ThoughtsFilter
What you can learn from Clarnico Quay
Railway arches are a great starting point for thinking about how to design new spaces for makers.
Meanwhile as a solution
We have developed an expertise in temporary or ‘meanwhile’ development.
Regent Radio
We transformed our studio into a temporary radio station broadcasting live during the London Festival of Architecture.
Frame House in Detail
At the start we all had to agree to play nicely and never fall out if we worked together.
Home not House
We think of home as a stage where events take place and conjure up memories of childhood.
Four Principles
Legibility, flexibility, durability, affordability.
Thinking through making
I grew up in the North of England where the thought of getting someone in to fix something was almost unheard of.
Slip House in Details
Making good buildings requires more than good ideas. Read the detailed story of the Award-winning Slip House.
Small is Good
If there are any positives from the last recession one is the discovery of thrift, recycling, the temporary & the small.
Living Over the Shop
The idea of working at home is not a new one, but like so many apparently simple activities that were once commonplace.
Small Thought on Value
One of the lessons we learnt is that there is nothing to be gained from shying away from business or the idea of money.
Rural
Increasingly we think the Green Belt in its present form isn’t working.
The Conceptual Detail
We don’t see buildings necessarily as a series of components ordered from catalogues.
At the Foot of the City
Suburbs literally means ‘at the foot of the city’– & beneath the concentration of wealth & power upon the Roman hills.
Collage
A love of the process of collage as a working method springs from our background as teachers.
An ‘Urban’ Condition
Like many small practices, our studio has followed cheap space around central London for the last ten years or so.