a close call
Kent SMS is very pleased that client Terry Pawson has been shortlisted for the Lake Windermere Steam Boat Museum competition. The practice is down to the last eight with submissions to be completed by mid-october. It is going to be a tough one with the likes of Adam Kahn & Niall McLaughlin also on the [...]
RIBA members
Kent SmS supports architects not just for business reasons but because they are incredibly resourceful. To supplement their income one practice we work alongside runs a studio at Kingston School of architecture. It is a massive commitment for little recompense. We much admire their enthusiasm. Architects rarely take things at face value and for some [...]
new model required
Surely you do not plan to continue marketing your practice/company the same way as before the recession arrived? Even in London where things move along at quite a pace and change can be rapid there is little sign of departure from tradition. Many architects & engineers still continue to talk mostly about themselves, use outdated [...]
and the winner is…
Kent SMS attended the private viewing of the AJ Small Projects competition where there was much anticipation as to who the winner would be & outright disbelief when The Jellyfish Theatre stole the show.
Exhibition at the AA
Kent SMS is this evening 15th October, attending the private view of Reading Landscape:Contemporary Landscape Photography ; the new photography exhibition at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Friend of Kent SMS Sue Barr is one of the great and the good exhibiting their personal take on the uninhabitated Landscape. This is one of Sue’s images. [...]
gauguin
tate modern has assembled an amazing exhibition of this artists work including some fine paintings when he used to saunter along to brittany wearing wooden clogs
marcus
As Autumn drifts toward us it was great to be reminded of the connection a house should have to its garden. Last night at the V&A Nina Campbell waxed, quite lyrically, on her opulent interiors whilst Garden & Landscape designer Marcus Barnett extolled the virtues of shape, shadow and form. Marcus’s schemes eschew the formulaic; [...]
Londres
London is awash with culture. At the V&A this Friday Marcus Barnett the Landscape Designer will be taking the floor discussing his work having twice won Gold at the Chelsea Flower Show . Then on Friday 17th September Alain de Botton will be presenting his new architecture project. Then there is the London Design Festival [...]
coffee & cakes
Alongside waterloo station runs the lower marsh home to a range of individual shops and towards the end this idiosyncratic cafe. It serves excellent coffee and is sort of run down in the nicest possible way
workshop on passivhaus
Kent SMS found the conference of 15th July most interesting particularly the statement that you cannot reach code level 6 without using passivhaus principles. The UK is way behind in relation to much of northern europe. Current best practice is 35-40 kwh/m2/yr whereas the passivhaus performance target for space heating & cooling demand is 15 [...]
