Elle Decoration approached us to design a bathroom for a terraced house loft space, as featured in the March issue, out now! More pics and info here.

04.02.10 Tarek is off up to Nottingham Uni tonight to give a lecture. Come!

Check out Tarek's new blog post, its all about words: "...for your reading pleasure, here are my top 20 favourite words by Alain de Botton from his book The Architecture of Happiness."

Check out Julia's new blog, a photo diary: SUPERETTE DAILY

Imagine a space, a physical representation of a brand, as something that is transitory and constantly in flux like a stage set (nonetheless with an ever-changing script); so that the physical is fleeting but there remains a residue, or permanence of thought, that is intrinsic to the ethos of the brand.

Read more here.

We are presenting our ideas for the future of the pop-up phenomenon at RIBAs Guerilla Tactics conference today. The Pop-Up is dead! Long live the Pop-Up!

Watch the youtube video of the event below:

17.11.09 Julia & Tarek will be at Cambridge Uni tonight. Come!

F&M are exhibiting their shortlisted scheme for the Gasholder No. 8 competition. 

The competition was run by Argent & King's Cross Central to design the public realm and buildings for a new event space and public park within and around one of the historic gasholders at King's Cross Central. The exhibition runs from 16th November until the 4th December at the NLA.

These photographs speak for themselves. They are from a project called “Women are Heroes” by anonymous French photographer known as JR. Giant photographs of women cover the walls of homes in Rio's favelas.

F&M have been invited by British Land and Wordsearch to come up with ideas for a temporary architectural installation at the 122 Leadenhall site. Check out our submission here!

The second event in the wishyouwerehere swap-shop pops up this October in London's Newburgh Quarter and runs from the 1st to the 31st October 2009. Come!

Will this nonstop incessant inbox ever stop? A constant, indifferent stream of meaningless inane words, filling our collective minds with ever-increasing nonsense that no one has the neither time nor the inclination to read.

If you have the time or the inclination read more here...

F&M have not been selected to move forward on the Next Wave Bexhill Shelter competition. Check out our entry and decide for yourself here!

When you’re in New York, there's nothing you can’t do. The city is teeming with life, and possibility. It’s the sheer intensity of the density of New York that strikes you immediately, knocks you off your feet. Being in New York is like being in your very own time lapse photography documentary, listen out for Sir David Attenborough narrating in the background as the local wildlife scurries about across the screen. Read more here...

1 of 5 out of 80 entries! Read all about it in the...Standard!!

And also at the BBC the AJ and BDonline. Don't forget to vote on the AJ page!

F&M celebrate their first project in the US... A pop-up shop in New York's Lower East Side. Check it out!

Ask a child to draw a picture of a house and you know what you will get. Ask an architect to do the same and god knows what myriad of constipated thought might run through their minds...before pen is put to paper. Read on...

Building magazine asked us to take a new look at this old icon. Here's what we came up with...

The new Tower of London is made up from a Crown Carousel which rotates around an inner santcum housing the family jewels. Viewing pods, (the London Eye-Balls) sit at the tips of the crown, providing uninterrupted 360 degree views of...the protected viewing corridors. The Royal Ravens live in a specially constructed aviary around the crown with other royal animals roaming freely in the new public garden below. The project is featured in a Building magazine article, check it out here.

Tall Forest

F&M have made it as one of the four finalists in the Young Architect of the Year category!

This summer 15 boutique brands from the Newburgh Quarter in London will trade places with 15 brands from the Lower East Side in Manhattan. Feix&Merlin have been commissioned by Beyond the Valley Insight to design the pop-up retail environments in both cities. More to come!

Follow us! @feixandmerlin 

Feix&Merlin have been selected to exhibit a couple of their working models at this year's Summer Exhibtion at the Royal Academy. Come find us in the architecture room, now open! Exhibition runs from 8 June—16 August 2009.

Elle Decoration approached us to design a bathroom for a standard terraced house loft space...check it out!

1 of 5 out of over 600 entries from 52 countries....take a look!

F&M are experiencing an unprecedented number of enquries for residential refurbishment projects. Is there something in the air?!

Guess what! F&M are preparing a little something for Elle Decoration. It's all very secret... so watch this space!

Feix&Merlin are exhibiting their ideas for the ideal bus stop in collaboration with The Architecture Foundation. Come see a new spin on an old icon and share your own creative take on the bus stop. The exhibition runs from the 29^th October until the 2^nd November at the.gallery, Oxo Tower 11am - 6pm Admission free.

The private view will take place on Friday 31st October at The Gallery @ OXO Tower, cocktails from 6 – 8.30 pm.

OCTOBER 2008

Read Martin Spring's review of the forth coming bus-stop exhibition at the Oxo Tower.
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3126355&c=2&encCode=000000000186813a

Here's how it all went down last Thursday night (31.10.08) at the YAYAs 2008.
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=431&storycode=3126373&c=2

Hey, guess what!?
Feix&Merlin have been shortlisted for the Young Architect of the Year Award! 

