Peter Songi

London

I'm a political cartoonist in London. Published in The Daily Mirror, Guardian, The Critic ,Private Eye, & the Morning Star. A proud member of the PCO and BCA.

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Dispatches from BCO Conference, Milan: Frances Brown, Cundall

1 month ago | architecturetoday.co.uk | Peter Songi

What brings you to BCO Conference/What do you hope to achieve? The BCO conference is one of my favourite events of the year. It is a chance to catch up with many people who I have got to know through the BCO over the years and meet some new people too. I am also very interested in what will be said on stage and in visiting buildings in a city I haven’t been to before. I hope to gain fresh ideas to bring back to my day job in my role as Workplace Sector Lead at Cundall.
Dispatches from BCO Conference, Milan: Andy McBain, NatWest

1 month ago | architecturetoday.co.uk | Peter Songi

What brings you to BCO Conference/What do you hope to achieve? Lots of networking and meeting new contacts. In previous conferences the tours can show up little gems of ideas that can be borrowed and the debates across the seminars can be fascinating as common issues and issues of the future, as well as practical solutions are discussed and shared by the amazing talent within the BCO’s membership. What are you working on at the moment?
Architecture Today

May 29, 2024 | architecturetoday.co.uk | Peter Songi

Clayfest, an annual training event dedicated earth building will take place from Monday 15th July to Saturday 20th July 2024. The first four days will be hosted by HG Matthews at its factory in Buckinghamshire and will include workshops on earth building methods and materials, with informal talks and events in the evenings.
Meet the client: Angela Joseph, Brookfield Properties

May 24, 2024 | architecturetoday.co.uk | Peter Songi

You started out as a QS. How is the profession adapting to the focus on whole life carbon and wellbeing, and the way we measure value? I’d say the core QS perspective is about costing the various carbon initiatives – the specific measures you can implement, for example the reuse of steel. A lot of them are getting involved in carbon measurement, especially around upfront embodied carbon, but so are lots of others: engineers are getting involved, sustainability consultants are getting involved.
Architecture Today

May 24, 2024 | architecturetoday.co.uk | Peter Songi

What brings you to BCO Conference? I come every year. It’s better than Mipim. It’s a much more focused and concentrated sector of the market that I’m particularly interested in, all present under one roof. You see the people you want to see, in an environment where they’re relaxed. It’s a place to have a grown-up conversation. Because everyone’s on the same track; we’re all working towards a common goal. What’s the goal?
Architecture Today

May 23, 2024 | architecturetoday.co.uk | Peter Songi

What brings you to BCO Conference? RIOS is a global design collective, and we opened our London office in 2022. We are actively in pursuit of wonder with the design of the built environment and are interested in bringing our unique design process and approach to how we design places for people to the UK and Europe. For nearly 40 years we have been pioneers of multi-disciplinary design.
A conference with a conscience

May 23, 2024 | architecturetoday.co.uk | Peter Songi

Tell us about your new company, HERE. I worked at Bruntwood for 25 years and a lot of that time I spent reinventing buildings, so taking predominantly 60s and 70s buildings, but some period buildings, which were deemed to have reached the end of their useful life. Rather than flattening we looked at how they could be brought back into meaningful use that actually met with customer demands, which I really enjoyed and over time developed a real capability with.
Dispatches from BCO Conference, Birmingham: Francesca Ghavami-Milnes, Howells

May 23, 2024 | architecturetoday.co.uk | Peter Songi

What’s your involvement with the BCO? I’m the Chair of the Next Gen committee for the Midlands. We gather together every four to six weeks and come up with ideas for the Next Gen members in terms of engagement, events, tours, things happening in Birmingham and in the Midlands that members might want to visit. We have panels discussions and round tables and, with the wider Next Gen members, we’ve launched a fantastic ideas competition.
Dispatches from BCO Conference, Birmingham: Chloe Prince, Landsec

May 23, 2024 | architecturetoday.co.uk | Peter Songi

I’m a portfolio manager at Landsec, so I work in the asset team in Central London. I have a portfolio of about eight buildings from Southwark to Paddington. My role is to shape the strategy of those assets. What I love about my job is that I get to see the whole life cycle of the project and work with the team to make it the most profitable and also the best workplace it can possibly be.
Liverpool Architecture Festival 2024

May 22, 2024 | architecturetoday.co.uk | Peter Songi

Now in its third iteration, Liverpool Architecture Festival will run throughout June with a programme of activities and events that spreads its reach and ups its game. Liverpool Architecture Festival (LAF24) kicks off this June with over 100 free-to-attend events planned throughout Liverpool City Region. Building on previous successes, the third iteration, spreads its reach throughout Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool Sefton, St. Helens and Wirral.