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Category Archives: Architecture/Design
Double Plus…
Two rural houses have caught my attention in the last few weeks, both in a rural location, both in their own way engaging their local context and architectural heritage.
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged Bere Leys, design/architecture, Grand Designs, Herring Homes, Long Farm, Lucy Marston, roofs, rural archetypes, simplicity, thatch, wide-fronted house
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A Ruralise ‘Reader’
It’s been a while since my last post, the final installment of my Forest Village epic. The piece was well-received: specifically one international journal has picked up on it and I have done a re-write for publication, hopefully in their … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design quality, design/architecture, farmstead, history, house-builders, housing delivery, local distinctiveness, materials, modernism, Norfolk, normal, roofs, rural archetypes, simplicity, Tayler and Green, thatch, vernacular, village, wide-fronted house
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Forest Village #12: An Epitaph?
So that’s where the story ends, for the time being at least. We had run up against the fact that England is very much still the ‘green and pleasant land’ that we imagine it to be. In the furore around … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Development/Land-Use
Tagged development, Forest Village, Forestry Commission, Garden City, land-use
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Forest Village #11: Six of the Best
It’s a snappy title for this section, but in fact the six sites we identified in our quick and crude site-search weren’t all perfect; far from it, in fact.
Posted in Architecture/Design, Development/Land-Use
Tagged development, Forest Village, Forestry Commission, land-use
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Forest Village #10: A Crowded Island?
Before spending any serious time (and money) on constructing a financial and management model for a new Forest Village, we wanted to get an idea of the likely availability of suitable land. We had developed the following description of an … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Community Right to Build
Tagged development, Forest Village, Forestry Commission, land-use, planning, Savills
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We Need More…But Not More of the Same
Given the imminent arrival of the Leveson Report, Planning Minister Nick Boles’ foray into the difficult territory that is UK green-field development did well to make Newsnight last night. During most of the day I had been following the opening … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Development/Land-Use
Tagged Colin Wiles, David Birkbeck, Design for Homes, design quality, design/architecture, development, house-builders, housing delivery, pastiche
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Forest Village #8: What’s the Catch?
So far, Forest Village is the product of an end-of-holiday moment of wistfulness: ‘This is lovely; wouldn’t it be nice to live here all the time?’ But like all such pipe-dreams, it’s worth taking a minute to be critical. It … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Development/Land-Use
Tagged cars, Center Parcs, cycling, development, forest fire, Forest Village, land-use, value
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Forest Village #7: The ‘Suburbs’
In the last post we imagined re-developing Elveden Center Parcs’ central area to serve as a new centre for our imaginary Forest Village, but the real essence of Center Parcs (and in turn Forest Village) lies away from the centre: … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Development/Land-Use
Tagged Center Parcs, Conran&Partners, development, Forest Village, Jaap Bakema, land-use, Niki Club, terrace
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Forest Village #6: The Village Centre
What would one have to do to Center Parcs Elveden to turn it into a ‘real’ village? Well for the purposes of this thought-experiment the aim would be to change as little as possible, preserving the essential quality which could … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Development/Land-Use
Tagged Center Parcs, development, Forest Village, land-use, local services
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