The Architecture Social Show Strikes Back!

The Architecture Social Show Strikes Back!
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Will Ridgway: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Architecture Social Show. I'm Will Bridgby and I'm with

Stephen Drew: Stephen Drew. How you doing? Oh, that's me. I'm all right, Will. This is the second show, isn't it? So I called it the Architecture Social. Strikes back. Classic. Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on. Architecture Social strikes back.

There you go. Right, we need to, we need to do some news, because this is a news show. So, Will. What, what's the news this week? What have you been up to? Will, we need a little update, cause, Oh, if anyone doesn't know. You're my own personal news. Yeah, if anyone doesn't know, it's a bit of a difficult time right now.

We're all in it, and sadly, Will's on furlough right now. So, Will, have you taken out the [00:01:00] bins?

Will Ridgway: Yeah. What else have you done? I did my, I started on my Christmas shopping, which is earlier than usual because I don't usually do it until December. I started, I started now because well, I can't really go to the shops, I have to order everything online.

So,

Stephen Drew: I'm worrying about

Will Ridgway: delivery

Stephen Drew: dates. Do you know what? On that note, you sent me some really nice, interesting items that you could buy. Fellow architects that they can enjoy. So, okay. What about, Will, for your father? Or what have you? Okay. What about you getting one of these? Okay. And this was your suggestion to me.

My suggestion? What about What about A bit of grass. Grass table. A grass table. What is it then? It's a coffee table with a bit of grass. It's everything. It's just things

Will Ridgway: made out of vegetables and fruit. Which is amazing.

Stephen Drew: When you sent this through I thought, this is a [00:02:00] bit strange isn't it? A carrot. That's a bit strange, I'm not keen on that.

Why would you put a carrot in a carrot cup? With a carrot. Yeah, it is.

Will Ridgway: Wow. I'm not so keen on that, but it was more of the table was pretty cool. I don't know if I'd have it in my house though, but the whole concept and idea of it was pretty cool. Just recycling food. So instead of eating it, you can just use it as the table.

You can have a coffee table made out of carrots and eat your carrots on top of it. I think what better way to spend your evening.

Stephen Drew: Well, in January, when I'm on my diet, I'll have a lot of food left around for some furniture will. You know what I mean? Right now I've eaten all the furniture. Hey, wrong button.

That was going to be, you know, like a, Oh no. Right. So we've got furniture guys. Hello everyone in the audience. Welcome to the architecture social news show. So we started off with a carrot cup, as you do. And in more, in more [00:03:00] weekly Will's update and furlough, what else have you been up to, Will? Well, like I said,

Will Ridgway: I did the crucial shopping, took a large part of it, despite it being a very short amount of time short amounts of Updates, I vowed to, it did take a lot of my time because I started from scratch, didn't know what to do, didn't know what to get.

And I had to search around the entire web and I found, I've got my dad's something, I've got my brother's something, and Oh, do they watch it? If they watch it? Probably not. Probably not. But I don't want to risk it, so, Let's, let's keep it, let's keep it a secret. But now I'm gonna, I'm gonna find something for you.

So I might get that little carrot holder. Because I think you'd appreciate that. And if you get peckish, just have a little nibble on it.

Stephen Drew: Have a little nibble of the cup. All right. I love it. Well, we started out in true form because this is the next segment of the show now, which is Badly organized architecture news of the week!

Hey! Alright, well, so we started off with a carrot cup. We [00:04:00] need to get more serious. We can't, the second show can't be all about carrot cups. Jordan says. Schumacher. Oh, okay. Wow. I know exactly what he's talking about. I know exactly what. Jordan, do you want this architecture news show to be taken off air?

In the second episode. Although, that is a very, very, very, Very controversial article right now. Who knows what we believe? Maybe leave your comments on what your thoughts are. But in the meantime, we need more pressing topics and Zaha Hadid, Michael Schumacher. Yeah. Uplifting. Uplifting. And so on that note, Will, we have here, we've got the carrot cups, but I want to talk more about the beautiful architecture.

Will Ridgway: Oh, wrong, wrong tab, wrong tab, wrong tab. It's all right. It didn't, it didn't show up.

Stephen Drew: [00:05:00] Hey, modular homes for dogs that can be customized according to your pet's personality.

