LFA on-location: meet this year’s Pews and Perches designers

Now in it’s fifth and final edition, the London Festival of Architecture’s Pews and Perches design competition has delivered 6 new bespoke public benches scattered around the Royal Docks.

The competition called for architecture and design students, recent graduates and emerging practitioners to deliver bench proposals that explore creative ways to use and reuse materials and take inspiration from the Royal Docks, its proximity to the water and the communities who live there.

To find out more about the project, head to lfa.london/pews.

To explore the whole LFA2024 programme, head to lfa.london.

This episode was produced and edited by Katya Spiers. You can find a transcript of the conversation below.

Download the transcript

Timestamps:

02:06: From Trash to Treasure, UEL

11:10: Now is The Time to Moor Off

17:30: The Flow Bench

27:00: On the Cobbles

33:02: 66C02

38:51: Submarine Cables

Image: Pews and Perches, LFA2024 © Luke O’Donovan

Image description: A collage of 6 benches in-situ in the Royal Docks.