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; [...]
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 [...]
commercial development
On behalf of two architectural clients Kent SMS has been making discreet telephone calls to developers up & down the UK in order to assess the current situation. It is clear that 2010 will remain difficult for the majority of developers. The reason for this is not just the fact that their banks are reluctant [...]
shovel ready housing schemes
It is very interesting indeed – in spadefuls – that the home and communities agency have announced that before allocating the £1 billion kickstart programme to the 270 schemes that have planning permission they will be audited. Can you believe it? They will need to show that they meet at least 14 of the 20 [...]
