Unpicking Architecture: misuse and reuse of stone with The Stone Collective

Name: Unpicking Architecture: misuse and reuse of stone with The Stone Collective
Start: 2026-02-05T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-05T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Hypha Gallery 2/No. 1 Poultry

Past Event Arts Craft

Date & Time

📅 Thu, Feb 5, 2026

🕐 6:00 PM

Ends: Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM

Location

📍 Hypha Gallery 2/No. 1 Poultry

1 Poultry, London, EC2R 8EJ, United Kingdom, London, England, EC2R 8EJ

🏙️ London

About This Event

An evening speculating on the misuse of stone at1 Poultry, reuse of stone at The Ned and applications of spolia at Phoenix House.

Join us for an evening dedicated to stone part of What lasts doesn't always hold shape exhibition's public program.

During the event:

Pierre Bidaud of The Stonemasonry Company will speculate on stone misuse at No.1 Poultry designed in 1985 by James Stirling and completed twelve years later.

Robert Greer of PAYE will address stone reuse at The Ned, designed by Sir Edwin 'Ned' Lutyens in 1924.

Together, they will speculate on the contemporary application of stone spolia at CSK Architects' Phoenix House.

This event is kindly sponsored by The Stone and Surfaces Show.

What lasts doesn't always hold shape

Curated by Taylor Hall and Rebecca Jak, this exhibition explores stone as material and metaphor, bringing together the works of Jobe Burns, Marian Drew and Levent Ozruh.

The exhibition will run 30 January - 7 March (Thursday - Sunday 12-6pm)

Hypha Gallery 2/1 Poultry, London EC2R 8EJ

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