Journal
Buildings don’t talk. Not in words, anyway. They stand, as moments in time, holding stories in their walls, storing history and activity, apparently indifferent to our notice. But an architectural photographer notices. That’s the job. Light and shadow, wind and rain, the passage of time. That curious quantum effect—how places change when someone is looking—these are the things worth writing down. This journal isn’t about blueprints or floor plans. It’s about the feeling of standing in a place and knowing, deep in your bones, that this place means something. Maybe they got it right. Maybe they didn’t. Either way, it’s all here, in pictures and words.
All that Glitters
A Lifetime of Liquidation
On Why the Camera Doesn’t Matter
the Lifetime Carbon Equivalent
Photographing in London for Pardini Hall Architecture
Photographing 76 Southbank for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Surreal voids, echoes, perspective and scale. Photographing The National Collections Centre for Sam Jacob Studio.
Photographing 1 Broadgate for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Regeneration, Representation and the Architectural Image
‘Regenerative Design 2026’ at the Building Centre 10/26
The Now and Future Workplace
A is for Architecture Podcast
136 RIBA Awards
Empty streets, full of possibility. London, June 2020
Photographing The Lucan for KPF
4 July, marks the anniversary of Bryan Avery’s death.
Photographing the architects of the Regenerative Architecture Index for Architecture Today
Photographing Holloway Park for the Lee Marley Group
I’ve started taking the dogs out earlier.
Photographing No.1 Berkeley Street for Crosstree Real Estate Partners LLP and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Making ‘In Practice’ for Isabel Allen, summer of 2004
The Architecture Today, Regenerative Architecture Index, workshop series 2026
Enter the Architecture Today Test of Time Awards by 26th June
The Streets of Britain
I took my dog for a walk today. Or, more truthfully, she took me.
Photographing Bath Quays South for Sunand Prasad
Photographing the Test of Time Awards for Architecture Today
Photographing 68–71 Newman Street and 9–12 Berners Mews for Barr Gazetas
An Authenticity of Care
This Is What a Housing Crisis Looked Like in the 18th Century
The Camera Must Do More Than Flatter
Photographing The Cambridge Arts Theatre, the ‘After’
Photographing Cambridge Arts Theatre Prior to Renovation.
Photographing ACCIONA in Madrid for Perkins&Will
Photographing 6 More London for Barr Gazetas
A Deeper Memory of Material Intelligence.
Merzbau, Palimpsest, Collage: A Long History of Architecture for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Photographing Squirrel Park in Oklahoma for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Photographing a Tiny Home Community in Oklahoma for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
A Distinction Between Architecture and Marketing
The Quiet Stoicism of a Gentle Radius
Photographing Secure Sanand Factory, Gujarat, India, for Architecture Today, Buildings That Stand the Test of Time Award.
Photographing 1 Keskidee Square for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Photographing in Geneva for Ken Mackay in 2007
Photographing The Tin House by Henning Stummel
Material Instability : Polaroid and Time
Photographing the Institute of Education at 20 Bedford Way for Perkins & Will
Award Winning Architecture, and Why it Matters, The RIBA National Awards.
A Certain Incompleteness
Photographing 40 Leadenhall
Photographing Ogoronwy and David Lea, 2021
Nine Elms, a “City upon a hill” and the teaching of salt and light.
Scale Lane Bridge is not just a crossing. It is a piece of civic choreography.
When Good Architecture Survives Reality. The Test of Time Awards.
Inevitably, Art Is Where You Find It
Norton Folgate on the shortlist for the RIBA London Awards 2026
Arthur Stanley House by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris on the RIBA London Award Shortlist – 2026
RIBA London Awards 2026, Noele Gordon House by Mæ Architects Ltd shortlisted
The Brentford Project shortlisted in RIBA London 2026 Awards
RIBA London Awards 2026: The Tannery by Coffey Architects shortlisted
Private Chapel, Suffolk – Shortlisted for the Royal Institute of British Architects East Awards 2026
The Sheds and Assembly Bristol have been shortlisted for an RIBA South West Award.
The Architecture Today Awards issue.
Congratulations Southbank Centre, Listed at Last!
at moments like this
The Burlian, 80 New Bond Street, W1 acquired by Allwyn.
