News

26 Jan 2012
Tom joins the Architects for Health design charette hosted at South Bank University, contributing to a seminar on 'making spaces for children' and discussing with students their proposals for Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital.

6 Jan 2012
Geoff reviews Cottrell & Vermeulen's Broadway School in Birmingham for Building Design (subscription required).

2 Dec 2011
AOC's Spa School reviewed as Building Design's in-depth weekly building study (subscription required).

11 Oct 2011
Geoff gives a lecture, 'Towards a Popular Architecture, Maybe' at the opening of the 13th Buenos Aires International Biennal of Architecture at the Auditorio Buenos Aires, while our work is on display at the Biennial's exhibition in the Centro Cultural Recoleta from 3rd to 30th October.

3 Oct 2011
AOC move to a new and larger studio on the top floor of 49 Columbia Road, east London.

19 Sep 2011
AOC contribute to 'A Few Friends' at Testbed 1 by Will Alsop during London Design Week, decorating a series of five columns in the space adjacent to the new Doodle Bar.

12 Sep 2011
Langley Hall Primary Academy, a redeveloped Grade 2 listed building in Berkshire, is completed on time, with this new free school opening its doors to its first intake.

5 Sep 2011
Our new building for Spa Secondary School for young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) completes on time, with staff and pupils moving in for the start of the academic year.

29 Aug 2011
AOC give their public lecture 'Sampling and Synthesizing' at the Paul Rudolph Hall, Yale School of Architecture, USA.

25 Aug 2011
AOC take up their position as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at the Yale School of Architecture, teaching the advanced design studio 'Restoring Public Possessions' and seminar series 'People Making Places'.

23 Jun 2011
Planning approval is granted for our new building at St. Saviour's and St Olave's Secondary Girls' School, SE1, delivered as part of the 4Futures Southwark Schools for the Future programme.

6 Jun 2011
AOC successfully gain full planning approval for the redevelopment and refurbishment of a terraced house in N16, Hackney.

13 Sep 2010
October issue of Icon Magazine features cover story on AOC and our "immersive, allusive way of working with cities".

1 Jul 2010
AOC's pattern for The Lift exhibited in The Aram Gallery's annual 'Prototypes and Experiments' show, this year focusing on trials and experiments into details of buildings, rather than models of whole projects, as a way of gaining insight into the architect's imagination.

23 Apr 2010
The Independent names AOC as one of "Britain's most gifted younger architectural practices", praising Hearth House as a "beautifully tailored architectural game".

23 Apr 2010
'Building Blocks' exhibition opens at Fargfabriken in Stockholm, including a house designed by AOC with children from Friars Primary School.

30 Mar 2010
Daisy judges the RIBA Awards 2010 for the East region alongside Russell Brown and Norfolk architect Michael Innes.

9 Feb 2010
Daisy and Tom showcase AOC's work alongside Italian practice Ma0 as part of the Architecture Foundation's London_Rome Conversation series.

15 Jan 2010
AOC's Chatley Lodge shortlisted in the AJ's Small Projects 2010.

2 Dec 2009
Tom joins a discussion panel on school design at the Education Now virtual conference.

01 Dec 2009
The RIBA's 'Picture This' exhibition – 175 images of remarkable RIBA competition winning projects, featuring AOC – opens at the Architecture Centre, Bristol.

20 Nov 2009
Tom talks in Stockholm at the 'Critical Spaces of Today' Seminar on contemporary theories and practices of planning, urbanism, architecture and geography, organised by the Swedish Association of Architects.

4 Nov 2009
Gill speaks about our recently completed north London family home as part of the Building Centre's 'Concrete Elegance' event.

19 Oct 2009
Daisy works as a Local Community Advisor for the Civic Trust Awards 2010, assessing shortlisted entries in the London Borough of Newham.

17 Oct 2009
AOC's animation on social housing for the Fabian Society debuts as part of the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art's 'Think Tank' exhibition.

20 Sep 2009
Vincent leads the fifth annual walking tour of the Seven Hills of Croydon as part of Open House weekend.

13 Sep 2009
AOC's No.1 Lower Carbon Drive dollshouse goes on exhibition at the Building Centre, London 14 Sept – 17 October.

