Words
Laura is an award-winning journalist and architecture critic who has written for publications including the Architects’ Journal, Architectural Review, Dezeen, Icon, RIBA Journal, and Domus.
Selected writing
Playground first, homes later
The Developer, August 2023
Park Hill Phase 2 by Mikhail Riches
The Architectural Review, March 2023
Park Hill’s musical generation game
RIBA Journal, February 2023
Grassroutes groups are the losers in Sheffield’s regeneration game
Architect’s Journal, December 2022
Low Carbon Champion: David Lea (1939 - 2022)
RIBA Journal, May 2022
Peter Barber’s social housing
The Developer, February 2022
High Density, Low Rise: Unity Place Housing in South Kilburn
Architect’s Journal, January 2022
Keep What You Can: Hoxton Warehouse Retrofit by Ian Chalk Architects
Architect’s Journal, November 2021
Mae’s Passivhaus block in Camden sets tone for new London vernacular
RIBA Journal, October 2021
Charlotte Perriand at the Design Museum
Architect’s Journal, July 2021
Massivhaus: Harris Academy by Architype
Architect’s Journal, November 2019
The Miracle of Marmalade Lane
The Developer, November 2019
The Weston: Beautifully articulating the relationship between landscape, architecture and sculpture
Domus, April 2019
The Culture of Practice
Bespoke, February 2019
Down to Earth: Invisible Studio
Architectural Review, March 2018
RIBA Stirling Prize 2018: Chadwick Hall by Henley Halebrown
Architects' Journal, September 2018
Building Study: RSHP’s Macallan Distillery and Visitor Centre
Architects’ Journal, May 2018
By the Book: Bushey Cemetary by Waugh Thistleton Architects
RIBA Journal, November 2017
Take a Bath: Interior Design for Bathrooms
Gestalten, September 2017
Small Homes, Grand Living
Gestalten, April 2017
Law and Order: AHMM’s New Scotland Yard Refurbishment
Architects’ Journal, March 2017
Denise Scott Brown: ‘People have learnt from Las Vegas, but they haven’t learnt the half of it yet’
Architects’ Journal, February 2017
On Site: Peter Zumthor’s Secular Retreat
Architects’ Journal, January 2017
Women in Architecture Awards: Great or Ghettoising?
A Gendered Profession: The Question of Representation in Space Making, November 2016
Has Walters & Cohen created a new typology for Western Buddhism in rural Suffolk?
Architects’ Journal, October 2016
AL_A’s MAAT attempts to reconnect Lisbon’s historic city with its river
Architects’ Journal, October 2016
RIBA Awards: Peer Recognition, Politics and PR
Architects’ Journal, June 2016
Leicester Print Workshop by Takero Shimazaki Architects
Architects’ Journal, May 2016
Wolfson Tree Management Centre by Invisible Studio
Architects’ Journal, April 2016
Centre for Alternative Technology: Questions Rather Then Answers
Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education and the British Tradition, July 2015
Sheffield: A city locked in a drawn-out retail battle
Architects’ Journal, July 2013
Without a plan, Belfast is ‘nobody’s project’
Architects’ Journal, May 2013