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Digest #11 – Dutch pedal prowess + why Belgian houses are so weird and wonderful
Friday 25th April: We head to the Netherlands and then to Belgium to delight in the superior cycleways, bonkers borders, and weird homes...
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Jason Sayer
Digest #10 – Sutton on the up: raised by Sam Chisholm, Takero Shimazaki, BDP and Ab Rogers
Tuesday 15th April. We head down, way down, to Zone 5 to see the birth of a new wellness-focused co-working space and new cancer care facilities…
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Jason Sayer

March 2025

Architecture guide: Harlow
Harlow, can you go? (Yes, you can). Architect/planner Frederick Gibberd’s New Town in Essex boasts the UK’s first tower block, exceptional public art…
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Jason Sayer
Digest #9 – The hero you should know: Julia Barfield
Tuesday 11th March 2025: We go back to the year 2000. Not much has changed, but there’s a wheel on the water…
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Jason Sayer
Digest #8 – Sun, sun, sun, here we come!
Tuesday 4th March 2025: We head towards the light. Or rather, it heads towards us. And we are grateful for it.
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Jason Sayer

February 2025

Digest #7 – A wilting music hall in Wapping, Heathrow's early years, tumbleweed and more...
Tuesday 25th February 2025: We head to Wapping to sample a crumbling music hall, cheap pints and Brunel’s genius.
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Jason Sayer
Digest #6 – Monuments on the moon? John Winter rusting in peace, a Martin Parr exhibition and film + more…
Tuesday 18th February 2025 – We head up to the Moon with the WMF, back down to some rusted steel in South London, learn about the high cost of free…
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Jason Sayer
Digest #5 – Sheppard Robson’s Shopping City in Wood Green, Jan Kattein’s Blue House Yard, The Walmart effect and more…
Tuesday 11th February 2025: Northwards again, this time to Sunny Wood Green where a 1970s bit of utopian planning still endures, and then back in time…
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Jason Sayer
Digest #4 – Bedouin tents in Barnet, a Belarusian church in Finchley, Corb and tourists in Tokyo, and more…
Tuesday 4th February 2025: We head North (but not beyond the M25) to peruse two more unique churches, taking a look at Tokyo’s drift and the man behind…
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Jason Sayer

January 2025

Digest #3 – Bristol brutalism, Foster the basil leaf-counter, the lost gardens of London, and more…
Tuesday 28th January 2025: We head southwest to see some incredible concrete, southeast to a pub in Nunhead, and Foster’s oeuvre laid bare in the New…
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Jason Sayer
Digest #2 – Westminster millimetres, Ralph Erskine and Proctor & Matthews in Greenwich, landmarks lost to LA’s fires and more
Tuesday 21st January 2025: The painstaking work of building the Jubilee Line Extension and the wonders it takes us to...
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Jason Sayer
Digest #1 – Powell & Moya in Putney, Owen Hatherley on Caruso St John, Hélène Binet, Sharks! And more...
Tuesday 14th January 2025: Why I’m doing this
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Jason Sayer
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