Architecture and Poetry

May 2023

The exhibition Architecture and Poetry is on display at Hay Castle from May 26th - 3rd September. The exhibition begins on the Castle exterior with a newly commissioned light poem from poet-sculptor Robert Montgomery and culminates in Pelé Cox’s verse inscription for Eric Parry’s Building 7 at Chelsea Barracks as well as the words of bilingual poet Gwyneth Lewis for the Wales Millennium Centre at Cardiff. Alongside this, the exhibition details three architectural designs by our practice which were inspired by poems, including the International Rugby Experience at Limerick which has its origins in the poem Beowulf. These architectural exhibits are complemented by a collection of concrete poetry from the 1960s to the present including The Mouse’s Tale by Lewis Carrol. To visit the Hay Castle website click here.

Níall will be giving a lecture at Hay Castle on the 30th May talking about the links between poems and some of our projects. Please click here to find out further details.

New Urban Housing Ideas for Sheffield

October 2016

Darbishire Place, our housing project for the Peadbody Trust, will feature in the public exhibition ‘New Urban Housing Ideas for Sheffield’ which runs from 22^nd to 30^th October at Sheffield Train Station. The event, staged by the Sheffield Civic Trust, aims to showcase the best, most innovative examples of new urban housing from across the UK and Europe. Also exhibited are projects by O’Donnell + Tuomey; Project Orange; Henley Halebrown Rorrison; Pitman Tozer; Ash Sakula; and Claire and David Kemp.