Graduation December 2016

13 December 2016: graduation ceremony in the new sports centre building. Celebrating so much achievement by all these wonderful distinction level students.

Tall buildings studio with John Napier

8-12-16: Tall buildings studio with John Napier. Tutorials and an excellent lecture. Only one week to go to pin up... 

The Conversation: How Cities forced Skyscrapers to Evolve

6 Dec 2016: I finally got my second article published in The Conversation. (It was written in the summer, but we turned to other things, and decided to get it finally published in December.)
This is about how the standards of design of skyscrapers have advanced, much of it due to urban economic and regulatory pressures.

https://theconversation.com/rise-of-the-glass-giants-how-modern-cities-are-forcing-skyscrapers-to-evolve-56843

Student designs for Blackfriars, London 2015

Lecture on facades by Dik Jarman

2 December 2016: Dik Jarman offered to do a lecture on facades and we had a most entertaining couple of hours seeing some of his work in previous practice in Australia, Japan, China.