BowerBird is excited to be a Media Partner for the 2019 World Architecture Festival (WAF19). As part of our partnership, we will be attending the festival and interviewing shortlisted entrants, visitors, and other key delegates. Nic Granleese (co-founder), Celeste Bolte (BowerBird UK), and Eszter Riga (BowerBird Europe), will be on the ground in Amsterdam next…
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Meet the BowerBird Team
Read moreNic Granleese Nic used to be an architectural photographer (and an architect before that). BowerBird now consumes all his time. Believe it or not, Nic actually coded the whole BowerBird platform. He’s a bit of a renaissance man. You’ll find Nic either tethered to his computer churning out new features, or flying around the world…
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BowerBird has gone Unlimited!
Read moreBowerBird has gone ‘unlimited’. What does that mean? Basically, we want more architects to upload more projects – in fact, we want you to add your entire portfolio. Our plans used to be categorised into three tiers: Studio: 5 BowerKits Medium Practice: 15 BowerKits Enterprise: Unlimited This never sat quite right with us. It felt…
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Why we believe in messaging…
Read moreWe made a conscious decision when redesigning the BowerBird app. We knew that communication between architects and journalists was the most important part. We didn’t want emails and clunky systems to get in the way of that communication – the app had to serve conversations. So we developed BowerBird Messages. Why not email? While we…
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Designing for the Little Guys
Read moreWhen we started BowerBird, one thing became instantly clear to us; our focus was not on the big architecture and design firms, it was on small, passionate creatives. In a world of media where ‘who you know’ can seem more important than ‘what you do’, we wanted to help small-to-medium sized practices share their stories…
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The 5 Ws of Architecture – and every story ever told
Read moreWe’ve spoken to a lot of architects and other creatives who struggle with describing their projects. Our advice is always the same: don’t worry about being a great writer, just talk about your project and the ideas around it in simple terms. But that first sentence can be daunting. That’s where the 5 Ws come…
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The Storytellers: Luke Hallaways of ‘Australian Architecture’ on Instagram
Read moreIn one post each month, we will be focusing on a different journalist, editor or other storyteller, helping to highlight who they are, what they publish and the stories behind the stories. BowerBird has been active on Instagram for a few months now, and we’ve come to appreciate that it is, in fact, a community…
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BowerBird is a Two-way Street
Read moreWhy we’re opening up to architecture journalists When we launched the first version of BowerBird (formerly MediaMap) in 2014, it was a real one-way communication channel. Architects would create their media kits, then send them out – via email – to journalists and publications in our ‘database’. It was a very traditional method of distribution,…
