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Sometimes something comes out really nice … and then you get asked to add handrails.
Still, I think we did pretty good, and turned something made in the feverous energy of a workshop into something which might just last a few years and get some footfall.
Tim Lucas, his brother Sam, two young engineers and myself volunteered to go back to Hooke mid storm to make a few alterations to “Lenny” the lenticular truss bridge.
We lifted them up off the wet mushroomful ground of Hooke’s beech woodland to stave off the trench-foot. We lifted the decking boards, inserting spaces made from old fiberglass tent poles split down like bamboo so between showers their soft absorbent wood could dry out properly. We added a simple handrail to each side just solid enough to be safe and offer a steadying hand to passers-over.
As the rain lashed us, I was reminded that a bad day in the woods is so often still better than a good day of zoom calls.
Thanks again to my co-tutors Tim Lucas and Lee Ivett, to the amazing students and volunteers who brought this to life, to Hooke Park for hosting us and letting us use their dream workshop, and to Studio in the Woods for doing what they do.
If you are interested in this kind of education and shared experience then pop along to the celebration of 20 years of Studio in the Woods, this Friday at 6pm at London School of Architecture. There will be talks, drinks and a premier showing of a film about this year’s workshop. Hope to see you there.
27 Oct 2026
In the latest instalment of The Designer’s Toolbox series, we asked Thomas Randall-Page, architectural designer and co-founder of THING, to share some of the items that colour his working life. From indispensable reference books to a Japanese feather brush, Tom talks us through the tools and objects that are among his most treasured possessions …
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20 Oct 2026
On Thursday 15th of October Thomas Randall-Page from THING is opening the Royal College of Art’s public lecture series 2026/27
Curated by Matthew Blunderfield the series is entitled “Before Us : The city at close range” the series brings together six practices to consider the local not as a retreat from the wider world, but as a lens through which to understand it more precisely. Spanning temporary interventions, sacred spaces, public housing, and urban ecologies, this series asks how global forces are made tangible in particular places. It also considers how architecture might respond across scales, from objects and interiors to buildings and urban spaces.
Presenting projects from both before and after the establishment of his collaborative practice THING which he directs with Patrick Fryer and Lucas Facer, Thomas will show work ranging wildly in scale, permanence and pace, unified by a characteristically playful approach.
Reserve you spot at this free lecture by visiting www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/school-of-architecture-public-lecture-series-before-us-the-city-at-close-range-thomas-randall-page/
18:30-20:00, Lecture theatre 1, Darwin Building, Kensington Gore, SW7 2EU
12 Oct 2026
As part of our ongoing fascination with all things clay, THING invited 32 practitioners to come together to share objects and tell stories. Participants included artists, researchers, architects, an archivist and even a developer.
Each generously brought a thing made of clay which meant something to them or embodied a story, project, fascination or piece of research. These objects then formed a short sweet exhibition and a fascinating intimate night of discussion and exchange.
A small photo book is in progress to record this exhibition and event which was captured so beautifully by photographer Hannah Norton.
All this was held at the Zaha Hadid Foundation as a part of the Architecture Foundation’s Post Press series in celebration of the publication of New Architects 5.
26 Aug 2026
It was a pleasure visiting and reviewing @theladder_rr by @_thing_studio in Redruth, Cornwall for the @architectsjournal August Issue: Retrofit.
On slow architecture as a social resilience-building process instead of product in a post-mining town. Featuring theatre sets, creative ecosystems, Victorian celestial nods, and the reopening of mines under the green transition.
Thank you Rob Wilson and @franwillz for commissioning. Many thanks for @patrick_j_fryer , @felixmortimer for taking me through the project and being the creators with @joshnawras and @clairenewmanarchitect behind this wonderful space.
It’s a special feeling to continue my mining thinking and writing after the @designmuseum residency with @futureobservatory
Photographs by @rory_gaylor
20 Aug 2026
So hard to choose! but never the less a pleasure to speak about my love of tools in a feature in @themodernhouse .