11 Sep 2009
AOC picked out by ES Magazine as one of a new generation of practices challenging the old guard of Starchitects.

10 Jul 2009
AOC features in the RIBA's 'Picture This' exhibition at CUBE, Manchester, celebrating the RIBA's 175th anniversary with images of 175 RIBA competition winning projects.

1 Jul 2009
Daisy becomes an accredited Building For Life Assessor

26 Jun 2009
Geoff and Daisy, with Richard Grayer of Balfour Beatty, share insights into communicating the BSF design process with participants on London Met's School Design CPD course.

21 Jun 2009
AOC named by The Observer as part of "the young generation with a vision to build Britain".

15 Jun 2009
Tom contributes to the first issue of architectural fanzine P.E.A.R. with an essay of copy and duplication

11 Jun 2009
Daisy argues in defence of mass housing targets – and wins – as part of the RIBA Building Futures Debate Series 2009.

4 Jun 2009
AOC's "We have Great Expectations" phasing model for Charles Dickens Primary School features at this years Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

1 May 2009
Daisy selected as one of the new intake of CABE Enablers.

9 Apr 2009
AOC exhibit two projects at the Building Centre's London Yields Urban Agriculture exhibition – Monsanto New Garden City and Croydon Roof Divercity

1 Apr 2009
AOC named by Icon Magazine as one of 20 architects who are transforming the future and changing the way we work.

26 Mar 2009
Geoff introduces George Lucas' THX 1138, part of Building Futures' Vu-topia weekend film series at the Barbican.

25 Mar 2009
AOC – working with Mae Architects - win the contract to deliver urban design training for local authority planning and highways officers for Urban Design London.

06 Feb 2009
Tom is inspired by Lucy the Elephant in Building Design.

16 Jan 2009
Daisy goes to Berlin, invited by the Baupiloten and Jean-Philippe Vassal, to lecture on participation methods for the Architecture Design Innovation Programme at the Technical University.

11 Dec 2008
Robert Venturi shows AOC and their students his seminal Vanna Venturi House, whilst cameras roll for the upcoming documentary 'Learning from Bob & Denise'.

10 Dec 2008
Geoff, Vinny, Tom and students from their 'Learning from Milton Keynes' studio at London Metropolitan University interview Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown at their office in Philadelphia.

18 Nov 2008
AOC's exhibition 'Cultural Approaches' opens at the British School at Rome, with accompanying lecture from Daisy and Tom, as part of the 'London-Rome: Work in Process' series.

5 Nov 2008
The Transform Schools consortium, with AOC as one of its five architects, is appointed by the London Borough of Southwark as selected bidder for the £200 million Southwark Schools for the Future programme.

16 Oct 2008
AOC shortlisted for the Young Architect of the Year Award 2008.

14 Oct 2008
The Lift is immortalised in icing by cake supremo Rachel Mount.(Image courtesy of Lift.)

3 Oct 2008
AOC propose a Croydon Rooftop Future Non-Future, for The Contemporary Unbuilt Architecture of London exhibition at the Architectural Association, 6 –29 October 2008.

Oct 2008
AOC named as one of the new generation of architects "who will define the physical fabric of our cities for the next 30 years" in 'Hatch', the new book from AJ editor and critic Kieran Long.

14 Sep 2008
AOC's exhibit Polyopoly Venezia opens to the public in the 'Experimental Architecture' exhibition at The Venice Biennale.

16 Aug 2008
The Lift opens in Shoreditch Park for London's Shoreditch Festival.

4 Jul 2008
Geoff meets Geoff Manaugh, author of BldgBlog, at Storefront for Art and Architecture's pop-up venue in Exhibition Road, South Kensington, as part of the London Festival of Architecture.

26 Jun 2008
The Lift opens in Festival Square at London's Southbank Centre for the second part of the Lift Festival 2008.

12 Jun 2008
The Lift, a demountable theatre and meeting space designed by AOC, opens in Stratford for the Lift Festival 2008.

