We love the process of design, rigorously exploring and testing ideas and new thinking. From the big issues to the small details, and rapidly evolving typologies, to new construction methods, we engage in an ongoing industry dialogue of research, innovation and best practice.
Planning granted for potential home for The London Centre
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Director, Natalia Uribe, and Principal Sho Itoh share their experiences of working internationally and the art of storytelling with UCL students
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Our next Sketch Club explores the theme of the urban environment - specifically around our studio's home in Shoreditch
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Earle Arney asked by Property Week to predict the key issues for investors and developers in 2023
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Our Graphic Designer and in-house photographer Derek Hayn, takes a tour of 100 Bishopsgate
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Karl Fender, Founder of our sister studios, Fender Katsalidis gives talk on 'Building Tall - The Evolution of a New Normal'
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Sketch Club: Drawing Green Spaces from Memory: a studio-wide drawing exercise challenging the team to draw their favourite local green spaces from memory
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AFK launch ‘Wellbeing Week’ focusing on all aspects of mental health and mindfulness to mark World Mental Health Day 2022,
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80 Charlotte Street wins BCO Award - Best Commercial Workplace
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AFK's annual garden party - recreating the spirit of our garden inside our studio!
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Public consultation is underway for 55 Bishopsgate, a new tall building in the City of London designed by AFK for Schroders Capital, working with Stanhope
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100 Bishopsgate wins a RIBA London Award 2022 - described by the judges as “both dynamic and sensitive, simple, and complex: a tour de force”
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AFK gains planning permission for bronze façade retrofit to 1980s post-modernist office, bringing it in line with post-pandemic tenant demands
Project News
Earle Arney on why 'densification' can be good for society - Bluebeam Blog
Thought piece
100 Bishopsgate shortlisted for RIBA London award
Studio News
A 50/50 JV between Lendlease and CPP Investments will see the development of the International Quarter London (IQL), and the £215m Turing Building, designed by AFK
Project News
Studio visit to Noguchi at the Barbican - a true artistic polymath
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AFK wins 'Best Written Content' at the Archiboo Web Awards 2021
Studio News
The world has changed so we thought we should too! The story behind our rebrand...
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AFK's brand launch party goes off with a bang
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'Handmade' - the crafting of 80 Charlotte Street
Publications
Debunking Density and Disease - cities are our best defence against future pandemics
@London Society Journal
Behind the scenes on engineering 22 Hanover Square's exoskeleton
@Construction Manager Magazine
AFK wins C40 competition to transform Tuscolana railway site into low-carbon 15-minute city
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AFK's 'Busy Space' concept transforms Topshop's Oxford Street store into a hub for the 21st Century
@PropertyWeek
Learning from lockdown: Don’t blame density for problems caused by poverty
Thought Piece
A dialogue between art and architecture – the story of the public art at Brookfield Place Calgary
Thought Piece
Our Sister Studio @fenderkatsalidis' Australia 108 - the Southern Hemisphere's tallest residential tower.
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Hand crafted Petersen Tegl bricks add texture and visual interest to the façade of 80 Charlotte Street
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The crafted industrial aesthetic of the ground floor workspace at 89 Whitfield Street
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Sketch Club: Diagrams
Thought Piece
'The Future of Flex' research with Worktech Academy on the future of flex offices post-pandemic
Research
Skilled optimisation is an essential architectural service - we should celebrate it more
Thought Piece
This incredible model of 80 Charlotte Street by TPA modelmakers is fully detailed, including representations of the handmade materials used in the building
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Sample session - reviewing control samples with the team for the Turing Building at Stratford for Lendlease
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Cafes and restaurants line the active ground plane of Park & Sayer for our client Lendlease - the latest phase to launch at their central London project Elephant Park
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Another look inside Deloitte Montreal - an agile workplace where space encourages people to meet, whether through planning or serendipity
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Piling Started onsite for tall residential building which is part of the fifth phase of Lendease's emerging Elephant Park masterplan
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100 Bishopsgate: ‘The first of its kind… and maybe the last’, writes the Architects Journal
Press
From the archives - an early cross section sketch showing the inside of the Turing Building
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AFK shortlisted for C40 Cities Rome Tuscolana competition!
@EarleArney
Inside Mayfair Park Residences - luxury apartments for Clivedale London
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The central lounge in the resident’s club at White City Living for St James is now open! It features a sunken fire-pit and connects to courtyard gardens.
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The pandemic will drive social, urban and economic change, and profound as well as temporary, changes to our cities and buildings - is the answer a return to rural or suburban sensibilities?
Thought Piece
Earle Arney, our founder and CEO talks to New London Architecture's Peter Murray about the benefits of density and fears of a flight from the city.
Opinion
Shared space needs a shake-up post Covid-19, but it is far from dead
Thought Piece
It's time we breathe new life into the 'old' office, writes Earle Arney for Building
Thought Piece
Skilled hands work the bronze panels in the lobby of 100 Bishopsgate