Welcome to Manal Omar who has joined the practice as an architectural assistant. Manal recently completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Brighton where her work explored a circular gin distillery for an aging population.

Our Stage 2 competition entry for Highgate Cemetery is now live on the public consultation website here. Through a workshop process we've evolved our plans submitted in the first stage competition, re-framing our thinking around a 'seven generation principle' for the management for the Cemetery over the remainder of this century.

We're proud to have been shortlisted for the Highgate Cemetery Masterplan competition. Periscope, with our key collaborators Something and Son, Useful Projects, Expedition Engineering, Parks Agency and Stockdale are one of four teams selected for Stage 2. Our proposal focuses on a system to balance future death ethics, climate resilience, circularity and financial stability while respecting the built and natural heritage, existing graves and sanctity of the Cemetery today.

Our team is supported by Museum of London Archaeology, Asling O'Carroll of UCL, Russell Miller, Dennis Vickers Ecologist, Studio Dekka and Max Fordham.

You can view the announcement on the Architects Journal here and on the Highgate Cemetery website here.

Our third research publication, 'Green for Victory: Parks and responsibility' is released today, it explores the lengths and that London communities go to in order to take possession of their local parks. You can download the publication on our research papers webpage along with papers one and two, the remaining pamphlet will be published in February.

Today we bring you an update on Future Fossil, an installation on which we've been collaborating with Something and Son, Aldo Rinaldi and ARUP. The project website has been expanded to show more about the process, engagement and design of the project and trails a series of talks that are happening in Spring 2021.⁠

Find out more on our website here and the Future Fossil website.