Communicating architecture
Carolyn Larkin, Founder of Caro Communications, talks about the newly launched Davidson Prize with its focus on communicating design - it seems the options are limitless but which are best....?
Think pieces
20.11.20
Our journal tells you about things that Colander is doing but it also includes think pieces, conversations and interesting information gleaned from the wider industry.
Creating successful places in a post-pandemic world
John Lewis, Executive Director for Thamesmead at Peabody, looks forward to industry involvement in the Thamesmead Waterfront competition, and considers what makes successful places….
Think pieces
13.11.20
Architects and recessions
Long term Colander Associate, Tom Taylor, shares his sage advice to help architects survive the latest - and future - recessions....
Think pieces
21.10.20
The gift of London's parks
Simon Pitkeathley, of Camden Town Unlimited, writes about the importance of urban parks and the complications of trying to create a new one - in London's busy metropolis....
Think pieces
9.09.20
Communicating design
We live in a world of sound bites and hyperbole, how can designers get their voices heard above the noise....
Think pieces
22.07.20
Can architects ever be influential enough to lead change?
It is one thing to say that the architectural profession should work differently to stop climate change, it is quite another to make the necessary change happen....
Think pieces
30.06.20
Architects Declare is one year old!
Architects Declare, the 11-point declaration that seeks to mitigate architects' contribution to the climate and biodiversity emergency, has captured imaginations across the world....
Think pieces
18.06.20
Leading through a crisis
Do crises throughout the ages follow specific patterns? If so, why, what are they, and what can we learn from them....
Think pieces
15.06.20
Rough sleeping: it takes a crisis to solve a crisis
Architects Aware! is a London based think tank of built environment professionals who aim to find long term design and policy-based solutions to UK homelessness....
Think pieces
12.06.20