AA alum Asif Khan is featured in the Financial Times

AA alum Asif Khan is featured in the Financial Times this week, in an article written by Edwin Heathcote, titled Dry dock, Soviet cinema, meat market – is there anything architect Asif Khan can’t transform?

The article opens with a conversation between Khan and Heathcote as they approach London’s Canada Dock, where a new pedestrian boardwalk designed by Khan now connects the area’s timber trade history amid the dock’s radical transformation. Heathcote writes:
‘We are looking at a lipstick-red bridge that appears to meander across a dock that looks very different to the days when it was rammed with ships from across the Atlantic … The bridge is terrific, a vivid slash of complex carpentry made to appear elegantly simple’.

This project comes at a time when Khan is also working on Canning Dock in Liverpool with the US artist Theaster Gates, to design a ‘“place of contemplation” to invite relfection on the slave trade’ that once populated Liverpool’s waterfront.

Click here to read the full article.

Image: Dry dock, Soviet cinema, meat market – is there anything architect Asif Khan can’t transform?, Edwin Heathcote for the Financial Times, 11 March 2025.