9 Jun 2008
AOC show their cutting pattern for the Lift at the 240th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, from 9 June until 17 August.

22 May 2008
Tom works with students from Harwich High School and METAL developing a future map of Harwich for their 'Rough Guide Project'.

16 May 2008
AOC selected to represent the UK in the Italian Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale.

10 May 2008
Geoff and Vinny collaborate with artists David Dixon and Jon Adams to mark out Tate Modern's Turbine Hall as part of an Architecture Inside-Out design workshop.

9 May 2008
Geoff leads a workshop on sustaining schools with Tessa Jowell and the Sustainable Schools Networking Forum for SE21 and SE22 in Dulwich, Southwark.

9 May 2008
Tom explains 'my home must fit me' to the crowds exploring No. 1 Lower Carbon Drive at Grand Designs Live.

18 Apr 2008
Daisy acts as a jury member for the AIA Excellence in Design Awards 2008.

Mar 2008
Vincent argues for a varied and open architecture in Architectural Review Quarterly.

Feb 2008
AOC's redevelopment of Charles Dickens Primary School gains planning permission from Southwark in 8 weeks.

12 Jan 2008
AOC tell the Financial Times about space-standards, the semi-d and second-hand suits.

25 Nov 2007
AOC named as one of 10 rising stars of Art & Design in The Observer / Courvoisier Future 500

18 Oct 2007
AOC's Crown Terrace is featured in AJ's 'pattern-book' of contemporary terraced housing types.

28 Sep 2007
AOC are short-listed for the development of the Museum of Garden History.

23 Sep 2007
Daisy sits on BD’s Cool Wall panel with Lee Mallett, Ellis Woodman and Alan Leibowitz at 100% Design.

23 Sep 2007
AOC exhibit recent work at Casa Décor in Covent Garden.

15 Sep 2007
AOC’s Janet Summers Early Years Centre is open as part of Open House London.

23 Aug 2007
AOC are one of six practices in the AIA's 'New London Practices' exhibition, New York.

22 Aug 2007
Vinny discusses the joys of practising in London with 6a, Carmody Groake and drdha at the AIA’s ‘New Practices London: Milieus and Methods’ event on Madison Avenue, NY.

4 Aug 2007
Daisy & Geoff present the Lift project at the Thinking Metropolis 2007 biennial event in Copenhagen.

Jul 2007
AOC win the open design competition to redevelop the Royal Armouries, Leeds.

27 Jun 2007
The AOC-designed soapbox maze opens for a month in the Ballroom of the Festival Hall, South Bank Centre.

25 Jul 2007
Geoff interviews Derek Walker, chief architect of Milton Keynes, at BDP as part of the AF Gold lecture series.

23 Jun 2007
Tom makes his wish for London 2012 at the AF's Debate for London, Tate Modern.

20 Jun 2007
Vinny argues 'Is London full?' at the Building Futures debate.

Apr 2007
Vinny guides the masses on a most egg-cellent adventure as guest editor for the London Architecture diary.

Mar 2007
AOC shortlisted for the redevelopment of the Royal Armouries, Leeds.

Mar 2007
AOC's blueprint for a petrol-free London published in GQ style and exhibited at the Architecture Foundation's Yard Gallery.

Mar 2007
AOC's two Elephant and Castle housing schemes exhibited at the Ideal Home Show's exhibition of exemplar housing, 'In My Backyard'.

Mar 2007
AOC gain planning permission for a residential development in a LB Haringey Conservation Area in 6 weeks.

Mar 2007
AOC's master design feasibility for 400 new homes in Peckham goes before the Southwark Design Panel.

Feb 2007
Lift approve AOC's briefing development and design commences on the Lift New Parliament, completion due June 2008.

Dec 2006
AOC win competition for feasibility to master design an £80m mixed use development in Peckham, including 400 new homes.

Dec 2006
AOC win two new buildings through competition at the Elephant and Castle – a £2.7m mixed use block and five new terrace homes.

Jul 2006
AOC's new Early Years Centre at Friars hits the cover and is the featured building in the AJ.