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On Tuesday 03 March we delivered our 2nd Urban Lecture in collaboration with GO Southampton - 'City as Urban Room' at the Barclays Eagle LAB with the expert input of Rupert Cook Director of Architecture PLB and Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio. Rupert delivered a deeply rich insight into his family ties to Southampton and an insight into the design process for the recent Sports building for Solent University, which draws on the rich Urban grain of previous City layouts. Piers gave a wonderfully inspiring…

Architects have welcomed calls by Historic England to slash VAT on retrofit, but warn that barriers to reusing buildings still remain. Richard Waite reports in the Architects Journal. We gave our thoughts on how reuse, and re imagining existing buildings needs to be assisted with joined up thinking by government agencies. COMMENTS Darren Bray, director, Studio B.A.D Architects Those of us who feel passionate about reuse and reimagining existing buildings for our clients in light of the climate change emergency face challenges each week on a whole…

At St Margaret's Church we have been developing a strategy that deals with the here and now, as far as the communities requirements are concerned, as well as having one creative eye on what we might speculate on for the future of the church. So as well as our long term development strategy, we where asked to undertake a small piece of joinery, which we have treated as small piece of furniture. Something that becomes the 1:1 test bed model, for what might come next.…