Landsec’s headquarters at 80 to 100 Victoria Street, by KKS
Copyright and the Judge
The Lens That Destroys Architecture, or Ultra Wide and the death of perspective
Remaining Human, Ai or not Ai
Raining Glass, Photographing 60 Threadneedle Street for Eric Parry Architects, 2009
Monday, 30th January 2023
On the Moving Image
Photographing Landfall at Hayling Island for Rupert Cook
Photographing Crown Works Pottery
Photographing the Walney Island Wind Farm
Photographing Beech Street for HUB
Time to consider entering the Architecture Today Awards
Test of Time
If no human sees it, the image never existed.
Photographing Soho Place for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Stone Remembers Us Longer Than We Remember Ourselves.
Photographing The Pavilion for RDA Architects Ltd
The Post Industrial Landscape of Cumbria
Birk Dalt to Roudsea
When you look at a photograph, look for the photographer.
Photographing The Pool House for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Photographing Utopia for the Whitechapel.
Nature, our Nation’s Armoury
Years Ago My Working Life Moved at the Pace of a Monorail Camera.
From Noise to Silence
The Architecture of Attention
Photographing the Gradel Quadrangles for Grants of Shoreditch
I have never trusted the machinery of social media.
Photographing the Winners of the 2024 Architecture Today Awards, in 2025
The Class of 2025 Architecture Today | Reinventing Practice
2025 | A year lived at full stretch.
Photographing Folded Light for Carpenter | Lowings
Working for Mæ
The Double Helix that Unties a Knot
The Myth Before the Pilgrimage
Photographing One Southwark Bridge for BDG architecture + design
Frank Gehry
Third Space, Notes From a Photographer on Transformative Architecture
Spīritus, Animus, Corpus
Photographing a House in Suffolk for Williams Griffiths
Upside Down and Back to Front.
Photographing Kajima Europe HQ for Kajima. Architect Gibson Thornley
Photographing 61 Oxford Street for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
On Photography, a Sequence of Connected Thoughts
The Truth Equation and the Quiet Violence of Falsehood
The Forest and the Future
AHMM: Architect of the Year, A Photographer’s Reflection
In Paris for KPF Photographing the “Tour Allongée”
Rifleman Harry Taylor and The Great War for Civilisation.
One Newman Street by Orms, A Study in Urban Civility
Photographing 150 Holborn for Perkins&Will
From Promise to Regeneration: Isabel Allen and the Long Arc of Architectural Renewal
Architects Journal 40/40 2005
Have we forgotten how to suffer beautifully?
Photographing Headington School Boathouse for Spratley & Partners
Temple Quarter Research Hub: Intelligence Rehoused
Norton Folgate | Collaboration and Craft on the Edge of the City
The Architecture of Excess: Craft, Luxury, and the Quiet Purpose of Perfection
The Light of Care
Photographing 2 Ruskin Square for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Through the Lens of Turmoil. A Photographer at War
Reinventing Practice: Toward a Culture of Regeneration
The Twentieth Century Society’s Coming of Age campaign.
Photographing Liverpool for The Architects’ Journal in 1991
The Madness of Wet Plate Collodion at Kirkstone Quarry
A Single Exposure, A Vanishing Industry
A Legacy Beyond Words—The Power of Action in Regenerative Architecture
240 Blackfriars
The Architecture of Scottish Fishing Villages: A Photographic Meditation
The Architecture of Scottish Fishing Villages
From ‘A Promise of Living’ AHMM in Oklahoma, published April 2017
Sir Terry Farrell
Portraits from a place of darkness
Photographing De Carlo’s Urbino for the Architects’ Journal
Photographing in Amsterdam for AHMM
People in Places: Photographing UVA Amsterdam for AHMM
Photographing SIX on St Andrew Street for Barr Gazetas
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw
Working for Gensler, on Film
After the Lens, thoughts from the beach.
Photographing The Bailey for Orms
Photographing Wilmcote House for ECD Architects Ltd
Photographing in Galicia, Spain, for AccuRoof and Architecture Today
Photographing The Rowe for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Photographing Eversheds for Fletcher Priest and Woods Bagot
Photographing Heathrow T5 for HOK
Working for FASHION ARCHITECTURE TASTE (FAT)
Photographing Alley24 and R.C. Hedreen in Seattle for NBBJ Design
On The Regenerative Architecture Index, and Why I Think it is Important
The Nobel Peace Center: In Oslo for Adjaye Associates
Dinas Cross
Predicting the Future
The end of 2018
Between the Shows: Photographing the Saatchi by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
One Angel Lane — For Fletcher Priest and TTSP
Urbanest Battersea: the building I’ve been waiting for
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital for BDP
A House Among Trees: Notes on Belonging and the Forest
Covent Garden Reconsidered: A Quiet Transformation. For KPF
Light, Time, and the Architect’s Dream: Photographing Eric Parry’s Holburne Museum During Bruce Munro’s Field of Light
Photographing St Martin-in-the-Fields for Eric Parry
The Photograph Follows the Rhetoric
Whitechapel’s Civic Heart
One Hyde Park: For RSHP
The Architecture of Dignity, for Metropolitan Workshop
Because reputations are built on work, real work.
