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Tag Archives: flint
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
More Norfolk ‘Stuff’
So the vast majority of Norfolk is covered in brick-built houses with pan-tiled roofs, with plenty of surviving older timber-framed buildings, typically rendered over and painted – but that’s not the end of the story, of course.
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design/architecture, flint, history, house-builders, local distinctiveness, materials, Norfolk, pastiche, vernacular
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Norfolk ‘Stuff’
Well, that’s enough policy-wonking for now. I said my ‘thatch-fest’ a couple of weeks ago could be a segue into some stuff on ‘stuff’– or ‘what we make buildings out of’. I took this picture (below) while I was researching … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged brick, design/architecture, flint, history, local distinctiveness, materials, Norfolk, pan-tiles, roofs, thatch, vernacular
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