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What you can learn from Clarnico Quay
Railway arches are a great starting point for thinking about how to design new spaces for makers.
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Meanwhile as a solution
We have developed an expertise in temporary or ‘meanwhile’ development.
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Regent Radio
We transformed our studio into a temporary radio station broadcasting live during the London Festival of Architecture.
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Frame House in Detail
At the start we all had to agree to play nicely and never fall out if we worked together.
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Home not House
We think of home as a stage where events take place and conjure up memories of childhood.
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Four Principles
Legibility, flexibility, durability, affordability.
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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.
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Slip House in Details
Making good buildings requires more than good ideas. Read the detailed story of the Award-winning Slip House.
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Small is Good
If there are any positives from the last recession one is the discovery of thrift, recycling, the temporary & the small.
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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.
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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.
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Rural
Increasingly we think the Green Belt in its present form isn’t working.
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The Conceptual Detail
We don’t see buildings necessarily as a series of components ordered from catalogues.
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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.
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Collage
A love of the process of collage as a working method springs from our background as teachers.
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An ‘Urban’ Condition
Like many small practices, our studio has followed cheap space around central London for the last ten years or so.