Episodes

  • Detailer 35 - Luka Vukotic

    Detailer 35 - Luka Vukotic
    Oct 31 2025
    Going with the flow - David catches up with Luka Vukotic of Art Invest to find out how this developer and rowing fanatic is steering his boat through the choppy waters and headwinds of the current economic climate and bringing his placemaking expertise from King's Cross and elsewhere to Canada Water and beyond. Stroke!

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    49 mins
  • Detailer 34 - Rob Heasman

    Detailer 34 - Rob Heasman
    Oct 17 2025
    David catches up with Earls Court Development Company CEO Rob Heasman to find out how it's going getting the 'wonder' back into the 40 acre site through great meanwhile uses like Come Alive - The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular, allowing for 'beautiful' tall buildings, green space and a wide mix of uses, and drawing on the memories people have of the area - including his Dad winning a top-of-the range wind-surfer in a raffle at the London Boat Show...

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    46 mins
  • Detailer 33 - Muyiwa Oki

    Detailer 33 - Muyiwa Oki
    Oct 3 2025
    David catches up with outgoing RIBA president Muyiwa Oki at the Institute of Directors in London to ask him about how it all went, the pressures of the presidential chains, his aims and ambitions, housing, AI, education, access for all, and - incidentally - being the youngest and first black man to sit in the Portland Place hotseat

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    43 mins
  • Detailer 32 - Sam McClary

    Detailer 32 - Sam McClary
    Sep 19 2025
    David catches up with journalist-turned-BCO CEO Sam McClary on a walk-and-talk around The City to get the lowdown on the Council's ambitions under her stewardship, NextGen, equality, the future of the office as places, the tears she shed and heartbreak she felt on leaving Estates Gazette, and how she decompresses through hiking, biking, and making Lego towns. Oh, and how she was once told to 'stick to her knitting'...

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    49 mins
  • Detailer 31 - Peter Barber (edit)

    Detailer 31 - Peter Barber (edit)
    Sep 5 2025


    David catches up with architect and urbanist Peter Barber to get the lowdown on his singular style, on still being 'naughty boys' in the 'tick boxy' world of housing, his distaste for AI - 'plagiarism software' that suppresses true creativity - on what music gives him, and the need for big policy ideas...which will happen when he is prime minister

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    45 mins
  • Detailer 30 - Alicia Pivaro: part 2

    Detailer 30 - Alicia Pivaro: part 2
    Aug 22 2025
    So, how did it go? David catches up with artist and 'optimistic anarchist' Alicia Pivaro to get the lowdown on her inspirational 14-day trip of a lifetime to the Arctic Circle. Polar bears, guns, using vodka in watercolour painting, disappearing glaciers, cello recitals on the ice, wild swimming in freezing waters, walruses and making Arctic art in a 'ridiculously huge red dress'

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    40 mins
  • Detailer 29 - Ab Rogers

    Detailer 29 - Ab Rogers
    Aug 8 2025
    David travels to the Soane Museum to talk to Ab Rogers about 'Talking Buildings' - the show he curated about the life and works of his father, the late Richard Rogers. Ab talks about distilling a life of ideas into eight key projects, being a designer in his own right, the importance of colour; cities, sailing, carpentry, and harnessing dyslexia as a superpower.

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    52 mins
  • Detailer 28 - Basil Demeroutis

    Detailer 28 - Basil Demeroutis
    Jul 25 2025
    David travels to TBC.London overlooking Tower Bridge to catch up with its developer, Basil Demeroutis of Fore Partnership. Basil talks about how ESG is 'broken', about creating 'beacons' for others to follow, how people are paying for purpose, the 'crisis of connection' affecting us all, wanting to be an astronaut, working on Number One Poultry next, and 'unlocking magic'

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    50 mins