Go and check out the exhibition of all long-listed entries at the NLA!

Here's Tom Dyckhoff's review of the contenders for this years YAYAs.

Feix&Merlin have not been picked for the shortlist on The Renaissance Pavilion Competition for Yorkshire Forward.
Clearly, we woz robbed. Judge for yourself here...

Why stop all the events and awards, just because there’s a crunch on? Now is the time to work hard for your dirhams by getting some exposure.
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3125103

F&M have just been appointed to design a new art/architecture intervention in a pedestrian passageway directly opposite the steps to the Old Building, at the LSE (London School of Economics).
WATCH THIS SPACE!

Forget Seven Years in Tibet, if Brad Pitt is serious about a career in architecture he’d better start thinking about seven years in the classroom.
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3122311

Ever been the only single person in the room? The pressure to conform can cause untold grief at dinner parties. It also happens to be the single greatest blight on the built environment.
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3119905

There are just too many delicious goodies at this year’s London Festival of Architecture to take in without drawing up some kind of menu.
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3116906

The Evening Standard picks up the story about the 50-storey St Paul's. Read all about it in the...Standard!

Feix&Merlin reveal a novel solution to the issue of preserving views of Wren's masterpiece from various London locations, re-imagining the masterpiece as a 50-storey residential tower.

The event takes on a ‘Global and Local’ perspective to think on the wider impact of global trends and how, here in the UK, we respond and anticipate them. Thursday 15th May, 9.30am RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD. RIBA Futures Fair 08.

Our throwaway society may find it hard to imagine a building made up entirely of recycled components, but that is just what we have to do.
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3113691

Theatre Delicatessen offers a rare and brave example of how to put the interiors of derelict buildings to good use.
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3108669

It’s not so difficult to open young people’s eyes to the excitements of the built environment. All it takes is a little creativity, hard cash and the ability to surprise.
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3108669

The brief calls for a sustainable set of site offices that could be demountable and re-used on different Urban Splash sites across the country. These would not only have to provide a robust working environment for site personnel, but also act as a landmark building signalling Urban Splash’s presence within the local area.

The all day workshop looks at space standards and the 21st century home and aims to rekindle the debate around space standards within a 21st century context. It will examine the evidence around a number of agendas within which space standards overlap, with an emphasis on what constitutes design quality, functionality, liveability and fitness for purpose. Friday 23rd November 2007, 9.30am to 3.30pm RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD

The project incorporates an office for the Urban Splash (Midlands) Ltd. and their development team, but is primarily to provide a landmark Marketing Suite for the Walsall Waterfront development.

Feix&Merlin's competition winning beach hut design, 'Eyes Wide sHut' was featured in an article in the Guardian 9th September 2007. 

Feix&Merlin's competition winning beach hut design, 'Eyes Wide sHut' was officially unveiled by the Mayor of Mablethorpe at a grand opening ceremony on the South Promenade, Mablethorpe. www.bathingbeautiesfestival.org
22nd September 2007.

Feix&Merlin's competition winning beach hut design, 'Eyes Wide sHut' was featured on the BBC news - watch it here! 22nd September 2007

Feix&Merlin's competition winning beach hut design, 'Eyes Wide sHut' was featured on the Channel 4 news. Check it out! 20th August 2007

Our cities and townscapes have to reflect the messy unpredictability of those who live in them. Attempts to impose order by micro-managing every masterplan will end in lifeless homogeneity – which is the enemy of beauty
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3093653

Feix&Merlin have won an invited competition to design 4nr. apartments from shell & core at the Urban Splash development, Albert Mill, for a private client.

Feix&Merlin's competition wining beach hut design, Eyes Wide sHut, will be featured at the Bathing Beauties exhibition at the Hub Gallery, Lincolnshire from Friday 15 June until Sunday 2 Sept 2007. Contact Mia Thornton, The Hub Navigation Wharf, Carre Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, NG34 7TW, UK hubofficer@leisureconnection.co.uk tel: 01529 308710

Football chants, wearing Gilbert & George cufflinks, designing Middle Eastern cities of the future … it’s all so conformist. And when even virtual worlds smack of the pack mentality, something has to be done.
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3089631

G4C (Generation for Collaboration) and YPP (The Young Practitioners Panel of the RIBA) are hosting an exposé of outstanding architectural work by talented young architects and have invited Feix&Merlin to exhibit at the Bright Young Things! exhibition at Gleeds Offices 95 New Cavendish Street London W1W 6XF on Wednesday 6th June - Friday 8th June 2007. Sponsored by Gleeds tel: 020 7631 7000

When it comes to public art, there are two schools of thought: ‘plonk art’, where you plonk down a slab by a big-name artist, and a more local, integrated approach.
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3086020

There’s a yawning chasm between the type of homes developers are building, and the homes people want to live in. So how do we bridge the gap...?
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3083047

Feix&Merlin win the international Bathing Beauties competition to 'Re-imagine the beach hut for the 21st century'.

Feix&Merlin shortlisted for the renovation of the Café-bar, Deal Pier, Kent.