community/cultural
Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, 2026
Obra, Regent's Wharf - 10 All Saints Street, N1 9RL
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Obra is Sordo Madaleno’s transdisciplinary laboratory, open library, and public living room, turning our London studio into a public-facing space for curiosity, testing, and dialogue. An addition to London's architectural landscape, Obra will host temporary exhibitions, events, and talks fostering exchange between the studio, the environments it works within, and the communities it engages.
Angel, King's Cross St. Pancras
Caledonian Road & Barnsbury
17, 205, 214, 259, 476, 73, 91
Sordo Madaleno opens Obra, a ‘public living room’ along Regent’s Canal, a space to share, question and reflect on architecture.
Fernando Sordo Madaleno says: “As a family-led studio rooted in Mexico for nearly a century, we didn't want our London home to be a closed-off practice. Obra is the physical manifestation of this ambition to open our space — and our thinking — to Latin American diaspora creatives, the international architecture community, and other disciplines; a place for listening, exchange and learning from this new context. As far back as I can remember, our family home has always centred around the living room and the library. Obra reinterprets that within the setting of our studio.”
The space opens with Memory as Material, curated by Audrey Tseng de Melo Fischer, Global Head of Research at Sordo Madaleno. The exhibition explores the studio's work through its relationship to land, people and the process of building. The exhibition design was co-designed and fabricated with ‘fierreros’ — rebar workers currently active on Sordo Madaleno projects in Mexico City — whose improvisational ingenuity on the construction site served as both inspiration and method. The display furniture draws directly from the temporary structures fierreros create for themselves: built from the very material they work with, making visible a skeleton of labour that architecture typically conceals beneath its finished surfaces.
