Mary Duggan — portrait

Mary Duggan

Tim talks to one of London’s most thoughtful practitioner’s Mary Duggan about her last project; a beautiful landscaped housing project amidst parkland in suburban London. Mary also explains the surprising new direction she’s chosen to take her beautifully crafted approach to architecture in. Podcast transcript …   Listen to more in the Superurbanism series

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Rolf Fehlbaum — portrait

Rolf Fehlbaum

Rolf Fehlbaum is Chairman Emeritus of Vitra; and the client behind the architectural flourishing of the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. Tim asks him about his studies in utopian socialism; how Nick Grimshaw took to be being bumped for Frank Gehry and much more. Podcast transcript …   Listen to more in the Superurbanism series

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Shiv Malik — portrait

Shiv Malik

Shiv Malik was formerly an investigative journalist with the Guardian. He’s also co-author with Ed Howker of the book Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth. He is now working with Joe Reeve on Forest City: a new town for 1 million inhabitants near Cambridge in the UK. Podcast transcript …   Listen to…

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Sam Jacobs — portrait

Sam Jacob

Sam Jacob, Dean of the Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna, has a great show on at the Hypha gallery in No. 1 Poultry, London. Tim spoke to him about the complex ways architecture and money relate and where ruins feature in this tangle of meaning. Podcast transcript …   Listen to more…

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Review of the Year — 2025

Review of the Year — 2025

In London a stellar cast joined Tim Abrahams and regular News Review contributor Vicky Richardson for some drinks and nibbles to reflect on the architectural highlights of 2025. Podcast transcript …   Listen to more in the Superurbanism series

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Peter Murray — portrait

Peter Murray

Peter Murray is a London institution himself, although he is also the founder of several. He spoke to Tim about his ongoing investigations into how City Architects are defined in successful cities around the world and how they could be reintroduced into the UK. He also shared some personal news. Links New London Architecture ———…

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Pete Collard — portrait

Pete Collard

Pete Collard is exhibitions curator at the RIBA; and the brains behind a new show held at RIBA North in Liverpool called Home Ground, the Architecture of Football. Tim spoke to him about an architectural typology that was developed in the home of football but increasingly found its apogee away in Europe.   Podcast transcript…

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David Adjaye — portrait

David Adjaye

With controversy lingering over his personal conduct, three major new museums designed by David Adjaye open this month. Tim Abrahams goes beyond the scandal to explore his commitment to Africa’s cultural and social transformation. Podcast transcript David Adjaye: The article that the FT wrote really, destabilized a lot of people’s confidence in me. And for…

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News Review — October 2025

The Superurbanism News Review is back again! Tim sits down with our good friend Vicky Richardson, former Architecture Curator at the Royal Academy to discuss the latest events in the architecture world and reaction to them. Award season is upon us in the United Kingdom and we talk through the early responses to Witherford Watson…

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Olafur Eliasson — portrait

Olafur Eliasson

In the early 21st century, Olafur Eliasson helped define a new era of public art with works that took on nature for scale. Tim Abrahams met him at the new Oxford North development and asked him what he makes of his metier as a public artist in a new era when who the public might be is less clear and…

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