Category Archives: Architecture/Design

Greetings from Legoland

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Matt Wood

This week, Housing Minister Grant Shapp’s wrote to the Design Council, which has taken over the charred remains of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), torched in the Coalition’s ‘bonfire of the quangos’. He urged them to … Continue reading →

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Norfolk ‘Stuff’

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Matt Wood

Well, that’s enough policy-wonking for now. I said my ‘thatch-fest’ a couple of weeks ago could be a segue into some stuff on ‘stuff’– or ‘what we make buildings out of’. I took this picture (below) while I was researching … Continue reading →

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The Future for Architects?

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Matt Wood

A provocative report from the RIBA’s think-tank ‘Building Futures’ continued to generate comment in the architectural press last week. The report predicts that the building-design industry will become increasingly globalised, with a smaller number of very large multi-national studios using … Continue reading →

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Here’s one we prepared earlier…

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Matt Wood

Talking of larders, as we were, I was pointed at this scheme we did at Lucas Hickman Smith a few years ago for a sustainability enthusiast down near Halesworth.

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What’s changed?

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Matt Wood

The opening paragraph of Rob Annable’s post on BD’s Housing blog (see last post) reminded me of one of my all-time favourite architectural quotes – from late-modernist ‘Dutch master’ Aldo van Eyck:

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The Humble ‘Scullery’

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Matt Wood

I liked this piece by Rob Annable of Axis design Architects, based in Birmingham, which appeared on Building Design Magazine’s new Housing Blog. If you’re stuck outside BD’s

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Thatch-fest #2

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Matt Wood

My tweet-pals at HAT Projects have reminded me of Ushida Findlay’s thatched Pool House 2, near Aylesbury Vale. It’s too good to miss out.

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Thatch-fest!

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Matt Wood

Writing about McCreanor Lavington’s Langerak reminded me of another Dutch project we came across a couple of weeks ago at Lucas Hickman Smith while researching ‘contemporary thatch’. Bureau B&B’s ‘Entreehuis’ was published on the excellent dezeen.com.

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‘Rogers Dumped from Oxley Park’

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Matt Wood

Last week Buidling Design magazine covered Taylor Wimpey’s decision to abandon the last phase of their much published development at Oxley Park in Milton Keynes, designed by architectural mega-star Richard Rogers.  Their leader focussed on issues of construction and delivery, … Continue reading →

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Contemporary Farmsteads #3

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Matt Wood

If the contemporary ‘farmstead’ described in the last ‘Farmstead’ post was a bit too literal, I thought this next one might be the antidote: a project by MacCreanor Lavington published nearly ten years ago which must have made quite an … Continue reading →

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