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As part of Clerkenwell Design Week 2015, we proudly present Wordsearch Room 101. Taking place on the opening evening of Clerkenwell Design Week, at Bespoke Careers HQ, Wordsearch Room 101 will see six participants, including Paul Finch and Peter Murray, going head-to-head to get their chosen architecture and property related gripe banished into Room 101…. Read more »

April offers “London’s most famous pun-based animal satire sporting event” the Oxford v Cambridge goat race. There’s also an awesome graphic design fair taking place at Somerset House if you can’t take the heat of competition over at Spitalfields City Farm. Pick Me Up A graphic arts festival at Somerset House, featuring drawings and prints… Read more »

Flying into a windy London City Airport on a tin can aeroplane on Friday 13th March, allowed me to reflect upon a whirlwind 48 hours at MIPIM, hoping i’d be around to return next year. My colleague, Wordsearch project manager, Lauren and I jetted out to Cannes to throw two parties on behalf of Wordsearch. The… Read more »

We’re excited to have our very own event to add to our monthly cultural round-up. Wordsearch are hosting the MIPIM Carlton Club, two evenings of parties in the Salon Californie of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. If you’re attending MIPIM, come and check us out! If you’re staying in the UK however, there are a whole… Read more »

For the second year running, Wordsearch is teaming up with our friends at Bespoke Careers to bring you the most hotly anticipated social event of MIPIM 2015. In the glorious setting of the Carlton Hotel’s Salon Californie, exists the Carlton Club, MIPIM’s most highly regarded late-night bolt-hole, offering relaxed and sophisticated networking opportunities with the… Read more »

We wanted to see the affection that exists between people, bricks and mortar, so we asked the Wordsearch team what their favourite structure in the world is. Their most beloved building. Here’s what they said: Kirk McCarthy, Artworker – I’ve always loved Leadenhall Market, it feels like the absolute essence of The City of London. If… Read more »

By day or by night, by foot or by boat; February is definitely the month of guided tours. Here are the best, with an architecture exhibition and creative workshop thrown in for good measure. Architecture on the Thames Sunset Tour Sail down the Thames whilst watching the sun set over London’s most iconic landmarks on… Read more »

We always have an eye to the sky here at Wordsearch, so we were excited to discover the newest tall buildings that will graze the stratosphere in the next twelve months. 2014 was a record-breaking year, when 97 skyscrapers over 200 metres tall were completed; and 2015 is not far behind. With the opening of… Read more »

A powerful architectural photography exhibition.

The latest wave of criticism for Thomas Heatherwick’s Garden Bridge comes from RSPB. The charity, who previously ‘cautiously supported’ the idea, have now totally withdrawn their support citing that “RSPB can suggest much easier and cheaper ways to make life more pleasant for Londoners”. The comment comes after a succession of attacks on the scheme,… Read more »

January is the time to become a hibernating hermit and ban yourself from most of the things you enjoy. So why not fill the void left from eating and drinking, and get stuck in to some of the new year events that are happening across the capital. Urban Plunge Be quick! Ending this weekend, Urban… Read more »

After winning projects for the first time in Rio de Janeiro, Jakarta, Sydney and San Francisco; completing major projects in the UK and USA; and being appointed on a large luxury residential project back in Mumbai, Wordsearch is bidding farewell to our most successful year yet. Here’s a short round-up of 2014’s high points. Breaking… Read more »

Last week we took the day off to celebrate our most successful year yet; completing the marketing and branding of Battersea Power Station Phase 3; working on major projects in Singapore, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney and Mumbai; and opening a brand new office in Sydney. As well as our London HQ expanding with the addition… Read more »

As part of our extensive work for Battersea Power Station Phase 3, Wordsearch was asked to create an exhibition for the iconic commercial and residential development. This included designing a Foster + Partners and Gehry Partners retrospective and creating a set of materials consisting of light boxes, wall panels, an exhibition guide, and a host of graphic… Read more »

You may have every day this month mapped out with cocktail parties, lunches, launches and after-work tipples, but try to squeeze in some of the below. Visit a craft fair, take an architectural boat tour down the Thames, and depending how fond you are of the skin on your knees, spectate or partake in central… Read more »

