Category Archives: Norfolk DNA

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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on A Ruralise ‘Reader’

Blink and You’ve Missed It!

Talking again, as I was in the previous post, about special and normal buildings, this might be the time to mention a Lucas Hickman Smith project that I’ve been meaning to write about since I joined the practice almost a … Continue reading

Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Blink and You’ve Missed It!

FANN-XI: Some Answers

If you’re here because you saw the Ruralise board in the FANN-XI architecture festival exhibition at the Forum (FANN-Board-Ruralise-110909), it occurs to me you might actually be expecting some answers to the rhetorical questions I used to give a flavour … Continue reading

Posted in Architecture/Design, Community Right to Build, Norfolk DNA | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on FANN-XI: Some Answers

Time Out #3 – Tibby’s Triangle

Black buildings are a common site in the Norfolk countryside. Most often this involves black-painted weatherboarding on a timber-framed barn or more lowly shed, and sometimes it’s black-painted brick (see last post). Black tar-based paints were used widely used during … Continue reading

Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Time Out #3 – Tibby’s Triangle

Time Out #2

Actually, before I go on to Tibby’s Triangle, as promised in the last post, this might be the moment to throw this in: a house in East Bilney on the Dereham to Fakenham road. I drive past it from time … Continue reading

Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Time Out #2

Time Out…

We took a half day out of the office at Lucas Hickman Smith last week, to go and look at and talk about buildings…and have lunch, of course! Tibby’s Triangle in Southwold, a Hopkins Homes development designed by Ash Sakula, … Continue reading

Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Time Out…

Frampton and Pallasmaa on Regionalism

Given the theme of local distinctiveness I’ve been kicking around recently on Ruralise, I thought I should finally get round to re-reading the only ‘proper’ architectural writing I can call to mind on the subject – Kenneth Frampton’s 1983 essay … Continue reading

Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Frampton and Pallasmaa on Regionalism

Beautiful Farm Buildings?

I’ve talked in previous posts about ‘farmsteads’ – one of the four ‘rural archetypes’ I identified for my guided tour of Norfolk with Beyond Green last summer. I suggested one might plan a relatively dense knot of new homes around … Continue reading

Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Beautiful Farm Buildings?

The Wide-Fronted House #2

In a previous post (way back in October!) I wrote about the wide-fronted house, the third of four ‘rural archetypes’ I described during the tour of Norfolk I did for Beyond Green last summer. I explained that the three- then … Continue reading

Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on The Wide-Fronted House #2

Contemporary Vernacular?

Coming back to the issue of special and normal buildings (as I did in the last post), put me in mind of a house which I drive past occasionally on my way up to Holkham Hall, where Lucas Hickman Smith … Continue reading

Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment