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URBAN LECTURE SERIES NO 05 – GENDER + SEXUALITY IN THE URBAN REALM

Our latest Urban lecture series this month was focused around Gender and sexuality in the Urban realm, with expert guest speakers Ruth Irvine, Amy Scott - Pillow , Dr Phevos Kallitsis and Zoe Berman. Each speaker reflected their own experiences, research and practice within the spaces and places of the built environment. The evening revealed a deep and passionate exploration of the speakers positive and some times challenging experiences to open the important and inclusive conversation and debate about how gender and sexuality must have…

Studio – B.a.d – Design Review

During lockdown we have been adapting like all small design studios and we have found, huge positive benefits in these times. One such benefit is the collective coming together with our collaborators and critical friends. This month we held our first virtual design review with, Gemma Barton, Roger Tyrrell, Andrew Malbon and Stuart Bertie. It was a quite remarkable hour, discussing, sketching, explaining and listening to the thoughts of our critical friends on our new Church entrance cafe extension, which is due for submission for…

GUEST BLOG BY ANDREW MALBON – FIVE ARCHITECTS

We are delighted to welcome our first guest blog, someone who has become an enormous, supporter, critical friend and I might even suggest a patron of Studio B.a.d. Andrew is a hugely talented architect and photographer documenting Southsea in all its glory! Challenging times for us all & opportunities for extended photography trips have been very limited, so naturally this has led me to look a little closer to home. I'm lucky enough to work in a studio within a…

OGLE ROAD – SOUTHAMPTON FEASIBILITY STUDY

M I X E D U S E D E V E L O P M E N T Studio – B.a.d where appointed by GO SOUTHAMPTON in Dec 2019 to undertake a strategic over view of No 2 Ogle road, the brief being to look at a whole host of mixed uses, from co working, café, tourist Information , cultural and arts venue, retail and a space for the GO Southampton team. The design strategy has been to review and respond to …

URBAN LECTURE NO 3 – ‘GROWING CREATIVE COMMUNITIES’

So on Tuesday 07 April we along with GO Southampton delivered our third in the series of Urban Lecture. Now that life has changed somewhat we did not want the barrier of been confined to our homes to limit our ability to continue the debate around Urban City living and the future of public realm in Southampton. On Tuesday evening with the expert help of Gemma at GO Southampton we switched to Zoom and and 35 people join us. We had three key lecturers this…

URBAN LECTURE NO 2 – CITY AS URBAN ROOM

On Tuesday 03 March we delivered our 2nd Urban Lecture in collaboration with GO Southampton - 'City as Urban Room' at the Barclays Eagle LAB with the expert input of Rupert Cook Director of Architecture PLB and Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio. Rupert delivered a deeply rich insight into his family ties to Southampton and an insight into the design process for the recent Sports building for Solent University, which draws on the rich Urban grain of previous City layouts. Piers gave a wonderfully inspiring…