Last night we went to see our very own Laura Manzotti in the fantastic Sedos Production of Spring Awakening at the Bridewell Theatre (she’s on the far left). We thought the show was great and we were so proud watching Laura’s brilliant performance. The show is running until Saturday and you can buy tickets here. We thoroughly recommend!

Our beautiful new library at Clapham, designed by Studio Egret West, has now achieved practical completion. It’s a key milestone for our joint venture partnership with United House. The shelves will soon be filled with books as the Lambeth Libraries team move in over the next few weeks. Here is a sneak peek of the library at a photo shoot with Gareth Gardner today.

This is Sam Beeton. He was the second artist to visit The Old Vinyl Factory for our new project which we will announce very soon. He is very talented and we will be hearing a lot about him. Learn more about him here.

This is Chaplin.  They were at The Old Vinyl Factory on Saturday filming a live set for an as-yet-secret project that we’re about to unveil. Find out more about them here.

The British Council of Offices Urban Group came to our office last night for a presentation about placemaking.  We talked to them about The Old Vinyl Factory and our scheme in Deptford.  A small demonstration in support of good placemaking greeted them as they arrived at the Church.

It was great to talk to a crowd of people we didn’t know very well before about our approach to development and particularly our early placemaking activity and its contribution to the success of our schemes.  We really like hosting people in the church and we really happy that people want to come here and listen to what we have to say.  We should do it more often.

Make places! Don’t fill spaces!

We’re gearing up to entertain tonight…more news tomorrow.

Here’s the team who have been hard at work on our Clapham One project having a little break in the ‘Teen Zone’ of our new library. Kit kat anyone?

A short film by our friend Thomas Butler.

On Friday Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, visited The Old Vinyl Factory on his campaign trail. He arrived, entourage in tow, to meet representatives from SITA, Uxbridge College, Jupiter House and to look around the site. In an interview with The Uxbridge Gazette he declared the redevelopment ‘visionary’.

Martyn, our Creative Director, showing Boris Johnson the masterplan for regeneration at The Old Vinyl Factory.

In The Vinyl Canteen with Mrs Osborne who used to work at EMI

Exploring the site with Michael Marks, Chief Exec of Development Securities

Photography: www.danielrm.com