As fast as one building project is complete, another begins and it has been like this for as long as I can remember without a break regardless of recessions or the Pandemic.
Providing that there is a rapport between the client and architect and both are open to new ideas at all stages then usually a harmonious outcome can be achieved.
In my experience if you apply for something and a piece of information is missing you are asked to provide it – job done.
This picture was taken in the mid-late 90’s. More than 30 years later, I went back too see Oxford Castle and was pleasantly surprised.
What is this phenomenon where everyone is so industrious, so overworked, sleep deprived and unable to manage a reasonable proportion of downtime?
This week I received some positive feedback from my clients. How often do we receive good news? Not often enough. I have always been happy to get any type of feedback.
There is something odd happening amongst the architectural fraternity, all my contemporaries have either retired, moved away or both.
Apart from achieving validation of a planning application in Somerset, no mean feat, this week has been challenging for additional reasons.
What I call my management style, I take on work and am always surprised when it gets done in a timely fashion.
This month has been all about finishing off existing projects and starting new ones and in some cases revisiting projects which were built during the pandemic.