Will Ridgway: That's pretty cool. I think so as well. You know, modular homes are on the rise recently and it's entering the pet's world as well.

Stephen Drew: That is true. Jordan laughed. Do you see my sideswipe? I'm not going, I'm not going to make bad enemies with Schumacher. Right. Don't be a fan. Don't be a fan. Sardine, I love your work. I love working for you. Okay. So, look at this, Will.

Will Ridgway: Is this one really? With Dexter, with Dexter, like, I don't know, that's a, that's a Paul York, that's a me throwing something into the corner and the dog's gone and lived in it.

Stephen Drew: That's terrible, that is, that's like a lead tool. That's terrible. But this one, now we're talking. I think, I think it's getting good now. I think it's I think now, I'd be happy with this. Yeah, Dexter would like it. I gotta be [00:06:00] honest though, I think that we can do better than this. There can be better modular for dogs.

I think, I think that this isn't being done by, is it done by an architect, Will? I don't think so, no. If I'm wrong, I apologize. Do you know what? I think we should do our own modular houses for dogs. I think that's going to be the next competition on the Architectural Social. Huh?

Will Ridgway: Not the Christmas cards, we're going to go big with the modular housing for the dogs.

Stephen Drew: Yeah, why not, why not? I think it's a great idea. Actually, there is a competition right now in the Architectural Social for, and I'll show you it really quickly, for basically for setting up you designing Revit, you design your own house. I'll bring that up in a bit, but moving swiftly on, we need a little bit more news because we've got a fair, we've got, well, [00:07:00] 20, 30 minutes, okay, on this Wednesday.

to inform the architecture and nation of all the architecture news and right now we've got a carrot cup and we've packed much of that. I think we've got to keep the show on there. We've got to keep it on there. So what else have we got going here? Well, In the next in the list. Oh yeah, I've, I've amped it up.

There was actually an exhibition for architecture for dogs. Just put that

Will Ridgway: on.

Stephen Drew: Look,

Will Ridgway: you see? I could, I could watch dogs all the day to be honest.

Stephen Drew: I mean.

Will Ridgway: Is anyone

Stephen Drew: housing for dogs? I, I, look at this guy walking around. Now come on, this is a bit better than that modular. Yes, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan.

Oh, I beat you to it. I beat you to it. This is it. See, Jordan's doing well. All right, so this, this is pretty cool though, isn't it? So yeah, this was an [00:08:00] architectural exhibit which showcases designs for dogs. I think it was in September, October. You could have visited it in London. Really, really cool. I actually quite like it.

I think that's quite a clever use. I like

Will Ridgway: how the dog actually is looking at the sculptures and just examining it.

Stephen Drew: I know. That's so cool. Yeah, I don't know if my Dexter would use it though. It's all he cares about is balls. Seriously. Look, see? Well, 19th of September to 10th of January. Oh, it's still open.

It's still open. You can still go there now. Totally still could do it. So get your dog. Get the get the dog and get going to this. What a cool use of time. This is actually fun. This is upbeat. So I'm quite, I'm quite pleased with this news. Well, well done. Well, we're slowly getting closer and closer to architecture.

[00:09:00] Yeah, of course we are. We're doing it. It's brilliant. All right. Fantastic. So, okay. Well, that is an interesting. Look at this one. That's a fancy dog. That is. Okay, well, so here we've got some other news that you brought up as well, which is a bit of a different tone. This doesn't involve four legged creatures, unfortunately, but I'll allow it.

No, it actually is, it's actually architecture.

Will Ridgway: Hey! You'd be surprised, we're going to talk about architecture on this show eventually. Yeah, it was just right and right architects. Basically entered a competition about, I think, 10 years ago to, for an extension of, of the library at Corpus Christi College, which is in Oxford.

I think it's quite famous, I think it's quite a famous college. Um, it's certainly, it's certainly an old one. So the library, I think, is It's got existing builds there from that 16th century. So it's proper traditional over there. And basically they came second in the competition, but they've since now, you know, they've they've actually been asked to [00:10:00] design the extension for the library after the previous winners then it cost a bit too expensive.

So they went with they went with corpus went with right and right. And I don't know. I just love what, I love traditional. architecture and some of the way that they, you know traditional architecture now where you are integrating it into contemporary architecture. I love that. What's it called

Stephen Drew: Steve?