It was with shock and real sadness that we heard of Paul Katz’s death last week. Paul was a huge figure – both physically and professionally. His clients dotted the globe, and so often we found ourselves in the same cities, the same meetings and on the same projects. Once, Peter (Murray) and I were… Read more »

After rising unfeasibly early last Friday morning, the team at Wordsearch London team made our way to Eurostar, St Pancras, and readied ourselves for a day of Frank Gehry and croissants. Following a summer spent branding and marketing Battersea Power Station Phase 3, which comprises Battersea Roof Gardens, a residential development designed by Frank Gehry;  we… Read more »

On November 1st, 2014, moving trucks arrived at the One World Trade Center, carrying the possessions of the building’s first residents, iconic publishing giant Condé Nast. About 170 of Condé Nast’s employees have already moved in to the building, and 3,000 more will join them at the beginning of the New Year; in total, the… Read more »

We are delighted to announce that Wordsearch were chosen to create the marketing and branding for Phase 3 of the re-development of Battersea Power Station in London. Located on the River Thames, Phase 3 of this landmark scheme has been jointly designed by celebrated architects, Gehry Partners and Foster + Partners.  Phase 3 will be… Read more »

Wordsearch are always keen to hear about what’s happening in this breathtaking skyscraper, especially when it involves architecture. So this month we were pleased to discover that The Shard will play host to Article 25’s 10×10 Drawing The City event. One hundred artists were challenged to create an image, after being allocated a square from a grid of… Read more »

From tall buildings that graze the sky, to mini LEGO cities. Here are Wordsearch’s pick of cultural events happening in November. City of London Walking Tour This tour, run by New London Architecture, takes in London’s major commercial buildings and the medieval streets which contain them. The two hour walk passes The Leadenhall Building, One… Read more »

Alongside Bespoke Careers, Wordsearch took over The Building Centre last Thursday, inviting hundreds of guests to join us in celebrating the most prestigious award in architecture. Possessing a coveted swing tag, created by Wordsearch designer Suz Macaulay, granted entry into the swinging after party, which was attended by guests from all sectors of the industry. Revellers… Read more »

When we heard that one of the Wordsearch directors, William Murray, was driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco on a Harley Davidson, we were intrigued.  When we heard that the purpose of his trip was to interview one of the world’s most celebrated architects, Frank Gehry, we had to hear more.  Here, William Murray… Read more »

Following major project wins (to be announced shortly), Wordsearch Sydney has just opened. Led by Scott Hammond, who moves back home after seven years running our Abu Dhabi office, the team is already working on some of the biggest projects in Sydney. With six offices worldwide and 80 staff, and with projects in Sydney, Singapore,… Read more »

October looks to be the most creative month in the calendar. Poetry, drawing and film are the themes of the month, and as a creative agency, we are really in our element for the next thirty one days! Catch a film, write a poem, make a sketch, and cast your gaze over the wonderful events… Read more »

With the big win in Sydney, with work in New York, Rio and Mumbai currently, and with the opening of a new office in Australia, we have now worked or have an office on every continent.  But what about Antarctica you cry?  Well, we have a project there too, having worked with the architect of… Read more »

Wordsearch is proud to be hosting the Stirling Prize After Party with Bespoke Careers. Last year’s event, held at the Hub in Kings Cross, was a resounding success and this time round promises to be even better due to a superb secret location. The nominees for the highly prestigious awards are Library of Birmingham, London… Read more »

With the aim of making architecture more accessible, Open House began in 1992 as a small not-for-profit outfit, to promote public interest in London’s buildings. The concept has now spread to over 20 cities worldwide, with cities such as Chicago, Rome and Sydney joining this year. This weekend, has over 800 buildings taking part, accompanied… Read more »

Could “Contour Crafting” enable us to effectively print our own mega-structures and dwellings of the future? Creative agency Wordsearch, the global specialist in architectural and real estate marketing, explores the new phenomenon in construction and discovers the “WikiHouse” which has emerged during this week’s London Design Festival. 3D printing has been around for many years… Read more »

