Research

  1. 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.

  2. Research / Art Ibrahim Mahama's Purple Hibiscus at the Barbican

    Wrapping the Barbican: Ibrahim Mahama’s vision for Purple Hibiscus

  3. Research / Sustainability The Stonut: a facade for the future?

    The Stonut: a facade for the future?

  4. 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.

  5. Research / Sustainability Material passports

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

  6. Research / Sustainability Sustainability

    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.

  7. Research / London’s Olympic Legacy East 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.

  8. 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.