Book / Citymakers: City Knowledge, Knowledge City

A centuries old relationship; knowledge production and the city. Here we explore the different forms that marriage takes in three cities today, and how the dynamic is evolving.

Talk / UPCOMING: Citymakers 2024

How can good places be catalysed by transport?

Research / SustainabilityMaterial passports

Passport to a circular future? Rethinking the value proposition of BIM and data collection across a building’s lifetime.

Research / SustainabilitySustainability

The role and nature of natural materials: how to grow their application at scale, and to extend our understanding of what comprises a viable building material.

Book / Citymakers: What we leave behind

The climate emergency demands we retain much more of our urban fabric rather than build anew. Here we explore ways of approaching the often awkward urban inheritance of the 20th century.

Research / London’s Olympic LegacyEast Bank Exhibition

East Bank is opening. At the heart of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the project is the UK’s newest cultural quarter. To mark this milestone, Allies and Morrison has curated a new public exhibition.

Research / MakingBarbican Centre: Grain and Scale

The design and making of Barbican Centre: Grain and Scale. The experience of representing a project yet to be, and of experimentation and abstraction in architectural model-making.

Book / Complex City

Complex City is a detailed mapping of London’s historic layers, emerging from our work in characterisation studies. The book puts forward a new argument for character-based development.