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.
This week has been full of variety, one pre-app submitted, more surveying, two new enquiries, two site visits and meetings to check progress.
It is so hard for architecture students to find work in their year out. In the old days it was a case of who you knew and you could easily get a placement.
Two applications were submitted for listed building consent at the beginning of 2025 which is the monthly average for the practice. The next two are currently in the production line.