BUILDING SLOW

We often hear “time is money” and fear “wasting time.”

Society teaches us to race against it, but what if we worked with time instead—allowing it to shape and evolve with us?

Architecture often prioritizes speed over longevity, forgetting that buildings grow and change alongside us and the planet. Working with Global Generation, I’ve seen how time can be embraced—used to grow, teach, and create in a fast-paced city like London. Great architecture isn’t built in a year but over decades. Buildings aren’t just meant to outlive us; they’re meant to live with us.

Maybe it’s time we stop fighting time and start learning from it—and learn from communities that have been building slowly for generations

Iyanu Ogunbowale

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Notes from the Garden