We were invited to London by Blanche Cameron to take part in a RESET debate...

RESET
Debate-The tension between ecology and architecture
BDP office-London

Cath http://www.shu.ac.uk/built/architecture/staff/basilio.html

shared the bill with

Gary Grant http://www.garygrant.me/

Dominic Coath http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/

Dusty Gedge http://www.livingroofs.org/

Blanche Cameron director of RESET setting up at the beginning of the event. See link for more information about RESET.

http://reset-development.org/

The link below will take you to some video clips of the debate.

http://reset-development.org/#/events-talks/4539274650

We managed to get a front row seat.

The talk was held of the office of BDP Architects in London in Brewhouse Yard in Clerkenwell. What a great place to work, an old brewery but with a new bar in the lobby!

But it soon filled up with folks from all over London and further afield.

There were also some great models of some of the projects that the office had done. This one is Hampden Guerney school just off Edgeware Road. it's a primary school and is a bit like our school with terraces from every classroom but they have more floors and a tent on the roof instead of plants.

The really cool thing was that we got to stay over with Dusty Gedge http://www.dustygedge.com/ and even saw his mini green roof and shared a room with Lisa Lee Benjamin see here for her exciting ecological projects http://www.evodesign.biz/ and the next day we Cath took us to the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) for our lunch.

It was a really lovely sunny day as well, thanks everybody :-) xxx