Journal

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Landscape - I'm doing 'No Mow May'. Well, actually, I'm doing bugger all May. I've not mowed at all this year and with time consumed by work and family, bits of it may not get done at all this year. The result? A mess; a mess that is home to a Barred
Community (noun), a group of people having common interests. We got a call from Ron back in March asking for help. It's an emergency he said. He was due to start work in early May re-rendering a listed building on Broad Street, no listed building app
You know that thing in wine tasting where the expert opines, 'I'm getting...' then reels off a list of stuff that prompts the response, 'Really? I'm getting, er, wine.' Well, as I bundle into the V&A's foyer through Sam Jacob Studio's new Cromwel
V&A extension by AL_A: Light, shadows, materiality; elements of delight, but somehow the transition from old to new felt a little clunky. It made me think about a residential extension project I’m working on at the moment. I’m despera
Understanding place and space: this was a piece of geography homework created by my 12yr old. It's a masterplan of a town he's designed. It's got renewables (including 'windmills' - take note Torie policy makers), mass transit systems, cars are prese
On site and a new project: The scaffolding goes up at Pound Street after a long a patient wait for planning consent and weather conditions. A few more lifts and a tin hat and it'll be time to start stripping the roof. Meanwhile, further down the stre
Site visit. After this week’s pea soupers it was nice to have a bright, clear day to show our client from the Lyme Regis listed townhouse project a recent installation by @monocleofsherborne @rivercottagehq. She was impressed, so we will now be
We received a very kind offer from @movingarch to visit @aubarchitecture and sit in on a session of the M.Arch reviews taking place this week. We’ve had a student from the local grammar school with us this week on work experience, so it was a g
Stone, rusty tin and timber. The holy trinity of farm building construction. Anyone that says any different is a heretic. . . . . #farmbuilding #stonework #crinklytin #corrugatedtin #timber #agriculturalbuilding #agriculture #oldfarm #traditionalbui
Site meeting. Gathering information from a traditional Thai massage practitioner on the spaces she needs to carry out her therapies. The brief is for a new, compact building, sited in the garden so she can escape her spare room and begin to grow her
On site. Work has started @rivercottagehq converting the office building to a café. The outside seating area is being formed as are the new openings for @monocleofsherborne to fill with glass in a few weeks time. The size of the contractor&rsq
On site find part 2: A cellar, back filled with builder’s waste; great! Two Lyme Regis Ol’ timers, on consecutive days stopped to talk to the ground works contractor currently working on a small back lot site near the centre of town. Firs
On Site find part 1: Apparently, shoes are the most common apotropaics (meaning 'turning evil away'). So the theory goes, a malevolent spirit would enter the shoe and become trapped there. It seems shoes were chosen as they take on the shape of their
Planning consent! So happy for our clients Luke and Sara @highgrangedevon. The scheme is for three, timber framed structures that will nestle in to their woodland garden and provide accommodation for guests attending their cookery school and retreat.