We are excited to announce our co-founder Nima Sardar, has been selected as a member of the jury for this year’s Antepavilion competition.

Nima will join by Abbas Zahedi, Ed Moseley and Jacqueline Stephen in evaluating projects with the brief of Earthwork.

The open competition particularly calls for emerging architects, artists and designers to propose innovative ideas for a new site in Southwark.

#studio_nimasardar in collaboration with Pierre Bonnerjee + volunteer students, were the winner of the previous Antepavilion competition with, AnteChamber. A collapsible bartizan structure still standing on the roof of Hoxton Docks.

For this year’s competition brief and further info, visit Antepavilion website. Good luck!

An Edwardian terraced house, a traditional housing typology in the UK. The site is located in the Borough of Waltham Forest, an increasingly popular place to reside for many young professionals and families.

Feasibility for characterful townhouse in Borough of Islington. The project includes a top floor split level dwelling.

Following over 10 years practicing in award winning London practices, we took the opportunity...

Full renovation of an apartment within a 1970’s block in the heart of Tehran.

Great to have the talented Jim Stephens and his team documenting our progress.

You are invited to the interactive display of the latest Antepavilion project built by Studio_NimaSardar. Located on the roof of Hoxton Docks (along Regents Canal), a creative site for artists and makers in East London.

Hoxton Docks, the East London site of the annual Antepavilion arts competition, has been mired in a legal battle since 2019 that has now reached its next round. Gray’s recent installation of Antechamber and Sharks! pointedly challenges the definition of what constitutes art or architecture in the planning system. Three criteria often used to define the latter, size, permanence, and attachment.

Neither piece attaches directly to the existing building—Antechamber sits on a platform on its own weight and Sharks! on a floating platoon. Size is a subjective measure, as Antechamber collapses and expands depending on it use and the scale of Sharks! reflects their biological counterparts. And, Gray said, all Antepavilions are temporary, and both pieces “will be put on display until such at time there is something new in the pipeline to replace them.”

Site located on the North of St. Gallen near Parish Peter & Paul Rotmonten, University of St. Gallen and Tennis Club St. Gallen. The residential site is located within the Ortsbildschutz Conservation area on the perimeter of the built city. It has close proximity to woodlands, fields and part of a changing topography. Our client has briefed us on his requirements for a new extension to allow for sheltered parking, pottery workshop and storing needs.

We have been appointed for the refurbishment of a dwelling within a well known Grade II Listed building - Bow Quarter. Originally a match-making factory (1865) in Bow, it was one of East London's first urban renewal projects. The factory was redeveloped in the 1990s with many dwellings requiring renewal works.

Our work has been featured in University of East london's AVA publication

The newly completed Antepavilion could be the last, unless the charity behind the annual architecture competition triumphs in a planning inquiry and three upcoming court cases, it has warned.

This year's Antepavilion installation opens in London tomorrow, with the charity that organises the annual competition warning that it could be forced to close.

The Antechamber by Studio Nima Sardar will be unveiled at Hoxton Docks on the Regents Canal in east London this Saturday, just a few weeks ahead of a four-day planning inquiry that could determine the fate of the popular programme.

The brief for the 2021 Antepavilion responded head-on to the 2020 controversy, calling for the design of a “bartizan” atop the wharf buildings along London’s Regent’s Canal. The brief’s three themes—guerre, agility, and re-use—nimbly straddle combat, stealth, and resourcefulness as countermeasures to authoritarian intervention.

The 2021 Antepavilion competition has taken place against the background of ongoing and increasingly bitter litigation in which Hackney desperately tries to assert its authority by closing down the now internationally recognised event. This background was fundamental to the ‘Bartizan’ brief and the criteria that the jury had to apply to select a winner. The selected structures would be required to be expressly temporary, mobile or transportable, or otherwise not caught by prohibitive planning constraints that the Council would be quick to adopt into their legal arsenal.

Studio_Nima Sardar is the overall winner with its design for a collapsible camera obscura named AnteChamber, while Project Bunny Rabbit's bamboo structure called All Along the Watchtower will be built as a "special early summer commission".

AnteChamber's design pays homage to Victorian fairgrounds and the area's history, with the aim to resonate "with the Hackney planners' concept of harmony with heritage architecture".

l concorso annuale per giovani architetti “Antepavilion”, nato con l'intento di riqualificare spazi dismessi di Londra, torna per la sua quinta edizione. Ad aggiudicarsi il primo premio è Nima Sardar, con la grande “camera oscura” pronta a essere realizzata lungo i pontili del Regents Canal.

Antepavilion 5 has named two winners in its contest for a demountable pavilion at Columbia and Brunswick Wharf in Hackney, north London.

The winning entry is the elegant and collapsible ‘Antechamber’ by Studio Nima Sardar. This utilises salvaged timbers from the dismantled Potemkin Theatre (2019). It also realises the recurrent camera-obscura theme from many previous years’ entries, none of which have ever been selected. It is to be hoped that this Victorian fairground theme will resonate with the Hackney planners’ concept of harmony with heritage architecture, as they apply it to the 1900s to 1960s wharf buildings now adorned with references to a rich range of historic eras. If not, it collapses nicely for transportation and safe custody.

Antepavilion 5 has revealed seven shortlisted concepts for a demountable pavilion at Columbia and Brunswick Wharf in Hackney, north-east London