Wimbledon BookFest has been going for two decades and MBA have always supported it. We want the cultural life of our home town to flourish. If your neighbours flourish, you flourish. A principle of regenerative design = make the world better. We like teasing Wimbledon [a diverse and aware community] and have sponsored non-European writers like Jung Chang, Ahdaf Soueif, also Ilan Pappe, Donald Macintyre. This year we are proud to sponsor the festival once again, promoting discussion about things that matter to us all: justice, peace and climate change. 

There is a saying:

You can pass a law saying ‘the sun doesn’t rise in the east’ but it still rises in the east.

We are seeking:

an experienced conservation architect capable of running complex projects.

For more see our jobs page

Sculpture… has no life in itself. Our interaction gives meaning [Gormley]

Often we can identify a ‘focal point’, maybe the end of an axis, where a sculpture of artwork is necessary, an extended arm, outgoing.

Sometimes it is in an ‘elbow’, incoming, the place from which it can be viewed form multiple angles, and can be kissed by the sun over the course of the day

Sometimes it will take no space.

A couple of shots of some ’special projects’ of 2024, works in progress, one an ‘elbow’ sculpture inserted into o a Foggo house, the other a ‘blank canvas’ at the end of an axis waiting for a rich, golden threaded fabric. The golden thread is the story, the route through the landscape.

Planning permission has been granted for a nine storey residential building in Colliers Wood, S London.

More about the project here.

Upcoming lectures by Marcus Beale

• Cambridge University – Architects Scope of service and fees – 5 October 2023
• Nottingham University – Architects Scope of service and fees – 15 November 2023
• Nottingham University – Conservation Legislation and Heritage Assessment – 6 December 2023
• Stanton Williams – Sound, Music, Architecture – CPD – 18 January 2024