To Artemis, Chiara, Chiba, Eliška, Greta, Magda, Naz… From Antoni.

Prior to establishing WHAT_architecture, I had the privilege to work for three renown practices whose founding partners were: women. Louisa Hutton (Sauerbruch Hutton), Alison Brooks (Alison Brooks Architects) and Francine Houbine (Mecanoo). Being Maori in London, perhaps I am naturally susceptible to a legacy of women who ‘operate’ at a level beyond, or below, politics and power, and whose organisational creativity is based on something more urgent: the familial. Here I think of: Esther Jessop who established Ngati Ranana. It takes a strong man to stand by a strong woman.

Thesis project by 吳卓昊 (Victor, Cho-Hao Wu) formerly of WHAT_architecture which looks to re-construct the daily life of Middle Eastern refugees.

Line up as at 23 July

The Mayoralty election in Tower Hamlets…

096agn_Mayor of Lambeth Niraj Patil inaugurates Agnes Riley Park with Reza Parizi of WHAT_architecture… in winter.

069hil_Mayor of Hillingdon Shirley Harper-O’Neill meets Maui Hoete of WHAT_architecture.

069hil_Mayor of Hillingdon David Yarrow meets Olatz de Solaeche of WHAT_architecture.

069hil_Mayor of London Boris Johnson meets Anthony Hoete of WHAT_architecture.

137aus_Lord Mayor of Perth Lisa Scaffidi meets Anthony Hoete of WHAT_architecture. [INSERT image]

000mot_Mayor of Tauranga Stuart Crosby hangs out with Ah!

Architattoo. Here’s Spitalfield’s Christchurch on the arm of Mafalda.

Akin to traditional Tokyo living where many domestic functions were located outside the house (bath house, okonomiyaki kitchens…), the current WHAT_office is an ‘exploded’ office. Exploded in the sense that our three client spaces are located just outside the office. All three ‘Meeting Rooms’ needless to say are dog friendly:

• Meeting Room A: Ace Hotel, 100 Shoreditch High Street;
• Meeting Room F: the Forge and Co. at 154 Shoreditch High Street
• and finally Meeting Room T: at Time For Tea which is cryogenically frozen in time: that is the 1920s. Local resident Dan Cruickshank, the art historian, BBC TV presenter and architectural chronicler reports on Meeting Room T Johnny Vercoutre’s preservation project on Spitalfield’s Life.