I love it. Old meets new. What do you want about conservation?

Will Ridgway: What's it called? It's, I think it's, it's not, it's not conservation. I can't, I mean, there's a natural name for it, isn't it? I can't remember off the top of my head. Do you

Stephen Drew: know what, my old tea Sally Stone in Manchester School of Architecture, she wrote a really good book where like old buildings, traditional, and traditional buildings, and you've got contemporary.

The solutions. I love it. So there you go. Well, well done. I think that was very architectural, right? It was architectural. Are we going to stay on the architectural topic? Yeah, we're not going to be taken off the air. But anyone that's watching this, hi and welcome to this section of the show, which is [00:11:00] badly organized architecture news of the week.

Yay. If you've got any ideas or anything you want to talk about as well, definitely, definitely do shout out and we can talk about those as well. If anyone else says a Schumacher in the comments, I'm not going to bring it back up on the screen, but

so we just started this show with two episodes in. So, well, this is really cool. Now this is kind of, this is like, this is like a dream. Almost. This is, this is amazing. So, so the Reefline World that you've highlighted. So this is going to be an underwater public sculpture park.

Will Ridgway: Very cool, man. Yeah, I know.

Basically, it's you know, using architecture to help endanger species. So obviously coral reefs are in across the world, you know, in danger of going out because of pollution and everything. So this whole concept is to have these sculptures in there where reef coral reefs can grow back again and it allows it's obviously a, you know, a public sculpture park as well.

So you can go [00:12:00] dive in there, put your, put your flippers on, get your snorkel out and just go dive in there and just have a look around. And it just makes it. I don't know, the reefs make it look pretty along with the sculptures and I think it's just pretty cool. It's just a nice idea.

Stephen Drew: I think you, I think it's totally a nice idea.

I can see though, if you're on holiday and you've got a hangover or something, this is going to be high mileage to go to this museum, going to go, we've got to go to the museum, bring your pavers. What? What's going on? But it is really, really good. So I actually, I think it would be worth doing. It would be worth doing.

Why is it badly organized? It's because you have me as the host. Hey! And we always plan out these shows and they never ever go accordingly. And that is part of the joy of it. But that is why it's not the best organized news. But you get it straight from the heart. You get honest news. And we're open for discussion.

If you've got any comments, any comments at [00:13:00] all, then do mention them. You can talk about anything you want. You can talk about, well, not that, but you can talk about anything else. You know, you can talk about anything, anything else. Not this, not this. Something big dogs, you know, gotta keep, gotta keep the show going.

So all right, let's go to the, let's go to the next piece of news. Oh, we're going, we're going into this now. So we're going serious,

Will Ridgway: aren't we? Yeah, this is, this is serious. Maybe not quite as upbeat as we'd like, but I'm gonna try and spin on this head a little bit as well. Ooh. So obviously across the year I mean, it's, it's, it's nice to get interesting news and graphs and surveys.

Graphs and surveys. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Can you I'm under pressure now. Can you Please. Well so, basically, I can't finish it in time with that going on.

Stephen Drew: People are on their lunch break, [00:14:00] Will, we've got to be fast and organized! I know. So

Will Ridgway: so disgusting. Turn it off.

Stephen Drew: Nope. It's off.

Will Ridgway: Your voice is on though. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. So yeah, so obviously, you know, construction in general, construction in general has been a little bit up and down across the year because of obvious reasons. Now the commercial office sector has been hit one of the hardest. As many people want going to the offices, a lot of people rethinking how they want offices to be done in the future.

So basically Deloitte found that office constructions has, you know, has decreased significantly over the past six months, which is a shame, but interestingly refurbished office refurbishments have boomed a lot in comparison to new builds, which is so I think that goes along with the idea of.

People wanting reshaping offices as opposed to building new ones, adjusting the current ones so that they work for the future after [00:15:00] COVID, for example. Do you know what?

Stephen Drew: I'm not even going to play another sound effect there, but I'm going to say, well, I did give you a rough time there. But it's only because you know, you, you did so well and therefore I think you completely nailed it.

