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 Open City

Open City is a charity dedicated to making architecture and built heritage more open, accessible and equitable.


Providing you with essential listening, inspiring voices and built environment insights – the Open City Podcast covers news and current events as well as in depth studies of landmark buildings, and cities around the UK and world.


At the centre of our line-up is our flagship show The Brief – an award-winning review of the big stories in architecture, planning and housing news – hosted by Sahiba Chadha and Fran Williams on a fortnightly basis.


Alongside this is Deconstructed – a monthly podcast hosted by Matthew Lloyd Roberts taking apart the architecture of individual buildings and InterCities – a monthly podcast hosted by Owen Hatherley exploring municipal transformation around the world. 


All three shows profile new, expert and diverse voices from across industry, journalism, academia and beyond. The Open City Podcast is produced by Hunter Charlton and Paige Reynolds. The commissioning editor is Merlin Fulcher. 


The Open City Podcast is supported by Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture platform and produced in association with the Architects’ Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage. The Open City Podcast is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in Bureau. 


To help support excellent and accessible, independent journalism about the buildings and the urban environment, please become an Open City Friend.


Photo credit: Owen Hatherley portrait © Antonio Olmos

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Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
35 minutes
Episodes
248
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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The Londown | 15 April | Amanda Baillieu

The Londown | 15 April | Amanda Baillieu

Six finalists vying to upgrade the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, two winners announced for this year’s Antepavilion, campaigners urge London’s mayor to block Ealing Council’s town hall redevelop…
00:31:23  |   Thu 15 Apr 2021
Slavery and the City | Guildhall & the Zong massacre | Episode 2

Slavery and the City | Guildhall & the Zong massacre | Episode 2

In this episode we speak with academic Anita Rupprecht from the University of Brighton, specialising in interconnected histories and representations of British transatlantic slavery, and Dalia Gebri…

00:45:43  |   Mon 12 Apr 2021
The Londown | 08 April | Phineas Harper

The Londown | 08 April | Phineas Harper

London architect hit with online abuse for criticising Georgian new builds, Square Mile skyscraper set for record £1.8bn sale despite the Work from Home boom, architecture organisations left with sli…
00:31:51  |   Wed 07 Apr 2021
Slavery and the City | Royal Exchange | Episode 1

Slavery and the City | Royal Exchange | Episode 1

In this episode, we speak to Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University and the author of ‘The new age of empire: how racism and colonialism still rule the world’, and …

00:29:19  |   Mon 05 Apr 2021
The Londown | 1 April | With Ewa Effiom

The Londown | 1 April | With Ewa Effiom

Parliament launches a major inquiry into whole life carbon, the slavery links of City landmarks explored in a new Open City Podcast, Stirling Prize winner Haworth Tompkins designs an industrial estat…
00:32:30  |   Wed 31 Mar 2021
The Londown | 25 March | With Ella Jessel

The Londown | 25 March | With Ella Jessel

Architectural assistants speak out over poor pay and conditions. Developer rebuilds Maida Vale pub six years after pulling it down'. A parliamentary inquiry launched into permitted development rights…
00:35:32  |   Wed 24 Mar 2021
The Londown | 18 Mar | With Oonagh Ryder

The Londown | 18 Mar | With Oonagh Ryder

New restrictions on protests in public spaces, Sarah Everard’s murder and vigil shines a light on spatial inequality, and France’s anti-demolition architects Lacaton & Vassal win the Pritzker Prize –…
00:53:39  |   Thu 18 Mar 2021
The Londown | 11 Mar | With Hettie O'Brien

The Londown | 11 Mar | With Hettie O'Brien

London Plan finally published after watering down by government, a social housing architect wins the prestigious MJ Long Prize, RIBA unearths ‘lost’ lectures by women architects and London-based desi…
00:41:35  |   Wed 10 Mar 2021
The Londown | 4 March | With Jonn Elledge

