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Occupy 22, Brisbane

August 30, 2022

Cany Ash and Robert Sakula are keynote speakers in September 2022 at Occupy 22 in Brisbane, Australia

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Anglia Square, Norwich: an alternative

July 12, 2022

SAVE Britain's Heritage has commissioned Ash Sakula to further develop their alternative masterplan for the much-contested Anglia Square site in Norwich.

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Turning a redundant bus depot into new homes

February 10, 2022

Ash Sakula were asked to explore development proposals for converting a bus garage in Newcastle-upon-Tyne into PRS housing.

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Lewisham Small Sites SPD Adopted

October 11, 2021

Ash Sakula and RCKA's Small Sites SPD was formally adopted last week by Lewisham's Mayor and Cabinet and will guide the future development of the London borough's small sites. Feedback so far has been exceptionally positive.

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The Phoenix Project Design Festival, Lewes

September 15, 2021

Ash Sakula are working with Human Nature on 600 home Phoenix Project in Lewes, East Sussex. In early September we took part in the Phoenix Project Design Festival, where the general public was invited to see the work in progress.

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Lewisham Small Sites SPD

January 6, 2021

Ash Sakula is collaborating with RCKa and the London Borough of Lewisham to develop a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) to aid the development of small sites across the Borough.

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Architecture Foundation 100 Day Studio: Animating the Brief

August 26, 2020

Ash Sakula share their ten years of experimental animation and recent work with the Museum of Slavery and Freedom.

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The Worst Journey in the World

June 5, 2020

Robert Sakula read an extract from Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World as a bedtime story for the Architecture Foundation's 100 Day Studio.

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You are what you breathe. Keeping buildings Covid-free.

May 14, 2020

Natural ventilation will become the new normal and buildings will need to adapt to its rules. Cany Ash looks forward to thinner floorplates and thicker jumpers.

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Ash Sakula is introducing co-creation and the circular economy for a residential site in Helsinki

May 13, 2020

A new project for 128 new homes in the upcoming district of Jätkäsaari in Helsinki will introduce community co-creation and principles of circular economy to the Finnish residential market.

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A new future for an old department store

April 22, 2020

Ash Sakula is helping to create a new future for a redundant department store in Peterborough.

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Regenerating Loughborough Junction

March 24, 2020

Lambeth Council has appointed Ash Sakula to explore regeneration options for three sites in central Loughborough Junction

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Building Better, Building Beautiful: Inside Housing Round Table

December 18, 2019

Earlier this year the Government's Building Better Building Beautiful Report was published. Prominently featured as a beautiful development was Ash Sakula's The Malings housing scheme in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Last month Robert Sakula attended an Inside Housing round table to discuss how developers and local authorities can build better and more beautiful housing.

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Drone footage of Ash Sakula's studio in Doughty Mews

October 28, 2019

Drone footage of Ash Sakula's studio in Doughty Mews, London, panning up and out to St Paul's and the City.

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Ash Sakula's Tibby's Triangle featured on BD Online

September 5, 2019

Martyn Evans featured us in his latest article on Building Design Magazine, a look at two housing developments in the East of England. He took a walk through the development, which consists of 34 unique homes, commenting "it's a triumph."

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Ash Sakula's Adaptable Neighbourhoods featured in Sally Stone's new book 'UnDoing Buildings'

August 27, 2019

Ash Sakula has been featured by Sally Stone in her new book, 'UnDoing Buildings - Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory.'

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Hackney Wick and Fish Island: 'Beyond The Red Line' Retrospective Masterplanning Session

August 6, 2019

Have the developments at Hackney Wick and Fish Island gone 'beyond the red line?' As part of the London Festival of Architecture, Cany joined a discussion with a panel of urbanists to find out.

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Cany speaks on natural building materials at 'Pioneering the Potential' in Lewes

July 12, 2019

Cany headed to Lewes to speak on the use of natural building materials at a symposium headed up by Fourth Door in association with Making Lewes.

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The Malings cited by Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission as an example of 'beautiful housing'

July 9, 2019

Our project for The Malings in Newcaste Upon Tyne was recently cited by the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission as an example of "beautiful" homes. Architects, developers, and councils are being called upon to "aim for beauty" - looks like The Malings hit the spot.

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London Festival of Architecture - Don't forget the locals

May 23, 2019

Delighted to see Cany Ash in the Evening Standard talking about the importance of involving local communities in planning

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New masterplan for Malacky, Slovakia

April 9, 2019

Ash Sakula are working on their second project in Slovakia, a town extension of around 2,000 new homes for the town of Malacky on a beautiful rural site.

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Royal Docks Design Charrette

March 11, 2019

Ash Sakula brought a team of four to a charrette at the Excel Convention Centre in London's East End aimed at re-making connections between Excel and its neighbour, the neighbourhood of Custom House.

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Better Design for Better Places: A Community Vision

February 28, 2019

On the eve of the Government’s Better Design for Better Places Conference in Birmingham, Robert Sakula took part in a Community Vision workshop bringing together local residents to explore how to design the Liveable Neighbourhood, the Liveable Street, and the Liveable Home.

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Ash Sakula Round Table - Data Driven Cities meets Green Culture

February 28, 2019

Experts in both fields meet to see how we might use green cities to make smart cities smarter - and more personal.

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Ash Sakula Round Table - Build to Rent meets Placemaking

February 14, 2019

Experts in the build to rent field meet with place-makers to discuss how the two may or may not mix.

