We Made That

Our public realm proposals for London Borough of Enfield at the Enfield Business Centre and Albany Park Gateway sites are now on site for completion this spring. Look out for a park entrance, new public realm and bold steel lettering, as well as the new public forecourt and extension to the Business Centre by in collaboration with RCKa.

QUALIFIED ARCHITECT (PART III)

We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled qualified architect to join our team to work on a number of projects. Candidates applying should have:

— public realm experience in the UK

— demonstrable job running experience (all project stages)

— a keen interest in urbanism & planning

On top of which you must be a talented designer and have good technical knowledge with a great eye for presentation, detail and execution. Excellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to lively, creative & productive team working required. Experience with Vectorworks, Photoshop and InDesign are essential.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK and would ideally be available to start in January.

Please send a digital copy of your CV and portfolio to holly@wemadethat.co.uk (max 10MB). Pay will be commensurate with experience and we would request that you set out your pay expectations in a covering letter to accompany your CV.

ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT

We are looking for a skilled Part I architectural assistant/ recent Part II graduate to join our practice to work on a number of public realm, urban mapping, consultation and exhibition projects.

Candidates must be motivated, hardworking, bright, have excellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to lively, creative & productive team working. On top of which you must be skilled in drawing, model making, research and design.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK and would ideally be available to start by beginning of February.

Please send a digital copy of your CV and portfolio to holly@wemadethat.co.uk (max 10MB). Pay will be commensurate with experience and we would request that you set out your pay expectations in a covering letter to accompany your CV.

JANUARY TASTER SESSIONS

We are running a series of free workshops and training opportunities for those living or working in London Borough of Waltham Forest to learn new skills from specialist makers as part of our Blackhorse Lane project.

WORKSHOPS

14 January, 2–6pm – Hand painting and gold leaf signs

15 January, 2–6pm – Joinery and wood carving

21 January, 2–6pm – Metalwork, Blackhorse Lane Studios

22 January, 2–6pm – Lighting

28 January, 10–6pm

The workshop series will end in a day of sign making with participants undertaking a bespoke commission to produce a public sign for Blackhorse Workshop, a new public workshop providing access to tools and affordable workspace in Walthamstow.

WHERE

Blackhorse Workshop, 1-2 Sutherland Road Path, E17 6BX

Find out more here

The Wild Kingdom Playspace has been shortlisted for this year’s Placemaking Awards in the ‘Design Excellence’ category. We’re also pleased that Fantastic Factology is included in the Olympic Park Arts and Culture Programme, shortlisted for ‘Best Use of Arts, Culture or Sport in Placemaking’.

Full shortlist here

We’re celebrating the best, diverse and exciting aspects of making and activity in Blackhorse Lane with a series of commissioned billboards. Specialist cut granite, wooden beds, ever-lasting food displays, comics, bespoke joinery, prop making, metal fabrication & more are all on display.

Oliver will be talking at the Future of London Placemaking event, co-hosted by The Academy of Urbanism and the Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design. 2pm – 6pm 23 November 2013.

The event is free. Book here

Oliver will be presenting three aspects of We Made That’s work for LB Croydon, including South End High Street, along with Vincent Lacovara (LB Croydon) and Je Ahn (Studio Weave) at an event in association with RIBA/ Somerset House Forgotten Spaces exhibition. 4pm – 6pm 7 November 2013.

Other speakers include Spacemakers, Assemble, Adams & Sutherland and London Borough representatives.

Our super-local newspaper, The Unlimited Edition, is featured in the Archizines touring exhibition. Currently on display at ‘It’s Open’, Istanbul’s new venue for architecture events and exhibitions, Archizines will also be visiting USA, Mexico and China in the coming months.

Archizines

We Made That have been selected for a major new framework set up by the mayor of London to help overhaul design standards across the public sector. Procured jointly by the Greater London Authority and Transport for London, We Made That have been chosen for two specialist categories; Urban strategies & area plans, as well as Public realm & landscape.

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Our public realm proposals for London Borough of Enfield   are included the Forgotten Spaces 2013 exhibition at Somerset House. The proposals for a new public space on the Two Brewers site in Ponders End which commemorates the history of the site are featured as part of a showcase of GLA Regeneration projects being delivered through the Outer London Fund.

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Grosvenor Rocks has been awarded a Civic Society award for the recently completed project in Grosvenor and Hilbert Park, for Tunbridge Wells Borough Council.

