Monthly Archives: September 2025
MEXTRÓPOLI 2025, South America’s Architecture and City festival
19.09.2025, Mexico City, Mexico
This week, Alison Brooks will be speaking at MEXTRÓPOLI 2025, the Americas’ most important Architecture and City festival, where over 100,000 people gather in Mexico City to rethink the city through architecture. This festival opens urgent and critical dialogue among students, professionals, creatives, citizens and urban experts from across Latin America and around the world.
This week, Alison Brooks will be speaking at MEXTRÓPOLI 2025, the Americas’ most important Architecture and City festival, where over 100,000 people gather in Mexico City to rethink the city through architecture. This festival opens urgent and critical dialogue among students, professionals, creatives, citizens and urban experts from across Latin America and around the world.
She will be joining a stellar lineup of speakers including Alejandro Aravena, Bjarke Ingels, Natura Futura, Steven Holl, Minsuk Cho, Prof. Dietmar Eberle, Elizabeth Añaños, Cierto Estudio, Shohei Shigematsu, Iwan Baan, Clara Solá Morales and Pier Vittorio Aureli.
From the MEXTRÓPOLI website:
“The right to housing is considered basic and universal. After twelve years of reflecting on the city, public space, and particularly the housing crisis, MEXTRÓPOLI presents itself as the ideal moment and space for debate, for exploring new proposals, and for interaction between the architectural community, housing developers, and citizens.
This initiative highlights the need to rethink collective housing—something that has been central to architecture for at least a century. A critical exploration is essential, addressing key aspects such as optimal urban density, typological options, flexibility, and the recycling of both spaces and materials.”
Link to event here.
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Five Teams Shortlisted for Latest LSE Development
The project to revitalise 61A Aldwych Crescent for teaching and research will help consolidate the university’s London campus.
The project to revitalise 61A Aldwych Crescent for teaching and research will help consolidate the university’s London campus.
Alison Brooks Architects are delighted to be collaborating with Feix&Merlin Architects in this competition for The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Five design teams are in the running for the LSE competition to overhaul an Edwardian office building in Holborn, central London. Located on the corner of Aldwych and Kingsway, the 110-year-old block once hosted the Air Ministry before becoming home to television stations (when it was known as Television House) and later ExxonMobil.
We are happy to be shortlisted alongside Allies and Morrison, STUDIOS Architecture with Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt Ltd, Ennead Architects with 10 Design, and 3XN/GXN with Adamson Associates Architects – good luck to all.
Read the write up on the Architects’ Journal here.
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