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Robert Sakula at POLIMI

February 1, 2019

During January 2019 Robert Sakula was one of five visiting professors taking part in MIAW 2019, a two week studio at the Politecnico di Milano. Working intensively with twenty six international students, Robert’s group investigated an alternative future for a peripheral suburb in the north east of Milan called Via Adriano. We aimed to turn it from a typical low-density, car-dominated suburb into a convivial neighbourhood with buildings set within an intensively cultivated productive landscape.

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Ash Sakula Round Table - Modular vs Placemaking

January 31, 2019

Modular housing meets place-making - Ash Sakula gathers the troops to rub these two issues up against each other in productive conversation.

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Curtins and Ash Sakula Architects appointed on Homes England Framework

January 23, 2019

Ash Sakula are delighted to have been named as part of the Curtins team as one of twenty housing specialists selected by Homes England for their new Multidisciplinary Framework providing Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Masterplanning and Urban Design services.

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#AshSakAdventures - Ash Sakula in Paris

November 16, 2018

110 sketches to see Paris from the eyes of Ash Sakula.

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Ash Sakula hosts Vectorworks user group meeting

October 4, 2018

Architects have a host of digital tools available to design and deliver buildings and landscapes. Each platform has its strengths and it is tempting to use each one for their special charms in a workflow.

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Pedro Street demolition starts

September 11, 2018

Our Pedro Street housing for the London Borough of Hackney is underway with the demolition of the existing boiler house on the site.

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Quiet Ways and Mad Lanes - learning from Melbourne

June 25, 2018

Ash Sakula invites Rob Moore and Tarsha Finney to discuss how London can learn from the swift transformation of Melbourne.

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Liveable City Event

June 19, 2018

The Liveable City event was hosted by The Danish Embassy entitled: More People, Less Space: How to plan for densification in our big cities

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Opinion: The Glasgow School of Art Should Not Be Restored

June 18, 2018

The Glasgow School of Art building made me realise I must study architecture there and nowhere else.

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Opinion: Should the Glasgow School of Art be Rebuilt?

June 18, 2018

Following the second tragic fire, Robert Sakula isn't sure what the School's future should be.

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Absorbing Cities: creative hosting in turbulent times

June 14, 2018

Ash Sakula Architects invites Dr Noha Nasser, Siraj Izhar and Dr Federico Wulff to talk on the subject of cities, migration and intercultural concepts.

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#SeeTheStreet - behind the scenes

June 6, 2018

We decided to share our new video skills last night at our London Festival of Architecture event #SeeTheStreet in and around our studio. So Ash Sakula guests explored the narrow back streets and wide-open lanes of Bloomsbury with a flurry of individual storytellers armed with their phones and a green screen.

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#SeeTheStreet - a 2 Minute Walk

June 4, 2018

Ash Sakula Architects invite guests to explore the identity of a London street through making a two minute film.

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#SeeTheStreet - an invitation

June 4, 2018

Ash Sakula Architects invites you to explore the identity of a London street through making a two minute film about what happens within your personal cone of vision as you walk the block. What draws your eye up a building? Do you weave the changing tapestry of buildings and pavements into your thoughts as you walk?

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Hackney Wickside masterplan receives planning permission

May 23, 2018

Our NLA Award winning scheme for Hackney Wickside received planning permission yesterday evening.

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Modernise or Die: New Macho Modernism and Modular Homes

May 16, 2018

Get excited! Read the lastest Ash Sakula journal entry about the British Construction Industry’s answer to the macho modernism of Elon Musk’s cool planes trains and automobiles.

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Pedro Street Shortlisted for the 2018 Housing Design Awards

April 30, 2018

Ash Sakula Architects are thrilled to announce that Pedro Street has been shortlisted for the Housing Design Awards!

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Cook’s Camden: The Making of Modern Housing

April 24, 2018

There are only 3 days left to see the exhibhition at Holborn Library!

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Carlos joins Ash Sakula and completes Hackney Wick mural

April 23, 2018

Our new team member has been drawing on the walls at Cornerstone, a new restaurant in Hackney Wick. Completed photos coming soon!

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Future Homes for London Conference

April 18, 2018

Ash Sakula thinking about Future Homes for London.

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We're now part of the ADUP Framework

April 17, 2018

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a place on the ADUP framework

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Ash Sakula back from MIPIM

March 19, 2018

Ash Sakula was out in force at MIPIM this year, with four of us making the journey.

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Ash Sakula at the Centre for Alternative Technology

March 2, 2018

Robert Sakula is looking forward to lecturing for the second year running at the Centre for Alternative Technology at Machynlleth.

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Cany Ash gives lecture at Westminster University

February 24, 2018

Cany Ash spoke about Ash Sakula's recent work to staff and students of the Department of Architecture, Westminster University, on Wednesday 28 February 2018.

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Pedro Street housing wins planning

February 8, 2018

At last night's planning committee meeting in Hackney Town Hall, Ash Sakula's Pedro Street housing project was granted planning permission by unanimous vote.

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London Festival of Architecture: On The Street

July 6, 2017

Our sleepy backstreet of Doughty Mews was shaken awake when we were visited by 70 chattering children from the nearby St George the Martyr Primary School as part of the London Festival of Architecture.

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#AshSakAdventures - Road trip USA 2018

February 23, 2017

Robert has just returned from a road trip around south-western USA.

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The AJ Interviews Cany Ash

June 15, 2016

Following the judging of the AR Housing Awards, Architecture Review spoke to Cany Ash about the practice's approach to housing projects and giving residents a sense of agency.

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