WORKING ARCHITECTURE GROUP [WAG]

WAG’s Open Tables Ecology has just been announced as the winning project in this year’s Workspace Group Urbantine Project. The design will be constructed and displayed at Tent London during the London Design Festival this September.

Open Tables Ecology is a study in contemporary interaction theory, or Ubiquitous Computing.
Ubiquitous Computing is based upon using the particularities [...]

We are very pleased to report that our “Social Ecologies” proposal for Milton Keynes site in Europan 9 Competition has received a commendation.
Jury’s report:
The project explored social structures and an approach to tenure rather than architecture or built form. Housing is grouped in small courts with shared community gardens and clustered communal resources. The jury [...]

Year: 2007
WAG: Architects
Project Description: Ideas competition for development of a derelict but listed island resort and bridge/pier for UrbanSplash.
Estimated contract sum: N/A
Our latest competition submission for this exciting new project. Unfortunately, WAG was not shortlisted to procure project further. To see other entries/winner please visit RIBA competitions office.

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Site Analysis:
Weston-Super-Mare operates efficiently [...]

I have just come across this first class review of the Spatial Interface conference from last April:
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=528&storycode=3066225

The project that David Littlefield refers to is the Interspace proposal, which has been published in one form in Medium Architecture (Bauhaus University Weimar Press). Filip Visjnic has recently been relooking at the project and WAG are planning to [...]

As part of my involvement in organising a book and exhibition proposal (with Nic Clear, Murray Fraser and others), for the PODnet Spatial Interface project (which started as a conference at the University of Westminster, co-organised by the Polytechnic group at Westminster, the AVATAR group at the Bartlett, UCL, and SIAL at RMIT, Melbourne), WAG [...]

WAG have recently received planning permission for this 9th floor extension and the development of a roof terrace with extraordinary views over Regents Park and the whole of London.The extension forms part of a bigger project of remodeling the entire maisonette apartment in a 1960’s purpose built residential block.We are working with Russell Sage [...]

Year: 2006Project description: an office development within the North Laines Brighton Conservation area. Replacing a redundant light industrial space the development sits within the backs of 2 parallel streets.Contract sum: £2.1m projectedClient: ASA Property PartnershipWe have been working with Robin Locke on this very difficult site for some time. The difficulty relates to planning [...]