Okay. So we need to have a little celebration. Well done. Leo , you nailed it. Yes. What you said you're gearing

Will Ridgway: up for

Stephen Drew: that. I knew you. You are the man. I give you loads of distractions and you deliver an amazing talk. 'cause actually, I think the point that you made correctly is that we, it is a bit of a challenge that we've got ahead, isn't it?

We need to talk about how we're gonna reconfigure those offices. And you're right. In one sense, there is a massive opportunity because like, look at me, I'm actually, it would be nice for that when you get the virus, we will all be going back to offices. But as you said, I wonder even like with our office, with the McDonald company office, whether or not it will be maybe a bit of a smaller office where you get people working for two to three times a week in the office.

And then they're working at home and there's kind of [00:16:00] a, a touch. It's kind of like, it's more focused around meeting rooms. Well, you know, the general landscape changes. I think I think that would, it would be really interesting to see. Vanessa Vanessa unfortunately enjoys seeing you being tortured, Will, I'm sorry.

If that's what people want.

Will Ridgway: Vanessa, what have you done?

Stephen Drew: I know, Vanessa. Well, well, well done. And you survived. There's some graphs down there if you want to scroll down. Oh!

Will Ridgway: There's graphs! Yeah, that's why I put it in there.

Stephen Drew: Oh, I love graphs. Fantastic. Well, well done. Well done. For that, I applaud you. We got some graphs, so.

Scroll down

Will Ridgway: a tiny bit more. Scroll down a bit more. There you go. I wasn't lying about the new build and refurbishments.

Stephen Drew: Ooh. Okay, so Quarter 3 2020. New belts completely down. Refurbishment. Refurbishment. Makes

Will Ridgway: sense. I wasn't, I wasn't lying. We we're not making stuff up on this show. No, it's factual. It's like being fully organized.[00:17:00]

Stephen Drew: It is. Completely, completely. I think No, we're, I think we're mediocrely organized. You think I should change it? inconsistently organized news of the week. We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll see. We'll see. All right. Well, look at this. This is really interesting. Central London total volume of construction per survey.

It's all kicking off in the city, isn't it? King's Cross. Yeah, this,

Will Ridgway: this is focused entirely on London. So anyone that's outside of London, I'm sorry, this doesn't represent you at all. Unfortunately. So, I don't know, I don't know what's going on around the rest of the country. Maybe the rest of the country is doing great, but Deloitte only focused on London.

So yeah, sorry, I should, I should clarify that this is only specifically London based.

Stephen Drew: Yeah, fair enough. Do you know what this is? Well, we got a Manchester story here, haven't we? So as you, as, as you were saying before look at this, actually, Emma, who says architects had to be boring? Trust me. I have so many friends in architecture and And I think no one can accuse [00:18:00] an architect of being boring.

Absolutely. We've, and even in the design, we just, we just had like architecture for dogs earlier. I mean, architects, come on. No way, no way is architecture boring. I completely agree with you, Emma. And, but this is really interesting because this is actually, let me zoom in here. This is actually a hotel, Cristiano Ronaldo.

Yes, he

Will Ridgway: owns he doesn't own, but he he, he has a, he has a brand within I think it's Pestana. I think I got it right. Again, poorly organized. Basically Pestana are a hotel group and they've got a load of brands and Cristiano Ronaldo owns one of those brands. And he's setting up his got a hotel going on in Manchester back when he back to the home of where he really made a name for himself in football.

I don't know, I don't know how much you follow football there, Steve. But it's a nice little hotel and Field and Collegue Bradley are designing it. And you know, it looks, it looks good. Got to see [00:19:00] how close to the design it follows, but it looks good for now. And it's just interesting because, I don't know, Ronaldo, I like football, so I free him.

Football, this is, this

Stephen Drew: is like a match made in heaven for you, isn't it? I've always quite liked Field and Craig Bradley's work, to be honest. They're a good company as well to work for. I just think it's, it's very Manchester as well. You know what, in Manchester, like, they film so much. of like New York and Manchester because apparently some parts of Manchester look more like New York than New York.

And so they filmed the Avengers series in Manchester. Yeah. So when I lived there sometimes in the morning, certain streets closed off because in Manchester. It is. Got that. It's got a bit of a Manhattan look in certain parts of it. Oh really? In terms of the architecture. Yeah. There you go. That's pretty cool.

