Maggie's Night Hike

A team from Edward Cullinan Architects will be taking part in this years Maggie's Night Hike.

This 20 mile night walk around London takes place on 17 September and is in aid of Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres. Maggie's Centres aim to help people adjusting to living with a diagnosis of cancer so that they can get on with their lives. They provide relaxation and stress reduction techniques, guidance on finding the right information for anyone affected by cancer, and simply a welcoming environment to meet and share experiences over a cup of tea.

Having participated in 2008, we are looking forward to taking part again this year, particularly as we are designing the Maggie's Centre North East.

The team name, Cullinan's Solar Strollers, has been inspired by the sun image, shown in the section below, that Ted Cullinan drew to highlight the passive solar principles used in the design of the Maggie's Centre North East.

We are very grateful of any donations!

Section through the proposed Maggie's Centre North East: Pipes below the surrounding banks will provide ground source heating to the building and a south facing sloping roof over the library will have photovoltaic cells to make electricity.

Roof plan: A landscaped garden on the roof of the Centre will be furnished with a bowling green and fixed exercise equipment.

Ground floor plan: The Centre will have within it a dining/kitchen for meeting and preparing food in; a large shared room for activities such as yoga, classes and lectures; two smaller meeting rooms; two counselling rooms for three people; and a library with a fire in to sit by in peace.

London Festival of Architecture 2010

Preparations are well under way for Edward Cullinan Architects' (ECA) London Festival of Architecture events this weekend.

Reclaimed doors have been hung in the exhibition space ready for project panels of ECA and Ramboll UK's recent and current projects and the postcards from our Love Your Canal competition are ready for judging by Ted Cullinan, Peter Murray (LFA, NLA, Wordsearch) and Mark Davy (Futurecity).

The installation on the street and canal facades of our studios has been completed. The banners on the canal side of the building can be enjoyed at this very moment and will be up for a couple of weeks. The reclaimed doors on the street facade, painted with an image that is legible from only one vantage point, will be installed each morning of this weekend's events.

The weekend of events kicks off with a talk by Ted Cullinan on Friday evening from 6.30pm. Places are filling up fast so if you would like to attend, book you free ticket asap at the LFA website.

Join us on Saturday for an afternoon of tea and cake and the announcement of the winners of our Love Your Canal postcard competition. Prizes have been kindly donated by Cass Art. There will also be free boat rides to and from local architects along the canal who are also participating in the Festival.

The Making Places exhibition of ECA and Ramboll's work will be open on Saturday and Sunday from 1 - 5pm.

We look forward to seeing you there!