Archigram founder and lifelong innovator Peter Cook celebrated his 85^th birthday by attending the opening of his latest building designed for his alma mater, the Arts University Bournemouth.

Veterans of the profession, including French architect and urban planner Odile Decq and former RSHP partner Mike Davies, spoke at the event under the title The Optimistic Future of Architecture.

The colourful Innovation Studio is Cook’s second building for AUB. In 2016 Zaha Hadid opened the country’s first purpose-built drawing studio for a century - and Cook’s first building in the UK - at a similarly glittering event.

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