Architecture - Hackney Citizen

The Yard reopens with a poem made flesh

Diane Page's revival of Shange's 1970s choreopoem comes to a warehouse theatre rebuilt around a ventilation chimney and recycled brick

Author: Hackney Citizen

Plans submitted for 23-storey ‘co-living’ high rise in Homerton

A ‘co-living’ high-rise block could be coming to Hackney under plans to knock down and redevelop abandoned garages in Homerton

Author: Hackney Citizen

Plans submitted for 23-storey ‘co-living’ high rise in Homerton

Between utopia and dystopia: Flo Barbour on film, architecture and the body

The Homerton filmmaker using experimental film to challenge physical environments

Author: Ellie Waterhouse

Vincenzo Latronico: 'There are writers whose main theme is love or revolution — mine is real estate'

The Milanese author will discuss his widely-acclaimed novel 'Perfection' at the Barbican Centre next month

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Vincenzo Latronico: 'There are writers whose main theme is love or revolution — mine is real estate'

Pulitzer winner Alison Killing on the split second that forged her career

Alison Killing is best-known for her award-winning research into detention camps in Xinjiang, China, but the story that made her career could easily have passed her by

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Pulitzer winner Alison Killing on the split second that forged her career

Finding beauty in the everyday — artist Kuda Mushangi on his debut solo exhibition in Hackney

Architect turned artist Kuda Mushangi seeks to find beauty in the mundane at his first solo exhibition, 'Familiar Spaces'

Author: Michelle Tonta

Finding beauty in the everyday — artist Kuda Mushangi on his debut solo exhibition in Hackney

Let there be (more) light

An expectant couple dreamed of raising their family in Stoke Newington, but a typical townhouse didn’t quite cut it

Author: Hackney Citizen

Beyond the atelier: How the London College of Fashion has sewn itself into Stratford's tapestry

'It is a working building, with the smell of dye in the air, the sound of scissors biting into calico, the buzz of sewing machines'

Author: Julia Silverberg

Council block built on former community garden in Clapton wins architecture prize

Chowdhury Walk impressed RIBA judges with its ‘elegant’ design and environmentally-conscious construction

Author: Hackney Citizen

Council block built on former community garden in Clapton wins architecture prize

‘Home is a human right’: Ukrainian artists behind recent Hackney exhibition on the beauty of Brutalist housing

Elena Orap and Dasha Podoltseva highlight similarities between social housing in Ukraine and the UK

Author: Marion Weaver

‘Home is a human right’: Ukrainian artists behind recent Hackney exhibition on the beauty of Brutalist housing

Hackney Design Awards: Mayor hails borough’s ‘visionaries’ as this year’s winners announced

Frampton Park Estate and family home in Victoria Park among those crowned at biennial celebration of architecture

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Design Awards: Mayor hails borough’s ‘visionaries’ as this year’s winners announced

London Open House 2022: Hackney Town Hall among a number of local buildings offering people a peek behind the curtain

This year’s architecture festival includes tours of Dalston CLR James Library and the Hackney Empire

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

London Open House 2022: Hackney Town Hall among a number of local buildings offering people a peek behind the curtain