Japanese feather brush
This feather brush is also from Hands, and it was in the calligraphy section. I believe it’s some sort of duster, made out of a duck’s wing with a handle. I use it for cleaning drawings when they are completely covered in rubbings out, or when I’ve made a model and there are pieces of sawdust on it. It’s also a beautiful object to look at.
Special thanks to @nellcard & @phinharper for inviting me to contribute.
In the latest instalment of The Designer’s Toolbox series, we asked Thomas Randall-Page, architectural designer and co-founder of THING, to share some of the items that colour his working life. From indispensable reference books to a Japanese feather brush, Tom talks us through the tools and objects that are among his most treasured possessions …
Solid brass cubes
I bought these brass cubes in @handsinc.official in Japan, which probably puts any other hardware shop in the world to shame. It’s like a hardware, craft, art, anything to do with making shop. I think it’s about seven storeys high, and you can buy pretty much anything you can dream of in terms of tools and materials there. I picked up these 40 mm brass cubes in their metal section, and they’re incredibly precise and satisfying. I use them for model making, as an extra pair of hands – similar to how you would use a clamp. I love them because they’re intrinsically beautiful, as well as being fantastically practical tools. There’s a famous quote by William Morris, who said, “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful,” and I think good tools should be both of those things.
Cutting tools
Whenever I travel, I’m very drawn to the hardware shops and markets. I think that there’s something lovely about looking at tools from different places, because the fundamentals of what tools need to do is quite similar wherever you are in the world. And then people have found just slight tweaks to the way that’s achieved. It almost feels like they’re all life forms and they’ve evolved in slightly different cultural conditions.
08 Aug 2026
This Thursday as a part of a week of programming around clay THING will be discussing Clay 1A with their client the Architect turned developer Crispin Kelly. Clay 1A is a brand new cultural institution celebrating and exploring how clay things surround us, and the formative impact they have on our lives. Clay 1A will be housed in a majestic 6 storey former gain warehouse on the Ipswich quayside, and for the past two years THING have been developing designs for this raw and adaptive retrofit. Please join us from 7pm @zahahadidfoundation tickets available via the @architecturefoundation
28 Jul 2026
We have invited 30 guests to share a clay based object and a story behind it’s significance, which will form the exhibition ‘Touch Earth’ hosted @zahahadidfoundation, as part of the @architecturefoundation POST PRESS programme.
Whether it’s a sentimental fragment, building material, ceramic vessel, votive offering, piece of research, or something else entirely - if it’s clay, it’s in!
The night before the exhibition officially starts, it will begin with a show-and-tell and an act of live-curation. Each person will have a minute or two to introduce their object and the story behind it, before placing it within a growing display assembled collectively over the course of the evening.
The participants are: Alberte Lauriedsen, Alex Lynes,Alex Arestis, Arran Gregory, Caz Hildebrand, Chloe Leen, Claire Baily, Clare Twomey, Dan Pope, David Watson, Ellis Woodman, Emaad Damda, Farrokh Aman, Geoff Marsh, Jonah Luswata, Juliet Haysom, Lewis Jones, Lucas Facer, Louise Trodden, Maria Lisogorskaya, Margit Kraft, Maria Gasparian, Mark Freeman, Matthew Hodges, Mollie Anna King, Patrick Fryer, Seb Maher, Rich Miller, Sanjukta Jitendhar, Sahra Hersi, Sarah Hardacre, Sian Ricketts, Theo Molloy, Thomas Randall-Page, Toby Pear, Victoria Wägner
23 Jul 2026
POST PRESS Week 7: Clay.
🎟Tickets are available at www.architecturefoundation.org.uk @zahahadidfoundation @of__uk @_thing_studio @yanwu.official @maccreanorlavington @sergisonbates_london
22 Jul 2026
Due to the remote and inaccessible location, installation of the bridge was done by hand with each truss brought from the workshop to the site by a team of willing slaves. Careful planning, direction and communication was essential to avoid overloading any individual whilst moving these large objects into position.
