amenable, tolerant and engaging
No this is not a description of anyone in the Kent SMS team. These are the words used to describe the theme of the 2010 London Festival of Architecture that is to take place between 19 June and 04 July next year. A programme of events will highlight how cities can become these things. We [...]
pilkington
Kent SMS client Architect Andrew Pilkington knows a thing or two about glass. It runs in the family. His evocative design for this house in Clapham has won an RIBA award. It will be available to view on the London Open House circuit. Houses are available to view over the 19th & 20th September. Do [...]
beauty is the purgation of superfluities
Client Terry Pawson is an unassuming yet outstanding architect whose studio takes design detail to infinity. And it shows. He flew out to Dublin last week to oversee the photography of the recently completed and stunning Visual Arts Centre in the small town of Carlow. Those images are embargoed until they are published in the [...]
managing your brand
Working as we do almost exclusively with clients in the built environment sector one of the main factors that differentiate one orgainisation from another is how they approach the management of their brand and the image they create in the marketplace they seek to influence. Those that are stuck in the sixties and you know [...]
in for the long haul?
Kent SMS has recently been appointed to advise a small but perfectly formed architectural studio to produce a new client development plan that is based on the strengths of the practice. It is now underway and is comprised of two main elements. The first is to resolve the strategic marketing issues that need to be [...]
affordable housing?
Is there such a thing? Well here in the UK we seem to struggle with the concept. Especially when working to a design brief that specifies reaching Level 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes . Do forget Level 6 unless you are cash rich and with money to burn. Make no mistake the so [...]
