Blackhall proposes a building which subverts methods of physical and non-physical preservation, to fold time through a site in pursuit of a kind of rewilded London.

The project moves through themes of redaction and the veil, transience and the cast, and ideas of the counter monument to arrive at an architecture which opposes contemporary thought and practice around conservation.

Blackhall is a small building in Whitehall, whose construction is grounded in the ephemeral qualities of the site. The project asks how concrete can be used to remember things which are formally forgotten: protest placards are employed for seat cushions, footsteps and hoof prints are visible in the cast walls, and the plinths of demounted statues prop the building up in a kind of historic present. Poetic methods and mediums of construction are pursued to remember material and invisible histories.