Journal
Rural Housing: Broadland Housing Association
We are working with Broadland Housing Association to design and deliver 94 new homes on four sites, as part of Broadland’s development programme in North Norfolk. In an era of reduced grant-fundin
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Rural Housing – An introduction to Tayler & Green’s mid-century council housing
Herbert Tayler (1912-2000) (left) and David Green (1912-1998). (Image from ‘Tayler and Green Architects 1938-1973: The Spirit of Place in Modern Housing’) As a contribution to Rural Housing Week
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Man of Stones’ Revisited
For only our second all staff get-together since the storm broke last March, we had a fascinating guided tour of the Sainsbury Centre sculpture trail at UEA, led by Head of Collections Calvin Winne
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Exploring Chimneys
Chimneys, a much more loaded subject that you might imagine A recent article by the Guardian got us thinking about chimneys, a much more loaded subject than you might imagine. Modern buildings nee
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A Closer Look: Bavent House
Bavent House, a new family home that responds to its spectacular saltmarsh location on the Suffolk coast. Exposed to the full blast of North Sea Winds, Bavent House turns an awkwardly oriented site
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Why aren’t we building more ‘lifetime homes’?
Research has shown that in the next 10 years, 70% of all new homes will still not have to meet any accessible housing standards. It’s time we made all new homes ‘lifetime’ homesR
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A Closer Look: Feeringbury Barn
A Grade II listed barn conversion built on principles of conservation, reuse and repair. The relationship between design and making is fundamental. Woven into this equation is ensuring we value our
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How Can We ‘Future-Proof’ New Homes?
The Covid pandemic has seen unprecedented numbers of us working or learning at home, but very few new homes are designed with this in mind. Larger, 4-bed houses often feature a ground floor ‘bonus
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One of Covid’s impacts has been to accelerate trends and changes already happening to where we live and work. The obvious one being the continuing move to online retail and shopping from
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Could you play a ‘Leading and Lasting Role’ in the provision of your next home?
The UK housing market is dominated by a small number of large PLC housebuilders, whose ‘product’ is remarkably similar – neo-vernacular houses designed and built speculatively for ‘typical’
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