Open City Podcast
1) New Towns, High Streets, Terry Farrell and 'The House of Architecture'
In this episode, host Fran Williams is joined by Jos Boys, a disability design activist and trained architect who co-founded Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative and is co-director of The DisOrdinary A...Show More
2) The future of new towns, record-breaking revenue at Foster + Partners and a new tax on SUVs?
In this episode, host Merlin Fulcher is joined by Dr Jane Hall, architectural historian and founding member of the Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble. Together they discuss:Lords call for strong...Show More
3) A new housing secretary, the RIBA prize shortlist and the UK's first "super-university"
In this episode, host Sahiba Chadha is joined by architecture and design writer and features editor at STIR. Anmol Ahuja. Together they discuss:Can the new housing secretary deliver on the government’...Show More
4) Deconstructed: Carlton Cinema — Islington at the Pictures
In this episode Matthew Lloyd Roberts was joined by Nigel Smith, who runs ‘Memory Palaces’, a website and programme of walking tours to explore the history of London’s cinemas. They discussed the Carl...Show More
5) UK House Prices Fall, Open House Festival 2025 & Trump's 'Make America Beautiful Again' Campaign
In this episode, host Fran Williams is joined by Open House Festival Director Celia Mead. Celia is a management consultant who has run major organisations and cultural heritage festivals to discuss: L...Show More
6) Buzzwords: Care with Jasmina Cibic
Buzzwords is a new pilot podcast from Open City, produced in collaboration with the arts and culture podcast EMPIRE LINES. The podcast unpacks words and phrases often overused in the fields of art and...Show More
7) Dangerously hot homes, the Oxford Street redesign and the UK's first Museum of Brutalist Architecture
In this episode, host Merlin Fulcher is joined by the Head of Climate Action and Public Health at Love Design Studio and Shade the UK, Polly Turton. Together, they discuss the biggest stories this wee...Show More
8) Deconstructed: London County Hall – A Palace for Municipal Government
In this episode, the second of a trilogy to mark 60 years since the end of the London County Council, Matthew Lloyd Roberts was joined by Dr Ruth Lang. They discussed London County Hall, the purpose-b...Show More
9) Kew's Carbon Garden, Selkirk's Brutalist Gem & Relief for Bexhill's De La Warr Pavillion
In this episode, host Merlin Fulcher is joined by the architecture journalist and co-host of The Brief Fran Williams. Together, they discuss the biggest stories this week in architecture and planning ...Show More
10) InterCities: Taipei with Brian Hioe
InterCities is a six-part podcast series from Open City. In it, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these p...Show More