Our founder, Diane Cunningham, discusses issues affecting high streets, markets, town centres and small businesses. We love exploring new places and revisiting old ones to see the changes.
Here, you can find interviews with clients and colleagues, events and research, alongside observations from what we have learnt on projects and when out and about.
You may have read the recent article by Anna Minton in the Guardian, which aligns gentrification with placemaking and, in turn, with the decline of families in cities, particularly London. if...
While out and about in London recently, our director Diane spotted some images on hoardings around a building that was being refurbished, which raised some questions about fresh ideas for...
Discovering the housing landscapes around east London on a Museum of the Home tour. Eclectic building styles around Bethnal Green and Hoxton We started at Paradise Gardens which historically would have been...
Continuing her travels around Brazil, our director Diane charts her observations on the architecture and urban places from Rio to São Paulo and lessons that can be learned. Rio de Janeiro An...
Our director Diane likes to start the year outside the UK and this year she visited Brazil, which turned into something of an architecture/built environment tour. Here, she shares her...
How Huyton Village went from having the worst Christmas tree to a huge Christmas light switch on. Huyton Village went from being mocked for the ‘worst Christmas tree of the year’...