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Tag Archives: Norfolk
Summer is definitely here!
A great new header-image courtesy of Jim Stephenson – a.k.a. clickclickjim – to replace a rather chilly looking view of Gonville Hall. It won’t be long before my original header can be used again – a view of the Old … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged clickclickjim, FANN-XI, Norfolk, Tayler and Green
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Two Weeks, Two Talks.
Aqua Design asked me today via Twitter whether I’d posted anything recently that they could run in their e-newsletter The Great Architects Daily (they’ve pointed to a couple of my recent posts). I had to confess that I have slowed … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged design/architecture, FANN-XI, Kiln, Norfolk, sheds, simplicity, Tayler and Green
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Cheer up, The Guardian!
The Guardian Housing Network blog posted a ‘social housing gallery’ last week. I told them I thought it was a bit bleak, and that I’d rummage out some of my own snaps of council housing in Norfolk, to cheer them … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged affordable housing, design/architecture, FANN-XI, Norfolk, Tayler and Green, The Guardian Housing Network blog
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The Cork Rural Design Guide
In a recent post I talked about the impact that local ‘design guides’ might have on how developers approach the design of new housing, and previously I’d talked a bit about the Norfolk Residential Design Guide. I noted that aside … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged Community Right to Build, Cork Rural Design Guide, design quality, design/architecture, local distinctiveness, Norfolk, pastiche, vernacular
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Local Materials Faux Pas
While writing the recent posts on local building materials, I was thinking about an estate in Wymondham called Whispering Oaks. The development is set at the very northern tip of the town, over a mile from the town centre and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design/architecture, house-builders, local distinctiveness, materials, Matthew Rice, Norfolk, pastiche, vernacular
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Building Norfolk
Matthew Rice’s book ‘Building Norfolk’ attracted quite a lot of attention when it was published last year; not surprisingly. It is a beautiful book full of exuberant, colourful drawings. I could write a whole other post, lamenting the death of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design quality, development, history, house-builders, local distinctiveness, Matthew Rice, modernism, Norfolk, pastiche, vernacular
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Norfolk’s ‘High-Road’ Buildings
As I explained in a previous post Stewart Brand in his excellent book ‘How Buildings Learn’ makes a distinction between ‘high road’ or special buildings and ‘low road’ or normal, everyday buildings. I also noted that the vast majority of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design/architecture, history, local distinctiveness, materials, Norfolk, vernacular
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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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Er…Sorry; So it is a Nimby Charter!
I went to a very well attended breakfast seminar on the Localism Bill hosted by solicitors Howes Percival last week. The pre-seminar buzz amongst the impressively grey-suited property crowd was the previous day’s news that the Greater Norwich Development Partnership … Continue reading
Posted in Community Right to Build
Tagged Community Right to Build, CPRE, GNDP, housing delivery, Local Development Framework, Localism Bill, Neighbourhood Plan, Norfolk, opinion/responses, planning
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