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Merlin Fulcher

@merlinfulcher.bsky.social
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Architectural journalist, editor, and broadcaster

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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Our latest edition of The Brief features Tom Dollard of @goodhomesalliance.bsky.social discussing the £15bn Warm Homes Plan, Westminster retrofit first, ARB protection of function, and the 2026 Serpentine Pavilion. Listen and subscribe here open.spotify.com/episode/6jKg...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
📢 If you have recently engaged with Open City's tours, printed tours or podcast we are keen to hear your views. Our online survey take less than four minutes to complete - and you will only need to fill out the sections relevant to you ✍️ open-city.org.uk/blog/2025sur...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
📢In this month's edition of InterCities podcast Owen Hatherley is joined by the academic Dr Yair Wallach to discuss his 2020 book: A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem' with a focus on ephemera and urban text during the British Mandate 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2pHF...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
📢 This week's The Brief podcast features guest Billy Reading with host Sahiba Chadha discussing housing targets, St Pancras' upgrade, Central YMCA and Norman Foster's 90th 🎙️🎧 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
📢Our latest edition of InterCities podcast focusses on Kharkiv -- featuring architect and author Ievgeniia Gubkina in conversation with Owen Hatherley 🎧🎙️🏙️ shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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InterCities: Kharkiv with Ievgeniia Gubkina | Open City
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
📢 our latest The Brief podcast is a special on location recording inside Geology of Britannic Repair: the British Pavillion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale with co-curator Stella Mutegi. Available for early listening now 🎧✨ shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
📢 this month's InterCities podcast focusses on Energoprojekt and the transformation of postwar Belgrade featuring guest author Dubravka Sekulić with host Owen Hatherley. Listen 2pm today on Resonance FM 🎧 www.resonancefm.com
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🎧"These buildings were ahead of their times" 😢 Vickie Hayward joins me on this week's The Brief podcast to discuss @c20society.bsky.social's latest Risk List of architectural heritage facing demolition, plus AI concerns, agroforestry and community housing... 🏘️ shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“They’re fun, inventive…they were ahead of their time in terms of their purpose. These are concepts we’d want to see now!” Vickie Hayward speaks to @merlinfulcher.bsky.social about Millennium buildings on the #C20RiskList, for The Brief by @opencity-uk.bsky.social shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
📢In the latest Deconstructed podcast, host @matthewlloydr.bsky.social R discuses the past, present and future of London's troubled Euston station with architectural historian Ewan Harrison🎙️🎧 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
You can see the full list of C20 buildings at risk here c20society.org.uk/buildings-at...
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Risk List – The Twentieth Century Society
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Fascinating to visit the restored Space House for @c20society.bsky.social's top 10 buildings at risk of demolition lauch. In awe of the views AND C20's tireless campaigning for amazing architectural heritage, now embracing some 1990s gems 🙏🌿🌻
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A great evening at the @c20society.bsky.social Risk List launch, held in Seifert’s fabulous Space House. Reuse them or lose them! 💥
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A smarter use of public funds? 💸🏘️ 'It would cost £205bn to eliminate the social housing waiting list... and there would be savings to the [£15.6bn annual] housing benefit bill' Peter George on the true cost of fixing the UK's broken housing system shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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The UK government announces a £2bn boost for affordable and social homes | Open City
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Great to see the narrative around office-to-resi conversions turning around for the better. The most sustainable buildings are always the ones already standing 🙏🌿✨
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
You can hear Peter and Fran review the news plus all our other built environment shows on the Open City Podcast channel. Sign up as a subscriber via your favourite podcast channels or Acast ✨ shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
📢 Our latest The Brief podcast features Peter George of Ealing Council with AJ's Fran Williams discussing office-to-resi conversions and the challenges of delivering zero carbon affordable homes. You can listen on our channel and at 2pm on Resonance 104.4FM 🎙️🎧 www.resonancefm.com
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
There will be a complimentary crusher and trolley system so drivers can take their vehicle as luggage on the cable car instead?
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
That's really interesting, I've taken a break from socials other than to flag new podcasts going live (which I do here, on X and IG). I'm interested to see what happens next as it feels both X and Bluesky are simply 'legacy Twitter'... space for something new/offline?
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Yeah, he is on Insta. I'm not so active on Bluesky. Just posting occasionally. Is it going well?
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
📢 Our second edition of InterCities podcast with Owen Hatherley features Johny Pitts discussing the social and architectural transformation of Sheffield since the 1990s 🎙️🎧 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
You can also listen and subscribe via Acast and other podcast platforms... Thank you to everyone who supports the channel by following and participating 🙏🌿🌟 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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Plans for Manchester United's new stadium revealed | Open City
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
📢 Our latest The Brief podcast features Robin Nicholson of Cullinan Studio with host Fran Williams discussing Norman Foster's new Man Utd stadium plus planning reform and more. On Resonance 104.4 FM at 2pm today 🎧🎙️ www.resonancefm.com
Architect and podcast host posing for a photoA schedule for radio
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Such a marvellous addition to the wonderful architecture of Oxford. Well done David Kohn Architects and New College 🙏✨ www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/ci...
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Circling the square: David Kohn’s Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
David Kohn Architects has created a striking, sinuous addition that plays innovatively with materials, building techniques and architectural forms
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In 4 years, we've covered memorable architecture from Thamesmead to Chelsea, Blackheath to Barbican with authors including Owen Hatherley, Siufan Aidey, Rosamund Lily West, and Ewa Effiom. Thank you to all our subscribers and authors who made it possible 🙏🌿 shop.open-city.org.uk/collections/...
