Jason Sayer

2 weeks ago | architecturetoday.co.uk | Jason Sayer

What is your pavilion about and how does it respond to the title of Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective? The main idea of the pavilion is to explore the overlap between food production and architecture in the UAE, specifically within arid environments. Pressure Cooker examines how local food production has adapted to climatic challenges over time.

2 weeks ago | architecturetoday.co.uk | Jason Sayer

© What position is the British Pavilion, GBR – Geology of Britannic Repair, putting forward on post-colonialism and its relationship to architecture? The exhibition is concerned with architecture’s fundamental status as an ‘earth practice’. At root every building is an intervention in the earth’s geology – with all building materials derived one way or another from the ground.

2 weeks ago | architecturetoday.co.uk | Jason Sayer

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2 weeks ago | architecturetoday.co.uk | Jason Sayer

Studio Hagen Hall has completed the refurbishment of a five-storey townhouse in Hampstead, north London. Located in a mid-century development by the South African practice of Ted Levy, Benjamin & Partners, the house is one of nine designed in the late 1960s, and among the last to retain many of its original modernist features.

1 month ago | architecturetoday.co.uk | Jason Sayer

How is it going in Bath? It’s going well, I think. It’s funny — it’s almost exactly six months since I started and I’ve now got a better sense of what the job involves. But in a way, I won’t really know until I reach the end of the period. That’ll be the time when it becomes clearer what has been possible to achieve. Let’s start from the beginning: how did the role come about?