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Tag Archives: terrace
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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Tayler and Green #9 – Composition
Tayler and Green’s preference for terraces over more conventional semis was partly due to their impact in the landscape. Tayler had come to believe that semis looked wrong in a rural context – like ‘a row of pointed teeth, with … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Tayler & Green
Tagged affordable housing, composition, Critical Regionalism, David Green, design quality, design/architecture, Herbert Tayler, history, landscape, local distinctiveness, Loddon, modernism, Norfolk, normal, orientation, parker and unwin, radburn planning, semi, Tayler and Green, terrace
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Tayler & Green #6 – From Semi to Terrace
Despite Tayler and Green’s stipulation about not working rigidly with standard Minstry house-types, the first two projects for Loddon Rural District Council (five pairs at Leman Grove in Loddon and seven at College Road, Thurlton) were closely based on their … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Tayler & Green
Tagged affordable housing, Critical Regionalism, David Green, design quality, design/architecture, Ditchingham, Herbert Tayler, history, local distinctiveness, Loddon, modernism, Norfolk, normal, orientation, semi, Tayler and Green, terrace, wide-fronted house, Windmill Green
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Tayler & Green #4 – Coming Home
After the early acclaim for Kings Head Yard, the real world intruded rapidly on Tayler and Green’s career. In 1941 they left London for Norfolk so David Green could help his father’s practice with reconstruction work after early bombing raids … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Tayler & Green
Tagged affordable housing, Blundeston, Critical Regionalism, David Green, design quality, design/architecture, Herbert Tayler, history, local distinctiveness, Loddon, Lothingland, modernism, Norfolk, normal, semi, Tayler and Green, terrace, Wrentham
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The Wide-Fronted House #3
The terraced house was the norm for new homes during the late nineteenth century up to the First World War (see previous post), but thereafter it was the semi-detached house that emerged as the standard format for council-housing and private … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged 1944 Housing Manual, design/architecture, English Semi-Detached House, English Terraced House, history, house-builders, rural archetypes, semi, Tayler and Green, terrace, Tudor Walters Report, wide-fronted house
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Villages on Steroids
All Community Right to Build projects will take place in the context of an existing village, and its promoters will no doubt want to add to their village in a sympathetic and sensitive manner. So what might a contemporary ‘village … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged density, design/architecture, detached, house-builders, pastiche, planning, semi, style, terrace
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