Creative agency, Wordsearch, explores what it is that makes a great brand and how it is that some brands stand the test of time. As the world’s leading creative agency in real estate marketing and architecture, it will come as no surprise that, here at Wordsearch, we are very enthusiastic about brands and branding. Whilst… Read more »

As a creative agency specialising in architecture and real estate marketing, we at Wordsearch are always on the hunt for interesting architecture and design related news and events.  So when we heard that our neighbouring art gallery, Barbican, was launching a new season of talks and workshops showcasing photography and architecture we wanted to know… Read more »

This Friday, the first flock of sprightly models stomp down the London Fashion Week catwalk. Backstage, hair-dryers blow and bluster, make-up is painstakingly applied, models are pinned, prodded, pricked and poked in what is the biggest week of the year for British fashion. As this week of art, creativity and design kicks off, creative agency… Read more »

This month is happily defined by celebrations, festivals and exhibitions. See out summer in style by partying at The Shard, cheering along the biggest fleet of tall ships the Thames has seen in 25 years, and drifting around London Design Festival checking out the myriad of events it’s holding around the city. Here, Wordsearch present London’s… Read more »

Wordsearch is proud to have produced the marketing and branding for some of the world’s most spectacular buildings.  The Shard, with its spiked structure jutting out of the city; One World Trade Center transforming New York’s skyline; and London’s Leadenhall Building, with its cathedral-like ground floor public space. These buildings are emotive, inspirational, and never… Read more »

Working in Clerkenwell … what’s not to love? Creative agency, Wordsearch, talks about working in this buzzing London area and shares their Top 10 of all things fabulous about its vibrant and creative community. As a creative agency that specialises in architectural and real estate marketing, we, at Wordsearch, would be hard pressed to find… Read more »

Whilst early marketing in magazines dates back to the 1730’s, marketing as we know it today began in the mid 1900’s, when many markets became saturated and there was suddenly intense competition for customers. Since then, marketing and communications have been transformed, with digital and mobile technology totally changing the way we target, communicate and… Read more »

Wednesday, 10th September, 18.15-20.30. If you’re interested in real estate and architecture in London, then join the ride and get your hands on the last few tickets for Sir Peter Hendy’s Heritage Routemaster tour. Transport for London Commissioner, Sir Peter Hendy has kindly agreed to drive his restored Routemaster bus around the City of London… Read more »

Londoners, if you love architecture and design as much as we do here at Wordsearch, check out these great events happening all over the capital during August.  From cycle summits, to fascinating architectural workshops for children and walking tours – get to know our great City and its architectural treasures. RIBA’S Summer Design Workshop RIBA… Read more »

This year, swimming pools, cemeteries, rooftops and rivers are playing host to a variety of cinematic experiences. But where are the most architecturally aesthetic places for a screening? Here’s our pick. The Power of Summer, Battersea Power Station Showing a variety of films until August 31st, this 250 capacity cinema sits within the iconic structure… Read more »

The Shard has been announced as one of six buildings to make the 2014 Stirling Prize shortlist. Architect Renzo Piano’s jagged creation has already become a London landmark, and at 1,004ft tall it is currently the tallest building in Western Europe. This year’s nominees are all based in the United Kingdom and they include the… Read more »

Some may say we’ve become a nation obsessed with two-wheeled travel. Ever since Great Britain’s cycling success at the 2012 London Olympics, more and more of us have been going barmy about bikes. Today the atmosphere in London is electric, as we wait for the world’s greatest cyclists to race along the Thames as part… Read more »

To celebrate the start of the 2014 World Cup , we’ve compiled a list of our top 5 Brazilian architectural highlights. From a museum which mimics a UFO, to a church adorned with 64 metre tall stained glass windows; Brazil has a lot to offer besides the beautiful game. 1. Catedral Metropolitana de São Sebastião, Rio… Read more »

Besides working hard at our Clerkenwell based branding and design HQ, we’re making time this month to visit the myriad of events and exhibitions being held across the city, as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Running until 30th June, the festival centres around the theme ‘Capital’ and is described as a “month-long, city-wide… Read more »

