‘Encouraging and integrating aliyah is a strategic event for the State of Israel. Aliyah in the coming years will serve as an enormous growth engine for the Israeli economy and an engine of values — a renewal and refreshment of Zionism.’ — Bezalel Smotrich, Israel Finance Minister, February 2024 There is a difference between the … Continue reading Gaza Selfie: Representing the Chosen People
Category: Photo Essays
Gaza Funeral
‘Mankind’s . . . self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is the situation of politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic.’ — Walter Benjamin In 2014, in response to Israel’s attack on Gaza, which was the most deadly in decades, … Continue reading Gaza Funeral
Homelessness is a Political Environment: Vancouver Tent City
Vancouver’s Longest Running Tent City: A Year in Review Architects for Social Housing
100 Block of East Hastings Street Rally, Vancouver
Downtown Eastside Community Vision for the 100 Block of East Hastings Street History of the Balmoral and Regent hotels and their slum landlords, the Sahota family Architects for Social Housing
Memorial for Grenfell
Image after JAA Studio Private contractors and consultants on the Grenfell Tower refurbishment Mark Allen, Technical Director of Celotex, and member of the Building Regulations Advisory Committee Deborah French, UK Sales Manager, Arconic Ray Bailey, Managing Director, Harley Facades Bob Holt, Director and Executive Chairman of Lakehouse services Bob Greene, Technical Contract Manager, RGE Services … Continue reading Memorial for Grenfell
Labour Blimps
On Friday 13 July thousands of Londoners took to the streets to protest the arrival of US President Donald Trump on these shores. Trump wasn’t in London, but having tea with the Queen in Windsor Castle. Undeterred, between 100,000 and a quarter of a million people attended the protest – mostly students, middle-class women and … Continue reading Labour Blimps
Tower, Slab, Superblock: Social Housing Legacies and Futures
‘In 2004, architects Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal, and Frédéric Druot authored a manifesto on the value of renovation over demolition with a powerful opening statement: “Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform and reuse!” Their study, PLUS, came in response to an architectural competition to replace a 1960s high-rise apartment building on the … Continue reading Tower, Slab, Superblock: Social Housing Legacies and Futures
Kidbrooke Village: Our Vision for Your Future
A Non-Place in the Making ‘If a place can be defined as relational, historical and concerned with identity, then a space which cannot be defined as relational, or historical, or concerned with identity will be a non-place. Supermodernity produces non-places, meaning spaces which are not themselves anthropological places and which, unlike modernity, do not integrate … Continue reading Kidbrooke Village: Our Vision for Your Future
The Working Class Strikes Back
These photographs, documenting three years of protests, marches, demonstrations and occupations in London, were exhibited as part of Resist: A Festival of Ideas and Action, held at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 28-30 September, 2016. June 2015, protesters gate-crash the first open day of Lend Lease’s Elephant Park Experience Suite, which they scatter … Continue reading The Working Class Strikes Back
One Blackfriars: A Private World
«Динамичный, волнующий и вдохновляющий: пожалуй, на земле нет ни одного другого города, который мог бы настолько гармонично сочетать в себе все эти качества». “充满活力、令人愉悦而且激发灵感:没有任何城市能像伦敦这样带给你如此非凡的感受。” ديناميكي، مبهج وملهم: “ربما لا تكون هناك مدن أخرى علىجه الأرض لديها المزيد لتقدمه.” “Dynamic, exhilarating and inspirational: there is perhaps no other city on earth with more to offer.” ‘Standing … Continue reading One Blackfriars: A Private World
A Communist in Hong Kong 