We are very happy to announce a project that has been quietly taking shape for many months and is now ready to be shared: “The Bank of England in Ruins,” an exhibition curated by
@studio_jacob_ioa in collaboration with
@recessed.space
PV: Thursday, 11th December 2025, 6 - 9pm
Please RSVP via
@hyphastudios Hypha Studios’ Eventbrite
📍Hypha Gallery 2 / No. 1 Poultry
The Bank of England in Ruins is an exhibition about architecture, ruins, value, and money. The gallery is in the heart of the City of London’s financial district, sited in James Stirling’s postmodernist building No.1 Poultry, opposite the actual Bank of England.
Responding to this context, the exhibition’s centrepiece is a large physical model made by students of Studio Jacob based on a drawing by Joseph Gandy showing John Soane’s design of the Bank of England. Soane’s building had only recently been completed, but Gandy’s drawing (1830) shows the bank in ruins after some unspecified future catastrophe.
The strangeness of depicting architecture (and a key edifice of the British state) as a ruin is the starting point for a collection of different projects. These also respond to Soane and Stirling’s interest in fragmentation and reassembly, the reuse of pieces of history to construct possible futures.
Featured artists: Studio Jacob with contributions by Asli Çiçek, Bamidele Awoyemi, CAN, David Kohn, DRDH, Drawing Architecture Studio, Fala, Hugh Strange, Jamie Foubert, Joseph Zeal Henry, Kuehn Malvezzi, Madelon Vriesendorp, Maria Lisogorskaya, Mary Duggan, MBL architects, MOS, Muoto, Nigel Coates, Paradigma Ariadné, Paul Anderson, Peter Wilson, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Piovenefabi, Point Supreme, Sam Chermayeff, Sean Griffiths, Sergison Bates, Shahed Saleem, Space Popular, Supervoid, Witherford Watson
🗓️Open: 12th December - 17th January 2025, Thursday -Sunday, 12 - 6pm