Journal
Duke Street Riverside: Design Insights by Anthony Hudson
The dust has settled on Duke Street, the newest building at Norwich University of the Arts’, and we are celebrating its official opening. This gives us an opportunity to look back and mull o
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Senior Co-Housing: ‘Right-Sizing’ Later-Life Accommodation
McCarthy & Stone have recently published research which suggests a third of older people in the UK would consider moving house to ‘right-size’ their later-life accommodation, but the lack o
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Hickling Passive House warmed up with “only a few candles”: Here’s How It Works!
It was great to see this short piece from the BBC about a family heating their ‘Passivhaus’ home in Hickling with just a few candles! A group from Hudson Architects visited the site back in 201
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Apprenticeship Week : My Road To Becoming Practice Manager at Hudson Architects
Hello! My name is Hannah and I currently work as the Practice Manager for Hudson Architects. As it’s national apprenticeship week, I wanted to share a bit about the pathway to my current role, in
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Houses and Trees
The latest update of the National Planning Policy Frame (NPPF*), includes an enchantingly simple new requirement that local planning policies and planning decisions should ensure that ‘all new stre
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Self Build on a Serviced Plot: Expert Q & A with Architect Matt Wood
A new policy in Norfolk requires all housing developments of 40 dwellings or more to dedicate at least 5% of those 40 as serviced plots for self-build or custom-build. But what does this actually me
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Big Steps Forward for Self-Build in Norfolk
Our local MP Richard Bacon continues his tireless work championing self-build in the UK with the publication of his ‘Independent Review On A Major Scaling-Up Of Self-Commissioned New Homes’ – o
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Norwich Heritage | The history and future of Norwich Guildhall
First constructed in 1407-13 as a civic hall to house the courts and prisons of the city, the Grade I Listed Norwich Guildhall has been adapted and altered many times during its life. Now Hudson Arc
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Moving from London to Norwich as a young Architect
Moving to Norwich was definitely pro-Norwich – I moved here because it’s a creative and imminently liveable city rather than as a jaded Londoner (the cliche of the 30-something refugee flocki
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A Closer Look: Jersey House
Overlooking the St Ouen bay on Jersey, notorious for its strict planning restrictions, a drab bungalow was replaced with an award-winning, 5-bedroom contemporary new home. Planning permission was suc
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