We created a striking and contemporary brand for a residential development in one of the most exciting areas of London. Alongside a sales brochure we produced an informative area guide to promote the location, while the website had a powerful up-to-the-minute sales database. www.wicklanewharf.com Wordsearch is the world’s leading creative agency for architectural and real… Read more »

This year we were delighted to co-host the Stirling Prize afterparty with Bespoke Careers. Held at the Hub in Kings Cross, the event started as the Stirling prize wound down providing  a fitting end for a highly anticipated date in the industry calendar. Guests made their way from Central St Martins to the Hub from 23:00,… Read more »

  Last week, in a South East London multi-storey car park awaiting demolition, members of Bromley council and Developer Cathedral group, were taken to the movies. The car park stands on the site of what will become an exciting mixed use leisure development, to include residential units, restaurants, shops, a hotel and multi screen cinema…. Read more »

Growing up in pre-Shard London, I worked to the principle that “if I can see it I can walk to it”. This theory first failed me when visiting family in Toronto as a teenager. I stepped out of my cousin’s flat, looked up, located the CN Tower on the skyline and off I set. Several… Read more »

You can imagine the expectations of a new building rising for the good when plans are presented in a case like this. We developed these in partnership with Bill Amberg for a property developer in New York on the basis that they conveyed a sense of the expertise, care and craftsmanship that would go into… Read more »

We are delighted to have been appointed to develop the leasing campaign for Doha Tower, recipient of the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s “Best Tall Building Worldwide” Award in 2012. On a visit last month, we were utterly charmed by this Jean Nouvel design. As the CTBUH’s said in their citation “Doha Tower… Read more »

Wordsearch and River Film recently visited Saint Jean Cap Ferrat for a quick glimpse of how the other 0.01% lives. We were there to make a film for residential developer Wainbridge Estates, which has a number of properties in the area, and residences of similar status around the world. So for three days we were… Read more »

Wordsearch returned to One World Trade Center this week with photographer Jeremy Frechette to record progress as construction of the tower heads into its final year. We started below ground, reviewing the subterranean access from the new transport intersection – through a retail gallery – into both the office lobby and the newly announced Observation… Read more »

A familiar face has appeared on Great Sutton street, a stones throw from Wordsearch’s London office. The image of our Chairman Peter Murray, is now residing on the car park side of Domus tiles, Clerkenwell branch. Domus utilize the space for a variety of displays and the face, created by Greg Shapter of AMODELS is the… Read more »

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the first journey completed by London’s underground system. The first carriages travelled between Paddington and Farringdon on the Metropolitan line and carried 40,000 passengers in the initial day of public service. New stations have been added and lines extended over the 150 years, which today sees the city… Read more »

Last week – following recent Wordsearch visits to Guangzhou, New York and Accra – we found ourselves in Riyadh. Scott Hammond and I were there to meet with a new client and discuss some very exciting projects, about which more in due course. There is an unwritten rule that whenever we find ourselves in a… Read more »

Ice hotel To start us off is the most festive of the bunch The Ice Hotel based in Jukkasjärvi. This hotel is the largest and most distinctive of its kind. Each year the hotel is basically a new and distinctively different collection of artworks. Artists compete annually to have their designs accepted for each of the… Read more »

The City of London was our birthplace and has been our traditional hunting ground. We have worked on countless schemes here, especially tall ones, and continue to do so. We have worked on the planning applications for The Heron Tower, The Bishopsgate Tower and 122 Leadenhall, and on the marketing and branding for Broadgate Tower,… Read more »

The new investors and owners at Battersea Power Station have injected cash and a new sense of drive and urgency that will see work starting early next year.  We are really excited to have been brought in start the marketing and communications programme with the production of a full suite of materials for the Phase… Read more »

World Travel Market 2012: Insight into property marketing Recently I attended the World Travel Market 2012 and through this was lucky to hear a variety of talks on some very interesting topics. One of those that stood out was given by the China Tourism Forum whose stats were incredible including the fact that there are… Read more »

