Bighams Production Campus - A Model for Rural Industry
Le Corbusier's Cité Frugès vs Poundbury
Poundbury - What's not to like?
Hans Döllgast - Post-war Reconstruction in Munich
Emil Steffann - St Laurentius, Munich
A Ride Around Berlin
Rural Architecture - Barns in Charente
Between The Earth And The Sky
Marseille Architecture - Modernism in a landscape
Welsh Vernacular
Swansea Modern
The Abbot’s Kitchen at Glastonbury Abbey
I finally got round to visiting Glastonbury Abbey this week, having lived near-by for 5 years and been deterred by the magic-crystal shops, and discovered this little gem of a building. The Abbot’s Kitchen is the only ...
Precedents II – Dundon Passivhaus
Rather than thinking about what it would look like, a lot of our discussions revolved around the atmosphere of the house and the way different spaces would relate to one another. Emily is an interior designer, so we each had different, but fortunately ...
Precedents I – Newington Green House
Nantes Architecture School – Lacaton Vassal
Last week I went to see a building I’d been longing to visit since it opened in 2009. The School of Architecture in Nantes (ENSA) by Architects Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal takes a provocative and inspiring attitude to educational space that is sadly lacking in most British universities. It looks like a carpark, which is pretty much what it is in its construction. From their first...
Hooke Park
The UK is one of the least forested nations in Europe with only 12% of land area covered and 80% of the sawn softwood used in construction is imported (Forestry Commission figures, 2014). Hidden away in a 350 acre working forest in Dorset, students from the Architectural Association are experimenting with new ways of designing and making buildings using locally grown timber. Isolation and the woodland setting are...
Barrington Court
On Sunday we headed over to Barrington Court, the first large house taken on by the National Trust (in 1907), and one that caused them such serious financial difficulties that it was held up for years after as an example of why they should be vary wary of taking on other stately homes. For over ...
Porto architecture
Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Very excited this week about the opening of Hauser & Wirth Somerset in Bruton. Its not often a leading international art gallery decides to set up shop on my patch so I was keen to go along and have a look. My review will be in the August issue of the journal Architecture Today . Fundamentally it is a ...