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Tag Archives: orientation
Tayler and Green #9 – Composition
Tayler and Green’s preference for terraces over more conventional semis was partly due to their impact in the landscape. Tayler had come to believe that semis looked wrong in a rural context – like ‘a row of pointed teeth, with … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, composition, Critical Regionalism, David Green, design quality, design/architecture, Herbert Tayler, history, landscape, local distinctiveness, Loddon, modernism, Norfolk, normal, orientation, parker and unwin, radburn planning, semi, Tayler and Green, terrace
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Tayler & Green #6 – From Semi to Terrace
Despite Tayler and Green’s stipulation about not working rigidly with standard Minstry house-types, the first two projects for Loddon Rural District Council (five pairs at Leman Grove in Loddon and seven at College Road, Thurlton) were closely based on their … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, Critical Regionalism, David Green, design quality, design/architecture, Ditchingham, Herbert Tayler, history, local distinctiveness, Loddon, modernism, Norfolk, normal, orientation, semi, Tayler and Green, terrace, wide-fronted house, Windmill Green
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A Tale of Two Competitions #1: Clay Fields
When I started writing Ruralise I had a list of things I wanted to cover. I thought it would be good for a few months, but as it’s turned out it’s taken me over a year to get the last … Continue reading
Contemporary Farmsteads #3
If the contemporary ‘farmstead’ described in the last ‘Farmstead’ post was a bit too literal, I thought this next one might be the antidote: a project by MacCreanor Lavington published nearly ten years ago which must have made quite an … Continue reading
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Tagged dutch, farmstead, modernism, orientation, roofs
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