new ways of solving problems and integrate new technologies with environmental issues to produce long-standing, more efficient and ultimately more beautiful buildings, like the ones we try to design at Make. So I am optimistic about what is to come – I expect that the next ten years will be even better and I hope to be part of it … so count me in!
I am optimistic about what is to come – I expect that the next ten years will be even better and I hope to be part of it … so count me in!