That's the best bit of tidbits. You're gonna get outta me all week, . I'm done now. Was that your words of wisdom there, Steve ? That's totally my words of wisdom. Yeah, we're gonna get your wisdom in a little [00:20:00] bit, aren't we? Yeah, I know. And this is amazing. Thank you. That's not my hotel, sadly, but I do like it too.

Brilliant. Okay, great. Let's, let's go ahead. Let's go ahead. All right. So I'm going to have a little, oh yeah, I got done a little bit of my news now because I think you're off the hook and you will, we've done all of your super cool news. So I'll show you a few things that I've been looking at as well, which are quite cool.

So I'd love to show people if they've not seen already. Because there was a really cool event at the start of the year called the Architects Underground, which was really, really good fun. And the Architects Underground, in the short term, because it was an event based within Reba, you could go there, you could basically hang out and see these really cool Exhibitions talks, you know, I saw that her cell talking about the project they've got going to Mars and what they've done in the short term.

Well, it's that they've got this channel and this channel that they're doing now is to kind of keep everything a [00:21:00] bit fun and fresh or the Arctic's on the ground is part of Reba. I really like it because they've got really cool. different episodes per week. This one's about, this one's was fruits, but then I like, there's one that I think you'll enjoy, which talks is quite recent.

Oh, that's not it. Isn't it? Who is this? This is crazy. Whoa. Whoa. TAU. Dear you, we gotta be careful of that! That was insane! So what I wanted to go to is Here we go. Wow.

Oh my gosh, honestly. That has nothing to do with me. So look at this, the Arctic's underground. That was one of them things, wasn't it? This, that's one of them, like, YouTube fails. Even I'm going bright red now. That was like a We're sticking to poorly organized it is, not even the interview. I can't believe it.

I am like, I'm the Welsh guy, liberal Welsh guy from Wales. [00:22:00] That is unbelievable. Right. Okay. So look at this. So TAU TV spectacle four. So this talks about architecture spectacles. Right. I can't keep serious now. Gotta be careful. I gotta, I gotta click on the links. You get all kinds of crazy stuff popping up, don't you?

But so it talks about architects just wearing glasses and all the famous architects wearing glasses in the world. Look, like, oh my gosh, we got anonymous people laughing. Well, this is, we might get pulled off air after this. So, hey, I think that was one of their moments of just like. Yeah, it's like the algorithm TAU,

right? Okay. So check out the architects and the ground. Okay. Really, really, really cool stuff. So I'm going to look through as well. I want to show you, Oh yeah, we've got some really cool stuff popping up as well. So, so here, oops, sounds coming out on my screen, but I want to show you [00:23:00] guys. Let's have a really cool thing.

So shall. Right. They did basically you can see it here. They are doing electric car charging stations. So you have Will. Will is a part two architectural assistant who works for Bowman Riling. And so, you know, think what you want of all companies, but the fact is we need to be focused on sustainable solutions.

Yeah, so we need to be looking at electric car charging stations. We need to be basically looking at these solutions. And what I quite enjoyed was this little this advertisement, which talks about his journey into architecture and. And then talks about him building electric car charging station.

It's quite a well polished advert, isn't it? Yeah. You know, I know I haven't got the budget to show yet. Do you know what I mean? But what I really liked about it is that, oh, we're going to get Will to come on the Architectural Social Podcast. Will. Sorry, there's so many Wills here. Will [00:24:00] from Bowman Riley.

Will from Bowman Riley is going to come on the Architecture Podcast. I'm scared to see what the next things are in these things now, isn't it? Yeah, be careful. But the square, the square episode 21. So this was a really good one that I found as well. So this is Corgan. This is an architectural client called Corgan.

I think they're a really cool company in America. And what I wanted to highlight is that they've got a really cool podcast, which is definitely, definitely worth checking out. If you've never been, if you've never heard of Corgan, they're a really cool architectural practice in the UK, quite big. They do a lot of transport, do a lot of data centers, and they have a really, really good little podcast as well.

And so you can check out. It's on Corgan and it's called The Square. And so what I like is, and this is why I've currently got my own podcast as well. And it's a bit offline in the audio only, but it would be nice when [00:25:00] things start coming around again. Well, so I think it's quite nice to have interviews podcasts in the flesh as well.

