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We are so happy our Marina Strotz has been shortlisted as a RIBA Rising Star 2024 ! 🌟 Shortlist link here.

As associate director in the practice, Marina leads by doing (with hands typically covered in soil), fostering kindness and sustainability, and has helped create our studio culture of equality, a true change maker with plants and technology as her medium.
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Within the practice she has led the design and our physical delivery of several pocket parks working closely with communities and volunteers. Together, delivering meaningful collaboration by making spaces which unite communities and creates a legacy that continues to grow.

Go marina 🥳

Marina’s passion for integrating nature into the built environment led her to pursue a Royal Horticultural Society course at Winterbourne in Birmingham whilst working full time as an Architect. As part of a small collective, she helped design, fundraise for, and build the ‘Wander and Wonder’ garden, which was awarded Gold at BBC Gardener’s World Live 2023. This garden now serves as a therapeutic space at Rookery Gardens, an assisted-living mental health service under the NHS Trust and Birmingham Mind.

Architects Journal feature first look on our London project Poirot's Bijou Apartment here.

We're pleased to share a recent article published in Dezeen, for our project Poirot's Bijou Apartment in London. To read the article click here.

Our project Twilight House has been shortlisted for the British Homes Awards, for the Best Interior Design Category 2024 🎉.

Our design for a wonderful private client as their home, was inspired by the house location for the Tom Ford film version of ‘A Single Man’ – the Schaffer Residence designed by John Lautner in 1948. .

We are such fine company in the shortlist, which you can view here.

Photography: Dion Barrett

Great progress on site for the Leamington Spa Creative Quarter developments with our project on Court St and Clemens St, more info about the project is here.

Photos taken by Warwick District Council, shows the extent of the site works and new build areas with the existing Old School building retained, with a new CLT timber framework for the extension for community use.

🎊 Planning approval for Birmingham Smithfield 🎊

We are so happy to be part of designing this landmark scheme for a vibrant new neighbourhood - here are some images from our collaboration with dRMM, working along side their team we developed this family oriented plot with a play pavilion corner, gardens, pocket park, and a mixture of ground floor uses such as gym and shops. Part of a wider masterplan led by Prior + Partners with landscaping by Field Operations and client Lendlease with Birmingham City Council.

Looking forward to developing with the team on site soon.

We are so pleased to have been longlisted for the Davidson Prize for our “Qweensway Ringway : it’s giving Monumental Domesticity” proposal, developed in collaboration with our Chloe Luvena Dent and #savesmallbrook campaign, Birmingham City University students and Dr. Michael Dring with Webb Yates, Zero Carbon House, and Sean Burns team.

If you have time to vote for your favourite here.

The 2024 brief ‘Rethinking the home- adapt and reuse’, addresses the housing shortage in the context of climate change :

Building upon our teams activist national campaign to save Smallbrook Ringway Centre in Birmingham, we propose this modernist icon is retained, linking the paradigmatic shift from carbon-intensive modes of building to new nurtured experiences of urban living in co-existence and queer kinship.

Domestic interiors are negotiated within the existing reinforced concrete frame, adaptable to lifestyle choice and circumstance- with panels grown on site in renewable biomaterials such as cross laminated bamboo and hemp.

The south facade becomes an inhabited winter garden enclosed by over a thousand windows salvaged from the north elevation of the Ringway centre.

Our proposal foregrounds inclusive fair housing and contemporary practices in conservation, whilst setting new standards for carbon reduction.

We are very pleased to share our collaborative project Loop the Loop, as part of the Moseley Road Baths activity programme, has been longlisted for the RIBA Journal MacEwen Award 2024, exemplars in architecture for the common Good.

For more info and to see the other fantastic longlisted entries click here.

Huge thanks to all the team, project partners, and wonderful participants.

We are excited to be working with RIBA on their Future Leaders programme 2023:

The programme provides vital early careers advice through support, guidance and education, whilst also focusing on diversity and supporting the next generation of talented architects.

Intervention Architecture's Director Anna Parker has recorded a series of three talks, as part of the 'Learning to Lead' theme, covering topics such as; embedding studio culture / co-design and collaboration / valuing every client.

Future Leaders is a three-part programme, consisting of two in person conference events and separate on-demand CPD course from industry experts recorded for Future Leaders 2023.

Future Leaders provides early career professionals with a comprehensive introduction to leadership through industry-specific training. Live sessions on key soft skills are delivered by an experienced coach, communication experts and thought leaders, while delegates also benefit from the invaluable applied knowledge and experience of leading UK architects.

To download a copy of this year's programme and contributors click

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We are pleased to be part of the current exhibition at the Roca Gallery, London, 'Small Spaces in the City: Rethinking Inside The Box' curated by Clare Farrow Studio. The show features a couple of our recent projects, looking at the challenges and innovative solutions for small live/work spaces in the city.

As featured in the Dezeen events guide.

Free admission 8th September - 27th January 2024

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