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VIRTUAL STUDIO TEACHING – READING SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTUTRE

Over the past three months, we have all been adapting to the challenges around removed face to face existence and having to deliver the same work + teaching experiences that needed to happen in order for us to survive in business and for our students at Reading school of architecture to complete their undergraduate education. I am hugely honoured that I get to teach in first year at the University in Reading, but I had no idea how our students would rise to the occasion…
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URBAN LECTURE SERIES NO 05 – GENDER + SEXUALITY IN THE URBAN REALM

Our latest Urban lecture series this month was focused around Gender and sexuality in the Urban realm, with expert guest speakers Ruth Irvine, Amy Scott - Pillow , Dr Phevos Kallitsis and Zoe Berman. Each speaker reflected their own experiences, research and practice within the spaces and places of the built environment. The evening revealed a deep and passionate exploration of the speakers positive and some times challenging experiences to open the important and inclusive conversation and debate about how gender and sexuality must have…
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Studio – B.a.d – Design Review

During lockdown we have been adapting like all small design studios and we have found, huge positive benefits in these times. One such benefit is the collective coming together with our collaborators and critical friends. This month we held our first virtual design review with, Gemma Barton, Roger Tyrrell, Andrew Malbon and Stuart Bertie. It was a quite remarkable hour, discussing, sketching, explaining and listening to the thoughts of our critical friends on our new Church entrance cafe extension, which is due for submission for…
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GUEST BLOG BY ANDREW MALBON – FIVE ARCHITECTS

We are delighted to welcome our first guest blog, someone who has become an enormous, supporter, critical friend and I might even suggest a patron of Studio B.a.d. Andrew is a hugely talented architect and photographer documenting Southsea in all its glory!           Challenging times for us all & opportunities for extended photography trips have been very limited, so naturally this has led me to look a little closer to home. I'm lucky enough to work in a studio within a…
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OGLE ROAD – SOUTHAMPTON FEASIBILITY STUDY

M I X E D   U S E    D E V E L O P M E N T   Studio – B.a.d where appointed by GO SOUTHAMPTON in Dec 2019 to undertake a strategic  over view of No 2 Ogle road, the brief being to look at a whole host of mixed uses, from co working, café, tourist Information , cultural and arts venue, retail and a space for the GO Southampton team.   The design strategy has been to review and respond to …
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URBAN LECTURE NO 3 – ‘GROWING CREATIVE COMMUNITIES’

So on Tuesday 07 April we along with GO Southampton delivered our third in the series of Urban Lecture. Now that life has changed somewhat we did not want the barrier of been confined to our homes to limit our ability to continue  the debate around Urban City living and the future of public realm in Southampton. On Tuesday evening with the expert help of Gemma at GO Southampton we switched to Zoom and and 35 people join us. We had three key lecturers this…
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