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25 June – 12 July
Summer Show 2026
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![*When The Towers Sleep* reclaims London’s night by revealing the hidden labour that sustains it. Inspired by Billingsgate’s labour history and the film The Menu, guests move from spectators to participants, engaging in immersive food-making rituals.]()
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![The previous Smithfield fish market, now a pepper-drying and installation space, maintains the ideal air-drying conditions, with openings on multiple facades and a porous-brick facade behind the hanging peppers, to increase ventilation.]()
![The project aimed to critique the current state of fire safety within the built environment. This speculative project explores themes of revolution, ceremony and pyrology through the rise and habits of the fictitious cult 'The House of Antares'.]()
![Freya - Bay Section]()
![Evening comes: typical circulation ceases, and the members of The House retreat into The Sanctum where the sacred eternal fire lives – a remnant ember kept stoked from The Second Great Fire. Smoked food is central to The House's secret ceremonies.]()
![Alex Brick Image View]()
![Erim - Sectional Perspective View]()
![*The Rise* reimagines the Smithfield Annex as a cookery school for both local unemployed youth and aspiring Michelin Star chefs. The building opens up the concealed old basement, allowing light in with the original, existing roof reconstituted.]()
![Workers leave businesses closed, activity around Smithfield declines. The project transforms it into a circular ecosystem: visible waste-to-energy systems support the food production of a fish and chip canteen that extends life into the evening.]()
![The project proposes a new concert hall at the edge of Canary Wharf, close to Billingsgate. Rather than a singular ediface, *Stratquay* functions as an interconnected landscape, linking Canary Wharf with the wider population of Tower Hamlets.]()
![A museum holds the past. But what if culture refuses the glass case? Opposite the new London Museum, a former cold store asks what preservation is for. Qawwali, Majlis and exhibition make London’s South Asian immigration chapter a living practice.]()
![An adaptive reuse of the Red House, Smithfield’s former cold store, as an urban third space, with an algae nursery, craft workshops and public market. This changes the building from a place of termination into an evolving space for everyone.]()
![Declining profits put the Billingsgate fishmongers’ future in jeopardy. An afterlife is proposed for the historic market building. An exhibition hall, home to artefacts of the traders’ rich legacy, forms a third space core of Canary Wharf.]()
MEng Y2 Studio 2.4
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Year
2
Studio 2.4 asked students to establish their own speculative direction and research focus early on, explored across a range of media, grounded in reality, or flights of imagination.
Using the site constraints and critical precedents as a starting point they quickly pushed beyond the currently accepted typological, material and performative conventions. The focus was not only be on what the project was but how it responded to and adapts to its wider urban setting. We were interested in using the extensive analytical tools not just to assess the projects' effectiveness but to drive the design process. We asked students to blur the boundaries between disciplines and become innately intertwined; new modes of spatial and material being were actively encouraged.
Students considered how the project performed in response to climate or human activity, or on a wider time-scale: a project that evolved its own spatial configuration, changing over the lifetime of the proposal. The sites for 2025/26 were heavily urbanised London locations focusing on reuse so the response to these distinct existing conditions was a critical starting point for the building project.
Reema Zowayed - When The Towers Sleep - The Fallen Angel
When The Towers Sleep reclaims London’s night by revealing the hidden labour that sustains it. Inspired by Billingsgate’s labour history and the film The Menu, guests move from spectators to participants, engaging in immersive food-making rituals.
Reema Zowayed - When The Towers Sleep - The Hangman
Tilia Zamparo - The Pepper Revolution - The Drying Space
The previous Smithfield fish market, now a pepper-drying and installation space, maintains the ideal air-drying conditions, with openings on multiple facades and a porous-brick facade behind the hanging peppers, to increase ventilation.
Freya Garrigan - The Revered Remnant - The House of Antares
The project aimed to critique the current state of fire safety within the built environment. This speculative project explores themes of revolution, ceremony and pyrology through the rise and habits of the fictitious cult 'The House of Antares'.
Freya Garrigan - The Revered Remnant - Museum Facade Section
Monastic in nature, the members of The House emerged and collated from a fractured populus, triggered by a Second Great Fire that ravaged most of central London. They seek to close exploited loopholes and dogma in fire safety regulation.
Freya Garrigan - The Revered Remnant - The Office Cloister
Evening comes: typical circulation ceases, and the members of The House retreat into The Sanctum where the sacred eternal fire lives – a remnant ember kept stoked from The Second Great Fire. Smoked food is central to The House's secret ceremonies.
Alex Li - The Silo - Brick View
The Silo proposes an urban farming infrastructure as a new architectural ecology for Billingsgate, responding to the closure of London’s historic market and the increasing fragility of the local community.
Erim Kaleli - Gin Producing Giant - Sectional Perspective
The project is a gin distillary within the caverns formed by the Smithfield Cold Store, and turns the Annexe into an ambient lounge, recalling 19th Century Gin Palaces. The proposal adds vertical traverse via an external stairs leading to a terrace.
Neha Suresh - The Rise - Ground Floor Plan
The Rise reimagines the Smithfield Annex as a cookery school for both local unemployed youth and aspiring Michelin Star chefs. The building opens up the concealed old basement, allowing light in with the original, existing roof reconstituted.
Olivia Cheung - Warmth from Waste - Environmental Section
Workers leave businesses closed, activity around Smithfield declines. The project transforms it into a circular ecosystem: visible waste-to-energy systems support the food production of a fish and chip canteen that extends life into the evening.
Jonas Attal - Strataquay - Main Hall
The project proposes a new concert hall at the edge of Canary Wharf, close to Billingsgate. Rather than a singular ediface, Stratquay functions as an interconnected landscape, linking Canary Wharf with the wider population of Tower Hamlets.
Sarah Irfan - Do Not Freeze The Living - Main Space
A museum holds the past. But what if culture refuses the glass case? Opposite the new London Museum, a former cold store asks what preservation is for. Qawwali, Majlis and exhibition make London’s South Asian immigration chapter a living practice.
Anastazia He - Breaking Ground: Rebirth at Smithfield - External View
An adaptive reuse of the Red House, Smithfield’s former cold store, as an urban third space, with an algae nursery, craft workshops and public market. This changes the building from a place of termination into an evolving space for everyone.
Dasan Matthews - Fishmongers' Place - Sectional Perspective
Declining profits put the Billingsgate fishmongers’ future in jeopardy. An afterlife is proposed for the historic market building. An exhibition hall, home to artefacts of the traders’ rich legacy, forms a third space core of Canary Wharf.
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