A good brand identity A good brand identity is vital to clearly communicate your USP to your target audience. Without this solidified your message will be confused and support may wain. The most prominent example of the power a good message can have is 2012’s presidential election. Obama’s message was clear both in visuals and… Read more »

Movember is here with a new brand, book, exhibition and more, and is a great example how a brand can be taken into the hearts of consumers for a good cause.  For those people new to Movember, it was begun to encourage men to grow moustaches during November to raise awareness of, and funds for,… Read more »

On my whirlwind visit to NY I arranged a site visit to One World Trade Center, seeing that it was now at pretty much its highest point (excepting the addition of the Spire). One World Trade Center: Recalling the first visit We walked in using the same route that we had in December 2009  when… Read more »

Yesterday, I was in New York for one day, presenting some incredibly beautiful samples made by the craftsmen at Bill Amberg and Bookworks, for a super-high end residential marketing campaign we are working on, called The Marquand. 11E 68th Street. History The Marquand was built in 1913 on the site of an amazing mansion commissioned in… Read more »

Here at Wordsearch we work on an incredible array of impressive property projects including One World Trade Center, Battersea Power Station and The Shard. A great deal of these can be categorised as ‘tall buildings’ which made us begin to wonder how tall are the three tallest buildings in the world and what makes them… Read more »

London is known for quirky, rebellious art and design; here are three of our favourites spotted this week. Funemployed: Designs saluting the unemployed With Benetton pushing their new campaign saluting the unemployed, Irina Block, a currently unemployed art director, takes the empowering the unemployed trend further with her ‘funemployed’ merchandise. Designs include buttons and her… Read more »

The build of One World Trade Center is well and truly underway with progress and decision making the order of the day. Described by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as a building that ‘honors the past and delivers on the promise of a rebuilt World Trade Center’ Wordsearch are on the… Read more »

Beijing’s high speed railway After the Tall Buildings conference I headed to Beijing on the new high-speed railway. When I had mentioned this to someone the previous night they had asked if it was the same system that had crashed the previous August killing 40 people. Apparently it was, but fortunately I had no such… Read more »

Asia Ascending: The Shanghai Tower Tour While at CTBUH I managed to wangle my way on to the Shanghai Tower tour. Everyone at the conference was fascinated with the Shanghai Tower as it overlooked the Jin Mao that most of us were staying in.  All night you could see showers of sparks falling from the… Read more »

Skyscrapers: Why we love tall buildings There is something very alluring about skyscrapers. That’s why humans have always been trying to build them. Elevation has always denoted power, wealth and ambition. From the Monarch on his throne and dais, to the pyramids of Giza and the towers of St Gimignano, humans have been obsessed with… Read more »

Wilkinson Eyre’s Cooled Conservatories has been crowned the world’s best building by World Architecture Festival 2012. Andrew Grant, Director of Grant Associated describes Garden’s By the Bay as ‘a 21st Century botanic garden’ with ‘beauty doing environmental work’. The immense structure is 54 hectares in size in Singapore’s new development area and include two cooled… Read more »

For the last 7 years I have lived just behind Marble Arch. When we moved into our block of 50 flats – newly married and without children, we were one of 20 owner occupiers in the building. When we left in January 2012, we were the last. We hadn’t really ever developed a sense of… Read more »

The phone call came out of the blue. An American lady wanting to talk about our credentials to market a very important office building in New York. It was extremely confidential she said, and I was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement before she would even tell me the name of the project we would… Read more »

Zaha Hadid Architects have opened a new gallery on Goswell Road. Showcasing the recently completed floating staircase along with renowned pieces from the ZHA archive: The Peak Site Plan (1983), Aqua Table (2005), Seamless Collection (2006), Belu Bench (2005), Lotus (2008), Cirrus (2008), Kloris (2008), and Seoul Desk & Table (2009). The new floating staircase… Read more »

Created by our Chairman Peter Murray, The London Festival of Architecture is a city-wide celebration of architecture and architectural talent in the UK capital. It brings architects and communities together to examine how we make London a better place. The theme of the 2012 Festival – ‘The Playful City’ – responds to the presence in… Read more »