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Author Archives: Matt Wood
A Tale of Two Competitions #2 – Lawrenny, Pembrokshire
The second of the two competitions I wanted to mention was also run with help from the RIBA Competitions Service, and followed a year or so after the Elmswell competition (see previous post). Like Elmswell, the competition to extend the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged Adrian Lort-Philips, affordable housing, competitions, design quality, design/architecture, Elmswell, Lawrenny, local distinctiveness, materials, modernism, normal, planning, RIBA, simplicity, Tom Russell, village
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A Tale of Two Competitions #1: Clay Fields
When I started writing Ruralise I had a list of things I wanted to cover. I thought it would be good for a few months, but as it’s turned out it’s taken me over a year to get the last … Continue reading
More Norwegian Wood
Well, while we’re on the subject of Norway (see last post) it’s probably a good opportunity to cross an item off my original Ruralise to-do list – and in fact the ‘curvy’ theme tees this up nicely.
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged cabin, contemporary, Critical Regionalism, design/architecture, house, modernism, modest, Norwegian, summer house, timber, traditional, vernacular, Wenche Selmer
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Ruralise Goes Off Piste
You won’t often catch me enthusing about some rare, innovative, one-off architectural tour de force here on Ruralise; there’s plenty of magazines and blogs out there to take care of that. But this project by Norwegian supremos Snohetta really took … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged curved, design/architecture, reindeer pavilion, snohetta, timber
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Challenging Times for Affordable Housing
I attended a very good event on the future of affordable housing in Norfolk last week, hosted by Saffron Housing. Chief Executive Adam Ronaldson gave a sobering account of the impact that the credit crunch and recent government policy are … Continue reading
Posted in Development/Land-Use
Tagged affordable housing, CIL, development, house-builders, housing delivery, Localism Bill, policy, Saffron Housing
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How to CRTB #7 – New Draft Regulations
In the month of radio-silence here at Ruralise following the end of FANN-XI there was a little flurry of publications in connection with the Community Right to Build. Most interesting of these is a set of proposed Neighbourhood Planning Regulations, … Continue reading
Posted in Community Right to Build
Tagged Community Right to Build, DCLG, enfranchisement, policy, Regulations
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Festival Chit-Chat…
Regular Ruralise readers will have noticed it’s been a bit quiet here since the end of FANN-XI, while I’ve been catching up on a number of loose ends and dealing with a flurry of new-business enquiries at Lucas Hickman Smith, … Continue reading
Blink and You’ve Missed It!
Talking again, as I was in the previous post, about special and normal buildings, this might be the time to mention a Lucas Hickman Smith project that I’ve been meaning to write about since I joined the practice almost a … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged Appleacre, design/architecture, normal, simplicity
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Normal…or Just Mediocre?
An interesting piece in BD this week by Owen Hatherley in their ‘Opinion’ slot, touching on the special/normal issue that I’ve come back to repeatedly on Ruralise (start here if you’re interested). ‘Every generation’ Hatherley notes ‘ manages to get … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged Building Design, design quality, design/architecture, house-builders, normal, Owen Hatherley
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FANN-XI: Some Answers
If you’re here because you saw the Ruralise board in the FANN-XI architecture festival exhibition at the Forum (FANN-Board-Ruralise-110909), it occurs to me you might actually be expecting some answers to the rhetorical questions I used to give a flavour … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Community Right to Build, Norfolk DNA
Tagged FANN-XI, local distinctiveness, materials, Norfolk, normal, roofs, simplicity, Tayler and Green
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