So definitely, definitely check out that. Brilliant. Okay. So those are a few of the things I found. And as well as that, I quite like this sketch as well here by Proctor and Matthews. So this is actually on the architecture journal and website, but I thought that's quite cool. This is quite a little, maybe a nice little tone to end on, you know, in terms of our news of the week.

So, so this is on the Architecture Journal, YouTube channel. So what I'm gonna do is try to find more and more videos. Oh, look at this Liesel. Be careful what you dream about. Love your guys. Keep us entertained. Liesel, I used to work with Liesel. I hope you're doing well and Liesel has a fantastic dog as well.

So will I quite, I quite like that little sketch. I wasn't very good at sketching myself, but this is a pretty cool sketch. [00:26:00] Yeah, that's good. I'm just invested into it. There's just so much detail

Will Ridgway: into it. There's just so much detail. I'm just looking around everywhere.

Stephen Drew: I know. It's pretty cool, isn't it? So let's leave it at that.

So what I'm going to do after this is I'm going to put through all the links on the Architectural Social. We have a new section for some of the stuff that we've looked at today. You can check out the Architectural Social, which is www Architecturalsocial. com is free for everyone to join. We're going to post the news there as well.

I've, I've, I'm glad a few people are having a giggle. I'm totally stressed out about using YouTube and TAU, the Architects Underground. TAU, I don't know what's on there on YouTube and the TAU, but that was dangerous. that Arctic's underground, definitely check it out because I will never be posting content from that channel again, Will.

And, and look, we got to keep, we got to be, keep [00:27:00] being upbeat. Okay. Remember we are together going through this coronavirus. It's a stressful time, but we got to bond together. You've got to be proud of what you're doing. Okay. And so I just thought I'd end on a light note because what I've done is I've found new gifts now, Will.

Remember we were talking about it earlier. So I got my bells and gifts, but I thought of one that would sum up the how patriotic and we've got to, we've got to look, it's just saying working from home. Okay. That's a good one, isn't it? But what we've got to do. Yeah. I love that video. I'm going to miss working from home, going back to the offices, but I do think it's really important.

So come on guys. Let's stay proud. Let's keep going. Let's work out them office configurations. If you've got any interesting news to show, please, please do send it. You can send through some news to us on hello at architecture, social. [00:28:00] com. We will be doing news of the week next week, and I would love to mix up the formula as well.

And in the future, we can have a few guests on. So definitely, definitely. Do check it out. Thank you so much, Vanessa, for your kind comments. I have definitely enjoyed today's video. Will? Yeah? You know what we do at this point? I'm just thinking in my head. Will, we need your Will's Weekly Words of Wisdom.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Will? Yeah? Okay, we gotta be You gotta We're very we're very proud of you, Will. You've been winning that round for a long time. You've taken the things out. For Will. What's the Weekly Words of Wisdom this week?

Will Ridgway: So my Weekly Words of Wisdom is to I've had one. I had an idea beforehand. I've forgotten it.

Be prepared in everything that you do. [00:29:00] That might be surprising. Which is something that I've not done and I've been put on the spot and I can't think of what I was originally going to talk about.

Stephen Drew: Will, Will's weekly words of wisdom was two words. Two very good words. Well done Will. Well done. And while we're here, you can find me.

I am the head of architecture at McDonald and company. And what I was going to say is I do have currently have right now some new jobs in for the healthcare sector. Jobs of the week are healthcare architects with Revit. So if you do use if you have worked on hospitals, cause hey, coronavirus, everything else.

Actually there's quite a lot of demand for, oops, sorry. There's a lot of demand for. people with healthcare. So if you have worked, yeah, if you've worked on hospitals before or pharmacies or anything, maybe like laboratories, that kind of stuff's really, really interesting. And if you've used Revit, then I do have some roles for you.

So do get in touch. Well, thank you so much. [00:30:00] I think, well, that's us for now. We're going to get some more more news next week. Maybe some cats. It was quite dog heavy. Wasn't it? Maybe we'll get some cats.

Will Ridgway: Maves and cats. Oh, my mom, my mom just got a dog, so I might actually show that next week.

Stephen Drew: Yes, please do.

Thank you so much, everyone. Have a good day. Take care. Bye bye. Thank you. Bye.