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MacEwen Award 2025 highly commended: Nyth, Bangor Manalo & White has converted a Bangor church into Nyth, a new home for Welsh language theatre company Frân Wen, which has allowed it to turbocharge its social mission

RIBAJ took note of Manalo & White’s ‘playful and dynamic’ approach to the converting a Bangor church into a youth theatre hub.

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Mapping change: celebrating the women in street names Women have often been overlooked in the creation of the built environment, but new projects are highlighting their achievements and amplifying their voices in modern surveying practices

Modus’ coverage of the push for gender equity in the built environment looked to Part W, Aoibhin McGinley of Manalo & White and Katy Marks of Citizens Design Bureau for their perspectives.
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"It makes me feel really comfortable" - BBC Newsround One of the leading schools for deaf children in the UK has a brand new classroom building designed to create a better learning environment for students.

The BBC Newsround team called in at Heathlands School for deaf children to gather students’ views on Manalo & White’s new building.

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Material Cultures' Summer Islam: ‘We start with a map of nearby materials and products’ Podcast Episode · AJ Climate Champions · 26/02/2025 · 53m

Material Cultures' Summer Islam appears on the @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Climate Champions podcast: ‘We start with a map of nearby materials and products.’

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‘Don’t say it with roses’. The school leading a green revolution in floristry Roses are red, violets are blue – but the duo behind The School of Sustainable Floristry want you to think green when it comes to flowers, on Valentine’s Day and beyond

'Don’t say it with roses’, The School of Sustainable Floristry co-founder Cissy Bullock tells Positive News.

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Design news: 100 years of the photo booth, Le Creuset on the go and Welsh modernism Meet the travel gear brand using plastic waste from the ocean and discover personal art from Collect 2025 craft fair

Wood artist Darren Appiagyei is exhibiting intricate carved pieces which address his mother’s chronic problems with fibroids’ – The Guardian notes in its design dispatch from Collect2025
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Things to do In London in February 2025 Discover the best things to do in London this February 2025, from art exhibitions to theatre and exclusive screenings. Plan your perfect month!

London is coming alive with things to see and do this February, including Two Temple Place's extraordinary class-focused exhibition Lives Less Ordinary:

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Two Temple Place - def worth a visit to see Lives Less Ordinary exhibition

£4.6m project to improve world heritage site facilities given go-ahead A £4.6 million improvement project at the Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal estate near Ripon, North Yorkshire, has been approved by county…

Fantastic news for Feilden Fowles, who have been working on this project for the past few years.

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Paper brand GF Smith's vibrant new identity gets people talking We chat to the creatives behind the project.

GF Smith is a much-loved British paper company and rebranding it was always going be tricky.

Creative Bloq covers @t-e-m-p-l-o.bsky.social's rebrand: "A big part of the process was simply listening – not just to the marketing team, but to the whole company"

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‘Galleries want comfortable social realism’: Why British art has a class problem The ‘objectification’ of working-class life by outsiders has led to a century of ‘misrepresentation’. It’s time for a radical re-framing

The ‘objectification’ of working-class life by outsiders has led to a century of ‘misrepresentation’. It’s time for a radical re-framing argues @helenbarrett.bsky.social

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How Templo’s colourful rebrand brings GF Smith into the future Marking its first major rebrand in eleven years, the paper specialist has gone for something much more maximalist, putting emerging creatives at the forefront.

The good GF Smith news continues!

Thank you @itsnicethat.com.web.brid.gy

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Love this so much. Paper with a smile. The new G.F Smith visual identity by Templo.

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It's here: the TEMPLO-led GF Smith rebrand.

Thank you to @designweek.co.uk for this wonderful feature.

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‘Secret Lowry’: the ex-gravedigger who painted northern life, from factory to fuggy pub He repaired his car with Sellotape and kept his trousers up with rope. But Eric Tucker had a hidden life – painting drinkers, smokers and factory-workers without saccharine or sentiment. Now a book ce...

