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Grand Huf
As a preface to an upcoming article on prefab housing, which may not be ready for a while… here is a Grand Designs repeat about the construction of a german Keep Reading...
21.05.11 in buildings
Sharing it around
Richard Rogers on Rogers Stirk Harbour:
“The directors have no ownership, we have no shares and we don’t get anything when we leave the practice.
29.05.10 in practice
Architect / protaganist: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Tall in timber
PHOTO BY WAUGH THISTLETON
IMAGE BY WAUGH THISTLETON
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21.10.09 in sustainability timber
Architect / protaganist: Waugh Thistleton Architects
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The unmemorable Stonehenge centre
After years of hesitation, a shrunken visitor’s centre designed by Denton Corker Marshall will finally be built.
17.10.09 in buildings
Architect / protaganist: Denton Corker Marshall [DCM]
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Will lies
He didn’t leave his own firm to become a painter, because the planners were horrible to him.
02.10.09 in architects
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Architecture terribly exclusive, except for the pay
Flying around twitter… “Architecture is the most socially exclusive profession in the UK, ahead of law, medicine and accountancy, according to research by the Cabinet Office… Documents released by the Cabinet Office’s panel for Fair Access to the Professions show it costs more to qualify as an architect — over £60,000 — than any other profession.
30.06.09 in practice education
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planning a shed
I was just sent the link to this hilarious but rather old article from last May – about an architect who seems to have snapped while writing a planning report for a farm shed somewhere in the UK.
22.02.09 in weird-wonderful planning
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DCM back at stonehenge
After a false start or two, DCM has been reappointed as architects for the Stonehenge Visitor’s Centre in the U.
17.02.09 in architects
Unlovely memories
The New Zealand and Australian war memorials in Westminster, London, have been criticised as ugly, bristlingly unlovely, and in the case of the Australian one by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer and Janet Laurence, ‘a urinal’.
14.02.08 in architects
Robert Hughes on Modernism
The UK Guardian had a large feature section on Modernism in 2006, on the occasion of a major exhibition opeing at the V&A.
13.09.06 in theory
micro compact home
Horden Cherry Lee has developed the “Micro Compact Home” which come in small pods that can be clipped together.
07.08.05 in architects
Architect / protaganist: Horden Cherry Lee Architects
The Shape Of Things To Come
A Business Week interview with Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems in 2005.
02.08.05 in profiles
Architect / protaganist: Future Systems