My Kind of Town: Chris Williamson
AT Editor2024-04-18T08:42:26+00:00Chris Williamson, chairman, WestonWilliamson+Partners on Ilkeston, Derbyshire and how he hopes its rejuvenation can be kick-started.
Chris Williamson, chairman, WestonWilliamson+Partners on Ilkeston, Derbyshire and how he hopes its rejuvenation can be kick-started.
Architect and academic Greg Bailey on Ljubljana, Slovenia, a stage for life's rich theatre.
The academic, architect and urban designer Peter Buchanan died on August 23rd. Shortly before his death he dictated his thoughts on Cape Town for Architecture Today's series My kind of town. Â
Katy Marks, founder of Citizens Design Bureau, on Sarajevo, the 'Jerusalem of Europe' where culture is both a survival tool and the city's life force.
Zoë Barrett, Wayfinding Director at DNCO, on her emotional connection to Gatwick Airport and how it sparked her love of wayfinding.
Melissa Dowler, a director of Bell Phillips Architects, on Los Angeles, a city that does not make much sense but has an unmistakeable joie de vivre.
Tomáš Jurdák has a special relationship with Kreuzberg, Berlin. Its youthful population has created an eclectic mixture of communities that retain the old and embrace the new.
Barbara Weiss explains that visiting Bologna with James Stirling as travel companion was a crucial element in her understanding of urban stewardship.
Paloma Strelitz, creative director of Patch co-working network and founding member of Assemble, on the sense of connectedness in Cape Town's Bo-Kaap neighbourhood.
Kate Goodwin, professor at the University of Sydney and former Head of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, on Darwin, a city that provokes a vegemite reaction.
London School of Architecture founder and former CEO Will Hunter on Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is spending the year as one of Harvard University's Loeb Fellows.