Mentoring through Build The Way has been one of the most meaningful parts of my year. Reflecting on the programme, I share what it has taught me about reciprocal learning, widening access to architecture and creating clearer routes into the profession.

Returning to City Lions for a second year, I reflect on leading CGL’s 2026 insight workshop and creating an accessible introduction to architecture through design, model-making and hands-on collaboration.

Reflecting on my Temple Bar panel, I explore flight risk, professional identity and what it should really mean to protect architecture - its judgement, its breadth and the people who sustain it.

I often ask my mentees to form their own opinions: who is your favourite architect, and what is your favourite building? When the question was recently turned back on me, I realised how difficult it was to answer. This series is an attempt to untangle—and indulge in—the things I admire, beginning with socially driven practices whose values and ways of working matter as much as their buildings.

Behind the playful name “Fish Disco” lies one of the most complex marine mitigation systems ever built. This article uses Hinkley Point C to explore how environmental regulation, legal risk, and public trust are reshaping infrastructure design in the UK.

Using earthquakes as a lens, this piece looks at how different societies design for risk and recovery. A comparison between California and Japan highlights the limits of compliance-led resilience, and asks what duty of care means for architects working in an increasingly unstable climate.

Architectural practice often narrows our focus to delivery: deadlines, coordination, clashes, cost. Earlier this year, mentoring students through City Lions offered a rare opportunity to step back - and reflect on what we are building, and for whom.

Over the past year, UK architecture and construction have come under sustained regulatory and economic pressure. The combined effects of the Building Safety Act 2022, the introduction of Gateways 2 and 3, and wider market instability have reshaped project timelines, risk profiles, and — most acutely — job security within architectural practice.

In April 2025, the reintroduction of sweeping U.S. tariffs sent fresh shockwaves through global supply chains. A blanket 10% tariff on imports, alongside significantly higher rates on goods from major trading partners, has immediate consequences beyond the U.S.

For London’s construction sector, these global shifts translate into material volatility, cost uncertainty, and renewed pressure on already fragile project economics.

The debate between modernist and traditional architecture in the UK is often framed as a matter of taste. In reality, it reflects deeper cultural, political, and economic tensions.

While architects may admire Brutalism for its material honesty and formal ambition, the public often gravitates toward places that feel familiar, legible, and humane. This divide shapes not only what gets built, but how cities are received — and resisted.

Hong Kong’s MTR is more than a transport system — it is a city-making engine. Through its integration of rail, development, and public space, it has shaped not only how the city moves, but how it grows.

Returning to Hong Kong offered a reminder of what coordinated infrastructure can achieve: density without dysfunction, mobility without sprawl, and public transport as a civic asset rather than an afterthought.

Earlier this year, I visited Palliser Road — a Southern Housing Group project in West London — as part of a wider reflection on delivery, constraint, and community-making.

Set within a sensitive urban context, the project highlights the everyday tensions between heritage, density, and social value, and the role site visits play in shaping better decisions long before drawings are finalised.

Cities are rarely designed with memory loss in mind. Yet as populations age, the experience of dementia and Alzheimer’s increasingly intersects with public space, transport, and everyday navigation.

This piece explores how urban design can better support dignity, familiarity, and independence — and why inclusive cities must account not only for physical access, but cognitive and emotional experience.

As artificial intelligence enters architectural workflows, the conversation often swings between enthusiasm and anxiety. In practice, its value lies somewhere quieter: as a collaborator rather than a replacement.

This project reflects on AI as a creative tool — one that reshapes authorship, speed, and representation — and what that means for how architects work, think, and communicate.

New York and London approach building approvals through fundamentally different systems. While both prioritise public consultation and sustainability, New York’s zoning-led model contrasts sharply with London’s more discretionary, policy-driven framework.

This comparison reveals how approval structures shape risk, timelines, and ultimately what cities are able — and willing — to build.

Design and Access Statements play a central role in London’s planning system, shaping how proposals are justified, scrutinised, and negotiated. This stands in contrast to New York’s more codified, zoning-led approach.

Examining these differences highlights how planning tools influence not just outcomes, but the balance of power between policy, design intent, and public accountability.

Early in my time at a new practice, I was given the opportunity to step back and reflect — not just on architecture, but on the path that led me there.

I recently had the privilege of leading the organization of the final lecture at the Serpentine Pavilion featuring this year's designer, Lina Ghotmeh.

This project has been a culmination of all the skills I have learned over the years from leadership, coordination and professional practice. The most applicable skills came from the small renovation projects at Gensler - ‘patch & match’ projects where there were so many details to capture and many odds and ends were new/re-used/relocated.

Thank you so much to everyone that came (and tried to come) to the show. I am also flattered to be awarded the Head of Programme Award for my work and contributions to the college.