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Merlin Fulcher
@merlinfulcher.bsky.social
Architectural journalist, editor, and broadcaster
📢 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...
June 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
📢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...
June 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
📢 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...
June 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
📢 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...
May 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
📢 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
April 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🎧"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... 🏘️

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April 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
📢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...
April 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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 🙏🌿🌻
April 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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...
April 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📢 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
April 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📢 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...
March 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
📢 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
March 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
📢 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...🏙️💸
March 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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 🌿✨
March 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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 🙏🌿✨
March 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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
March 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
📢 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
March 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
📢 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
March 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
📗 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.
February 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
📢 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
February 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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! 🌿🦆
February 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
📢 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 🎙️🎧🏙️
February 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
📢 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
February 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
'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
February 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
📢 big news!! Our latest edition of The Brief podcast featuring guest pundit Jon Wright will be featuring on Resonance 104.4FM TODAY from 2pm!! Tune in to hear fresh insights on the latest Barbican, Milton Gate and Prince Charles Cinema news 🎙️🎧
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM