Architecture
How to design house plans: why an architect can help
When you’re thinking about how to design house plans, engaging an architect can prove invaluable whether you’re adding an extension, fundamentally redesigning your home or making alterations to a house you want to purchase.
Telegraph ‘flood risk to homes’ story is all washed up
This morning’s Daily Telegraph front page, under the banner of its campaign βHands off our Landβ, reports that the Draft National Planning Policy will promote the unchecked development of housing on floodplains. For heavenβs sake. Even in its most vague and woolly form, the presumption in favour of sustainable development would hardly promote the development [...]
Dan Rickett at Grand Designs Live
Dan Rickett will be attending the Birmingham NEC Grand Designs Live show on Saturday morning, 8th October. He’ll be on the RIBA professional advice stand. If you want to quiz a top architect about any aspect of building, renovation or development, this is your chance. The show runs from 7-9 October. You can find out [...]
Stanwick Hall update
Our refurbishment and alteration project at Stanwick Hall in Northamptonshire is being filmed for the first series of the BBCβs Restoration Home. The show is presented by Caroline Quentin, with the assistance of Keiran Long, editor of the Architects Journal and architecture critic for the Evening Standard. Here’s an update on our progress. The reconstruction [...]
Architecture as a vocation
I read with interest the cover of Building Design, dated February 25th. βChange or dieβ says the RIBA Building Futures report. Apparently architects will need to toughen up and become better businesspeople, put down their marker pens and their tortured souls and act more like accountants and lawyers. Not sure anyone would thank us for [...]