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Pocket50
We are celebrating the 50th edition of our Pocket Printed tours. Launched in 2021, our monthly self-guided tours focus on London’s most compelling neighbourhoods. Each beautifully-designed and illustr...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
📢 This March we are celebrating our 50th edition of Open City's Pocket printed tour series with a journey through the towering, highly speculative redevelopment of Nine Elms! Highlights include Kieran Timberlake's US Embassy and the newly restored Battersea Power Station...🏙️💸
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Very sorry to hear that, please email sales@open-city.org.uk for an update on where it is. Best,M
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Hi this is the March edition. Cheers,M
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opencity-uk.bsky.social @opencity-uk.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Announcing our 50th Pocket Printed tour exploring the speculative regeneration of Nine Elms, authored by our series editor @merlinfulcher.bsky.social ! Launched in 2021, our monthly self-guided tours focus on London’s most compelling neighbourhoods. Shop here: shop.open-city.org.uk/collections/...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Thanks! That layout was by Surrey model railway club and for me captures a very familiar moment in history. There were some really impressive artworks on display, a unique event!
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Had a lot of fun at the London Festival of Model Railways 2025 in Ally Pally! My favourite layouts were Two Bridges, Furness and Copenhagen Fields 🌿✨
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Very fun to explore Basildon with the marvellous @cyhsal.bsky.social and @c20society.bsky.social today... Highlights by Anthony Davies, ABK, Richard Rogers and William Mitchell 🙏🌿✨
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The Crossness Pumping Station will be celebrating its 160th Anniversary by running its steam engines on the 5th and 6th April, for more information visit: crossness.org.uk/visit/
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Visit Us | Crossness Engines Trust
Guided Tours Crossness Engines Trust Pumping Station Joseph Bazalgette Sewer Drainage Victorian Cathedral Steam Engine Beam Visit
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Petra Cox will lead a new Open City tour of Crossness and its sewage system on 4 May and 31 May. Tickets via our website open-city.org.uk/events
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
📢 This month's Deconstructed podcast explores the Charles Henry Driver-designed Crossness Pumping Station with special guest Petra Cox and host Matthew Lloyd Roberts. On Resonance 104.4FM at 2pm today 🎧🎙️ www.resonancefm.com
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Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Event showcasing brilliant emerging research in twentieth-century heritage: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx..., the first public event put on by @c20society.bsky.social's new youth group. Come along!
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Wow... celebrating (by re-imagining) 25 years of the Millennium Dome? ✨ www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/foster-...
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Foster + Partners reveals plans for Man Utd’s new 100,000-seat stadium
Foster + Partners has revealed the first images of a proposed 100,000-capacity stadium for Manchester United, close to its existing Old Trafford home and featuring a giant ‘umbrella’ roof
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 05/03/2025
Winner of the 2025 Jane Drew Prize for Architecture, the ethos of ‘unusually discreet starchitect’ Anne Lacaton is both frugal and generous, writes Justinien Tribillon. Read Lacaton’s full Reputations:
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Reputations: Anne Lacaton (1955–), co-founder of Lacaton & Vassal
The ethos of the unusually discreet starchitect Anne Lacaton is both frugal and generous, a shining light in the climate emergency, writes Justinien Tribillon
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is going to be AMAZING 🌇✨
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Listen here and subscribe to all Open City podcasts shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...
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Criterion Capital under the spotlight and how safe are London's Lime bikes? | Open City
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
📢 Our latest The Brief podcast features London Centric editor Jim Waterson with host Sahiba Chadha talking Criterion Capital, Lime bikes, Aylesham Centre Peckham and Anne Lacaton. Tune in at 2pm on Resonance 104.4FM 🎙️🎧🏙️ www.resonancefm.com
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Will ask, he is active on Instagram btw
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
🗝️ Over at Open City we're celebrating by bundling together all of Hatherley's Open City publications -- including the printed Thamesmead, Zaha Hadid and South Bank Émigré Art walking tours. Find out more shop.open-city.org.uk/collections/...
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Owen Hatherley Bundle
Celebrating the publication of The Alienation Effect, Owen Hatherley's new book on how Central European émigrés transformed Britain, we've brought together all of our Owen Hatherley books and guides i...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
📗 We're also looking forward to Hatherley's latest release, The Alienation Effect, which hits shelves next month. We've been given an exclusive presale discount code for 25% off at Waterstones — enter the code ALIENATION25 at checkout.
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
📢 Introducing InterCities – Owen Hatherley's new podcast for Open City travelling through time and space to a series of buildings, spaces and historical moments across London, Britain, and the world. First ep: Greenwich with Ana Francisco Sutherland 🎧https://shows.acast.com/opencity
The writer Owen Hatherley with a background showing span housing in Greenwich
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Fascinating as ever, thank you! Just noticed this one doesn't have a listen function, unlike all the other articles on the FT app. maybe its to do with the infographics? would be great if these could be included too as its a really handy feature 🙏✨
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Thankfully not much visible sign of River Wandle's disastrous diesel oil spill downstream between Earlsfield and Colliers Wood today... Even saw two mallards bathing! 🌿🦆
Two ducks in a riverRiver Wandle in EarlsfieldA weir on the River Wandle
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
📢 This week's The Brief features @opencity-uk.bsky.social CEO Manijeh Verghese discussing New Towns, Grenfell, SANAA and the Aga Khan. You can listen on our podcast channel AND at 2pm on Resonance 104.4 FM 🎙️🎧🏙️
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
📢 Our latest Deconstructed podcast sees @matthewlloydr.bsky.social joined by George Saumarez Smith to discuss St Anne's Limehouse designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. You can listen in all the usual places and also today at 2pm on Resonance 104.4 FM 🎙️🎧🏙️ www.resonancefm.com
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
'It doesn't need any alteration when the song is so complete' hear Jon Wright on why Deny's Lasdun's Milton Gate is so worthy of protection. Airing on Resonance 104.4 FM now player.resonancefm.com
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