Lateral Thinking
Kent SMS continues to examine a range of market sectors in order to inform the strategies it recommends to clients. A well-considered strategy for the development of new business can withstand close scrutiny. This is because the propositions have been carefully analysed and the best course of action given the poll position. The Built Environment [...]
AJ Small Projects
It is very exciting for Kent SMS to learn that client’s Timothy Smith & Jonathan Taylor LLP have been selected for the AJ’s small projects shortlist. They deserve wider recognition because they approach all projects with great enthusiasm and skill. Typically, instead of just building an extension to an existing bungalow they have produced something [...]
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
no place for turkey twizzlers
Alain de Botton spoke with alacrity at the V&A on Friday 17th September about the five quite different houses that are to be constructed by his unique organisation Living Architecture. It is a riposte to the modern commercial housebuilder the ‘turkey twizzler’ of architecture. All the buildings will be completed over the next 12 months [...]
open house london
It is hard work pounding London’s streets in order to visit some hidden gems of architecture but nonetheless extremely worthwhile. It is because one gets to hear the project architect describing in great detail just what has been achieved and the impact it has made on people’s lives. Never more than 28 years old these [...]
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Visited as part of OpenHouse London the Agar Day Centre for children in NW1 provides sixty six places under the sure start banner. It won a civic trust award for the architect www.haverstock.com
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
