As the last of the workers leave the construction site in Dorset, SPA has started reflecting on the project’s development – e.g. what our goals were and how we achieved them. It is early days in our analysis, but as we flip through the project’s ‘archives’ it has been fun to see how our original…
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As promised, here are some photos of our nearly finished project in Dorset. Only a few finishing touches before the builders clear the site and the cottage will be ready to start a new life. Front view – inherited old gable wall, central and north wing. View to the part of old central wing…
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Ebenezer cottage in Dorset is looking less and less like a ruin each day. The cracks in the old stone walls have been filled, a new roof has been installed, and the scaffolding will soon be removed. Inside the cottage, walls have all been internally insulated and freshly painted, old fireplaces restored and rooms…
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Architecture is such great part of our daily lives yet we only rarely mindfully experience it as something more than as just a backdrop of our day-to-day activities. Recently SPA visited much debated exhibition Sensing Spaces at the Royal Academy which – as they say in the gallery guide – invited us to re-imagine what…
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Wednesday evening our studio attended an interesting event organized by The Sir John Soane Museum, The Landmark Trust and the LSE Cities Programme. The event was titled: Broken Edges: Cities and Other Ruins – an exhibition at Soane’s, followed by a lecture and discussion at LSE. The centre piece of the event was Astley Castle, this year’s…
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Work has been progressing on site at our London project in Elizabeth Mews, Belsize Park. The stripped-down old brick walls at the perimeters of the site and the otherwise hidden framework of the timbers within, temporarily reveal a wealth of space impossible to imagine before. The beauty and the integrity of the small-scale Victorian structure is…
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Pleasantly surprised we found our Belsize Court Garages included in the 2013’s final issue of Architect’s Journal! The project already received 2013’s AJ Retrofit Award in house pre-1945 category and was in the year’s review listed amid projects which combine good and green design. You can read more about our Belsize Court Garages project here and the…
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We are happy to report our project in Dorset is proceeding apace – the scaffolding around the house is up, creating an interesting spatial effect of a frame within a frame. On the other hand, the process of stripping away is revealing odd empty spaces with signs of a place having been lived in. The…
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Transport Museum, Glasgow It is always interesting to know what architects look at when they visit works of other architects. We are probably all a bit obsessed with the detailing. This weekend Sanya visited the well-known Transport museum in Glasgow. The building was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and opened for public in 2011. The…
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