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Unit 02 An Embassy in Regents Park

Unit brief 

Unit 2 project for 2025-6 is the design of an embassy in an extensive enclosed garden in Regents Park, consisting of a chancellery, the workplace of the embassy and a residence where the ambassador and their family live and entertain, located. Although complex the project has been successfully carried out by previous students of Unit 2 and is based on the British Embassy in Warsaw that was designed and realised by Unit teachers Tony Fretton and David Owen for Tony Fretton Architects.

Architectural model showing a glass building beside a simpler structure with three detailed trees

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Course
Tutors Prof Tony Fretton
David Owen
Where Goulston Street
When Monday and Thursday

Architecture Postgraduate Studios

 
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Architectural model showing a glass building beside a simpler structure with three detailed trees.

Unit 02 An Embassy in Regents Park

Tony Fretton David Owen

An embassy in an extensive enclosed garden in Regents Park, consisting of a chancellery, the workplace of the embassy and a residence.
Futuristic hillside with tiered homes, greenery, diverse buildings, tall trees, and a bright sky

Unit 04: Projected Topologies Living Together on the Edge of Time

Jonas Lundberg, Nate Kolbe

Projected Topologies is a speculative design studio exploring new forms of collective, off-grid living on a hilltop site in rural Greece. Students develop proto-architectural systems that fuse building and landscape, working collaboratively in first-person perspective through Minecraft, AI tools, drone scanning, and film. The studio projects design futures across 10, 50, 100, and 1000-year horizons, responding to the climate emergency with net-positive ecological ambitions.
People on colourful mats inside a low wooden library structure, in an outdoor festival setting

Unit 06: Festival City: Common Ground in Crisis

Dr Bo Tang, Robert Barnes and Shamoon Patwari

ARCSR Unit 6 (2025–26) explores the River Lea as a Living Lab for participatory architecture in response to climate emergency, post-industrial change, and social fragmentation. Students will work with local communities to design festivals, shared spaces, and ecological interventions, moving from micro-site prototypes to a collective Festival Framework. The year includes skills-based volunteering days and will conclude with a public event and exhibition of student work on the Lea.
Sunlight streaming through partially open windows, casting shadows on a wooden sill

Unit 07: Poetic Pragmatism IV: Refuge (or Gimme Shelter)

David Grandorge, Ted Swift

This year, the studio will explore, again through the lens of Poetic Pragmatism, how architecture can embody and facilitate refuge. Our investigations will address two distinct sites: the intersection of Plumbers Row and Mulberry Street in Whitechapel, London and the remote settlement of Shingle Street in Suffolk.
Hand-drawn sketch plan of a house with columns and courtyards

Unit 08: What Goes Up? Impermanence – Presence in Practice of Reuse

Takero Shimazaki, Jonathan Mortlock

This year, Unit 8 will explore the role of impermanence in architecture. The Unit will do so through an explicit focus on the process and production of drawings, in collaboration with Drawing Matter.
Impressionist-style landscape painting of a village with red-roofed houses set against a blue mountain backdrop

Unit 09: Small is Beautiful

Stephen Taylor, Han Wang

Drawing on Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful (1973), Unit 9 explores designing simple, economic architectures within a small community at the Moulin de Croisance in the Cévennes National Park. Inspired by Cézanne’s modest hamlet in Meyreuil, where buildings share proportions and materials, we embrace locality and reuse. Our aim is to foster meaningful place and community through an evolving concept of “slow architecture.”