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Tag Archives: thatch
Double Plus…
Two rural houses have caught my attention in the last few weeks, both in a rural location, both in their own way engaging their local context and architectural heritage.
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged Bere Leys, design/architecture, Grand Designs, Herring Homes, Long Farm, Lucy Marston, roofs, rural archetypes, simplicity, thatch, wide-fronted house
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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 design quality, design/architecture, farmstead, history, house-builders, housing delivery, local distinctiveness, materials, modernism, Norfolk, normal, roofs, rural archetypes, simplicity, Tayler and Green, thatch, vernacular, village, wide-fronted house
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Thatch-Fest #4
The Fraser Kirkland Moor house at Ockington (previous post) also put me in mind of the pool house by Kathryn Findlay I wrote about in my ‘Thatch-Fest’ series back in February 2011. Looking back at that I ended up once … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged design/architecture, Kathryn Findlay, Lucas Hickman Smith, materials, Moering Architekten, Stephen Letch, thatch
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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 materials, Norfolk, pan-tiles, tar-paint, thatch, vernacular
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Thatch-fest #3
Thanks to Rob Morrison (@morrisonbrink) for pointing me at this contemporary thatched house by Moering Architects in Germany. And I think there’s another thatched project on their website here, which looks even frutier; I hope they get to build it.
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged contemporary, design/architecture, materials, roofs, thatch
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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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Thatch-fest #2
My tweet-pals at HAT Projects have reminded me of Ushida Findlay’s thatched Pool House 2, near Aylesbury Vale. It’s too good to miss out.
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Tagged design/architecture, materials, modernism, thatch, vernacular
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Thatch-fest!
Writing about McCreanor Lavington’s Langerak reminded me of another Dutch project we came across a couple of weeks ago at Lucas Hickman Smith while researching ‘contemporary thatch’. Bureau B&B’s ‘Entreehuis’ was published on the excellent dezeen.com.
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design/architecture, dutch, local distinctiveness, materials, modernism, roofs, thatch
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