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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Rural Musings in the Architects Journal
In this week’s AJ (pay-walled, I’m afraid), Rory Olcayto reports that mega-star Dutch architect and theorist Rem Koolhaas is thinking about the countryside. German culture-magazine 32c runs an essay by him this month which previews a book he is writing … Continue reading
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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
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Tagged design/architecture, Kathryn Findlay, Lucas Hickman Smith, materials, Moering Architekten, Stephen Letch, thatch
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A Voysey/Stirling Mash-Up
In fact another project by Kirkland Fraser Moor (the Headlands House) was on a concept-board for a new house in Norwich I did over the summer. The project was on the outer edge of Norwich’s ‘Golden Triangle’, where amongst some … Continue reading
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Tagged design/architecture, Kirkland Fraser Moor, materials, pan-tiles, plain-tiles, roofs, Stirling, Voysey
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