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Author Archives: Matt Wood
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
Posted in Architecture/Design
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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Nice ‘Big Roof’
It’s been a while since my last post – nothing since May to be precise. A ‘white-paper’ inspired by the Government’s self-build initiative soaked up all available writing-time for a couple of months, and then I was holding off in … Continue reading
Self-Building Bridges
In a previous post I suggested that mainstream commercial developers and the major house-builders regard selling development land as serviced self-build plots as nothing more than a lot of hassle and a lost profit margin – and that the new … Continue reading
Posted in Development/Land-Use
Tagged Community Right to Build, consensus/support, demand, development, house-builders, housing delivery, local services, NPPF, planning, policy, value
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Self-Build: The Price is Right
As described in the previous posts, the new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) places local authorities under a duty to assess and cater for the demand for self-build land in their area. East Staffordshire seem to be the first off … Continue reading
Posted in Development/Land-Use
Tagged demand, East Staffordshire, housing delivery, NPPF, policy, residual value, self build, value
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Self Build: First Off the Blocks?
And just in case you thought the idea of Local Authorities assessing the demand for self-build land in their area, and then catering for that demand, sounds far-fetched (see previous post), take a look at this.
Posted in Development/Land-Use
Tagged demand, East Staffordshire, Grant Shapps, housing delivery, NPPF, policy, self build
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The NPPF: A Game-Changer for Self Build?
There was a flurry of Tweet-traffic last week around the launch of Housing Minister Grant Shapps’ new self-build initiative. Regular readers may recall I wrote about this a couple of times last year – including this post where I suggested … Continue reading
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Tagged Building Design, Grant Shapps, housing delivery, NPPF, policy, self build
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Hand-Made in Norfolk
There was a distinctly ‘hand-made’ feel to Pecha Kucha Norwich Vol.3 at Cinema City on Sunday evening.
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Tagged Bernard Chauly, Jo Stafford, pecha kucha, Rachel Rayns, Steve Appleton
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Do I look FAT in this?
I was intrigued to see some coverage of Ruralise’s Tayler and Green feature on ‘Fantastic Journal’, the architecture and design blog of Charles Holland, a Director at architects FAT.
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Tagged Charles Holland, design/architecture, FAT, modernism, opinion/responses, Post-Modernism, Tayler and Green, The Fantastic Journal
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