Over the last couple of months Surface to Air have taken on some exciting new projects.

We are delighted to announce that we have been appointed as the Client Design Adviser for Camden Borough’s BSF programme.

We have also been asked, by Jack Pringle (Senior Partner of Pringle Brandon Architects and Immediate Past president of the RIBA) to run the campaign to Re-Build the Skylon - one of the most striking structures ever built in this country.

In 1951, London’s skyline was transformed, as part of the Festival of Britain, by the erection of the Skylon. The Skylon was a 300 ft tower - an architectural and engineering marvel designed by two young architects Jacko Moya and Philip Powell still in their twenties, of Powell and Moya Architects. The architects' design was made structurally elegant and minimal by the brilliant engineer Felix Samuely. With a base 40 feet from the ground and the top nearly 300 feet high - the Skylon was more sculpture than building: it was part Zeppelin, part-rocket, part-minaret, and floated like an up-ended airship above the South Bank. Dramatic by day, Skylon was even more radical, luminescent and exciting at night. For more information please visit the 'projects' section of our website.

To start the campaign we designed and exhibited Skylon projections onto the Shell building in Jubilee Gardens, on the Southbank , on the 10th, 11th and 12th July. The launch was held in Conran’s 'Skylon' Restaurant in the Royal Festival hall, which was a great success. We have invited the public to vote for where they would like the Skylon to be rebuilt. To have your say please go to our website www.rebuildtheskylon.com and vote.

We are also delighted to confirm we have been commissioned to take forward our designs for Gibbs Green School's relocation to Langford Primary School, Hammersmith and Fulham. This project will serve as an exemplar for designing for SEBN (Social and Emotional Behavioural Difficulties) Schools. The new addition to the school will be contemporary, fresh and innovative - while enhancing the quality and professionalism of the existing school’s environment and buildings.

All Saints School in Croydon, is currently progressing well on site and looks set to be completed by September 2008.

In other news, Holly Porter, Director of Surface to Air Architects was invited to become an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism. Holly was delighted to accept the post.