The dysfunctional planning system has a fair part to play in making work harder than ever to achieve resilience but I won’t go there again. Perhaps having an all female team also has something to do with maintaining resilience.
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.
This week was spent surveying, in the fog, and doing some detective work which is quite normal for determining the history of buildings.
The office is buzzing with exciting new projects – three surveys and one additional enquiry this week alone. It is a great privilege to be joined by daughter No 2 as a part-time assistant which is a fruitful partnership, bringing interior design skills to the practice and Vector Works.
The pressure is on now that there are only three weeks to Christmas.
After two years at Angel Architecture, today marks my final day. I am truly grateful to Kim for being such an inspiring mentor and for giving me the confidence, support, and for believing in me…
It is amazing what gems lie hidden within a relatively modest building, this one Stalbridge Post Office. I am always pleasantly surprised when out and about I discover a feature of interest. On a personal…
This month’s projects include submissions for two in Dorset in Stalbridge and Netherbury, and two in East Devon in Kilmington and Sidbury. We are lucky to have submitted one project into Dorset (in Loders) for…
We have been appointed architects for another extension to a curtilage listed building in Kilmington and this includes an annex for an elderly relative. We are used to these and also extensions to the barn…
This week has seen the survey of one property (without bats) and the change to the ecological protocol affecting all wildlife including bats, newts, dormice and hedgehogs so there is no excuse to avoid protection…