There’s Much To Do, and Still No Time
Orms: Seeing the Practice from Within
Photographing the Architecture of David Walker
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett
I Didn’t Expect That: Converting to Digital
8 Bleeding Heart Yard wins RIBA National Award
Stone and Light and Time: Donald Insall Associates’s Work at Trinity College.
Port Baku Tower and the Global Language of British Design
On not resolving complexity and making chaos out of order
A Factory of Light and Promise by 5th Studio
AHMM Reclaiming a Waterside Legacy in Bristol
King’s Cross R8. For Piercy & Co.
Light, Memory, and Places: Photographing 127 Charing Cross Road
Light, Silence, and a School in Almaty. 2012.
A good Citizen
Everything to Play For
The Outernet: A Theatre of the Everyday
White Collar Factory – A Building for the Future (and the Future After That)
CMS at Cannon Place, Design for a New Legal Culture
Alconbury (Redux): Archaeologies of Use
Sky HUB, 123–151 Buckingham Palace Road
Stonehenge
Woolwich Works, RIBA National Awards 2023 winner
The Architecture Today Awards: Buildings That Stand the Test of Time
The Regenerative Architecture Index 2025
RIBA London awards 2025: Bleeding Heart Yard wins award
RIBA London Awards 2025. Soho Place wins award
RIBA London awards 2025: Daventry House wins award
RIBA London Award 2025. Tower Hamlets Town Hall wins award
RIBA London Awards 2025. Blenheim Grove wins award.
One Portwall Square by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris wins a 2025 RIBA South West & Wessex Award
Norton Folgate wins Refurbished/Recycled Workplace at the BCO Awards
Awards, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris: “Long life, loose fit”
1 Berkeley Street: one of four Allford Hall Monaghan Morris projects shortlisted for a RIBA 2025 London Award
10 Lewis Cubitt Square, one of four Allford Hall Monaghan Morris projects shortlisted for a RIBA 2025 London Award.
Connected House: A Portrait of the Future. Shortlisted for a RIBA 2025 London Award
On the Ground: Rationalism Revisited Through the Lens of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris in America
Recasting the Familiar
On doing it right
15 Clerkenwell Close shortlisted for the 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize
YY London: Canary Wharf Reimagined
On Being Brilliant: Or How Art, Architecture, Poetry and Playfulness Are Practically a Manifesto.
Pitched Passivhaus
The Virtue of Misremembering : Photographing 168 Upper Street
Barrett’s Grove: Stirling Prize shortlist 2017
Burntwood School: Stirling Prize Winner 2015
The Angel Building, 2011 Stirling Prize Shortlist.
Liverpool ONE, Stirling Prize Shortlist 2009
Kentish Town Health Centre, Stirling Prize Shortlist 2009
Eric Parry Architects, 5 Aldermanbury Square, 2009 Stirling Shortlist.
Westminster Academy, located at the Naim Dangoor Centre, 2008 Stirling Prize shortlist
Hopes and Dreams: Building a Gallery for My Father
David Lea and the WISE building
On being there
Klimt, trees and inspiration
On Being the Change We Want to See
Quarry Studios, Moxon Architects
Photographing architects – In Practice version 2.0
2024 in Reflection: Curating a Short Portfolio
In a land where the weather is as relentless as truth
Waterfield House by pH+ Architects. Winner of a 2023 RIBA South East Award
My former studio, Lionworks, Hackney Wick. 2005 – 2020
Photographing the National Collections Centre: A Chat Between Two People Who Are Definitely Not Lost
Arthur Stanley House, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris winner of the 2024 Architects’ Journal Refurb Project Award
Patongo, Uganda. Displacement camp for former child soldiers.
A Stroll Through Ickerbuilding Plantation
20th April 2025
Lloyd’s, photographed for Lloyd’s February 2021
In Homage
A full and unequivocal apology.
Debris Netting.
Cairo, January, 2011
Slow photography
Making photographs on film
Stone Federation Great Britain Award.
‘In Practice’ The Architect’s Journal 2005
The Stark Beauty of Winter: Photographing Architecture in the Bleak Months
Norton Folgate, Architecture Today Magazine