Stone supplied by Lambs Philpots Quarry, Stonework & installation by Southern Stone Ltd and in-situ carving by Bridget Powell & Amelia Morrison. Additional thanks to Friends of Grosvenor & Hilbert, Tunbridge Wells Museum & Gallery team, Frances Lord & those who generously volunteered their time in the development of this new park feature.

Holly will be running a unit on the Bartlett’s BSc Architecture course this academic year with Sabine Storp. Under the Unit 1 title of ‘Civic Spectacular CIC’, students will be asked to consider themselves as Community Interest Companies, and explore architecture as a force for collective good in the city. The unit will first explore London’s designated ‘Opportunity and Intensification Areas’, then visit Hanoi, Vietnam, where we will investigate development pressures on urban agriculture in one of the world’s fastest growing cities.

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One year on from the opening of the Wild Kingdom Playspace, Holly will be giving tours as part of Open House London 2013. Join us at 12noon or 2pm on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd September to hear more about the process of designing the space, and to learn how to get the most out of the maypole swing!

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The Open Office appears in a new Culture on the High Street guide recently launched by the Greater London Authority. Designed to help local authorities, town centre managers and business improvement districts to improve the quality and ambition of culture on our high street, the guide includes case studies show how embracing culture is integral to high street regeneration.

See more and download the guide here: Culture on the High Street guide

Our proposed shop front improvements for Blackhorse Lane and Higham Hill have been granted planning permission. The scheme aims to support the activity and vibrancy of these two areas of shops in Walthamstow. The improvements include new shop fronts, cafes, a doctor’s surgery and garden centre frontages. Referencing the industrial influences in the area, the proposals also introduce bespoke high-level lettering on brickwork celebrating the goods and services in the area.

The improvements are due to be complete by January 2014.

Commissioned by the British Council, curated by the Arts Catalyst and designed by We Made That, Ice Lab is a new international touring exhibition that illustrates how innovative contemporary architecture is enabling scientists to live and work in one of the most extreme environments on our planet. Taking a cue from the explicit resourcefulness required in inhabiting the Antarctic, the exhibition design includes backdrops of thick rolled felt, carefully machined aluminium components and simple timber crates.

The exhibition is at Architecture and Design Scotland at The Lighthouse, 26 July – 2 Oct 2013 and then at MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry) as part of Manchester Science Festival, 21 October - 6 January before touring internationally.

As part of the InTRANSIT Festival of Arts 2013, we are celebrating and mapping local knowledge in the Portobello Road area. Hidden activities, local hot spots and personal stories will all be captured - physically and digitally. Add your contributions using Twitter or Instagram #locallistingslive, and come back soon to see the results!

Join in:
Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July, from 1pm - 4pm.



Where:


Junction of Portobello Road and Lancaster Road W11 at 1pm each day. 


Junction of Portobello Road and Golborne Road W10 at 2.30pm each day.

www.locallistingslive.org.uk

Stanley Kubrick, Damien Hirst, Jude Law, Kate Moss, Elton John, Lady Gaga, Tim Burton, Vivienne Westwood, Jay-Z… and now London Borough of Waltham Forest.

LB Waltham Forest have selected local artist Chris Bracey of Gods Own Junkyard to produce a public art commission on Blackhorse Lane celebrating its unique character and heritage.

The commissioning process was run, by We Made That in collaboration with graphic designers Europa and charity The Architecture Foundation, as part of a project after the London Borough of Waltham Forest was awarded funding through the Mayor’s Outer London Fund to carry out a series of improvements in the Blackhorse Lane area.

Oliver has recently been invited to become a member of the refreshed London Borough of Hackney Design Review Panel.

The Panel plays an important role in assisting the Council with ensuring development in the Borough is of the highest quality. This process, together with other initiatives, plays a critical role in promoting and delivering high quality sustainable design and architecture in Hackney.

Design Review Panel

Visit our ‘Ideas Shop’ and comment on our proposals for South End & Selsdon Road from Friday June 14 to Sunday July 14. The shop has a display of information on the South End High Street Improvements and is also being used to host community activities, including Trade School Croydon classes on Tuesday 11 and Sunday 16 June, the closing event of the Croydon Urban Pioneers programme on Wednesday 12 June, and a Public Tasting Event on Wednesday 26 June, 5-8pm.

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