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Category Archives: Architecture/Design
Festival Chit-Chat…
Regular Ruralise readers will have noticed it’s been a bit quiet here since the end of FANN-XI, while I’ve been catching up on a number of loose ends and dealing with a flurry of new-business enquiries at Lucas Hickman Smith, … Continue reading
Blink and You’ve Missed It!
Talking again, as I was in the previous post, about special and normal buildings, this might be the time to mention a Lucas Hickman Smith project that I’ve been meaning to write about since I joined the practice almost a … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged Appleacre, design/architecture, normal, simplicity
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Normal…or Just Mediocre?
An interesting piece in BD this week by Owen Hatherley in their ‘Opinion’ slot, touching on the special/normal issue that I’ve come back to repeatedly on Ruralise (start here if you’re interested). ‘Every generation’ Hatherley notes ‘ manages to get … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged Building Design, design quality, design/architecture, house-builders, normal, Owen Hatherley
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FANN-XI: Some Answers
If you’re here because you saw the Ruralise board in the FANN-XI architecture festival exhibition at the Forum (FANN-Board-Ruralise-110909), it occurs to me you might actually be expecting some answers to the rhetorical questions I used to give a flavour … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Community Right to Build, Norfolk DNA
Tagged FANN-XI, local distinctiveness, materials, Norfolk, normal, roofs, simplicity, Tayler and Green
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Time Out #3 – Tibby’s Triangle
Black buildings are a common site in the Norfolk countryside. Most often this involves black-painted weatherboarding on a timber-framed barn or more lowly shed, and sometimes it’s black-painted brick (see last post). Black tar-based paints were used widely used during … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged Ash Sakula, Hopkins Homes, house-builders, Hunsett Mill, materials, Mole Architects, pan-tiles, Southwold, tar-paint, Tibby's Triangle
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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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Time Out…
We took a half day out of the office at Lucas Hickman Smith last week, to go and look at and talk about buildings…and have lunch, of course! Tibby’s Triangle in Southwold, a Hopkins Homes development designed by Ash Sakula, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged Ash Sakula, design/architecture, hedges, local distinctiveness, Manor Close Walberswick, materials, roofs, Tibby's Triangle, wide-fronted house
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Frampton and Pallasmaa on Regionalism
Given the theme of local distinctiveness I’ve been kicking around recently on Ruralise, I thought I should finally get round to re-reading the only ‘proper’ architectural writing I can call to mind on the subject – Kenneth Frampton’s 1983 essay … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged Critical Regionalism, design/architecture, Frampton, local distinctiveness, modernism, Norfolk, Pallasmaa, Post-Modernism, styles, Tayler and Green
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On ‘Fitting In’
I recently attended a ‘stakeholder workshop’ on South Norfolk’s new draft design guide being prepared by the Council’s own Design and Conservation team and Tibbalds. It was an interesting session. I was quite encouraged at the widely held opinion in … Continue reading
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Tagged context, Design Guide, design quality, design/architecture, local distinctiveness, South Norfolk
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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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