Nice mention of Two Temple Place's exhibition Lives Less Ordinary in the Guardian:

'This Saturday, two works will go on show in a new exhibition, Lives Less Ordinary: Working Class Britain Re-seen, at Two Temple Place in London.'

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week More than 5,000 workers to benefit from reduced hours with no loss of pay

Proud to be part of the 200!

@4dayweek.bsky.social

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Dian Small: embracing her new role as mentor and disruptor Dian Small speaks to Mary Richardson about her new role at the London School of Architecture and its potential to drive change for underrepresented practitioners

Dian Small is truly a disruptor.

Read about her plan with the London School of Architecture to remake the built environment.

www.bdonline.co.uk/briefing/dia...

London School of Architecture launches new programme to support under-represented practices Fully funded one-year pilot programme will provide mentorship, business development, and practical learning opportunities

“Our aim is to cultivate an ecosystem where under-represented practices can flourish”

Dian Small speaks with Ben Flatman about launching Good Growth in Practice.

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Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves | George Monbiot Across the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist? Fight for democracy with all we’ve got, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Across the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist?

Words of wisdom for today from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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‘We need a new system’: Architects invited to Good Growth in Practice scheme The Good Growth in Practice programme, announced today (18 December), is calling for eight to 10 ind...

Great coverage by @ginospoc.bsky.social from @news.architectsjournal.co.uk of Good Growth in Practice, a transformative new programme for the built environment, spearheaded by Dian Small.

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Introducing the MacEwen Award 2025 shortlist An inspiring collection of 12 projects make up this year’s MacEwen Award shortlist, ranging from a floating events venue to a woodland retreat centred around a repurposed military parachute, but all e...

Manalo & White’s Heathlands and Nyth feature among an inspiring collection of 12 projects that make up this year’s MacEwen Award shortlist by RIBA.

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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: the best furniture and design objects for 2025 The Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 present the best new furniture and interior accessories, while global design director Hugo Macdonald and head of interiors Olly Mason reveal what makes a winner

Is it any surprise that Giles Tettey Nartey’s work is among the best furniture for 2025?

Thank you, Wallpaper*!

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Lives Less Ordinary. Working-Class Britain Re-seen<!-- --> – KoozArch<!-- --> Two Temple Place’s new exhibition unpacks a century of misunderstanding and misrepresentation.

“Challenging long-standing inequities and misrepresentation, this exhibition... will present compelling assertions of pride, tenderness, resilience, humour and hopefulness, and moments of play, joy and rest.”

Two Temple Place’s Lives Less Ordinary in KoozArch!
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So important. Attempts to solve the housing crisis won't work without strengthening tenants rights!

There are 265,000 homes in England that have been vacant for over 6 months.

That’s why Action on Empty Homes joined 19 MPs and other non-profit groups in signing a letter calling for major reform.

Read about the campaign here 👇
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We built our world with fire. Now heat is destroying our lives | John Vaillant We fell in love with the power and speed that fossil fuels brought us. But the price being paid in California, and around the world, has become too high

"These fires are only the beginning of a historic reckoning that starts with the question: are fossil fuels liberating us or holding us hostage? There is a clear answer to this... in the ledgers of petroleum and automobile companies." - @johnvaillant.bsky.social
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Hurray for the riff raff No, not the band - a new London exhibition joyfully brings working class lives into the home of a Viscount

Nancy Durrant’s The London Culture Edit is a brilliant source for what’s happening in the capital – and we’re delighted to read her breakdown of Two Temple Place’s upcoming exhibition about class, Lives Less Ordinary.

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If you’re on the lookout for some sustainably minded gift ideas, then Idlhane by Anderssen & Voll should be on your radar. Tis’ the season and all that.

📸 Anderssen & Voll

The big problems of the world happen by design. Pollution, war, poverty – all of it is enabled and made possible by governments, companies and powerful individuals. But the power to change this is in our hands.

📸 The Slow Factory

Bisila Noha | The Crit

Bisila Noha is the latest guest on Disegno Journal’s podcast, The Crit!

She discusses her career to date, learning from pottery communities around the world and honouring the contributions of women of colour to art and crafts.

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