The Londown | 4 March | With Jonn Elledge

A budget for rising house prices, London air pollution narrowly misses a new peak, gender neutral toilets targeted in new building regs consultation, a housing historian picked to lead London School …
00:39:16  |   Wed 03 Mar 2021
Barbican redevelopment and row over ‘poor cores’ in Walthamstow. With Lucy Watson

Barbican redevelopment and row over ‘poor cores’ in Walthamstow. With Lucy Watson

Barbican Centre heading for major renewal after Centre for Music scrapped, a row over ‘poor cores’ in Walthamstow, the Church of England promises ‘generous’ use of its land for new homes and Boris Jo…
00:21:48  |   Thu 25 Feb 2021
MVRDV's Marble Arch Mound. With Catherine Slessor

MVRDV's Marble Arch Mound. With Catherine Slessor

A competition to rethink National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, the team behind New York’s Highline chosen for the Camden Highline, a 25-metre tall mound proposed for Marble Arch, and the viral job adver…
00:30:27  |   Thu 18 Feb 2021
Demolition go-ahead for Cressingham Gardens. With Will Ing.

Demolition go-ahead for Cressingham Gardens. With Will Ing.

Demolition go-ahead for Brixton’s iconic Cressingham Gardens, a double blow for planning as trailblazer Finn Williams leaves for Sweden and sensational YouTube video exposes committee shambles, and t…
00:25:10  |   Thu 11 Feb 2021
The Londown | Feb 3 | This week in London's architecture

The Londown | Feb 3 | This week in London's architecture

Protestors tunnelling under Euston Square, enormous British Library extension plans, and warning sounds over jobs in the centre of the capital – Merlin Fulcher and Phineas Harper round up and decode …
00:28:17  |   Wed 03 Feb 2021
Is land to blame for the housing crisis?

Is land to blame for the housing crisis?

Why do we agree to pay extortionate prices for poor quality housing, and will this ever change?In this episode we are joined by Alastair Parvin, founder of Open Systems Lab, to discuss the role land …
00:41:29  |   Thu 28 Jan 2021
The Old Kent Road: Is there room on the gravy train for everyone? 2/2

The Old Kent Road: Is there room on the gravy train for everyone? 2/2

For this second part of our two-part episode we continue exploring all the amazing work local people are doing to create spaces and opportunities to thrive in the shadow of ambitious regeneration age…
00:26:04  |   Wed 13 Jan 2021
Old Kent Road: Is there room on the gravy train for everyone? 1/2

Old Kent Road: Is there room on the gravy train for everyone? 1/2

In this two part episode we will be learning about one of London's most important roads, Old Kent Road, and the work that local people are doing to make sure that the future of the area is one that b…
00:32:27  |   Thu 03 Dec 2020
Public Transport: What do bus drivers really think of you?

Public Transport: What do bus drivers really think of you?

In this episode we will be discussing how our modes of transport have changed - what works, what doesn’t and what is still needed to make our journeys accessible, enjoyable and effective. Hosts Lara …
00:31:44  |   Thu 26 Nov 2020
The Fast Consumer City: can a sandwich really run the city?

The Fast Consumer City: can a sandwich really run the city?

How can a cheddar and pickle baguette shape our city? Why does a £3 flat white make a difference to how open a city is? This episode looks at the work and lifestyle habits of the fast consumer city a…
00:41:54  |   Thu 12 Nov 2020
Would young people design a better London for us all?

Would young people design a better London for us all?

"In this Open House special episode we will be talking about how young people are currently shut out of the conversation about planning and regeneration and how they could help design the happy, heal…
00:48:36  |   Tue 03 Nov 2020
Lighting up London's bridges

Lighting up London's bridges

Hosts Merlin Fulcher and Lara Kinneir will be talking about the architecture of London’s bridges. Specifically this episode will be focussing on Illuminated River, an ongoing £20 million project to c…
00:40:08  |   Wed 28 Oct 2020
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