Merlin Fulcher

@merlinfulcher.bsky.social

Architectural journalist, editor, and broadcaster

Great to see the narrative around office-to-resi conversions turning around for the better. The most sustainable buildings are always the ones already standing 🙏🌿✨

C20 Society@c20society.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Is this an approach worthy of reappraisal, given its green potential?" On The Brief by @opencity-uk.bsky.social this week, the conversion of Croydon's 1970s space-race inspired Apollo and Lunar towers in the UK's largest office to residential development. 🎧 open-city.org.uk/podcast

📢 Our latest The Brief podcast features Peter George of Ealing Council with AJ's Fran Williams discussing office-to-resi conversions and the challenges of delivering zero carbon affordable homes. You can listen on our channel and at 2pm on Resonance 104.4FM 🎙️🎧 www.resonancefm.com

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📢 This March we are celebrating our 50th edition of Open City's Pocket printed tour series with a journey through the towering, highly speculative redevelopment of Nine Elms! Highlights include Kieran Timberlake's US Embassy and the newly restored Battersea Power Station...🏙️💸

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Winner of the 2025 Jane Drew Prize for Architecture, the ethos of ‘unusually discreet starchitect’ Anne Lacaton is both frugal and generous, writes Justinien Tribillon. Read Lacaton’s full Reputations:

Reputations: Anne Lacaton (1955–), co-founder of Lacaton & Vassal

The ethos of the unusually discreet starchitect Anne Lacaton is both frugal and generous, a shining light in the climate emergency, writes Justinien Tribillon

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📢 Introducing InterCities – Owen Hatherley's new podcast for Open City travelling through time and space to a series of buildings, spaces and historical moments across London, Britain, and the world. First ep: Greenwich with Ana Francisco Sutherland 🎧https://shows.acast.com/opencity

The writer Owen Hatherley with a background showing span housing in Greenwich