Once located the pair of trusses were joined by a simple walking deck. The deck boards start off closely spaced but as one moves towards the center the gaps widen giving one the impression the structure has breathed in and expanded into its curved form.
The resulting bridge sits lightly in the verdant forest setting like a slice of the wing of some huge plane.
We plan to return to the woods to lift the bridge a touch, to prevent moisture from tracking up from the ground into the timber. It won’t last forever (nothing does) but it will increase its lifespan.
A bad day in the woods is normally better than a good day at the computer!
Photos credits to Jim Stephenson, Nyima Murry, Bella Bathurst, Lee Ivett and Tom Randall-Page
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14 Jul 2026
There is nothing quite like ‘making in place’, building in the woods, from the woods, and it’s amazing what you can produce in just a weekend!
One of our directors, Tom, co-led a group for this year’s Studio in the Woods alongside esteemed engineer Tim Lucas from Price & Myers, and London School of Architecture director, Lee Ivett. We were given a clear simple brief to build a bridge over a steep gully and stream to allow people get around the spectacular woods at Hooke Park more easily.
The bridge we designed is formed from two simple ‘lenticular trusses’ laid side by side producing a gentle humped arch to the walking deck and sharp ends which touch the ground crisply. The 11.5m curved truss cords were made by joining individual shorter timbers with scarf joints to form seamless flexible ribbons of timber. The off-cuts from the scarfjoints were used to join the upper and lower cords and and set the angle of their connection.
These slender cords were spaced into a stable truss with thin vertical fins to give lateral stability and round timber diagonals acting in compression to brace the truss.
A brilliant weekend and a great reminder that you can just make stuff, and you can make it beautiful…no CAD drawings, no 3D model, no contracts, just 13 people, a saw mill, some spruce logs and the Frei Otto designed workshop of my dreams!
If only more projects could work like this….
Special thanks to Jim on the sawmill, Chris Sadd the forester, Charlie Corry Wright, the workshop master and Kate Davies Hook Park boss! And to Charley Brentnall who’s spirit still runs through these workshops, and whose calm voice still echoes in my head.
@TiminKew
@Baxendale
@PriceandMyers
@HookePark
@studiointhewoods_official
Photo credits to Jim Stephenson, Nyima Murry, and some me of our great students!
@clickclickjim @nyimamurry
13 Jul 2026
Bringing together our love of baking, making and celebrating, last month we built ‘Doorie’, a tandoor oven for the @zahahadidfoundation to celebrate the publication of New Architects 5.
Constructed from a range of found and upcycled materials, at the centre sits a giant clay plant pot which was carefully transformed into a DIY tandoor oven. The chimney and hexagonal base are the large aluminum printing plates, sourced from the press of the book. The plates depict images from the New Architects 5, a byproduct of the CMYK offset lithography printing process. At the end of the summer the plates will be melted down and returned back to the press for recycling.
A special menu was curated by @farrokh.aman and @louisezazie for the launch night, who fed over 160 guests over the course of the evening with a delicious spread of culturally promiscuous tarts and freshly baked flatbreads straight from the oven.
“Doorie” was carefully seasoned with a concoction of mustard oil, jarra, yoghurt and salt over 8 hrs in preparation for cooking.
The oven was built @blackhorsews in collaboration with @blackhorse.responders Alexis McAtte and Jahvannah Reid, with support from the Jos Myles Geczy of @raft.quest.
The oven will be used for a range of events over the summer as part of the @architecturefoundation ‘s Post Press programme. We are hosting a week dedicated to clay from the 27th July, more details to follow on this soon!
Drawings: Farrokh Aman
Photography: @blndrfld & @_thing_studio
03 Jul 2026
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